Client / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Project / Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden, 2025
Location / Hostetter Gallery, Boston
Design / AMCP Studio
Curator / Gabrielle Niu
In collaboration with / Ming Fay Studio
Photography / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Designed for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Hostetter Gallery, Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden transformed the exhibition space into an interior garden shaped by memory, imagination, and botanical forms.

The exhibition design was developed through a two-year process of close study and composition. With more than one hundred sculptures, each with its own shape, scale, color, and character, AMCP Studio worked carefully to understand the individuality of each piece and to create a spatial arrangement that allowed the works to be seen clearly, both as independent sculptures and as part of a larger garden-like environment.

The theme, Edge of the Garden, also guided the spatial concept. From the gallery’s large window, visitors could see the museum’s garden and its curving path outside. AMCP Studio echoed this experience inside the gallery, creating a gentle pathway that led visitors through the exhibition as if they were walking through a real garden.

Through material restraint, layered composition, and careful control of sightlines, the scenography connected the museum’s horticultural identity with Ming Fay’s lifelong exploration of nature, memory, and the imagined garden.