Art Exhibitions in Boston

85 shows currently on view across 5 venue types

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Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

HAM

Apr 16 – Oct 18

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40 Years of Contemporary Art

List Center

Mar 19 – Dec 20

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Reality and Imagination: Rembrandt and the Jews in the Dutch Republic

MFA Boston

Dec 15 – Nov 29

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Yinka Shonibare: Sanctuary

Yinka Shonibare

Rose Art Museum

Feb 11 – Jan 3, 2027

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MassArt x SoWa

Oct 5 – Oct 15

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Who Will Meet You At Home?

MassArt x SoWa

Oct 5 – Oct 16

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Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

HAM

Apr 16 – Oct 18

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Jeff Perrott

LaMontagne Gallery

Sep 4 – Oct 18

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Discoveries: Mary Hughes

Mary Hughes

Vose Galleries

Sep 9 – Oct 21

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Artists Abroad: East Asia Through The Senses

Dennis Theoharidis, Logan Phesay

MassArt x SoWa

Oct 11 – Oct 24

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MassArt x SoWa

Oct 5 – Oct 15

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Who Will Meet You At Home?

MassArt x SoWa

Oct 5 – Oct 16

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Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

HAM

Apr 16 – Oct 18

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Containers

Jeff Perrott

LaMontagne Gallery

Sep 4 – Oct 18

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Discoveries: Mary Hughes

Mary Hughes

Vose Galleries

Sep 9 – Oct 21

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Artists Abroad: East Asia Through The Senses

Dennis Theoharidis, Logan Phesay

MassArt x SoWa

Oct 11 – Oct 24

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Convergence of Horizons: Juan José Barboza-Gubo: Solo Exhibition

Juan José Barboza-Gubo

Praise Shadows Art Gallery

Sep 9 – Oct 24

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Immovable Feast

Susie Allen, Eddie Bruckner, Laura Buscemi +19 more

ShowUp

Oct 22 – Oct 25

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Primary Sources: An Implicated Threshold

Nate Jackson, Camille Seaberry, Charlotte Palermo

Steven Zevitas Gallery

Oct 30 – Oct 30

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Primary Sources: Alex Jackson + Jordan Seaberry

Alex Jackson, Jordan Seaberry

Steven Zevitas Gallery

Oct 30 – Oct 30

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Elif Soyer: Native Pollinators

Elif Soyer

Kingston Gallery

Oct 1 – Nov 1

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Flux and Flow: The Great Marsh

Amy Kaczur

Kingston Gallery

Oct 1 – Nov 1

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Debra Samdperil: All is not Lost

Debra Samdperil

Kingston Gallery

Oct 1 – Nov 1

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A Tilt of Light; A Slant of Dust

Joetta Maue

ShowUp

Oct 2 – Nov 1

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Far, Dark Places

Craig Cromartie

ShowUp

Sep 4 – Nov 1

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Tilted / Straight

Fern L. Nesson, Peter Vanderwarker

Panopticon

Sep 10 – Nov 3

Now OpenReception Nov 6

It's Not What You Are Looking At, It's What You See

Liette Mar

Laconia Gallery

Sep 11 – Nov 6

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Martin Kline: Fields of Capture

Martin Kline

Gallery NAGA

Oct 9 – Nov 7

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Lucy Beecher Nelson: Shared Table

Lucy Beecher Nelson

Gallery NAGA

Oct 9 – Nov 7

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At What Cost

Andrea Cabochan, Kristen Hearrold, Cait Maltbie +1 more

Gallery 263

Oct 9 – Nov 8

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Imagined Nation

Feb 12 – Nov 14

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Seek Simplicity

August Ventimiglia, Lu Heintz

Drive-by Projects

Sep 13 – Nov 14

Boston Art Book Fair 2026

Boston Art Book Fair

Nov 13 – Nov 15

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Bridge: The Art of Strategy, Partnership, and Play

Selen Hotamisligil

French Library

Oct 27 – Nov 17

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The Boston Printmakers 2026 North American Print Biennial

