Alfond Auditorium MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art in The Cooper Union (New York, USA). Raad's works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and the ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Let's Be Honest, The Weather Helped, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow.
Raad's works have been shown in Documenta 11 and 13 (Kassel, Germany), Kunsthalle Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland), The Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, UK), Festival d'Automne (Paris, France), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, Belgium), The Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), The Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, Germany), Homeworks (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other museums and venues in Europe, the Middle East, and Americas. Raad is also the recipient of the Hasselblad Award (2011), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), the Alpert Award in Visual Arts (2007), the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007), and the Camera Austria Award (2005).

The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library
Horticultural Hall, 2nd Floor
300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-369-3385
Hours: Monday–Friday, 1–5 pm, except major holiday

The MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library has collaborated with SMFA for 14 exhibitions of student work. On view February 11–April 19, 2013, the current exhibition features artists' book produced with print-on-demand technology.

Curated by SMFA faculty members Hillary Binda and Chantal Zakari, it features work by: Avery Bazemore, Rachel Bernardini, Haley A. Bishop, Paul Butler, Heisue Chung, Crystal Fenner, Geoffrey Hewer-Candee, Kristen Hoops, Ximena Izquierdo, Kate Kincaid, Sarah Kroll, Phyllis Labanowski, Elçin Marasli, Kelly McDermott, Elizabeth Noftle, Jessica Thistlewaite, Rebecca Volynsky and Ben Wu.

Laconia Lofts Gallery, 433 Harrison Avenue, Boston 
Gallery hours: Friday–Sunday, 12–4 pm

Julia Csekö's scluptures in"Aftermath" transform social symbols and objects, such as miliray fatigues, into doll-size proportions, encouraging viewers to confront tough issues without the "life-size" intimidation factor; Molly Segal's paintings in "If You Jump, I'll Jump" explore the psychological ambiguities of interactions between young women, delving into ideas about friendship, intimacy, desire, fear and recklessness.

April 5–27, 2013
Reception: April 5, 5:30 pm

Tufts University Art Gallery @ Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave Medford 
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5 pm; Thursdays until 8 pm

Ario Elami's series of mostly small-scale conceptual works, combining text and drawing, explores the event of one's death and the prospect of an afterlife; Ruohan Hu creates modern version of Hyakki Yagyo (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), an illustrated handbook about ghosts and monsters from Japanese and Chinese folklore; Jihee Lee's paintings bare witness to the act of meditation and as objects, are a physical record of time and personal memory; in his photographic seascapes, Chien-ning Liao creates spaces that are ambiguous allowing viewers to question what they are looking at; Singha Sihakhom explores the Buddhist term for constant flux and impermanence, annica, through the lens of his personal experiences migrating from Laos and becoming an ordained Buddhist monk; Qing Song's oil paintings reflect on the challenges faced by the first generation of modern, urban, professional women in China, as well as her own identity as a young female painter.

April 11–28, 2013
Reception + Artist Talks: April 11, 5–8 pm

 SMFA/Mrs. E Ross Anderson Auditorium, 230 The Fenway, Boston 
Gallery hours: Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pm; Thursday 10 am–8 pm

In "Ray of Dark," Laura Harrison, Eugene Larochelle, Maia Lynch, Karmimadeebora McMillan, Tim Mearini and Ivette Salom investigate contemporary cultural norms and an array of predicaments with humor and surrealism.

April 16–May 18, 2013
Reception + Artist Talks: April 16, 5:30 pm

Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston 
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday, 1–6 pm; Sunday, 1–5 pm

Caroline Board's works in "seen/unavailable" are inspired by life's fleeting moments—a discarded note, a memory. By combining these moments in a painting, she enhances their abstract nature and obscures their reality; Kate Castelli's "End Page" is an intersection of books, works on paper and collections that explore poetic and formal juxtapositions in order to connect what cannot be connected; Coe Lapossy's work blurs the lines between painting and sculpture, exploring areas that can, at face value, be perceived as dark, yet the overarching themes are optimistic; Stephen St. Francis Decky works with an ever-evolving cast of shape-shifting characters in a variety of media, from acrylic paintings and sculptural installations to the photographs and films through which their stories are brought to life.

April 17–27, 2013
Reception: April 19, 5–8 pm

Grossman Gallery, Weems Atrium and BAG Gallery, SMFA, 230 The Fenway, Boston, MA
Hours: Monday–Friday, 10 am–5 pm; Thursday 10 am–8 pm

Celebrating 2012–13 award winners and 2013 graduates as they become SMFA alumni.

April 16–May 18, 2013

The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library
Horticultural Hall, 2nd Floor
300 Massachusetts Avenue

W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library, SMFA

22 SMFA artists are showing in "Collections: Organizing and Interpreting an Environment" within sister art libraries of the MFA and SMFA. Curated by SMFA student Julie Weaver, the work in Collections explores collecting as a way of interpreting culture and the environment. It will be on view at MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library April 18–May 31, 2013 and at SMFA's W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library April 23–May 31, 2013. Opening receptions with light hors d'oeuvres and extended viewing hours will be held at each location: April 18, 2013, 5–7 pm at the SMFA Library; and April 23, 2013, 5–7 pm at the Hunt Memorial Library. See the MFA Library site for more information.