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Robert Gero, Untitled, 1989. Straw, lead, tar, 8 x 11 x 8 inches. [Robert Gero, Untitled, 1989. Straw, lead, tar.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr.: Mirage Collar. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a white glove resting on a wicker pannier in a gallery space. The glove cups a multicolored card. Further in the background, an illuminated painting in a gold frame and a multi-tiered door are visible.] -
Ed Levine. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [View of a wall construction in a gallery setting.] -
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Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Autotelemachy, 2017. Collage, 59 x 68 inches. Photo: Filip Wolak [A collage of eucalyptus sprigs, other plants, and human figures attached to a framed map.] -
She Who Is: Adrienne Kennedy and the Drama of Difference. Installation view, Artists Space, February 29 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Six glass vitrines displaying books, photographs, and other paper ephemera are installed in the center of a gallery space. A film is being projected on the back wall of the exhibition space.] -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez.. [In a large, open gallery space, several photographs hang on walls to the right. To the left, multiple small monitors mounted to a colorful gallery wall play video works. In front of the monitors, there are wooden stools with headphones resting upon them.] -
Morton Livingston Shamberg and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. God, 1917. Philadelphia Museum of Art [A black pipe coming out of a concrete slab beneath it, twisting around, pointed up and cut off, against a whitish slab behind it, as if to frame the pipe.] -
James Coleman. Still from Seeing for Oneself, 1987-88. Slideshow (black and white), 40 min. [A black and white film still of a person lying against embroidered pillows. Another person sits alongside her and holds a mirror up to her face, reflecting it towards the camera.] -
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Photo courtesy the artist [Color photograph of a mound of brown rocks and dirt. In the middle of the frame, jutting out of the mound is a broken piece of clear glass with a gold metallic finish on the outside.] -
Page 120-121 of The Shithole Opry Collector’s Guide, Cushion Works, 2026 -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Martine Bellen & Uche Nduka. April 2, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a white background with a blue bunch of flowers in the lower right corner. The top left corner reads: “Martine Bellen / & Uche Nduka / April 2, 5pm.” The middle reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519.”] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure performs on stage, holding their iPhone up to a microphone.] -
DIVA TV Collective, Target City Hall, 1989. 27 min. [Onlookers and news reporters with cameras crowd around helmeted police officers surrounding a graffitied truck.] -
[Black text listing the collection's featured. From top to bottom, it reads, "The Defaced Library Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton," "edition hansjörg mayer," "Vigilance: An Exhibition Of Artist’s Books Exploring Strategies for Social Concern After an exhibition curated by Mike Grier and Lucy R. Lippard," "The Colin De Land Library," "Everything is About to Happen: An ongoing archive of artists’ books selected by Gregorio Magnani," and "The Library of Helen DeWitt."] -
Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo (1975–1979). Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A black monitor sits on a wooden table. The image onscreen shows a hand holding a black and white paper with text. A stack of photographs lay underneath the paper.] -
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Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A number of sculpted objects lie suspended from the ceiling in front of a wall with other sculpted works and a nearby drawing is also visible.] -
Heji Shin, Camp Habibi II, 2013, C-print, 20 x 16 inches, Signed edition of 100, 5APs, Courtesy of the artist. [Detail view of a camel's head against a palm tree and blue sky.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. Three shovels placed upright on pedestals are placed on the floor. To the left, a raditator on its side, partially covered in snake skin, lies on the floor. To the right of the shovels, a wooden divining rod attached to a pedestal sits upright on the floor.] -
Aloïs Godinat: New Works. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A large black speaker rests at an angle in the middle of a wood floor. On the walls, a red cloth with black polka dots, a black and white photograph, and a taped black square with an X and horizontal line through the center are displayed.] -
Performance at Artists Space, 1980s [Five people dressed in white, carefully looking down and stepping around an otherwise empty room.] -
Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Two colorful drawings are exhibited on a black wall. On the left, a series of open boxes is drawn in red. To the right, the drawing is crowded with the depiction of an open book, airplanes, and multicolored boxes. Both drawings are signed with F-.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Fish-eye view featuring various clusters of framed works on paper hanging on three white gallery walls.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (Instrument for Aleitheia, 1987), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a piano. Six solenoids are placed along the piano's strings.] -
