Beginning the Spring 2026 Fine Arts Lecture Series, the MassArt Graduate Programs and the 2D and 3D fine art departments are pleased to welcome Kyle Larson. Please join us in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall at 12:00pm on Wednesday, February 4. 

Kyle Larson is currently an Associate Professor of Painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Originally from Sacramento, California, he received an MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2012. After graduating Larson continued to live and work as an artist in Boston while teaching in New Hampshire. He relocated to Oklahoma in 2015 upon accepting the position of Director of Visual Arts at Northwestern Oklahoma State University where he taught painting and drawing courses and served as Director of the NWOSU Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program. Larson then served as Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Southern Oregon University from 2022 to 2025.

His current work explores notions of temporality, cycles of decay and transformation through painting and drawing in which he constructs spaces where rhythmic, atmospheric phenomenon and transitory forces disrupt, push, and embed bodies and objects into layered narratives.

Larson has exhibited nationally and internationally, and he has completed residencies at Mass MoCA and the Vermont Studio Center. His work was recently featured on Hyperallergic.

 This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: Kyle Larson, From Gloss Mountain to Little Sahara, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2024.