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Rip It Up and Start Again. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. -
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.] -
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Group Material: Primer (for Raymond Williams). Artists Space, 1982. [A view of a bedroom with various imagery on the walls along with a line and clothespins and a dotted line cloth on a matress lying on the floor.] -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the upright bass on stage. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in orange and blue light.] -
BGL, Elevator, 2007. Site-specific installation. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A third floor entrance off of an elevator. Beyond its black-floored vestibule is a large object standing at an angle inside the doorway. It emulates the interior panels of an elevator. A partially obscured sign saying "ARTISTS SPACE" is visible in the room beyond the doorway on its far wall.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view featuring various ephemera from Personal Problems, c. 1980, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up of a glass display case holding images and multiple booklets of text.] -
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo. [Photograph of a basement gallery space with various multimedia works on display. In the center is a large wooden platform that reads along one side "Imagine/ Without Fear/ What is tomorrow?", to the left is a wooden bench painted blue on the surface sitting next to a woven hanging piece. Along the walls are various projected videos.] -
Establishing Shot Exhibition Catalogue, Artists Space, 2004. [A grid of slightly distorted portraits; the left side all in black and white and the right side in light blue and white. Arranged along the border between the two colors text reads vertically "ARTISTS SPACE." Additional text reads, "ESTABLISHING SHOT / 03.09 - 05.01.2004 / MAIN SPACE."] -
The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [An angled view of a room with a set of two tables and chairs, books resting on the tables, in the center. On the back wall hangs a banner in red painted text, reads "...Pessimism of the intellect, Optimism of the will... Gramsci." On the right adjacent wall, text covers the whole height, the title reading, "Vigilance:"] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Days (Cortlandt Alley Crosswalk), 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [In the corner of a darkened room, a blacked out window hosts a small lens, which projects an image of the crosswalk outside the building onto the wall and ceiling inside.] -
Danica Barboza, Omnia - Mercurial, Interposition. Installation view Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 2019. [On a white wall two artworks on paper and of the same size hang side-by-side. On the left, nine pencil drawings in no order depict the same figure from different angles. On the right, nine small blocks of text with white letters on a black background sit in orderly 3 x 3 rows.] -
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Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view, Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation view of a gallery space with six glass vitrines positioned around four metal colums. A drum set and television monitor are also visible in the space.] -
Ian Bader. Spalation Clock, 1977. Section 1. [Architectural drawing on center of page with white surrounding it.] -
Hilary Lloyd. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A portrait-oriented screen is mounted on two metal floor to ceiling poles. The screen is split to show two different images of shadows on the ground. At a 90-degree angle facing left, another screen is mounted on two metal floor to ceiling poles. A third screen is visible in the background, facing away, mounted on two metal poles atop a wheeled base.] -
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Julie Wachtel. Installation View. Artists Space. 1985-86. [Split-screen image of a monkey dressed in sports gear with a soccer ball on a field hung on a white gallery wall. Both images in photograph appear identical.] -
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Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972–2009. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Objects are cluttered on the floor of a room lit with a warm, yellow hue. There is a low-hanging disco ball, two standing lights, and a small television showing white static mounted on a stand. There are two vases with plants and a string of white lights.] -
The Friends of Artists Space Dinner, May 8, 2010. Michael Clark & Company's performance. [A woman in a nude leotard-like top and silver leggings stands facing forward with her hand on her hip in a gallery space. Behind her, a figure in a black skirt and white collared shirt stands in a similar position, with his back to the former performer.] -
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia (2011). Knut Ove Arntzen, Stan Brakhage, Marta Kuzma and Pablo LaFuente. [A grayscale image of two naked people, kneeling on the ground of an untidy room. They are embracing, with their foreheads pressed together. Behind them there is a window and a typewriter on a stand.] -
