| Tufts University Art Galleries |
| Reminder: You're Invited! Community Reception for "Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing" |
| Sep 16, 2026 |
| Join Us September 24 at TUAG / Medford |
|
|
Please join us at TUAG / Medford for a Community Reception celebrating Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing, the first institutional survey of work by the Chicago-based artist and Kemp’s first Boston exhibition since his time as a combined-degree student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University (BA/BFA ’91). RSVP for the Community Reception here. COMMUNITY RECEPTION |
| Learn More ➔ |
| More Upcoming Programming |
| Event • Boston • Sep 25, 12:00pm |
| Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance |
|
| Go to Event ➔ |
| Event • Boston • Oct 16, 12:00pm |
| Language and Improvisation: Arnold J. Kemp & Mira Dayal in Conversation |
|
| Go to Event ➔ |
| Event • Offsite • Oct 17, 6:00pm |
| Arnold J. Kemp: Three Performances |
|
| Go to Event ➔ |
| About the Exhibition |
| Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing |
|
|
Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing is the first institutional survey of work by the Chicago-based artist Arnold J. Kemp (b. 1968, Boston). The exhibition focuses on Kemp’s performative and material tendencies of masking, traced through his sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, and plays from the last decade. Building upon his use of masks, doppelgängers, and surrogates, the artist makes many Arnold Kemps emerge with equally poignant emphases on beauty, horror, and play. Kemp’s masks are not only about obfuscation. Critically, the artist refuses the singularity of essentialized identities, instead grappling with legacies of conceptualism, Black and diasporic experiences, queer relationalities, and resistive modes of being. |
| Learn More ➔ |
|
|
As the public center for visual arts at Tufts University, the Art Galleries create a dynamic learning space through a responsive program of contemporary art exhibitions, events, collecting, and scholarship, across our two locations in Medford and Boston. We are driven by our belief in the impact of art and artists on our world and grounded in the values of care, learning, dialogue, and the creative process. We strive to make our exhibitions and programming accessible for all audiences. If you have any questions or would like to discuss how to best make a program accessible for you, please email galleryaccessibility@tufts.edu Locations and Hours Aidekman Arts Center SMFA at Tufts Tues–Sunday 11am-5pm. At Tufts we take care of your personal data, if you want to know more about our privacy notice, please see our privacy statement. |