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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.‬ ‭

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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.

Upcoming Events

2025 Vera List Prize for Writing on the Visual Arts

April 6, 2025

Special Program

MIT Community

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Graduate Student Talk: Félix-Antoine Gélineau

April 10, 2025, 5:30 - 6PM

Talk / Lecture

MIT Community

A wooden cabinet standing on a angle tilted to the right in a completely red painted room with red carpeting, next to a metal sphere hanging on a string suspended from the ceiling. Part of a copper poll is angled to the right in the right hand side of the frame.

2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability

2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability: A one day forum bringing together artists, scholars, and curators to discuss climate change within the arts and museum institutions.

A structure made of light blue and gray plastic WaterBrick containers. The structure has an opening at the center, framing recycling bins and a workshop table with tools. In the background, text on the wall reads: "TOWARD CLIMATE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE."

Lan Tuazon, Over Your Head & Under the Weather, 2024. Installation view: Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane

Public Art Collection

Sanford Biggers

Madrigal, 2024

Large brightly colored geometric sculpture in the middle of a grass lawn in front of a brick building with a concrete dome awning.

Spencer Finch

Bring me the sunset in a cup, 2023

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

List Projects 32: Elif Saydam

June 5 - August 31, 2025

Hanging plexiglass curtains on the left and right side and a canvas with a black heart hanging on the back wall.

Goldin+Senneby: Flare-Up

October 24, 2025 - March 15, 2026

An old open book of Roman law on a black background photographed from above with blue and green organic forms of dye bleeding on random areas on the pages.

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Featured Exhibitions

List Projects 31: Kite

Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning

2025 Vera List Prize for Writing on the Visual Arts

Graduate Student Talk: Félix-Antoine Gélineau

List Center Digital Guide

Sanford Biggers

Spencer Finch

List Projects 32: Elif Saydam

Goldin+Senneby: Flare-Up

Graduate Student Talk: Jonathan Zong

Artist Discussion: Pedro Gómez-Egaña

Video/Sound Performance with Andrew Neumann (Part 3)