Terry Fox, Yield, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, September 4, 1973. Photo: Larry Fox. Courtesy Marilyn Bogerd. [Black-and-white film photograph of a mound of flour on a concrete floor. A figure's hands are shown along the right and top side of the composition. The figure's right hand is poised above the center of the flour mound, pouring yeast into it from a small packet.] -
Underground: Jose Gabriel Fernandez. Installation view, Artists Space, 1991. [A long, cubic rectangle held by suspension wires on a weathered wooden floor. A small, white box rests within the rectangle.] -
[Two people on a city street in front of a graffitied brick wall. One faces the camera, holding a megaphone and a piece of paper at his sides. The other is walking, facing the side, and speaking into her megaphone and reading off a sheet of paper.] -
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The Library of Helen DeWitt Kitchen view, Courtesy Helen DeWitt. [Several books of different sizes and colors rest on the floor. The floor molding is visible in the bottom right frame.] -
[White and yellow text on a green background reads "THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT ARTIST-CURATED EXHIBITION," and other details about the events.] -
[A digital rendering of a large, rectangular aquarium filled with fish. Resting on top of the aqaurium are three terraria of different spherical shapes.] -
Margia Kramer. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Black and white photograph of cursive white text on a black background on the floor of a room with an upside down chair in the foreground and a heater in the background.] -
[Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “April 13 / Alexis Almeida / makalani bandele.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
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[A grainy, black and white image of a vintage automobile driving on a winding, deserted road through a set of mountains. The car is in the foreground of the image, with part of its body cut off by the image's frame.] -
[Black text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Dec 16 / Laura Henriksen / Celina Su." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
[A black and white postcard with an image of a bed with a mountain in the middle of it and a dilapidated chair with the back hollowed out. Text underneath the images reads, "A Bed / And A Chair / Eileen Neff / April 9 - May 23, 1992 / Artists Space."] -
Apartment Show: If the dogs are barking. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A long, thin metal pole attached to a round base sticks into the air at a jaunty angle in a gallery space. Several metal clamps are attached to the bottom third of the pole. A collection of photographs, drawings, and paintings are framed and hung on the gallery wall behind the metal pole.] -
Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978/9. Videotape still. [VHS-distorted image of Wonder Woman holding up her fist, from which emanates a burst of energy.] -
[A collection of cartoonish monsters, cutout photographs, and medieval-style drawings are collaged onto an abstracted pastel image of a sunset peeking out over ocean waves. Green, red, and blue text in serif font reads: "The Segue Reading Series & Artists Space present / a virtual reading by / Shane McCrae & Bob Perelman / Saturday, 4/25 / 5pm NYC time / Zoom ID: / 378 232 567.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Two figures in blue morph suits engage in an argument, standing on either side of a wooden table with a fresnel lens as the tabletop. A third figure to the right films their encounter, while audience members watch in the background.] -
Sixth Anniversary Exhibition. Installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of stills depicting numerous installation views.] -
Freya Hansell. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [A black and white photograph of various objects hanging and standing in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A photograph of an empty room, dimly lit with chairs in the background, where a projection is playing on the wall. The projection displays an image of a man holding up the Iraqi flag.] -
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rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with large paintings made on adobe panels and resting on steel armatures that are organized in various configurations. Some paintings are also hung on the wall, and adobe bricks are laid out to create a walkway in the middle of the room.] -
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El Bosque Luminoso Baja El Mar, Threads of History Presentations at M.S. 324, May 23, 2022 -
Attention Line. Installation view (costumes worn by Johanna Went, 1970s-2000s), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [Two life-sized costumes.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a large group of people standing around a gallery space. Chairs, and tanker desks with TV monitors on them are placed in the space. The audience watches a figure in a red suit that stands next to a column, holding their hand to their mouth.] -
[A digital rendering of a large structure composed of suspended sheets of red material installed in a gray room. The red sheets are stacked on top of one another, suspended from lengths of wire that run from ceiling to floor. The sheets bend amorphously and are arranged such that they resemble irregular layers of sedimentary rock or strata. Three digitally-rendered figures observe the structure.] -
