Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
March 1 – July 21, 2024
Sunbeam, 2002
Ink and color on paper; drypoint with aquatint.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Purchase through the generosity of
the David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation
in memory of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, 2018.200
© Noriko Saitō
Future Minded highlights a selection of works acquired in recent years that exemplify the Harvard Art Museums’ collecting vision and strategies. Nearly all are on display for the first time.
The museums are committed to acquiring art that expands the range of artists and cultures represented in the collections; that moves museum practice toward more nuanced understanding of both histories and contemporary issues; and that pushes boundaries and embraces experimentation. Many of the works on view are by living artists, an area of focused growth for the museums.
Staged across two adjacent galleries, the exhibition presents a range of drawings, photographs, prints, paintings, and sculptures spanning centuries and continents. The works are by roughly 30 artists, including Jean (Hans) Arp, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Willie Cole, Pietro Damini, Svenja Deininger, Jeffrey Gibson, Baldwin Lee, Ana Mendieta, Lucia Moholy, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Noriko Saitō, Melissa Shook, Jane Yang-D’Haene, and many others.
Organized by Soyoung Lee, Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator; with Jackson Davidow, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, and through close consultation with and contributions from curators and fellows across divisions and conservators in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS
Special Exhibitions Gallery (Level 3)
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
