Exhibitions in Boston
April 2027
April at a glance: 2 exhibitions opening, 2 closing, and 8 more on view across the city.
Opening in April
Brooke Stewart9 Apr 2027Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
A new installation on the material history of Boston's sports courts, past and present. Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall.
"Still growing and blooming": Betty, George, and Francesca Woodman15 Apr 2027Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
Fifty years of ceramics, painting and photography by three generations of one artistic family. Evans and Conway Galleries.
Closing in April
- Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage11 Apr 2027
Harvard Art MuseumsFree
Tracing the artistic lineage of Filipino-American painter Alfonso Ossorio through a body of works that resonates across generations, in the Modern and Contemporary Art galleries.
Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow's Discoveries30 Apr 2027Harvard Museum of Natural History
Rare specimens from Harvard's 26-million-object vaults, many on public display for the first time - from George Washington's golden pheasants to the only complete Lewis & Clark bird specimen.
Also on through April
- The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collectionto 9 May 2027
Harvard Art MuseumsFree
How did photography construct cultural memories of postwar America? A University Research Gallery show drawn from the museums' American Professional Photographers Collection.
Naoko Matsubara's Woodblock Worldsto 16 May 2027Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Seven decades of bold woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Naoko Matsubara, made across Kyoto, Boston, Toronto and Tibet and spanning nature, motherhood, music and theatre.
Coloring Bookto 27 May 2027Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
Eight teen artists from Artists for Humanity use color to tell stories and express emotion, at the ICA's Teen Gallery, Seaport Studio.
Renoir and Loveto 13 Jun 2027Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Renoir set apart from his Impressionist peers by his subject: friendship, family and flirtation, love depicted as happy and discreet. Includes the Musée d'Orsay's Bal du moulin de la Galette.
The Banner Project: Joiri Minayato 21 Jun 2027Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Joiri Minaya layers fragmented imagery from art history, science and pop culture to challenge stereotypes of Black and Brown women from tropical regions, and how exoticism and colonialism shaped them.
Kawada Kikuji: Chizu (The Map)to 18 Jul 2027Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kawada Kikuji's 1965 photobook Chizu, in which Coca-Cola bottles, ruined fortresses and the stained walls of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome resist any single narrative of postwar Japan.
sweat variant: Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Bornto 1 Aug 2027Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
A moving-image installation on transmission, absence and grief by the collaborative duo, with periodic in-gallery performances. Fotene Demoulas Gallery.
Jennifer Teeto 1 Aug 2027Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
Amsterdam-based Jennifer Tee's first US solo museum show: tulip-petal collages, textiles, ceramics and performance tracing her father's migration from Indonesia. Buttenwieser Gallery.
Image credits
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- Brooke StewartCourtesy of Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
- "Still growing and blooming": Betty, George, and Francesca WoodmanCourtesy of Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
- Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow's Discoveries© Tony Rinaldo / Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Naoko Matsubara's Woodblock WorldsCourtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Coloring BookCourtesy of Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston
- Renoir and LoveMusée d'Orsay, bequest of Gustave Caillebotte, 1896
- The Banner Project: Joiri MinayaCourtesy of the artist. © Joiri Minaya.
- Kawada Kikuji: Chizu (The Map)Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- sweat variant: Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter BornPhoto by Ava Pellor
- Jennifer TeeCourtesy the artist and Tina Kim Gallery, New York. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee. © Jennifer Tee
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