Raúl Zurita, documentation of La vida nueva, 1982. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Ana María López. [Blotted smoke-dots curve across a vast blue sky, spelling out the phrase "MI DIOS ES PARAISO", above a jagged skyline of red brick buildings. The photograph is taken from the vantage point of the Flushing Airport, where a pile of debris, which appears to be torn-up asphalt, and a few puddles litter the runway. Three planes are parked in the lower fourth quadrant.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a large empty room bathed in a red light. Along one wall, a performer dressed in white stands against the wall, bending over and looking to their left. A bright white light shines from their hips and a sheath of crinkly, reflective one-way mirror film lays on the ground in front of them.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring hannah baer and Cyrus Dunham. March 12, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a light blue background. The top left corner reads: hannah baer / Cyrus Dunham. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, March 12, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
What Do We Carry? Coil pots and coiled personal timelines, December 2024 -
Still from Personal Problems picturing Walter Cotton and Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, 1980. [A man and a woman sit at a kitchen table for breakfast. The table is crowded with dishes and items like orange juice and a box of Raisin Bran.] -
YAP (Young Artists Perform), P.S. 140, 2018 [Several students sit, looking down towards printed sheets of paper, in front of colorful silk banners with writing stating "Your dreams can become a reality," "like a cheetah in a snail's race," "bridge can just go like boom bom boom BOOM," "I see a light it's so BRIGHT -Destiny" and others.\] -
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Drawings by Sydney Schrader. [A notebook spread featuring pencil drawings on paper.] -
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée (New York: Tanam Press, 1982), 74 - 75. [A two-page spread from the novel Dictée shows four diagrams of a human larynx and neck on the left-hand page and a page of writing from the novel on the right.] -
“Decolonize This Museum” protest outside the American Museum of Natural History, October 10, 2016. Photo: Andrés Rodriguez [Two children holding up black signs with white text in front of a building covered by an opaque plastic material, one sign reads "WAKE" and the other reads "Remember."] -
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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.] -
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Abasement #73. Performance documentation, November 4th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer with long blonde hair and a black baseball cap sits on stage at a table covered in electronic instruments. Their face is lit with red light. The background is dark, but a few audience members are visible. ] -
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Jack Smith: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Black and white photographs hang in a horizontal line across a dark wall descending into an exhibition space. On the right, a video monitor sits on the ground. In the background is a free-standing wall featuring a series of framed photographs. A mannequin dressed in orange and green fabric is displayed in front of the photographs.] -
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Krzysztof Wodiczko: Guidelines. Installation View, Artists Space, 1978. [An image is projected onto a white wall.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner 2024. Executive Director & Chief Curator Jay Sanders. Photo: Jenna Bascom -
Poetry Class: Writing As Flow, 2024 -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [Several figures stand along a wall illuminated by red light. One figure, seated, uses a computer at a small round table.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure in a completely dark room, facing one wall and shining a light from their body against the wall.] -
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Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, still from Kids of Survival: The Art and Life of Tim Rollins & K.O.S., 1996. 87 min. [Two people seated at a table covered with assorted art supplies. They talk to each other as they paint or prepare to draw.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of two figures performing in a dark gallery space, lit only by an installation of LED lights covered in dried SCOBY material. One figure wearing black leans down in front of one of the LED lights. Partly hidden behind a column, another figure stands wearing a red suit.] -
Sixth Anniversary Exhibition. Installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of stills depicting numerous installation views.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of three musicians captured mid-performance on stage in a low-lit venue space. The central musician plays the trumpet, and is flanked at either side by men playing clarinets. Abstract and fragmented projections in green and yellow-orange shine onto the musicians and cast onto the wall behind them.] -
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.] -
Metahaven, The Sprawl (in development), 2015. Video still. Courtesy Lighthouse / The Space. [A detail view of a dim, stark forest with minimal sunlight.] -
Abasement #68. Performance documentation, February 12, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a seated musician playing a tenor saxophone on a stage. In the foreground of the image, there is the blurred back of the heads of seated audience members. In the center midground of the image, the musician is basked in green and yellow light being emitted from a projector. The projection covers the back wall behind the musician and the stage. ] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands behind a microphone, their hands placed together in front of them and looking off.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three paper bags photographed at an angle sit on pedestals. Closest to the camera, the bag has been painted with white and blue foliage, and collaged with a drawing of Africa. The two, farther bags portray drawn portraits of men.] -
