MOVEMENT/s

a student-curated lens-based exhibition that explores the dynamic between motion and stillness in an ever-changing world.

We are Emerson College’s platform for showcasing contemporary visual art.

Our focus is on presenting living artists, their ideas, experiments, and creative practices in the areas of media art, performance art, and emergent technologies, while critically examining these works in their social context. Our in-depth engagement with the temporary exhibitions and related public programming is based on the principle that artistic practice is an intellectual activity and works of art are a form of knowledge production. Furthermore, we believe that art is essential in society as it creates dialog, asks questions, and brings people together. At Emerson Contemporary we believe that art, in fact, can help change society.


COMING UP NEXT

Between the Worlds: Traces of an Inner Landscape by Christina Yijia Ren

Between The Worlds is an installation that follows the journey of a painter who enters their own unfinished work and wanders through shifting landscapes shaped by memory, perception, and fragments of the subconscious.
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May 1st – May 10th, 2025

AI Generated Image of a Dancer, 35mm, hand-processed

MOVEMENT/s

The exhibition showcases a broad range of media by emerging artists in the Greater Boston area and includes photography, photo sculpture/installation, interactive video and projection, 3D scanning, and experimental animation.

April 11 – MAY 3, 2025


Just missed it

Blue sheer curtains surround a dark pool with suspended logs

Entire Nations Are Built
on Fairy Tales

At the Emerson Media Art Gallery from February 4th – March 22nd, 2025

(Un)Making AI Worlds:
Reception & Performances

Emerson Contemporary collaborates with the Data Fluencies Theatre Project in this creative interrogation of Artificial Intelligence

March 17 – 22nd at the Huret and Spector Gallery
Reception: March 18th 4-6.30 pm
Performance Activations: March 21st and 22nd

The Colors of You & Me
by Elise Guzmán

April 14 – April 17, 2025

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