New Red Order with Laura Gardin Fraser Teddy’s Touchdown, 1938/2021 16mm film, black and white 14 minutes (loop) Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a dark exhibition space, a film projector projects a sepia tone image onto the wall.] -
P.S. 140 student poems from “I am” project, 2018 [Two poems. On the left, by Quentin: "I am from a computer and websites and games. / I am from a fun house and a loud house. / I am from an acacia tree and a bush whose stems I remember as if they were my own. / I am from Fourth of July and birthdays and from being sick toether and my sister Sivanda. / I am from my niece and being observant and independent. / I am from "stay out of the trouble" and "wait until you're older" and *Wheels on the Bus.* / I am from always eating at 7 o'clock. / I am from Manhattan and Puerto Rico and Africa and chicken and rice and seafood. / I am from fighting all the time and shiny and precious jewlery." The second poem, by Gabby, reads: "I am from Hip Hop music and cocoa butter and sprite. / I am from Joy and love. / I am from a cherry tree and daisies whose stems I remember as if they were my own. / I am from church and birthday parties and from bravery and confidence. / I am from Sabrina and cleaning the house and from family that is protective of me. / I am from 'mind your business' and 'I don't have friends, I have associates' and 'stay alive longer!' and the song *Body Party* by Ciara. / I am from visiting with family in Pennsylvania. / I am from East Harlem and West Indians and fried chicken and mac 'n cheese. / I am from Shakina who passed and I am named after her and a beautiful Egyptian statue"] -
Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view (Fiction Contract, 2025; Borne, 2025), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A darkened gallery space with dark blue walls, dark blue carpeting, and light blue linoleum tiling. In the foreground a bench is centered in front of a large wall projection. The projection depicts a close-up of a newborn black mannequin laying down, being tended to by medical professionals.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color image of four individuals holding hands and dancing in a circle energetically. The background depicts a dimly lit venue with a glowing discoball and a variety of guests.] -
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Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure leans over to arranges audio equipment on a desk using a flashlight held in their mouth. Red light fills the background.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Three figures perform in a basement. On the left a figure in a blue morph suit wears a pair of wings made of fresnel lenses. On the right another figure in a blue morph suit stands behind a rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Another figure to the far right takes video footage.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance, smoke and an orange light fill the room.] -
Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet. Installation view, Artists Space, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of a gallery space with a long rectangular table and chair in the background. In the foreground is a bookshelf with a row of books with silver covers.] -
Shirley Jaffe. The Blue Daisy, 1988-89. [A geometric composition of black, blue, yellow, red, and orange flat shapes on a white background.] -
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Installation view from John Mendelsohn and Donald Sultan. Artists Space, 1977 -
Pictures. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white photograph of an artwork. A gainst a black background, 35 circles are drawn. Inside of each sphere is a miniature scene, either featuring people, planes, or household interiors.] -
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Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage holding a microphone close to their mouth. They are holding a drum stick in one hand, standing next to a cymbal and a drum set on a stand. They are bathed in red and pink light, and the background is lit with blue, red, and purple light. Small white dots of light from a disco ball fill the room.] -
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two monitors are hung on a white wall. On the left, an image of a man crouching in a room with a chair sitting on the ground behind him. On the right, a purple, pink, and red graph is displayed next to a column of indicating numbers.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (ephemera c. 1970s), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a vitrine containing an EKG printout and several black and white photographs.] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures on stilts wave orange flags. To each side and in front of them can be seen the heads of people watching them.] -
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves: The x in florxal is silent when spoken. Installation view, Artists Space, 2021. Photo: Filip Wolak. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. [A gallery wall painted pink with a window in the middle. On the windowsill are several potted plants. Works on paper and a collage are hung on the wall.] -