Matt Mullican, Wall labels, 1976. From Susan Eder, Matt Mullican, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white photograph of black silhouettes on a white wall, including human figures, a car, a house, and a television set.] -
Unstretched, bound, outside mission, 2020, acrylic on linen, bubble wrap, ratchet strap, chicken wire, dimensions variable. [A large, orange and brown stuffed slug sculpture is strapped around a Greco-Roman style columns on the facade of a cast iron building. The slug’s antennae point towards the blue sky. Further down the street are additional buildings, parked cars, and a Detour sign.] -
[Black text on a grey background. The text reads: “March 7 / Forrest Gander / Jennifer Scappettone.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sits on stage, playing a double-neck guitar. ] -
Purgatory, Alexander Karpman, Silver Key in Photography -
[A black and white image of a girl sitting sideways on stone steps against a wall reading a book. Several more books are piled in front of her.] -
Shala Miller & Malcolm Peacock, with Amiri Baraka's Cellar Vigil. Installation view (Shala Miller, Genesis, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Three hanging projector screens surround the middle of a darkened gallery space. The two screens on the right and left side depict a black-and-white video still of a figures face, illuminated on one side by a bright flash of light. The third screen in the middle shows a black-and-white film still of hazy and ghostly tonal modulations.] -
[Red background with white text and border which reads: "DUMP THE FINE ART OF GENTRIFICATION," with the Decolonize This Place logo positioned underneath.] -
Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [The title TIME // TIME is written centered on a white wall. To the right, a white shelf displays objects and a colorful poster of Ernie Kovacs.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure in a blue morph suit kneels down on one knee, placing their hands on top of a table made of wood and fresnel lenses while audience members watch in the background.] -
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Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Specific Objects (Swing), 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [The Cortlandt Alley main entrance to Artists Space shows two grab bars blocking the staircase entrance to the gallery.] -
Lines of Loss. Installation view, Artists Space, 1997. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [An installation consisting of a series of readymade objects displayed on a wooden gallery floor. To the right, an open book rests on a wooden folding chair. One metal clamp light is attached to the chair, while a second light is attached to a reclining, green lounge chair on the left of the gallery space. Two additional clamp lights rest on the floor between the chairs. An ashy material is scattered on the ground between the chairs.] -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers are on stage, the performer on the left side plays a guitar, and the performer on the right plays a cello. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in blue light, created from projections of a geometric pattern.] -
AIDS Forum: Danny Dries - Generic Memorial (for WM. Schwedler, 1942-1982). Installation view, Artists Space, 1992. [A close up, black and white image of the seat of an antique wooden chair. A mold of a human brain emerges from the center of the chair's cushion.] -
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Anja Kirschner and David Panos, still from Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, 2011. [A man and a woman in a split screen view with a black space between them. The man's face is turned to the side; the woman is facing towards him, her eyes cast downwards, with two fingers pointing.] -
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.] -
Deborah Garwood, Car Door and Easels, 1991. [A black and white photograph of a sculpture lit from above. It has several suspended shapes resembling detached car doors, with additional minimal pieces.] -
Portrait of Jackie Wang. [A figure, centered within the frame, leans against a beige tiled wall and stares directly into the camera.] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 9, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [A seated figure plays a guitar that lies in his lap.] -
Kiki Smith, Untitled, 1991, Fired enamel on glass with shelf, Glass: 18 x 18 in / 45,7 x 45,7 cm Shelf: 4 1/2 x 20 15/16 x 5 in / 11,5 x 52,9 x 12,7 cm, Edition of 50. [The image shows a figure's face composed of black lines and etch-marks on top of a transluscent background. The image rests on a wooden shelf.] -
Flyer for Pierre Leguillon, Slideshow/Cloackroom -
Milford Graves, Bikongo-Ifá: Spirit of the Being, 2020. Wood, tabla, acupuncture model, bata drum, Nkondi figure, George Washington Carverbust, compass, glass, peanuts, LabVIEW animation, monitors, bells, plasma, lamp, globe, eagle figurine, alarm clock, collaged paper, printouts, copper wire, paint marker, metal fasteners, casters. Dimensions Variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a sculpture composed of three monitors, drums, a human figure sculpture, and topped by a small sculpture of an eagle in mid-flight.] -
Crystal Z Campbell: Ode to the Underloved. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a video installation in the center of the floor of a gallery space. A walkway made of plywood runs along the edges of the room, around the projection. The projection depicts a negative film image that has been mirrored along the center. Objects are arranged on a blue background to create vaguely recognizable images.] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage playing the cello. They are facing sideways to the audience, wearing sunglasses and a purple jacket. To their side there is a collection of audio equipment, as well as a music stand and a speaker. The audience is sitting down facing the stage. The room is dark, except for a projected image of a disco ball on the back wall.] -
