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2026

Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form

April 11 - August 2, 2026

In the foreground, grayscale photographs and an open book occupy a wooden vitrine. The photographs show people in interior spaces, like a man sitting in a kitchen near a stovepipe and a child in a bath near his mother. Other artworks fill the background, including a droopy sculpture, a video monitor depicting a lecture, and a photograph of a procession.

Images at Work

April 11 - July 12, 2026

Aerial view of two hands mixing a white cream with hand mixer whisks in each hand.

List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson

January 15 - March 29, 2026

A dimly lit art gallery with three artworks on view. Two black-and-white photographs hang on the back wall, while a black-and-white video piece is projected onto a screen on the right wall.

2025

Goldin+Senneby: Flare-Up

October 24, 2025 - March 15, 2026

Gallery with an expansive, vibrant orange pool of melted pine rosin that spreads across the floor. Framed artworks hang on the back walls, while a window allows for warm sunlight to flood into the space.

American Artist: To Acorn

October 24, 2025 - March 15, 2026

Inside a dimly lit gallery space, two projections sit behind a rocket test installation containing sandbags and canisters. In the foreground to the left is a metal sign inside an agave plant and a blue frame with pink paper mounted.

List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes

September 18 - December 14, 2025

Dark open gallery with a video projected on a large standing screen on the right side of the frame and six black chairs in two rows in the center of the room. A tan canvas bag sits on the floor to the right of the screen. There is a collection of everyday items hanging from strings throughout the space. Two bright red rubber gloves hang in the foreground.

2025 Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery

August 26 - September 14, 2025

Installation view with framed artworks hanging on the walls salon style and two people standing beside each other in the center.

List Projects 32: Elif Saydam

June 5 - August 31, 2025

A gallery entryway with scaffolding on the right and the back of a blue patchwork-style painting in view. In the background, a painting hangs on an orange wall adorned with gold spray-painted motifs.

Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning

February 21 - July 27, 2025

A series of white walls with a window cutout that has a view of the next white wall with a window cutout. There is a cup with office supplies on the window ledge of each wall.

List Projects 31: Kite

January 30 - May 18, 2025

A dark gallery space features a large screen displaying a six-sided star at its‬ ‭ center. Within the star, video footage of green stones is projected. Surrounding the‬ ‭ star, six inward-facing triangles form a pattern, while geometric shapes swirl in the‬ ‭ background alongside footage of stars and the night sky. In front of the screen, a‬ ‭formation of stones rests on the reflective black floor.‬ ‭

2024

Steina: Playback

October 26, 2024 - January 12, 2025

In the foreground, a sculptural apparatus comprises two cameras on the ends‬ ‭ of a single rotating arm, each pointed inwards at a central mirrored sphere. A feed from‬ ‭ the cameras are routed to a nearby monitor. In the background, other video monitors‬ ‭ are visible, including a grid of nine showing the same abstract black-and-white pattern,‬ ‭along with exhibition wall text.‬ ‭

2024 Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery

August 27 - September 15, 2024

Two visitors look at artwork in frames during the Student Lending Art Program at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

List Projects 30: Jeremy Couillard

July 18 - October 6, 2024

A dark, black-walled gallery space with artworks on display. On the left wall, two‬ ‭ paintings hang in a row depicting bright, geometric forms. In the back of the gallery, a‬ ‭ large screen illuminates the space displaying digitally rendered footage of a dark city‬ ‭ street with a green banner hung between buildings. A park bench faces the screen. A‬ ‭ strip of astroturf lines the floor around the gallery, with painted wooden flowers emerging‬ ‭from it.‬ ‭

Hana Miletić: Soft Services

April 4 - August 4, 2024

On the left, two cylindrical orange net-like sculptures are displayed. One is much smaller than the other; the smaller one incorporates an inner green component. On the far right, a large brown tapestry hangs from the ceiling. Blue fiber strips grid the piece with some of the strips dangling onto the floor. In the background on the right, a small, yellow caution tape fiber sculpture is bunched up dangling off the wall and onto the floor.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us

April 4 - July 28, 2024

A dark room with purple walls is occupied by video projections and illuminated artworks on the floor and ceiling, creating an effect like overlapping windows on a computer screen. A purple glow comes from a tinted window on the left side. Freestanding panels are scattered throughout the room, each with colorful abstractions and other images mounted to them. Blue banners with abstracted plant designs hang from the ceiling and a red video projection, showing a person lying on their back, glows on the far wall

List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV

March 7 - June 23, 2024

A white gallery with five artworks on display. On the left wall hangs a gold tapestry depicting two figures, one standing and one kneeling. Two small creature-like sculptures made of metal and fabric sit on low pedestals. In the center of the room is a vertical wooden bathtub sculpture on metal supports. A large black frame-like wooden sculpture hangs on the back wall.

2023

List Projects 28: Sophie Friedman-Pappas and TJ Shin

November 16, 2023 - February 11, 2024

A makeshift projector sits on a wooden table, accompanied by two matching chairs. Two cords and a strip of material are attached to the device, which projects a faint circle of light onto the back wall. On the right and in the background, two floor-to-ceiling poles with drawings attached and a rectangular, more conventional projected image are visible.

Carlos Reyes: 18

October 27, 2023 - March 10, 2024

On a low pedestal in the foreground, seven standing lamps are conjoined by a single ring-shaped lampshade. A neat coil of pale cord sits near the base of each lamp. The sculpture is flanked, in the background, by two chevron-shaped wall pieces. The one on the left is dark, while the one on the right is pale.

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