Upcoming Lectures & Talks
7 upcoming lectures and talks from MassArt (Massachusetts College of Art and Design), with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Wed Oct 14 · 12pm
Marela Zacarías, born in Mexico in 1978 and working between Brooklyn and Mexico City, speaks as a visiting artist in MassArt’s Fall 2026 Fine Arts Lecture Series. Her work, concerned with movement, materiality and “the layered narratives of place,” is held by NYU Langone and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and she has had solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.
Tue Oct 20 · 2pm
Abdulhamid Kircher, an artist from Queens born in Berlin in 1996 to German and Turkish parents, photographs place and people in work that moves between document and narrative. His debut monograph, Rotting from Within, came out from Loose Joints in 2024; his project To Be Held By The Earth won the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026, and he received the Hamburger Bahnhof Studio Award in 2026.
Tue Oct 27 · 2pm
Martin Kollar, a Slovak photographer, cinematographer and film director who lives between Paris and Bratislava, speaks in MassArt's Fall 2026 Photography Lecture Series. He studied cinematography in Bratislava and has won the Prix Elysée and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. His photobooks include Field Trip (2013) and After (2021); as a cinematographer he worked on 107 Mothers and Koza, and he directed Chronicle / Letopis (2025).
Wed Nov 4 · 12pm
Michael Zachary, a Boston-based artist who teaches painting at MassArt, where he earned his MFA, speaks in the fine arts lecture series. He has had recent solo and two-person shows at Boston University and Simmons University, both in 2025. He received a Josef and Anne Albers Foundation residency fellowship in 2020 and was resident at the Dipper A.I.R. program in Billings, Montana, in 2024.
Wed Nov 4 · 5:45pm
Paul Tremblay reads from his new book, Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sleep, and discusses earlier novels including A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World, which was adapted as the film Knock at the Cabin. A New York Times bestselling horror writer, Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu and Massachusetts Book awards.
Wed Nov 18 · 12pm
Colleen Kiely, a Boston painter whose process-driven work turns on time, transformation and vision, speaks as a visiting artist. She has had solo shows at Cove Street Arts and the Steven Zevitas Gallery, and her work is in the collections of the deCordova and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Kiely, a former Radcliffe Institute fellow, is a professor of studio art at Simmons University.
Tue Dec 1 · 2pm
Sheida Soleimani, an Iranian-American artist and the daughter of political refugees, works in photography, sculpture, collage and film on the histories of violence linking Iran, the United States and the wider Middle East; Medium of Exchange takes up oil, corruption and human rights abuses among OPEC nations. Her work is in the Guggenheim and MFA collections. She teaches studio art at Brandeis and is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.