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Joseph Hilton, Beside the Sleeping Guards (of Cairo) Day and Night, 1986. [A diptych drawing of one figure sitting cross-legged on the left and another figure lying down next to flowers in a vase depicted on the right.] -
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Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure in a red suit preforming in front of a seated audience. The figure sits at a tanker desk with a TV monitor placed on top of it. They wave a red object in the air.] -
Tom of Finland Untitled , ca. 1968 Collage on paper Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection [Collaged images of pairs of half-naked men in various poses and positions.] -
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Flipside. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A gallery space with a large metal structure in the middle of the floor. Four straw brooms are suspended from the top of the structure such that they just brush the floor. On the surrounding white walls, there are several pieces of art. One is a colorful canvas with geometric shapes, sharing a wall with several small objects arranged in an oval. On the other wall, there are series of framed depictions of nude figures in various poses.] -
It's Get Better IV, 2016. [A flyer for the event, depicting a Manhattan city block with neon-hued clouds in the background.] -
Deven Golden. Drawing for Death of Pompey, 1986. [A drawing with seven figures without appendages where six of them are carry a large figure and one follow behind. The outline of an urban landscape is visible behind them.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó, Still from FOODTOPIA: en el suelo áspero, 2022. [A woman wearing a gold headdress, hoop earring, and necklace stares off into the distance. The background is filled with trees and vegetation.] -
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Attention Line. Installation view, Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a room with several display cases and a projection, with bright lights cast against the wall.] -
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Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, New York, 2022. [A color image of a dark room featuring illuminated yellow and orange shapes floating on the wall and reflected on the floor.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A crowd of people fill a dimly lit red room, some sitting and some standing. Projections of abstract images and an illuminated painting cover three of the space’s walls.] -
David Schafer: Western Agenda. Installation view, Artists Space, 1991. [A black and white photograph of a tall metal sculpture in an otherwise empty room, surrounded by white columns. The sculpture has a tall platform with a narrow ladder and has several support wires.] -
Pictures. Opening Reception, Artists Space, September 23, 1977. Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white photograph of a crowded gallery space. In the background, several large black and white wall hangings are visible.] -
See Around. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A dimmed room with three projections casting purple, gray, and aqua light against the walls. In the corner of the image is a small, circular seat.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [To the left, various stools and black boxes are dispersed around the floor of the gallery. Suspended above hangs a transparent sheet, framing three large white balls and a selection of drawings. Wooden rectangular panels stand stacked on the right wall. Towards the center of the space is a box-like structure made of similar wooden paneling. ] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. Along the middle of the space are placed various television monitors and musical instruments and audio devices. To the right on the wall are a series of photographs and prints, and two vitrines hang on the wall.] -
Installation view from Six Sculptors, Artists Space, January 25, 1986 - February 22, 1986. [A number of flat-paneled works appear hanging on the gallery wall while various sculptural forms are on pedestals or on the floor in front of them.] -
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Paul Lamantia. Paper Doll Lounge, 1985. [Two figures appear entangled on a pedestal in front of other figures along with another figure in the background hanging upside down.] -
Sam Pulitzer: A Colony for “Them”. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A gif of installation images from Sam Pulitzer's, A Colony for "Them."] -
Abasement #84. Performance documentation, February 16th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the saxophone into a microphone on stage. The wall behind the stage is bathed in blue light. ] -
35 Artists Return to Artists Space. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Sculptural and painted works appear in a white-walled gallery space.] -
We the People. Installation view, Artists Space. 1987. [A black and white image of an exhibtion space, sculptures sit on three pedestals in front a wall of paintings.] -
"Identity". Installation View, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [In a dimly lit room with light wood flooring and white pillars, three illuminated screens are suspended side-by-side from the ceiling. Two of the screens are off. The screen to the far left displays an image of a 19th century painting of a female bartender.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a red sweater stands on stage, with three microphones placed around them. They are blowing into a white conch shell.] -
