Let your imagination
run wild
The MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) is Boston’s only free contemporary art museum, a space to experience works by extraordinary artists at the forefront of contemporary art. As MassArt's teaching museum, we are committed to educating and empowering the next generation of artists—both on our campus and throughout the world.
Contemporary art can be a conduit to understanding. We are pleased to share exhibitions for 2026 that explore how communities are formed, challenged, and sustained. We hope you will see something of yourself, those around you, and the world we inhabit together.
Upon entering our lobby, Baseera Khan’s installation examines how power, belief, and agency shape everyday life, proposing futures built through adaptation and resistance. Press & Pull: Two Decades at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop celebrates a legacy of collaboration and shared creative labor – values that resonate deeply with MAAM’s role as a space designed for learning together. And upstairs, Masako Miki: Midnight March reimagines myth and otherness. The artist invites us to walk alongside figures once cast aside, and reconsider the histories and narratives that define belonging.
Welcome to MAAM!
Warmly,
Lisa Tung
To open eyes, expand minds, and create opportunity through the lens of contemporary art
We make groundbreaking contemporary art accessible to our community and the world—free of charge. We invite everyone to experience contemporary art, exchange ideas, and be part of the MAAM community.
MAAM is a kunsthalle, a non-collecting museum. We are always changing, forever evolving. We seek to demonstrate how contemporary art shapes our understanding of the world.
We curate diverse exhibitions designed to connect everyone to contemporary art. MAAM builds meaningful relationships with individuals and institutions in order to spark positive change in our community.
We are a teaching museum committed to shaping the visions and futures of MassArt students. Our educational reach is boundless: MAAM empowers families & communities through contemporary art.
We are bold, we seek the unprecedented. We inspire a broad and diverse array of artists – and ourselves – to experiment and transcend traditional disciplines.
Land Acknowledgment
The campus of Massachusetts College of Art and Design is located on the lands of indigenous tribes, such as the Wampanoag and Massachusett. We make this land acknowledgment to pay respect to these communities – past, present, and future – and recognize the painful history of erasure and ongoing violence toward indigenous people in North America and across the world. We acknowledge this part of our history to affirm our values to pursue a more just, compassionate, and equitable learning environment.
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