2026 Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge, MA 02139, 20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge, MA
Join us for the opening reception to celebrate two new exhibitions at the List Center: Uri Aran: Look How Hard They Work and Hao Jingban: I Witness. The opening reception will follow an Artist Talk with exhibiting artist, Hao Jingban, from 5:30-6:30PM. Exhibiting artists and exhibition curators will be in attendance. Light refreshments and beverages from Momma's Grocery + Wine will be served. Uri Aran: Look How Hard They Work Uri Aran's work is at once deeply idiosyncratic and oddly familiar: to follow it is to tinker alongside the artist, to be let in on an invention, or perhaps a shorthand between friends. Aran’s first major institutional solo exhibition in the United States gathers a new body of work: annotated panels that hover between quick line drawing and painting, welded sculptures that pose like equations, bulbous forms worked by hand in plasticene and foam, and a mass of piled-up googly eyes—the most elementary form of affect and animation—tragicomically raised to the scale of an earthwork. Hao Jingban: I Witness Blending documentary sensibility with poetic construction, Hao Jingban makes moving-image installations that are emotionally precise, historically incisive, and…