Now on view in the Media Art Gallery - A Sentient Land.
Open to the public Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm.
Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), one of the world's largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists, electroacoustic composers, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025, presenting Liminal - on display at Emerson Contemporary's Media Art Gallery from June 11th...
Emerson Contemporary has joined hands with the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), one of the world's largest and most prestigious gatherings of sound artists, electroacoustic composers, and music technologists from across the globe. As a part of the installation track of ICMC 2025, presenting Foresta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards, by Jane Tingley - on display at Emerson Contemporary's Media...
Iwalani Kaluhiokalani, The Radiance Chasers, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation, painting, paper cut-outs, video mapping, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser. Emerson Contemporary – Emerson College’s platform for presenting contemporary visual art – proudly presents Echoes of the Heart: The New England Media Art Biennial, a multimedia juried group exhibition featuring New England visual artists Clint Baclawski,...
Un-Monument is a two-year initiative that reimagines and fosters discourse around Boston’s monuments and memorials in a way that centers and amplifies a multiplicity of voices and creates authentic learning moments across the city. It invigorates public spaces through artist interventions that bring to the fore the rich histories that are often hidden. Emerson Contemporary...
In her public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” Kameelah J. Rasheed responds to Boston's memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books....
Elisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French, biracial hairdresser and barber who, together with his friend George Middleton, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill, located at 5 Pinckney Street....
Clareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection, healing, and imagining new possibilities for liberation...
Join us for a spectacular event celebrating the launch of Emerson Contemporary's public art exhibition Hidden Histories featuring art projects by Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill, Sue Murad, and Kameelah J. Rasheed. Artist will be present to discuss their unique works and visitors can partake in student led walking tours of the projects. Part of the...
Sue Murad’s ASSEMBLE: Performance Instructions For Public Arrangement is a participatory performance that reflects on the ways we gather in public space—particularly the historic Boston Common—through the objects we bring with us or discover there. Murad created a series of prompts inviting people into an embodied experience of the Common, creating a temporal micro-culture for each tour group in...
Huret and Spector Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat, 12-5pm
Media Art Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat, 12-6pm