When the Pakistani-British artist Hamad Butt enrolled at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 1987, he found a lively group of classmates, among them Damien Hirst, Angela Bulloch, Gillian Wearing, and Simon Patterson. The group would become known as the Young British Artists, but Butt went his own way. He was interested in putting art into conversation with science. For his first major installation, Transmission, in 1990, he included a circle of glass books, UV lamps, and giant carnivorous plants, which came together to evoke multiple terrors—HIV, the fear of the other, and the uncertainty of death. He’d found his niche. Alas, Butt never became widely known; four years later he died of complications of AIDS, age 32. This exhibition marks the first showing of his work outside the U.K. —Elena Clavarino