BU Art Galleries Announces Summer 2025 Exhibitions
Cross-institutional creativity and multimedia works illuminate BU Art Galleries' Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery and 808 Gallery windows this summer
BU Art Galleries Announces Summer 2025 Exhibitions
Cross-institutional creativity and multimedia works illuminate BU Art Galleries’ Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery and 808 Gallery windows this summer
Boston University Art Galleries proudly presents its summer exhibitions, Boston Young Contemporaries 2025 and Nothing Matches Everything Shines, both opening Thursday, June 5, 2025, at BU’s Charles River Campus.
FIRST STOP:
BOSTON YOUNG CONTEMPORARIES 2025
HIGHLIGHTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS
Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, in collaboration with Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, presents Boston Young Contemporaries 2025—a revitalized cross-institutional exhibition showcasing work by current and just graduated (class of 2025) MFA students from all three schools.
Presented as an extension of the Spring 2025 Open Studios, the exhibition builds on a tradition launched over twenty years ago by BU 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.
The show will be on view from June 5 through July 26 at BU’s Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery. The gallery’s hours are Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11am to 5pm, closed on Sundays, Mondays, and national holidays (Juneteenth and Independence Day). A reception will be held on opening day, June 5th from 5pm to 7 pm. The exhibition and reception have free admission and are open to the public.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Ivo Makianich • Joseph Metrano • Kal Hart • Maithili Rajput • Emmaline Kenny • Kyuin Baik • Sylvie Mayer • Nasiri Guzman • Samantha Hayslett • Hayoung Cheon (Young one) • Miranda Pikul • Laura Sofia Hinojosa • Shannon Johnson • Daniel Rumsey • Jemma Byun • Olivia Greenberg • Robin Jamkatel • Hannah Stoll • Antonio Bailey • Monique Baron • Anguo Ping • Jamison Cloud • Christine Chiang • Noelle Ventura • Lu Adam
OPEN STUDIOS 2025
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.
ACROSS THE STREET AT 808 COMM. AVE:
NOTHING MATCHES EVERYTHING SHINES
Works by Loretta Park
JOYFUL INSTALLATIONS THAT CHALLENGE CONVENTIONAL BEAUTY
Loretta Park’s multimedia practice stitches together colorful found objects to create joyful, elaborate installations. She delights in the unexpected juxtapositions discovered from collecting materials that have outlived their original functions. Anchored by her original weavings, Park’s “art debris” assemblages incorporate mass-produced wood, plastic, and fiber scraps, challenging viewers to reconsider conventional hierarchies. Her scavenged materials may glisten and reflect light, she explains, “but we don’t consider them as precious or beautiful because we have learned things over time about assigning value.” Her stop-motion animations layer vibrant drawings over photographed details of previous artworks—digital sketches that mimic her sculptural technique.
Invoking a childhood spent exploring the neighborhood playgrounds of Seoul, South Korea, where mundane objects inspired hours of improvisational play, Park creates immersive worlds where ordinary items become imbued with wonder and possibility. By combining accessible materials with traditional handcraft techniques, Park challenges assumptions about fine art, “women’s work,” and adult authority, inviting us to re-engage with childlike modes of exploration and understanding.
The show, curated by Madeleine Delpha, will be on display at BU’s 808 Gallery windows from June 5 through August 8, and can only be seen from Commonwealth Avenue.
ABOUT BU ART GALLERIES
BU Art Galleries animates the cultural life of Boston University by exhibiting inclusive, dynamic art that encourages learning and appreciation for the visual world.
There are two primary exhibition spaces: 808 Gallery located at 808 Commonwealth Ave., and Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery (Stone Gallery), on the first floor of 855 Commonwealth Ave.
All exhibitions at BU Art Galleries are free and open to the general public.
Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research. With more than 34,000 students, it is the fourth-largest independent university in the United States. BU consists of 17 schools and colleges, along with a number of multi-disciplinary centers and institutes integral to the University’s research and teaching mission. In 2012, BU joined the Association of American Universities (AAU), a consortium of 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. Learn more at bu.edu.
Established in 1954, Boston University College of Fine Arts (CFA) is a community of artist-scholars and scholar-artists who are passionate about the fine and performing arts, committed to diversity and inclusion, and determined to improve the lives of others through art. With programs in Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts, CFA prepares students for a meaningful creative life by developing their intellectual capacity to create art, shift perspective and think broadly. CFA offers a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, as well as a range of online degrees and certificates. Learn more at bu.edu/cfa
The Boston University Art Galleries (BUAG) is located at 855 Commonwealth Avenue inside the College of Fine Arts. The gallery is located on the Boston University campus (Amory Street stop on the “B” Green Line.) Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 11am–5pm, (Closed Sundays, Mondays and Holidays.) For more information, visit bu.edu/art.
Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts prepares students to think seriously, to see critically, to make intensely, and to act with creative agency in the contemporary world. The School of Visual Arts merges the intensive studio education of an art school with the opportunities of a large urban university, and is committed to educating the eye, hand, and mind of the artist. With rigorous graduate and undergraduate fine art programs that are rooted in studio practice, CFA School of Visual Arts provides highly motivated students with programs in the bedrock disciplines, of the fine arts coupled with a vast array of electives and liberal arts opportunities.