Historias Mezcaldas – Eduin Fraga – Mixed Stories
Experience the powerful storytelling of these immersive and biographical collage-paintings that reflect the dignity, humanity, and creativity of regular people in both Cuba and beyond. Reflect on the tensions between lived realities and hegemonic narratives that are explored through the works’ dynamic images, compelling narratives, and collective memories. Share in the complex lives and tangible experiences detailed in remarkably unembellished depictions of our contemporary realities.
Exhibit Runs:
September 12 – December 9, 2022
Ragged Sanctuary: Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 and the Art of Hopeful Transcendence
Deta Galloway is a multi-media and multi-genre Boston-based artist who produces paintings, poems, and music that reflect her experience growing up in Jamaica, her work as a nurse and a healer, and her abiding faith in forces both seen and unseen.
Exhibit Runs:
May 2 - August 5, 2022
ENGAGED! RESILIENT! GLOBAL!
A group exhibition that illuminates the power and importance of international education and global exchange.
Exhibit Runs:
November 15, 2021 - February 26, 2022
Creative Exile
Art and poetry of New York-based Jimmy Valdez Osaku in a powerful exploration of loss, loneliness, and endurance.
Exhibit Runs:
September 7, 2020 – April 23, 2021
Open the Way
Huacuja’s path to this exhibition began with her lifelong exploration of her identity, as a Mexican-American, and her existence as a global citizen.
Exhibit Runs:
October 10, 2019 – February 21, 2020
Things Left Unsaid
Each piece in Things Left Unsaid represents an act of courage.
Exhibit Runs:
March 30 – December 18, 2020
WEN-TI TSEN - HOMETOWN
Re-presenting Boston Chinatown as a Place of People was setup as an art project in the streets and public spaces of Boston Chinatown to draw attention to the gentrification and other developments of the last 40 years that continually threaten the historical nature of Chinatown.
Exhibit Runs:
July 29, 2019 through September 27, 2019
Call of the Ancestors
These deeply human and richly textured fiber art quilts by Boston based textile and multi-media artist and educator Susan Thompson celebrate deep connections between family, community, spirituality, history and other shared cultural experience.
Exhibit Runs:
February 4 through April 30, 2019
disPLACED
Boston-area artists share work that reflects their personal experiences navigating crises, resilience and reconciliation.
Exhibit Runs:
March 5 – May 11, 2018
One Artist’s Journey– Reclaiming the Lost Tradition of Cambodian Ceramics
These richly ornamented and masterful works are by one of only a few traditional ceramicists to survive the Khmer Rouge.
Exhibit Runs:
October 22, 2018, through June 30, 2019
Janet Cormier–Artist, Activist and Poet
Deeply human and richly textured paintings that celebrate both personal identity and shared cultural experience.
Exhibit Runs:
January 16 – February 24, 2018
2018 Annual BHCC Visual & Media Arts Department Student Exhibit
Exhibit Runs:
January 16 – February 24, 2018
inVisible
Boston-area Latinx artists share their art and define what it means to live in America.
Exhibit Runs:
October 30 – December 22, 2017
BHCC Visual + Media Arts Department SENIOR SHOW
Join graduating senior students from the Bunker Hill Community College Visual + Media Arts Department as they embark on the next phase of their art educations and careers at the reception showcasing their talents and art in this student group-curated exhibit.
Exhibit Runs:
May 10 - June 16, 2017
Mother Tongue Pan-Asian Boston-Area Women Artists
Experience this multi-media group exhibit that explores the complex relationship between personal identity, storytelling and cultural expectation.
Exhibit Runs:
March 9 - April 14, 2017
Determined Blackness: Race Representation and Refining Black Male Identity
Hakim Raquib Determined Blackness: Race, Representation and Redefining Black Male Identity
Exhibit Runs:
February 6 - February 28, 2017
Annual BHCC Visual and Media Arts Department Student Exhibition
Featuring: Works from BHCC Students
Exhibit Runs:
January 10 - February 3, 2017
Gathering: Native American Artists and Arts
Experience this group exhibition of Massachusetts and Border State Native American Fine Arts and Craft. View the Lib Guide.
Exhibit Runs:
December 23, 2016 and from January 3 - 6, 2017
2016 VMA Student Exhibit
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Featuring: Works from BHCC Students
Exhibit Runs:
May 2 - June 3, 2016
CUBA: DIVERSIDAD: A Photographic Journey
Featuring: Gloretta Baynes, Lou Jones and Don West With guest photographers: Jonathan Hansen, Linda Hirsch, John Kennard, Arthur Newberg, Barbara Trachtenberg and Peg Tuitt
Exhibit Runs:
February 15 - April 4, 2016
Haymarket The Soul of the City
Photographs by Justin Goodstein
Exhibit Runs:
November 2 - December 18, 2015
Limitless World
The Greenhouse at Russell's Garden Center Photographs by Mark Diamond
Exhibit Runs:
August 24 - October 15 2015
2015 Annual BHCC VMA Department Student Exhibition
Exhibit Runs:
April 28 - June 08, 2015
L’MERCHIE FRAZIER
Exhibit Runs:
February 17, 2015 - extended through April 3, 2015
BHCC Collects II
Exhibit Runs:
December 11, 2014 - January 5, 2015
Ceramics en-MASSe
A large group exhibition of Massachusetts ceramics programs and independent artisans.
Exhibit Runs:
September 24, 2014 - November 21, 2014
blackJAZZ
An exhibit by Boston-area African American artists showcasing the imagery of jazz performers.
Exhibit Runs:
February 13 - March 31, 2014
Boston Strong/Boston Proper
Boston Strong/Boston Proper Celebrating the spirit of place via Boston's landscapes and landmarks in painting, photography, mixed media and more.
Exhibit Runs:
September 30 - December 20, 2013
The BHCC Art Gallery Turns 10
The BHCC Art Gallery Turns 10 A decade of art exhibition posters Posters created by BHCC Creative Services and Students from the Visual + Media Arts Department
Exhibit Runs:
August 26-September 20, 2013
John Munson: Morocco - Returning to the Motherland
Photographer John Munson takes us on a journey with his deeply moving images. In this series of photographs, generations of history, figures of people known and unknown and remembrances of landscapes and city streets converge in a cultural intersection that is both personal and universal.
Exhibit Runs:
August 5, 2019 through October 20, 2019
2013 Annual BHCC Visual + Media Arts Department Student Exhibit
2013 Annual BHCC Visual + Media Arts Department Student Exhibit and President’s Artistic Achievement Awards
Exhibit Runs:
April 22 - June 7, 2013
The Other “F” Word
The Future of Feminism Today
Exhibit Runs:
March 7 - April 5, 2013, 2013
BLACK MALE’D
BLACK MALE’D African American Male Identity in Art
Exhibit Runs:
February 4 - 28, 2013