SLIDEFEST, City-As-School and Artists Space BRIDGE presentations, May 2024 -
Carolyn Lazard. Still from Untitled, 2020. [A gas fireplace turned on is framed with a strip of faux white marble on either side. The flames are yellow and white with glowing orange embers at their base. A yellow caption appears at the base of the fireplace with the following text in between musical notes: Where my dreams await someone to share.] -
Abasement #86. Performance documentation, April 6th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer, wearing a bright headlamp, plays a theremin on stage next to a table of musical equipment. ] -
Book spreads from Exhibitionism, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025. [Carousel of spreads from an artist's book, featuring text and reproductions of colorful paintings and drawings.] -
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Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “April 6 / Charles Alexander / Laura Jaramillo.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)" -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure dressed in leather performs on stage with a purple projection on them.] -
Mark Morrisroe. Untitled (1988). © The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur. [A yellow-toned close-up of a person's bare chest. There is a hummingbird tattoo on the person's right breast, and they are wearing two chain necklaces.] -
Jason Simon, still from Vera, 2003. 25 min. [A woman seated on a couch wearing a green button-down shirt captured mid-laughter.] -
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Jutta Koether, The Seasons ("Summer," Seasons set #3, Reena Spaulings, Frieze New York), 2012. [A sculpture consisting of a large rectangular pane of glass, its bottom edge wedged into the center of a square block, is installed in a white-walled gallery space. A small canvas is attached to the center of the glass pane with its wooden backing facing the viewer. String and an orange, mesh-like object hang and drip from the canvas's lower edge. Three figures are visible behind the sculpture, talking in a small cluster.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands in front of an orange and blue projection and performs with audio equipment.] -
[Collaged atop a blue, beige, and orange field is a series of abstract graphic and typewritten elements, including a womans face placed sideways with green tape over it. In the middle, on a piece of blue paper, is the list of performers and text reading "aBASEmEnt 62 at ArTists SpACe" along with the location and time of the event.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs hold a mannequin, while looking towards a projection.] -
[The inside of a room with a window looking out onto a view of Manhattan. The rightmost third of the image has been digitally altered such that it appears to warp and glitch.] -
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Installation view from International Projects: Belgium, featuring Didier Vermeiren, Artists Space, 1984 [Black and white image of multiple sculptures displayed in the exhibition space.] -
Passages from People Who Led to My Plays. Performance documentation, March 1, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Paula Court. [Two figures in dark clothing stand before two music stands in front of a seated audience. The figure on the right looks towards the figure on the left, who looks down at their two hands. Their hands are turned, palms up, towards the sky, as if miming holding something.] -
[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.] -
Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free: A History of Squat Theatre. Installation view, Artists Space, 1996. [A room with two chairs facing toward a low table with a small monitor and assorted bottles. There are two windows, both blotted out with smears of paint. A large sculpture of a person with crouched legs and their arms above their head is suspended from the ceiling, with a second smaller head emerging from between the squatting legs.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure in a blue morph suit leans over a wooden box placed on the floor, while another figure to the left films them. Blue light is projected onto the back wall to the right.] -
[A few empty seats on an NYC subway - the 6 train, with the originating station titled "Maintaining Good Relations"] -
H_edge. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Whitney Cox. [A large gallery space full of hundreds of metal cutouts shaped like curved "x"'s hanging from lengths of metal chainlinks. The cutouts are arranged in the gallery so that they form a hedge-like landscape of varying heights.] -
Hall of Records, Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2025. Photo: Jenna Bascom. [Aerial view of three long dining tables with rows of candlebras running down the middle of each. Rows of seated guests on each side of the tables are chatting and having dinner. ] -
Film still from Now Voyager, 1942. [A black and white image of a woman looking into the camera. She has a wide-brimmed hat with a sheer veil over her face, and dark makeup.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Two figures in blue morph suits face off, with one figure sitting down on a wooden box looking up at the other figure who stands above them wearing wings made of fresnel lenses. All the way on the right a figure takes video footage of the scene.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