Renee Covalucci, Andrew Stearns, Holly Berry +2 more

Boston University Art Galleries

Sep 2 – Nov 21

Reception Nov 6

Nancy Harrod "Climate: Fragile & Fierce" & Linda Klein "A Walk in the Park"

Nancy Harrod, Linda Klein

Bromfield

Nov 4 – Nov 29

Reception Nov 6

Sharon Kaitz: Dancing on the Edge

Sharon Kaitz

Kingston Gallery

Nov 5 – Nov 29

Reception Nov 6

Gabriel Wilson: Lay of the Land

Gabriel Wilson

Kingston Gallery

Nov 5 – Nov 29

Reception Nov 6

Surprise is the Prize: explorations plein air printmaking

Luanne E Witkowski

Kingston Gallery

Nov 5 – Nov 29

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List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall

Pap Souleye Fall

List Center

Jul 30 – Nov 29

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Reality and Imagination: Rembrandt and the Jews in the Dutch Republic

MFA Boston

Dec 15 – Nov 29

JEANNIE MOTHERWELL

Jeannie Motherwell

M Fine Arts

Nov 1 – Nov 30

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Shadows and Light: Symbolist Art in Belgium; Works from the Hearn Family Trust

Cécile Cauterman, William Degouve de Nuncques, Léon Frederic +11 more

McMullen Museum of Art

Sep 8 – Dec 6

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Maverick Kings

Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten +1 more

MFA Boston

Sep 6 – Dec 6

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Between the Bylines

Alexandra Bell, Jennifer Bolande, Daniela Comani +10 more

Boston University Art Galleries

Sep 2 – Dec 10

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Alice Miceli: Impenetrable Landscapes; Chronicles of Annihilation

Alice Miceli, Michael Orwicz

BCA

Sep 25 – Dec 12

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Shima Taj Bakhsh: Soft Collapse

Shima Taj Bakhsh

BCA

Sep 25 – Dec 12

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Thin Places: Thresholds of Transmission

Beatrice Glow, Megan and Murray McMillan, Sabrina Ratté

Emerson College Media Art Gallery

Sep 15 – Dec 12

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger

Krakow Witkin Gallery

Oct 24 – Dec 12

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Eadweard Muybridge and Hiroshi Sugimoto

Eadweard Muybridge, Hiroshi Sugimoto

Krakow Witkin Gallery

Oct 24 – Dec 12

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Bronlyn Jones: Drafts of an Empty Page

Bronlyn Jones

Krakow Witkin Gallery

Oct 24 – Dec 12

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Where’s Boston? 50 Years Later

Jun 16 – Dec 15

Scoreboard: Brooke Stewart: Solo Exhibition

Brooke Stewart

Praise Shadows Art Gallery

Nov 6 – Dec 19

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40 Years of Contemporary Art

List Center

Mar 19 – Dec 20

Iran: Memory X Heartbeat

Mehdi Darvishi, Minoo Emami, Eugenie Flochel +10 more

ShowUp

Nov 6 – Dec 20

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Adams Street Branch Library Art Project

Priscila De Carvalho

City of Boston Public Art

Jan 1 – Dec 31

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BRIGHT MOVES: Digital Art in Motion

Yue Hua, Jeffu Warmouth, Allison Tanenhaus

Emerson College Media Art Gallery

Sep 23 – Dec 31

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To My Best Friend

Laura Owens, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Olga de Amaral +1 more

ICA Boston

Jan 23 – Dec 31

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Introduction to the History of Art

Jeffrey Hamburger, Cécile Fromont, Joseph Leo Koerner +1 more

HAM

Aug 29 – Jan 3, 2027

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Jenna Gribbon: Entwined

Jenna Gribbon

Rose Art Museum

Aug 19 – Jan 3, 2027

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Yinka Shonibare: Sanctuary

Yinka Shonibare

Rose Art Museum

Feb 11 – Jan 3, 2027

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On Location: Drawing the Outdoors

