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September 11, 2020

MIT List Visual Arts Center / Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

Shifter: Waiting

August 25, 2020

(1) Nayland Blake, Untitled (Pinocchio), 1994. Collection of Gretchen and John Berggruen. (2) Installation view, Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Verses from the Apocalypse at Foxy Production, New York, 2019. Photo: Charles Bento. (3) Leslie Thornton, Ground, 2020. Video, color, sound, 13 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London / Piraeus. (4) Sreshta Rit Premnath, Accompaniment 2, 2019. Plaster, foam, fence, emergency blankets. 179 7/8 x 72 x 24 inches. Courtesy the artist. Photo: SITE Photography. (5) View of Andrew Norman Wilson, Hirngespenster, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Kunstverein Braunschweig. Photo: Stefan Stark.

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Fall 2020 / spring 2021 exhibitions

March 11, 2020

Rami George, Untitled (Saturday, October 16, 1993) (still), 2015. HD video, color, sound, 5:00 min. Image courtesy the artist.

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List Projects 21: Rami George

February 3, 2020

(1) Left: Christine Sun Kim, Why My Hearing Daughter Signs, 2018. Charcoal on paper 49 × 49 in., framed size: 49 ½ × 49 ½ in. Courtesy the artist and private collection. Photo: White Space Beijing and Yang Hao. Right: Christine Sun Kim, Why I Work with Sign Language Interpreters, 2018. Charcoal on paper 49 x 49 in., framed size: 49 ½ × 49 ½ in. Courtesy the artist and White Space Beijing, Beijing. Photo: White Space Beijing and Yang Hao. (2) Sable Elyse Smith, Coloring Book 33, 2019. Screen printing ink and oil stick on paper. Courtesy the artist, Cal Siegel, and JTT, New York. Sable Elyse Smith, Pivot I, 2019. Powder coated aluminum. Courtesy the artist and JTT, New York. Installation view: Colored People Time: Banal Presents, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Constance Mensh.

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Christine Sun Kim: Off the Charts
Colored People Time

December 9, 2019

Becca Albee, Untitled, 2019. Silver gelatin print. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects 20: Becca Albee

November 6, 2019

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Job opportunity: Curator of Contemporary Art

October 21, 2019

Alicja Kwade, Against the Run, 2019. MIT Collection. Commissioned with MIT Percent-for-Art funds. Photo: Tim Lloyd.

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Alicja Kwade
In Between Glances

August 28, 2019

Installation view Alicja Kwade, Entitas, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, 2018. Courtesy Alicja Kwade, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin/London. Photo: Roman März.

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Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Exhibitions

July 24, 2019

Farah Al Qasimi, Aviary, 2019. Archival Inkjet print. 45 x 60 in. Courtesy the artist; Helena Anrather, New York; and the Third Line, Dubai.

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List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi

May 20, 2019

Ericka Beckman, You the Better (still), 1983. 16mm film transferred to HD video, color, sound, 32:00 min. Image courtesy the artist. © Ericka Beckman.

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Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse

April 18, 2019

Research materials from the archive of Deborah Rodi, found 2019. Courtesy the artist and Carlos/Ishikawa, London.

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List Projects: Rose Salane

February 4, 2019

(1) Kapwani Kiwanga, Jalousie (detail), 2018. Steel, two-way mirror. Courtesy the artist; Galerie Poggi, Paris; Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin; and Goodman Gallery, South Africa. (2) Kathleen Ryan, Barbed Wire, 2017. Bowling balls, brass, 8.5 x 8.5 x 310 in. Courtesy the artist; Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; and Josh Lilley, London.

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Kapwani Kiwanga
Safe Passage
Kathleen Ryan
Cultivator

January 3, 2019

Mary Helena Clark, A Green Shade (still), 2018. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects: Mary Helena Clark

October 15, 2018

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Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective

August 27, 2018

Tony Conrad in front of Yellow Movie 2/2/73 (1973) and two Yellow Movie—35mm Format canvases (1973)
Yellow Movie 2/2/73 courtesy The Estate of Tony Conrad and Greene Naftali, New York.
Image courtesy Tony Conrad Archives. Work © The Estate of Tony Conrad. Photo: Kevin Noble

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MIT List Visual Arts Center Exhibitions 2018-2019

July 19, 2018

Delia Gonzalez, The Last Days of Pompeii, 2017. Neon, 47 × 8 inches. Photo: Amedeo Benestante. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects: Delia Gonzalez

May 14, 2018

(1,3) Carissa Rodriguez, The Maid (still), 2018. Video. Courtesy the artist and Karma International, Zurich/Los Angeles. (2) Allison Katz, Sweety, 2018. Courtesy the artist; and The approach, London; and Gió Marconi, Milan. (4) Allison Katz, Slippy, 2018. Courtesy the artist; and The approach, London; and Gió Marconi, Milan.

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Allison Katz: Diary w/o Dates
Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid

April 11, 2018

Gordon Hall, The Number of Inches Between Them, 2017. Pigmented cast concrete, color poster multiple, performance. Performers: Mary Bok, Gordon Hall, Alan Crichton, Del Hickey, Susan Schor, Millie Kapp, and Chris Domenick.

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List Projects: Gordon Hall
The Number of Inches Between Them

February 1, 2018

Shigeko Kuobta, River (stills). Three-channel video installation with steel trough, monitor, and water, 32:17 min. Courtesy Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, New York.