New Red Order: Feel at Home Here. Installation view, Artists Space, May 19 – August 21, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A wide angle image of a multicolored exhibition space consisting of scattered beach balls, an inflatable pool, a beach umbrella, a beach chair, numerous wall graphics and tv monitors.] -
Abasement #62. Performance documentation, December 5, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A seated figure plays the violin on stage with red and purple lights cast onto them.] -
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972–2009. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An installation shot of a room warmly lit by yellow and pink light. There is a low-hanging disco ball, surrounded by various objects set on the floor, including a vase with flowers, a second disco ball, strands of string lights, and more.] -
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Drake Carr: Housecalls. Performance documentation, September 7, 2023, Artists Space at the Armory Show. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close up of a person drawing. Only the right arm is visible. The hand is holding a small yellow color pencil. The drawing is of a crossed-arm man sitting on a sofa.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three or four individuals captured in the middle of a conversation. Two individuals have their back turned to the camera, while another person is facing the lens with arms crossed, actively listening. An elegant and decorative dinner venue can be seen in the background.] -
Martha Wallner and Miriam Loasiga. Still from Con Guerra O Sin Guerra (With or Without War), 1987. Video (sound, black and white). 20 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. [Text written in black on white background reads, "-inista ejercityo popular sandiniista ejerc-". A line above the text appears as a type of rope or barbed wire and the top opens up into black. Video scan lines and black edges of CRT monitor are visible.] -
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Paper Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [White glossy paper folded in geometric patterns against a white wall.] -
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Drake Carr, Raul Lopez, 2023. Colored pencil on paper. 30 1/8 x 20 3/16 inches. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of an unframed colorful drawing. The drawing shows a figure wearing a dark coat, sitting cross-legged on a chair. A purse sits on the floor right behind the chair. In the back, a piano and sheet music.] -
Abasement #86. Performance documentation, April 6th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer operates a soundboard on stage. A shadow is cast on the wall behind, resembling another performer dancing with their hands thrown above their head. ] -
Ed Bereal, Miss America: Manufacturing Consent: Upside Down and Backwards, 2000-2014, mixed media and found objects, dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a large assemblage sculpture with various posed and costumed mannequins.] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a gallery installation containing four large wooden box sculptures by Matthew Langan-Peck, three of which are slightly open and have headphones hanging from their sides. To the left, a dark blue box is painted with a repeated traffic light motif. The box in the center foreground is messily painted sky blue, with two yellow shooting stars on one side. In the background, to the right, two wooden boxes sit next to each other, one painted light yellow and the other covered in imitation gold leaf.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure performs on stage into a microphone with a small electric guitar in their lap.] -
Gerry Morehead. Installation view, Gerry Morehead, Jim Pavlicovic, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white photograph of two black circles on a dark background.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (Pathways of Infinite Possibilities: Yara, 2017; Yara Training Bag, c. 1990), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation photograph of a gallery with two sculptures visible. The sculpture closer to the camera features an anatomical sculpture of a human body and hand, several wires, and a small water wheel. In the background, a punching bag and other boxing equipment are suspended from a rectangular wooden frame.] -
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Untitled, 2022. Raw Power, Raw Power; Kollettivo, Lotta per il potere; Antigenesi, Una donna non e’ merda; Negazione, Tutti Pazzi; RAF Punk, Contro la pace Contro la guerra; Peggio Punx, Scemo. 8mm to MP4 transfer (color, sound), monitors, chairs. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a wooden cafe chair with a green cushion in a gallery space. The chair is placed in front of a small seam in the wall. A television screen rests on top of the chair.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with large panels of adobe with paintings of various figures on them. Adobe bricks are laid out on the floor to create a small walkway.] -
Matthew Langan-Peck. Installation view, Au feu rouge, Edouard Montassut, 2024 [Color image of a white gallery space, with three large boxes placed throughout. On the left, one side of a box is shown with a painted landscape of green hills against a blue sky, and a black fence in front of it. In the background, another wooden box is painted with a dark finish, and a pair of headphones are hung on the box. In the foreground, to the right of the room, sits a beige box.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure performs on stage, speaking into a microphone and holding papers in their hands.] -
