For the first time in several years, the Boston Center for the Arts is highlighting artists from its Artist Studio Building with a group exhibition open to the public.
Experience work created by the artists who reside behind our walls, and meet the individuals who are vital not only to our campus, but to the Boston arts community.
Attaché, curated by Meclina Gomes, is a group exhibition that brings together artists whose contemporary practices are shaped by inherited culture, migration, and lived lineage. Each artist functions as a cultural attaché—carrying memory, tradition, and embodied knowledge from one context into another. Their work reflects how origin informs identity and how culture is activated, translated, and reimagined through material, process, and form. Positioned within Mills Gallery’s commitment to artist-driven inquiry, the exhibition frames creative practice as legacy work: a deliberate laying of bricks that honors the past while shaping what is carried forward.
From curator Meclina Gomes:
“My curatorial approach is informed by my own storytelling-based art practice, which centers cultural memory, personal narrative, and intergenerational continuity. This approach aligns with Mills Gallery’s focus on dialogue, experimentation, and process-based work. Through this lens, Attaché becomes a connective space where individual histories remain distinct yet interwoven, revealing shared practices of care, stewardship, and cultural responsibility. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how contemporary artists hold, translate, and extend legacy within an evolving cultural landscape.”
Exhibiting Studio Residents:
AOA Collective •Beatriz Amelia •Bell Pitkin • Claudio Eshun • Emily Rose • Feda Eid • Frantz Lexy • Georgina Lewis • Heather Kapplow • Homa Sarabi • Ifé Franklin • Isaac Zerkle • Jamal Thorne • Jose Cotto • Lilan Yang • Maria Molteni • Mark Hernandez-Motaghy • Marla McLeod • Miguel Caba • Navid Mood • Ng’endo Mukii • Ngoc-Tran Vu • Nicola Rose • Rani Sarin • Selina Narovlansky • Shima Taj Bakhsh • Imagine • Xray Aims • Yolanda Yang • Yuko Okabe