Maltz, Russell. 1979. [A drained inground swimming pool surrounded by greenery.] -
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Amiri Baraka, Cellar Vigil (Experimental Death Unit #2), 1966. Permission by Chris Calhoun Agency, © Estate of Amiri Baraka [Black-and-white image of two figures, each wearing white shirts. The figure on the right sits with their knees against their chest and looks attentively at the figure to their left, who engages with someone out of the right-side of the frame.] -
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Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays the drums in the background with an out of focus piano in the foreground.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A black display case in the corner of a gallery, surrounded by windows looking out into Manhattan. A mannequin faces away from the camera, and three backlit texts are placed across the floor, in sequence. Each text is superimposed on a photo of a metal pipe looking similar to a gun. On the back viewer, the image is visible alone with no superimposition.] -
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A view of a dimly lit room with a video monitor sitting on the ground of the right wall. The monitor screen is black with white text reading, "[The Manhattans continue to sing 'Shining Star']." Towards the corner, an inferometer projects green dots onto adjacent walls.] -
Yuki Kimura, Wardrobe Extensions Version 4, Oracle, Berlin, 2018. [A two-toned wardrobe constructed from wood stands between two framed mirrors mounted on a yellow-orange wall above marble tiling. The reflection between the two mirrors causes the wardrobe's image to be repeated infinitely.] -
Jeff Koon. Installation view, Artists Space, 1983. [A black and white Duratrans on a lightbox of a portrait of a child holding a crayon with a box of crayons and a small book lie on a desk in front of them under their crossed arms. This is on a wall with the plug for the box coming from under the left side.] -
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Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space features two shovels, standing upright on pedestals, a radiator sitting on its side; In the forground, a divining rod attached to a pedestal is placed on the floor.] -
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Lisi Raskin, still from = (equals), 2004. [An image of a factory with smokestacks on concrete, just behind a body of water surrounded by long grasses.] -
[A black and white, square wordsearch grid.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A silhouetted figure of a person speaking into a microphone. They are backlit by an image of an upside down American flag.] -
Angela Bulloch, Rules of the Space, 2012, from the Rules Series, Silkscreen print on record sleeve, 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches, Signed and numbered [A numbered list of rules is arranged on white ground in various black fonts. Text reads: "Rules of the Space / 1. This SPACE is OCCUPIED. Anyone CAN SLEEP HERE / 2. NO Police (Pigs) and NO Informants (Rats) / 3. No Press OR Photos / 4. This is a Safer SPACE No Bullshit / 5. NO Peacekeepers or WANNA-BE POLICE / 6. INVITE EVERYONE (Except the aforementioned pigs and rats) / 7. create the world you want to see in the future (occupy the future) / 8. The HISTORICAL BREAK / 9. SEQUESTER THE BOSSES / 10. SHUT IT DOWN!!! / 11. Flush the toilet - don't shit on the floor.. this isn't Zucotti. / 12. PANTS ARE OPTIONAL / 13. DEMAND NO. 1 CATS (AND WE WANT THEM MEOW!) / 14. Louder! Louder!! LOUDER!!! If You Wanna Exploit LABOR you havta be you have to be 15ft from the door / 15. Rock & Roll ALL NIIIGHT AND PARTY EV-ERY DAY! / 16. CREATE MYTHS TO SUSTAIN CATASTROPHE] -
Flyer by Bill Hayden. [A woman vaping in profile against a black background. An image of another woman and a child are visible in her exhaled smoke.] -
Union Gaucha Productions. Installation view, Artists Space, 2015. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A dimly lit room with green turf-like carpet and exposed wooden walls. On the left, 9 images of different sizes are mounting, and luminous. On the right, projectors and movie cameras are placed on a horizontal shelf. On the far end of the floor towards the wall is a small square tv monitor with headphones placed in front of it. Behind the monitor are three medium-sized white windows.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of a installation and sound work. In the right foreground, two lab tables contain a lab equipment such as beakers, distilling chambers, jars, hot plate and two blenders. On the left midground, an antique cabinet with its doors open, reveals shelves and drawers filled with more lab equipment, such as a microscope and household items such as a dustpan. In the background, two box television screens sit on top of wooden lab tables. A posterboard with a periodic table rests on top of the televisions. Each "element" of the periodic table features a small lightbulb that glows.] -
Spring Exhibitions. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A smooth, white branch extends up from the floor vertically. Behind it is a wall, papered with a pattern of tropical birds in trees on a white background.] -
Tisziji Muñoz [A black and white image of a figure in profile with long, wispy hair and a mustache holding a guitar.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of the entrance into a gallery space, with columns running down the hallway. At the forefront of the image are two large paintings made of adobe, and resting on steel armatures. Each painting features a representation of a person walking slowly. In between the armatures are adobe bricks layed out into a walkway on the floor.] -
