Gilberto Esparza, Plantas autofotosinthéticas [Autophotosynthetic Plants], 2013–14 (detail). Installation view: Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Dario Lasagni
2023 Annual Report
List Projects 25: Azza El Siddique
June 30-September 4, 2022
“[El Siddique] proposes a narrow scope: a limited subset of materials—metal, and bukhoor; a specific means of production—heat; and a focused subject—scent. Yet, within these articulated elements, the artist iterates, widening the application and conceptual reach of the work.” –Courtney McClellan for Art Papers
Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery
August 30–September 18, 2022
"It is a radical experiment in shaping young people’s relationship with art—casting art not as something to puzzle over behind glass at a museum, but as something to live with, day after day." – Kartik Chandra, PhD Candidate, CSAIL
Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere
October 21, 2022 - February 26, 2023
"At turns sober and playful, urgent and irreverent, “Symbionts” sheds light on a paradigm shift in bio art as it prods us to acknowledge—intellectually, affectively—the depth of our structural and material entanglement with fellow travelers in the biosphere. What we do with that awareness is, of course, up to us." – Cassie Packard for Art Forum
List Projects 26: Alison Nguyen
February 23-June 25, 2023
“Walking away from the show, one cannot help questioning if the reality they have just experienced is just a part of greater hypnosis that we are living with every day.” –Tuong Linh Do for The Brooklyn Rail
Lex Brown: Carnelian
April 4-July 16, 2023
“Carnelian rides the emotional roller coaster of life under constant threat of demise, with catchy songs… Ultimately, though, Carnelian settled in as being less about any particular threat, and more about feeling lost amid the deluge of emergency overload.” –Kim Córdova for The New York Times
Sung Tieu: Civic Floor
April 4 - July 16, 2023
“You can say Sung Tieu has elevated bureaucracy into an art form and, necessarily, vice versa. ‘Civic Floor’ is impeccably installed, exhaustively researched, deeply satisfying…” –Jace Clayton for 4Columns