HAM

Sep 18 – Jan 17, 2027

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Leilah Babirye

ICA Boston

Aug 27 – Jan 18, 2027

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Cynthia Daignault: Valley

Cynthia Daignault

ICA Boston

Aug 27 – Jan 18, 2027

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Leilah Babirye: Embaga ya Naki ne Naki (Wedding of Naki and Naki)

Leilah Babirye

ICA Boston

Aug 27 – Jan 18, 2027

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The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Aug 6 – Jan 18, 2027

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Michal Rovner: Esther Scrolls

Michal Rovner

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Aug 6 – Jan 18, 2027

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Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

Suzanne Jackson

MFA Boston

Sep 26 – Jan 18, 2027

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Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Unbound

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí +1 more

MFA Boston

Aug 1 – Jan 24, 2027

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May '68 in Posters: Art, Protest, and Ideas

Atelier Populaire

French Library

Oct 6 – Jan 28, 2027

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Sonder

ICA Boston

Apr 10 – Feb 4, 2027

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Michal Rovner: Untitled/Night, 2016

Michal Rovner

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Jul 28 – Feb 8, 2027

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Öyvind Fahlström: Are You Happy?

Öyvind Fahlström

MFA Boston

Sep 5 – Feb 21, 2027

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Banu Cennetoğlu

MAAM

Sep 30 – Feb 28, 2027

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Robert Lazzarini

MAAM

Sep 30 – Feb 28, 2027

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Uri Aran

List Center

Oct 23 – Feb 28, 2027

Reception Oct 22

Hao Jingban

List Center

Oct 23 – Feb 28, 2027

Reception Oct 22

Uri Aran: Look How Hard They Work

Uri Aran

List Center

Oct 23 – Feb 28, 2027

Reception Oct 22

Hao Jingban: I Witness

Hao Jingban

List Center

Oct 23 – Feb 28, 2027

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Donna Ferrato: 'Living with the Enemy' and the Power of Women

Donna Ferrato

MFA Boston

Jun 12 – Feb 28, 2027

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Urban Legends: A Global Perspective

Jeffrey Milstein, Tom Baril, Peter Bialobrzeski +7 more

Robert Klein Gallery

Oct 22 – Feb 28, 2027

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Spotlight: Joan Logue

Joan Logue

ICA Watershed

Sep 22 – Mar 7, 2027

Now OpenReception Oct 15

90 YEARS

Andy Warhol, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros +5 more

ICA Boston

Oct 15 – Mar 7, 2027

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Spotlight: Joan Logue

Joan Logue

ICA Boston

Sep 22 – Mar 7, 2027

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Caroline Monnet: Man-made Land

Caroline Monnet

ICA Boston

Sep 25 – Mar 21, 2027

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Matters of Consequence

Lan Tuazon

BPAT

Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2027

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Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage

Alfonso Ossorio

HAM

Oct 23 – Apr 11, 2027

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Threads of Time: Simultaneous Temporalities in the Work of Mario Schjetnan

Mario Schjetnan, Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU)

BAC

Sep 9 – May 9, 2027

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The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

HAM

Aug 29 – May 9, 2027

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Naoko Matsubara's Woodblock Worlds

Naoko Matsubara

MFA Boston

Sep 5 – May 16, 2027

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ChromaForm

Josef Albers, Richard Anuskiewicz, Ralph Coburn +8 more

Rose Art Museum

Aug 19 – Jun 6, 2027

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En/Lighten: Material & Metaphor

Chris Burden, Dan Basen, Christian Boltanski +8 more

Rose Art Museum

Aug 19 – Jun 6, 2027

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The Banner Project: Joiri Minaya

Joiri Minaya

MFA Boston

Jun 24 – Jun 21, 2027

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(Re)presenting the Past

Omer Fast, Cameron Barker

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) Galleries at Tufts

Aug 15 – Jul 1, 2027

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Re)presenting the Past

Omer Fast, Cameron Barker

TUAG

Aug 15 – Jul 1, 2027