Thank you for helping us celebrate our Fall 2023 exhibitions centering Indigenous voices and practitioners in the arts!

We look forward to welcoming you back to the Art Galleries in the new year and are thrilled to share three new exhibitions that explore shapeshifting conceptions of gender and sexuality throughout modern history:

In Medford, Kenneth Tam: Standing in Soft Formation explores the myths and performative culture that uphold conventional Anglo-American expectations of Asian American masculinity and identity and features the artist’s two most recent projects—Silent Spikes (2021) and The Founding of the World (2023)—in dialogue for the first time. Read more about the project, which is organized in part, by Ballroom Marfa, in The New York Times.

At the SMFA at Tufts, Boston, Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant  surveys the work of artist, critic, and curator Christian Walker (1953–2003). A 1984 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Walker was a path-making gay Black photographer active in Boston and Atlanta. Walker made compelling and experimental work about queer sexuality, race, and their intersections from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. Organized by the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art  and co-curated by Jackson Davidow and Noam Parness, read more about the exhibition in The New York Times and Brooklyn Rail.  As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston, curated by Jackson Davidow, accompanies Christian Walker and explores the relationship among community photographic practices, queer nightlife, and gay liberation in Boston.

Visit our website to learn more about the 2024 exhibitions and programs.