Where Nothing Has Ever Happened, RISD Museum

Published May 26, 2026
Contributed by Andrea Mato


Photo: Andrea Mato. Photograph by Kyle Gyumin Dong. License: All Rights Reserved.

Exhibition poster, 36×48 inches





Where Nothing Has Ever Happened is an exhibition at the Gelman Gallery in the RISD Museum that proposes a pace shift, a reorientation toward the quiet and the barely perceptible. The works selected resist sensory hierarchy, delay knowing, and invite viewers to perceive the speculative, the out–of–focus, and the fragile. It is in this space of openness between seeing and sensing that clarity dissolves, yet new connections arise in the internal drift.

The exhibition was curated by Andrea Mato, Dahlia Aggarwal, and Kyle Dong. Andrea Mato also provided the graphic design, using Adobe Caslon and Neue Haas Grotesk.

Featuring work from: Andrea Mato, Anne Kim, Anthony Zhang, Asha Postins, Ashley Natasha Bedet, Charlston Britton, Dahlia Aggarwal, Daisy Benardo, Edgar Solórzano, Elle Wall, Elliott Golden, Izzie Middleton, Jasper Donner, Jiho Kim, Josephine Truscott, Kevin Tomas, Kyle Gyumin Dong, Leah Baron, Lingyi Hu (Ada), Mahrukh Khizar, Marky Salvati, Meka Tome, Minsik Joo, Natalia Kapitan, Nathaniel Campos, Olivia Saporito, Phoebe Quin Kong, Siran Liu, Tamar Chameides, and Vida Zamora, and Wenhan Hu.




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Vinyl graphic, installation view, featuring An Amber Landscape by Edgar Solórzano




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Installation view. Works pictured: δ_#01, Wenhan Hu; geometry (i), Vida Zamora; Piano Key A: a portrait of my late aunt Anna, Natalia Kapitan; Untitled, Marky Salvati; Beak Knots, Siran Liu; If I Change The Mirror, Can I Change The Reflected?, Leah Baron.




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Exhibition postcards, 5.5×8.5 inches




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Exhibition catalog featuring artworks from Marky Salvati and Meka Tome; 36 pages, 7×10 inches




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Exhibition catalog featuring artworks from Edgar Solórzano




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Exhibition catalog featuring artworks from Olivia Saporito




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Installation view. Works pictured: Ellipsis, Izzie Middleton; Soft Rock, Dahlia Aggarwal; Memory in Three, Asha Postins; Sunrise Sunset no.1, Anne Yeoji Kim; 19:30–30 November w2025, Lingyi Hu (Ada).




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Spray paint on acrylic




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Installation view. Works pictured: Window Treatment, Ashley Natasha Bedet; de_re_construction.indd, Andrea Mato.



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