Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

09/29/2026

Installation continued last week for Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities, with artists Cole Lu and AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh) on site at the Carpenter Center.
It’s exciting to see the exhibition taking shape as we get closer to opening day.

Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities
Opening this Thursday, October 1, 6:00–9:00 pm.

Free and open to the public.

Featuring work by Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh), and organized by curator Danni Shen.

On view October 1–December 13, 2026.

09/16/2026

A look behind the scenes at our first week of installation for Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities, with artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien on site at the Carpenter Center.

We’re so excited to see the exhibition taking shape and can’t wait to share it with you when we open on October 1. Featuring work by Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh), and organized by curator Danni Shen.

Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities
October 1–December 13, 2026
Opening Thursday, October 1, 6:00–9:00 pm

Free and open to the public.

08/18/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Salad Days: Primary Information this summer!

Over the course of the exhibition, we welcomed visitors for weekly film screenings, performances, conversations, gatherings, and many afternoons spent exploring the publications, films, and ephemera on view.

From opening night through our final programs, it was wonderful to see the exhibition become a space for gathering, discovery, and exchange. We’re grateful to the artists, filmmakers, performers, speakers, collaborators, and visitors who took part—and to Primary Information for an incredible summer together.

Here are a few moments from Salad Days and the many programs and gatherings that took place along the way.

The Carpenter Center will be closed for installation through October 1 as we prepare for the fall season.

Stay tuned for our fall exhibitions and public programs—we look forward to welcoming you back!

07/07/2026

06/20/2026

Salad Days: Primary Information is now open Thursday–Sunday, 12–5pm on Level 3.

This week’s featured film:

Lutz Bacher, Do You Love Me? (1994)
Digital video, color, sound, 739 minutes
Screened in a continuous loop

In this twelve-hour video, Bacher interviews friends, family members, artists, curators, and colleagues about Lutz Bacher the artist and the person. While Bacher is the starting point, the conversations often reveal as much about the interviewees as they do about their subject.

Accompanying Salad Days: Primary Information, this summer screening series expands on the ideas, histories, and artistic practices represented throughout the exhibition. Each week, the Carpenter Center presents a film by an artist published by or connected to Primary Information, offering visitors an opportunity to encounter their work beyond the page.

🔗 Link in bio for exhibition details and full screening schedule.

06/02/2026

We’re currently closed for installation as we prepare for our summer exhibitions. We hope you’re getting outside and enjoying this beautiful weather, and we look forward to welcoming you back in a few weeks.

Visit the link in our bio for upcoming exhibition and program information.

04/01/2026

Our Signal and Strata exhibition booklet has just arrived and is now available for free in the gallery!

Generously supported by the Wagner Foundation, it features a commissioned essay by Dr. Madeline Murphy Turner, which brings critical depth, clarity, and formal analysis to the ideas at the heart of this project. The booklet includes a Spanish translation and was designed by Omnivore.

Madeline Murphy Turner is a curator, educator, and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with a focus on gender, ecology, and their intersections with transhistorical politics. She was previously Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums.

02/11/2026

It’s finally here! Come see Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s “Restauración de señal: Sensor de color”, 2023, which was delayed in its arrival for our opening night of Signal and Strata (on view through April 5) due to weather-related disruptions, including winter storms locally and shipping delays in Portugal. To learn more about this work and its materiality (Copper plate, patina, stainless steel, aragonite, desert rose, chalcopyrite, quartz, copal, candle, palm brooms, ceramics, lima beans, coca leaves, corn, and copper ropes) and conceptual underpinnings, pick-up a copy of our gallery guide with a commissioned essay by Dr. Madeline Murphy Turner while you’re here.

XIMENA GARRIDO-LECCA (b. 1980, Lima, Peru) lives and works in Mexico City. She has presented solo exhibitions at Canal Projects, New York (2025) and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2025). She has also exhibited at the Sharjah Biennial 16, United Arab Emirates (2025), 12th SITE SANTA FE International, Santa Fe (2025), BOG25 International Art and City Biennale, Bogotá, Colombia (2025), XXIV Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala (2025), the Swiss Institute, New York (2024-25), CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel (2023), Portikus, Frankfurt (2022-23), Museo Madre, Naples (2021), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2020), Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2019-20), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2019), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2018), and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS), Mexico City (2017), among other venues.

Learn more 🔗 link in bio
Free and open to the public
Tuesday–Sunday, 12–5pm