Urban Pornography. Installation view, Artists Space, 2001. [A dimly lit, color photograph of a desert installed on a white gallery wall. The desert ground is a bright orange color and includes many large rock features. The sky above is slightly blue and filled with clouds.] -
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SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Two figures dressed in blue morph suits walk around a basement space. One figure on the right stands behind a semi-circular rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Along the back wall blue and purple live CCTV video footage is projected.] -
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Hito Steyerl, Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War (New York: Verso Books, 2017). [A book cover with large text and a digitally altered, skewed human face blurred behind the title.] -
Tony Oursler, Untitled (Talking Photograph), 1996, Photograph mounted on plastic frame with audio recording in custom box, 6 x 7 x 1/2 inches (15.2 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm), Signed & numbered. [The image shows a photograph with a plastic frame. The frame has holes for a small speaker and a button that says, "play." The photograph shows a close-up of a woman's face looking off into the distance while laying face down on white lace. Projected on the side of her face is another woman's face.] -
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Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. Various musical instruments and audio devices are placed around the back room, photographs and vitrines hang on the walls, and various television monitors and projections are placed along the sides of the room.] -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A drawing of a man's head cut off at the neck with horns made of hair. Text along the top reads "flames of genius."] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs move a table with wheels, on which a mannequin lies.] -
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Stephen Sewell. [Three projected images illuminate three disparate walls of a darkened room. The image on the left wall is white, while the image on the far center wall shows a figure who appears to be singing against a blue and green background. The image on the right wall shows two figures wearing headphones with their backs turned from the viewer.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery wall. A video is projected onto it. Next to the projection is a shelf holding an audio device consisting of a machine, speakers, and light sensors. A black-and-white photograph also hangs on the wall.] -
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Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A stack of large papers filled with text sit on a low, white plank on the ground. To the right of the paper stack, a newspaper clipping is displayed on a white wall. A small glass filled with rubber bands sits on the ground to the right of the paper stack.] -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Various people having conversations and looking around at the art during the exhibition opening.] -
The Serving Library. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large number of framed posters, photographs, and other ephemera of varying sizes hang on a white gallery wall. A poster hung on the left side of the wall has large black lettering that reads: "THE TEMPERAMENTAL BAROMETRIC CONTORTIONIST!" A white pole is situated at the center of the space, in front of the exhibition wall.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Gary Burnley. [A black and white photograph of a multicolored globe sitting on a wooden floor.] -
Abasement #75. Performance documentation, February 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer and a small white tent on a stage. The performer is on the left, wearing all white, with a bouquet of flowers in their hand and a stick of insense in their mouth. On the right side of the stage, the tent is lit up with multicolored projections. The top of the tent is decorated with colorful stars. The walls in the background, as well as the audience in the foreground, are lit by patterned projections and blue lights.] -
Abasement #83. Performance documentation, January 5th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [An onlooking audience watches a performer play an electric guitar on stage. The audience is bathed in red light, and projections are present on the left wall. ] -
Klara Lidén, Untitled (mailbox), 2012, Archival inkjet print, 24 x 18 inches, Signed and numbered certificate [A black and white photo captures a New York City postal service box.] -
Gulf Labor action at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 29, 2014. Image courtesy Global Ultra Luxury Faction/Gulf Labor. [A photo looking down from the top of the Guggenheim Museum's atrium, showing people crowded around an unfurling banner.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure wearing black, holding a long wooden stick over a reflective surface with an orange construction net over it.] -
Richard Hollis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A small television on top of a vitrine shows John Berger looking at the viewer. In the vitrine, several books and documents are opened for display.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Plastic bags of objects appear on a white gallery wall.] -
