Natalie Bell


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I’m currently Chief Curator at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT in Cambridge, MA. This is an archive of exhibitions I’ve curated or co-curated, either at the List Center or at the New Museum in New York.

American Artist: To Acorn
October 24, 2025 - March 15, 2026


American Artist's multidisciplinary work examines the intersections of technology, race, and knowledge production, drawing on speculative thought experiments to reimagine the boundaries of subject formation under racial capitalism. To Acorn, inspired by Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels, featured graphite drawings of Butler's notes from the Huntington Library archive alongside speculative engagements that envision Southern California suspended between past and future, fiction and reality.

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List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes
September 18 - December 14, 2025


Every Ocean Hughes works across performance, video, installation, and photography to consider queer histories, temporalities, and kinship This exhibition centered on One Big Bag (2021), a video in which a death doula explains her corpse kit. In her address, the practical matters of dealing with a corpse are balanced with an unencumbered spirit of care for the dead and those around them.

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Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning
February 21 - July 27, 2025


Pedro Gómez-Egaña works in sculpture, performance, video, and drawing, using practices of composition and choreography to create dynamic constellations that materialize our polyrhythmic experiences of time. The Great Learning, his first US museum exhibition, featured architectural interventions, moving objects, and a brilliant team of gallery attendants (Orchestrators) who shifted the exhibition's physical elements and soundscape in gestures inspired by Cornelius Cardew's experimental Scratch Orchestra.

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Steina: Playback
October 26, 2024 - January 12, 2025


Steina's experimental work with electronic processing tools explores “machine vision,”  and often translate musical modes into the visual realm to reveal an electronic sublime. This focused retrospective of the pioneering media and video artist featured single-channel works, multi-monitor arrays, and immersive video environments.

Playback was accompanied by the artist’s first comprehensive monograph in over a decade (MIT Press) and traveled to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2025), the National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjavik Art Museum (2025–26), and Haus der Kunst (2026).

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List Projects 30: Jeremy Couillard
July 18 - October 6, 2024


Jeremy Couillard’s paintings, video games, and installations are characterized by absurd premises and irreverent social critique. This exhibition centered on his most recent video game Escape from Lavender Island (2023), and also included a continually generated  simulation that translated the dystopian game's world into moving image form.

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