Boston Young Contemporaries 2025

Presented as an extension of the Spring 2025 Open Studios, the exhibition builds on a tradition launched over twenty years ago by Boston University MFA students and returns with support from the Wagner Foundation. The 2025 edition is juried by Selby Nimrod—a Cambridge-based curator, writer, researcher, and the inaugural Director of Exhibitions and Commons at MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning—and highlights the next generation of artists working across disciplines and across the city.

Selected Artists

2025 Open Studios

In March 2025, Boston University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University hosted the first ever citywide Open Studios event, providing fine arts students with the unique opportunity to present their work to a broader audience. 

“Right now, it feels like a very vibrant time to be an artist in Boston, and I’m very hopeful for the kind of galleries and speakers and curators that are now in the city,” S. Billie Mandle, associate professor of photography at MassArt, said. “This is an attempt to bring all of our MFA students into that vibrancy, and to sort of break down some of the barriers that exist between the institutions and the larger communities.”

Reception

Stop by Stone Gallery for the Boston Young Contemporaries reception on opening day, June 5th, from 5pm to 7pm!