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Tufts University Art Galleries: Magical Thinking, of Systems and Beliefs: Exhibiting Artists

January 29 – April 19, 2026, SMFA at Tufts, 230 Fenway, Boston

manuel arturo abreu

Image Description: A black wall with white writing that does not use a recognizable alphabet.

manuel arturo abreu, Untitled (Herramienta), 2021. Paint marker on wall, dimensions variable. Included in ECLIPSE, the seventh Athens Biennale, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah. Image courtesy the artist.  Photo: Nysos Vasilopoulos. 

manuel arturo abreu (*1991 Santo Domingo) is a non-disciplinary artist working with what is at hand in a process of magical thinking with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics. They have recently exhibited at Konrad Fischer Galerie (Düsseldorf), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts project space (NYC), the Portland Art Museum, SIMIAN (Copenhagen), Kunstverein München (Munich), Bergen Kunsthall, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin), HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Graz), Veronica project space (Seattle), and Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna). Since 2015, with co-founder Victoria Anne Reis, abreu has co-facilitated home school, a free pop-up art school and space of sacred duty in the Pacific Northwest that has been in residence at Yale Union (2019) and Oregon Contemporary (2023). abreu has recently published articles with The Kitchen (NYC) and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (NYC), as well as catalogue contributions for Star Feliz (Printed Matter), Dozie Kanu (Neuer Essener Kunstverein), and Hervé Télémaque (Serpentine Gallery).

fields harrington

Image Description: A metal grid connected together and freestanding in the center of the room against a white wall and slate gray floor with a black clamp hung on the second highest bar.

fields harrington, Monkey Bar/Lab Support Stand, 2023. Steel rod, support connectors, and hardware, 48 ¼ x 78 x 3 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

fields harrington (b. 1986) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice spans sculpture, photography, and writing. Through his work, he examines how knowledge, technology, and infrastructures—often assumed to be neutral—are shaped by underlying ideologies of race, value, and power.

harrington holds a BFA from the University of North Texas and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He studied at San Antonio Community College and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at David Salkin Gallery, KAJE, Petrine, and Y2K Group and included in group exhibitions at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Parsons School of Design, and Automat Gallery. He was an L.A.B. researcher-in-residence at The Kitchen in collaboration with The School for Poetic Computation and took part in the research residency Site to be Seen at RAIR.

Jonathan González

Image Description: A staircase surrounded by bookshelves and viewers watching a Black performer in a blue and white striped jacket with black sports bra and cut-off shorts roll down the stairs

Jonathan González, Spectral Dances, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Performance Installation. Performer: Chazz Giovanni. 2024. Image courtesy the artist. Photo: Maria Baranova.

Jonathan González is an interdisciplinary artist working across choreography, sound, image, writing, video, and collective practice. Their work engages memory, Black geographies, African diasporic temporalities, site-specificity, and duration through embodied, sonic, and visual forms. González has presented works such as Spectral Dances (American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2024) and perejil (Entre/Between, Crystal Bridges/The Momentary, 2022). Their forthcoming book Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2025. Honors include the Herb Alpert Award (2024), MAP Fund (2024), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2020).

DB Amorin

Image description: A glitched underwater image of the ocean in dark blue with lighter blue wave patterns.

DB Amorin, x-routes, 2018. Digital video projection, dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist.

DB Amorin (b. Honolulu, Hawai'i) is an interdisciplinary media artist who explores audio-visual non-linearity as a container for intersectional experience. He frequently emphasizes the generative role of error, resulting in projects driven by DIY methodologies and lo-fi translations.

His work has garnered awards from esteemed organizations including New Jersey State Council on the Arts 2024 Digital & Electronic Arts Fellowship, Jersey City Arts Council 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Precipice Fund grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Calligram Foundation and administered by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). His visual art, performances, curatorial & collaborative programming have been presented internationally at A4 Arts Foundation; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival; Currents New Media Festival; ICA at MECA&D; Soundwave ((7)) Biennial; PICA; Portland Art Museum; the Honolulu Museum of Art; Honolulu Biennial 2019.

sidony o’neal

Image Description: A wooden pallet inlaid with patterned alumminum stripes and steel-cut shapes.

sidony o’neal, Program for fireback with sacrificial anode, 2023. Pallet, aluminium, steel, printed inconel, vapor smoothed TPU-70A, 34 x 30 x 9 in. Image courtesy the artist.  Photo: Jason Mandella.

sidony o’neal is an artist, designer, and writer based in Portland, OR. Recent solo exhibitions include Et al (SOFTMAX HARD HASP), SF; Lewis Center for the Arts (, The Pudding Butcher), Princeton University; Dracula’s Revenge (NOT TALKING UNTIL BAD COMPANY JOINS), NY; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Enchiridion: Aisle, Spline, Resort), Portland, OR; and Veronica (AuguRing), Seattle, WA.

Group exhibitions include SALTS (Fallen Angels), Basel, CH; ICA at Maine College of Art and Design (ENTER:) and SculptureCenter (In Practice: Total Disbelief), NY. Recent publications include  Matter Mattering Matters: A Scienticity Reader (Kunsthalle Bern x Mousse Magazine). o’neal is the recipient of awards and fellowships including the Oregon Arts Commission's Joan Shipley Award and a Hodder Fellowship at the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. o’neal is a Hallie Ford Fellow through the Ford Family Foundation.

Africanus Okokon

Image Description: A central silhouette of a person that is out of focus in dark gray, with blue, yellow, and gray pixelations framing the figure.

Africanus Okokon, Unpossessed (still), 2022. CRT Monitor, rephotographed digital video, sound, custom software created in Max/MSP Jitter, 43 seconds (looped). Image courtesy the artist.  

Africanus Okokon works with moving image, sound, performance, installation, painting, assemblage and collage to explore the dialectics of forgetting and memory in relation to mediated cultural and shared and personal histories. He is interested in questions around language, translation, cultural transformation, decay and death as they relate to recorded media.

Africanus has screened films at various festivals including the BlackStar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, True/False Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Film Festival, the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation and the Chale Wote Street Art Festival. His work has been exhibited and showcased at Von Ammon Co, Mass MoCA, Sean Kelly Gallery, Helena Anrather Gallery, Microscope Gallery, the International Print Center in New York, Perrotin Gallery and The Kitchen. His work has been featured and reviewed in publications such as Artforum, The Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR), New American Paintings, PopMatters, Electronic Sound Magazine and The Wire: Adventures in Sound and Music. He was awarded the prestigious NXTHVN Fellowship in 2021–22. Africanus is represented by Von Ammon Co in Washington, DC.