Emerson Contemporary is the college’s platform for showcasing contemporary visual art. It is focused 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. The 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.
Emerson Contemporary consists of the Media Art Gallery, Huret & Spector Gallery, Public Programs, Art on Campus and Public Art.
A multimedia exhibition featuring nine works, including a three-channel video installation, a 16mm film, etched photographs, and vinyl calligrams. A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Pechanga … Continue Reading Sky Hopinka: ‘Present Joys’
Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body is the first survey of the contemporary and multidisciplinary practice of artist Emilio Rojas (c. 1985 Mexico City). The exhibition brings together … Continue Reading Opening Reception: “tracing a wound through my body”
Mexican Performance artist Emilio Rojas will perform A Vague and Undetermined Place (A Gloria). This performance examines what Rojas terms “border pedagogies,” or teaching opportunities to question and reimagine national … Continue Reading Live Performance by Performance Artist Emilio Rojas
Mexican Performance artist Emilio Rojas will perform A Vague and Undetermined Place (A Gloria). This performance examines what Rojas terms “border pedagogies,” or teaching opportunities to question and reimagine national … Continue Reading Live Performance by Performance Artist Emilio Rojas
Join Emerson Contemporary for a conversation between artists Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas, moderated by Artspace New Haven Director of Curatorial Affairs and Emerson guest curator Laurel V. McLaughlin, on … Continue Reading Border Pedagogies, Queer Kinships, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas
Join Emerson Contemporary for a celebration and unveiling of the new spring exhibition EL Putnam: PseudoRandom. Artist will perform a newly created piece “Ghost Work” live at 6:00 pm. Mary Gray … Continue Reading EL Putnam: Artist Reception and Performance
Join Emerson Contemporary for a live performance of Ghost Work by video and performance artist EL Putnam. Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri define ghost work as the hidden human labor … Continue Reading Live Performance: ‘Ghost Work’ by EL Putnam
The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (JGJ) has partnered with the Office of the Arts at Emerson College to bring the multidisciplinary installation, New Standards, to the Emerson Contemporary Media Art Galler., … Continue Reading Emerson Contemporary: ‘New Standards’ Opening Reception
Taking as a point of departure some works of Vietnamese American artistic production, this two-part talk with Writing, Literature and Publishing Assistant Professor Catherine Nguyen and Howie Tam, Assistant Professor … Continue Reading WLP Scholar Series x Emerson Contemporary: Vietnam and Diasporic Aesthetics
Emerson Contemporary presents: “Kameelah Janan Rasheed: all velvet sentences as manifesto, Like a lesson against smooth language or an invitation to be feral hypertext” on view January 23 - March 23, … Continue Reading Artist Reception Kameelah Janan Rasheed