YAP (Young Artists Perform), P.S. 140, 2018 [Several students sit, looking down towards printed sheets of paper, in front of colorful silk banners with writing stating "Your dreams can become a reality," "like a cheetah in a snail's race," "bridge can just go like boom bom boom BOOM," "I see a light it's so BRIGHT -Destiny" and others.] -
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Abasement #65. Performance documentation, September 18, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A close-up color image of a musician playing the saxophone. Half of his face hidden by his hat. Orange and red projections cast onto him.] -
Patricia Thornley. Untitled, 1985. Electrical wire, string, fans, photograph, spotlight, wood, wax, dirt, water. [Three lights are visible in a triangle formation shining on one central photograph in the middle of the image which is framed by hanging strings and wires in a white-walled gallery space.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A wide shot of a person sitting at a table with a computer. The table is covered in a red tablecloth with white lettering that reads, "WHAT ARE SAVAGES FOR?" and "THE URGE TO MERGE." Lighter red, stylized text reads "NEW RED ORDER" and "NEVER SETTLE." Behind the table, a projected image shows a man with one hand outstretched superimposed on a city skyline. On either side of the table are informational posters with printed text.] -
Paper Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [The corner of a room with two white walls. On one wall, there is a white collared shirt on a hanger, a black and white abstract image, and a small white sculpture.] -
Activated Walls. Installation view, Artists Space, 1993. [A wooden chair facing the corner of a room. Painted on one wall is an empty red frame. On the perpendicular wall, there are several half-finished paintings of children.] -
Jutta Koether is a painter, performance artist, musician, critic, and theoretician based in New York and Berlin. Her work with Artists Space began in 2012 with her performance fifth season act and most recently Analogue Drive (2024) performed in Hong Kong for Artists Space and Empty Gallery. In her live works, Koether enacts a highly specific form of entangled action centering on and around specific artworks. Embedded with performative possibility, these objects – positioned in a room, a situation, a city – circuit together in a network of language, duration, and the artist's active negotiation between producer and produced. As a painter, Koether challenges the viewer’s understanding of the medium’s terms and histories, often appropriating and retooling elements from the work of male masters. Engaging a range of motifs and materials—such as grids, X-marks, and red paint—she cultivates painting’s ability to yield something unanticipated, vital, and feminine. Koether studied art and philosophy at the University of Cologne and the Whitney ISP. In 1981 she joined the editorial staff of the music and art journal Spex. She is the author of several books and has written for such publications as Eau de Cologne, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, and Flash Art. From 2010 to 2024 Koether was Professor for Painting and Drawing at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. She has had major solo exhibitions at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz; PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, among other venues. [Photo: Paula Court.] -
[Black text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Jan 6 / Pierre Joris / Tyrone Williams." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
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Arnold Dreyblatt. Photo: Cécile Braneyre [Black-and-white photograph of a figure performing on stage. The figure is standing, manipulating the bow of a string instrument. Layed out on the table in front of him is a laptop and various audio devices.] -
Johanna Went, Shark Head, 1983, sweater, fabric, felt, toy poodle, Tide Detergent box cut out, panty hose mask with plastic toys and shark, dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [A life-sized costume in front of a large glass window.] -
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[Three book covers, arranged in a triangle, with title text reading from top to bottom, left to right, "Danger In Dusseldorf," "Die, Chastrommel," and "Berliner."] -
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Vanalyne Green, Still from A Spy in the House That Ruth Built, 1989. 29 minutes. [A close up image of hands holding a film camera in black and white on a white background. Below the hands, a small, black silhouette of a figure walking.] -
Still from video interview with Daniel Buren about the work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, conducted by Dean Inkster and Sébastien Pluot, 2010. -
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Emily Lee Luan & imogen xtian smith. November 5, 2022, Artists Space. [Light blue text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: "Emily Lee Luan & imogen xtian smith / November 5, 5pm." The middle reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519."] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A figure kneels beside a table and traces their finger along the screen of an iPad. They wear a baseball cap that reads “MAKE TECHNO BLACK AGAIN.”] -
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Jenny Holzer, Truisms Golf Balls, 1992. [Eight vibrantly colored blue, pink, yellow, and orange golf balls rest on a white backdrop. Various statements written in black capitalized text adorn each gold ball, including phrases such as, "PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT" and "RAISE BOYS AND GIRLS THE SAME WAY."] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A string of light bulbs decends from the celing of an exhibition space, with the end of its wiring resting on the ground below. A framed image of a figure's face is installed high on the wall directly behind the light string. A small cardboard box with gold details sits on the ground to the right of the light string.] -