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Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995

December 21, 2017

Adam Pendleton, Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer, 2016–17. Single-channel black-and-white video with sound, 13:51 minutes, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects: Adam Pendleton

October 20, 2017

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Heimo Zobernig: chess painting

September 6, 2017

Takahiko Iimura, TV for TV, 1983. Two identical TV monitors face to face, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Microscope Gallery.

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2017–18 exhibitions

July 13, 2017

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street no. 2 (still), 2011. Single-channel, video, sound, 3:48 minutes. Courtesy Video Data Bank (VDB).

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List Projects: Civil Disobedience

May 15, 2017

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Loverboy), 1989. Blue fabric and hanging device, dimensions vary with installation. View of Felix Gonzalez-Torres: This Place, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2015–16. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

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An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art

April 14, 2017

Kenneth Tam, Breakfast in Bed (still), 2016. Single-channel HD video projection, sound; 32 minutes. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects: Kenneth Tam

February 13, 2017

View of Charlotte Moth, Travelogue, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich. © Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.

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Charlotte Moth
Seeing while Moving
Gwenneth Boelens
At Odds

January 5, 2017

Andrea Crespo, [intensifies] (still), 2016. Film. Courtesy the artist; Hester, New York; and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.

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List Projects: Andrea Crespo

October 11, 2016

View of Edgar Arceneaux, A Book and a Medal Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions, Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 2014. Photo: Rober Wedemeyer.

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Edgar Arceneaux
Written in Smoke and Fire

July 19, 2016

Ethan Hayes-Chute, Bottles and Jars from Contemporary Spice Rack, 2012. Jars, bottles, various containers, mixed contents, Epson HX-20 printouts, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects: Ethan Hayes-Chute

May 16, 2016

Tala Madani, Projections, 2015. Oil on linen, 80 x 98 1/4 x 1 3/8 inches. Courtesy the artist; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London. Photo: Josh White.

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Tala Madani
First Light
Villa Design Group
Tragedy Machine

April 19, 2016

Mareike Bernien and Kerstin Schroedinger, Rainbow’s Gravity, 2014. HD video, color, 33 minutes. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects: Narrative Color

February 16, 2016

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Geometry of Space, 2014. Sculptures, stretched oxidzed steel, scam atlas, three publications, murals, chronologic drawings of 2005 & 2010. Image courtesy the artists and In Situ/Fabienne Leclerc (Paris), CRG Gallery (New York), The Third Line (Dubai).

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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I Must First Apologize...

January 4, 2016

Ann Hirsch, The Scandalishious Project, 2008–09. Video, color, sound, 42:30 minutes. Courtesy the artist.

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List Projects: Ann Hirsch

November 9, 2015

Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, School supplies distribution by Forest Houses Resident Association, Forest Houses, Bronx, New York, 2013. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Romain Lopez.

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Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art

October 19, 2015

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Rosa Barba
The Color Out of Space

July 23, 2015

Lina Viste Grønli, Coca Cola in Chinese Cup On the Genealogy of Morality, 2015. Coca Cola, cup, book, 3 x 6 x 9 inches. Courtesy the artist, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, and Christian Andersen, Copenhagen.

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List Projects: Lina Viste Grønli

June 27, 2015

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World premiere performance by Joan Jonas in Venice with jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran

May 20, 2015

Eva Koťátková, Image atlas of Johan, a boy who cut a library out of the clinic into pieces, 2014. Vitrine, paper cut outs on strings. Courtesy Meyer Riegger, Berlin and Karsruhe, and Hunt Kastner, Prague.

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Eva Koťátková and Anicka Yi

April 6, 2015

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Joan Jonas

February 9, 2015

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Katrín Sigurdardóttir

January 5, 2015

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Redmond Entwistle

October 8, 2014

Thea Djordjadze, Untitled, 2013. Steel, lacquer, glass, cork, vinyl paint. 45 1/4 x 63 x 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches. Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin London.

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Fall 2014 exhibitions

July 11, 2014

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Sergei Tcherepnin

March 16, 2014

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Pauline Curnier Jardin

February 5, 2014

Sonia Almeida, Silver Screen, 2013. Oil on marine plywood, green LEDs, 64 x 82 1/2 inches. The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College.

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Winter 2014 exhibitions

January 18, 2014

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Kambui Olujimi

October 14, 2013

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Chris Marker

May 7, 2013

Nairy Baghramian, Mooring IV (hanging), 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne.

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Nairy Baghramian, Alan Uglow, and Gabriel Abrantes

April 13, 2013

Gabriel Abrantes and Benjamin Crotty, Liberdade, 2011. S-16mm film transferred to HD, 12 minutes. Courtesy Mutual Respect Productions.

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List Projects

February 4, 2013

Amalia Pica, Eavesdropper, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Herald St., London.

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Amalia Pica and Oliver Laric

October 10, 2012

Left: Joseph Beuys, Capri-Batterie (Capri Battery), 1985. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Right: Germaine Kruip, Aesthetics as a Way of Survival, 2009.

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In the Holocene

May 4, 2012

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Joachim Koester

February 6, 2012

Top: Cheyney Thompson, “Chronochrome I,” 2009.
Bottom: Akram Zaatari, “Tomorrow Everything Will
Be Alright,” 2010.*

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Cheyney Thompson and Akram Zaatari

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