Future Fossils

January 27, 2026 - May 17, 2026

Anne Noland Edwards Gallery

Installation of Future Fossils on view in the Anne Noland Edwards gallery. Photography courtesy of Matt Crim.

About the Exhibition

Future Fossils presents a possible future view of the present, a moment frozen in time and culture. The artworks—imagined relics—come from artists based in North America, Latin America, and Europe. While each artist explores different paths and issues, together their works suggest the remains of an apocalypse. Offering a snapshot of how we live today, Future Fossils reveals aspects of our lives left behind for later generations to decode.

Featuring work by Ai Weiwei, Sanford Biggers, Izaak Brandt, Jedediah Caesar, Julian Charrière, Tania Pérez Córdova, Liz Glynn, Maureen Gruben, Matthew Angelo Harrison, William Lamson, James Lewis, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reynier Leyva Novo, Studio Drift, Do Ho Suh, Clarissa Tossin, Marion Verboom, and Rachel Whiteread.

Future Fossils was organized by the MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA and curated by c² curatorsquared, a curatorial partnership between Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox.

Admission: free

The Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center

gratefully acknowledges our exhibition sponsors:

Ramona and Robert Deal | William and Janice Grace | Mary Katherine Evans

Hogg Elizabeth Holt ‘79 | Larry King Law | Patricia ‘02 and Dan Mooza

Mary Neale | Gina Fitzhugh Wilson

Do Ho Suh, Specimen Series: Refrigerator, Apartment A, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (Detail), 2013. Polyester fabric, stainless steel wire, glass display case with LED lighting; Edition of 3. Courtesy Gazelli Art House, LTD.

Matthew Angelo Harrison, Seer: Peering through Aurora (Detail), 2020. Headlight, tinted polyurethane resin, anodized aluminum, acrylic, 10.5 x 26.5 x 14.5 in. Collection MSU Broad Art Museum.

James Lewis, Slow Thinking (Detail), 2025. Repurposed aluminum stud partition walls taken from the previous exhibition at MAAM containing two artworks by James Lewis: An evening began (III), 2024 and Slow thinking, 2024, Wall: 96 x 114 x 20 in. Nightstand: 25.5 x 43 x 20.5 in. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.

Marion Verboom, Achronie No. 37 (Detail), 2022. Jesmonite, plaster, concrete, 100.38 x 27.94 in. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, Paris.

Maureen Gruben, Fresh Artifacts, 2017. Cast resin, steel, copper nails, reflective tape, wax, three components, each 52 x 12 in. Courtesy of the artist.

RELATED EVENTS

Artist Talk | William Lamson

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Torggler Lecture Hall

Join us for an evening with William Lamson, an interdisciplinary artist whose piece Thermal Fountain is currently on view in Future Fossils. Based in Brooklyn, Lamson’s practice centers on “generative artworks” that unfold over time in gallery settings and far-flung landscapes.

Working with elemental forces to create durational performative actions, Lamson installs works in landscapes as varied as New York’s East River and Chile’s Atacama Desert, revealing the invisible systems and forces at play within these sites. The artist’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe.

This program is free and open to the public.