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Anton Vidokle, still from This Is Cosmos, 2014. [A film still of a woman, captured from the shoulders up, standing in an outdoor field. The white subtitle reads "that death is a mistake."] -
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Ken Okiishi, detail from Wish I Were Here, 1997 – 2001. Five archival inkjet prints. Courtesy the artist [Two small items in a white glossy frame, one is a photograph and the other a postcard. The photograph is a black and white image of a man standing, slightly hunched over, pasted on top of an image of a sailor. Beneath the photograph, a faded handwritten postcard reads in blue ink, "11 July 1997, Dear Cindy Sherman, I am lost - not physically, but emotionally. I am on a cruise ship to Greece with my straight best friend, who I am in love with. Acting like "The Girl" is getting me nowhere with him. Did it get you anywhere? Sincerely, Ken Okiishi."] -
Friends of Artists Space Annual Dinner, 2018. [Three people posing and smiling for the camera in front of a small crowd.] -
Jill Mulleady, A Thought That Doesn't Change Remains a Stupid Lie, 4, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of an oil painting of a flower arrangment, placed in a glass jar on a black table. The flowers are dying and falling over the sides of the jar, which holds a shallow amount of yellowed water.] -
Wade Guyton, © Thomas Pirot -
Mark Hamilton: Echoplex. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A white ceiling with penciled text reading "ROAD TO RUN."] -
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The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A television sits on the floor, encaged by a wooden structure extending at an angle into the air. On the walls opposite, there are assorted photographs of varying sizes, showing primarily landscapes.] -
Everything is common. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Steven Cottingham. [A color photograph of a gallery space. In the foreground, a work slightly elevated from the ground has several objects resting on its surface. On the background wall two larger works on paper and one smaller one are hanging. A desk with a video work on a monitor is positioned against the wall.] -
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware of a Holy Whore). Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1971. [A man and a woman sit in two low wooden chairs. The man wears a brown hat and striped suit, while the woman wears a white top with a low v-neck. Her hair is blonde and stylishly curled. She stares ahead, her left hand gently resting on her chin. The man stares sideways at her.] -
Passages from People Who Led to My Plays. Performance documentation, March 1, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Paula Court. [A figure sits in a dimly lit corner in profile, gazing forward. They flip through pages of a script displayed in front of them. An open laptop sits to their left.] -
Laura Cottingham & The Anita Pallenberg Story. Installation view, Artists Space, 2017. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Eight, framed, color photographs arranged into a grid on a white wall.] -
Bonnie Rycheck. Black and Gray Benches, 1980. [A black and white image of a black bench with two distinct black drapery on both sides behind it.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A grid of photographs displaying candid portraiture is arranged in a white frame.] -
Jubilee Aponte, Untitled, 2021, digital photography -
Margo Machida, Altered Fates, 1990. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 56 inches. [Two faces on a black background, with a black and red patterned rectangle dividing them. The left face is upside-down, and a skeltal hand overlaps the face. The right is upright, and is looking back over their shoulder.] -
Eniya Alonzia, The Sky, digital print, 2019 [A skewed black-and-white image looking up at the façade of a building and the sky. An LED sign spelling "DINER" hangs from the left side of the building] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three wooden chairs with headphones on top of them face a television monitor, which displays a figure wearing a keffiyeh. White text underneath the figure's face reads: "Mahyoob Abdul Latif, Adnan Latif's uncle."] -
Mark Morrisroe. Kathy's Goldfish(1985). © The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur. [A slightly blurry photograph of a yellow-toned fish tank at close range. There is a white border on two sides of the photograph with handwritten text on it.] -
Cover of BIOTA: A discourse between Art and Architecture from the 1970s to the present, co-published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. and Hunter College Art Galleries, 2025. [Book cover featuring a grainy close-up image of a flower. Black text across the center of the cover reads "biota."] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of a performer sitting in a wooden chair. A spotlight shines on them from above, and they play a cello that leans against their body.] -
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Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (Peter Moore, Concert at The Kitchen, 1979; Paramedia Music, 1990), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery wall. On the left, four black-and-white photographs are hung vertically, and on the right is a shelf with a television monitor placed on it.]