Production still from Black Picture Show, 1978, picturing Sam Waymon. Photo: Marshall Johnson. Image courtesy of the artist. [A black-and-white photograph of a figure sitting in front of a microphone. The left side of their face and body is in shadow.] -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a stringed instrument with a bow. The stage and wall behind it are bathed in blue light, created from projections of a geometric pattern.] -
Charles Harbutt. East Liverpool, Ohio, 1984. [An image of a town setting with advertising on a building that reads, "Crook's Easy Terms of Credit" in white letters on black background on the left and "Crook" in large white letters with white background on the right. Telephone poles and lines can be seen in the image as well. Store names "Pietche's Print & Paper Place" and "Tile Town" can be identified on the two building adjacent to one another.] -
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LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [In the center of the gallery space wall rests a large, square MDF wall with a grid of empty sardine cans. To the left of this MDF wall is a chair adorned with various objects, and in the forefront red, white, and blue wax candles spelling "LOVE." To the right of the MDF wall is an artwork on the floor in the spce of the Star of David with painted text on top. On the wall is a black and white painting and a framed text drawing. ] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A couch is visible in the center with drawings, banners and paintings surrounding it in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play. Installation view, Artists Space, 2015. [Two illustrations framed on a wall. On the left, two men, dressed in suits, engage in intercource behind a women sat in a chair. On the right, a half naked man sits on a bench in a cell above a man licking his leg, and an exposed butt that is plugged.] -
Ministry of Interior building in Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba. [The façade of a building adorned with a large, metal frame sculpture of the face of Che Guevara.] -
New Music Circle, St. Louis. Photo: Theo R. Welling [Color photograph of a hand, fingers outstretched and manipulating a group of suspended wires that run across the frame.] -
Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a gallery space with two columns running across the room. On the left wall, four framed abstract drawings on black paper are displayed in a horizontal line. On the right wall, three framed abstract drawings on white paper are shown in a horizontal line.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Candice Hill-Montgomery. [Black and white photograph close up of white picket fence and painted dark background.] -
See Around. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A corner of a wall imposed with the text, "Christa Blatchford: See Around."] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two figures sit in wooden chairs in a light-filled gallery space, wearing headphones and facing television monitors installed on opposites sides of the room.] -
Abasement #66. Performance documentation, October 9, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A black and white image of three figures. All three of them attentively look to the right of the image, towards the same direction. The figure in the center, holds a ladder, which has a projector taped to the top, with their right hand.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image taken between two curtains of a TV affixed to a wall on the right, displaying blue-tinted video footage of the performance with a fresnel lens hanging in front of the TV display.] -
New Red Order with Virgil B/G Taylor Progenerator, 2020 – Ongoing Painted mural with dibond prints, five televisions, flag, plate, Improved Order of Red Men ephemera, and mixed media 14 x 40 feet Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a multicolored wall filled with multiple tv monitors and info graphics. Black, red and yellow beach balls are scattered along the floor.] -
_____, Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper & Cindy Sherman Have Agreed to Participate in an Exhibition Organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 through October 28, 1978, Artists Space, 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 1978. Artwork by Louise Lawler. [A painting of a horse in a gold frame hangs on a wall.] -
Audrey Glassman, Untitled, 1983. Cibachrome, 28 x 42 inches. [Two beds appear on the floor with a mirror and a picture hanging on the walls along with a clock in the right corner. Light is shining onto the wall from an area not visible to the viewer.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork: Candace Hill-Montgomery. [A few people standing in a gallery space with a picket fence and drapery on the walls behind them.] -
Abasement #62. Performance documentation, December 5, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Black-and-white image of two figures performing on stage. On the right a figure looks down and manipulates audio equipment held in a briefcase. To the left and behind another figure is out of focus and plays the violin.] -
Abasement #71. Performance documentation, August 5th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two musicians standing on stage use electronic instruments. In the foreground there various more cords and audio instruments on stands. Both musicians have microphones and one is wearing a woven hat. The wall behind them is projected with images of trees, and a red light illuminates the left side of the frame.] -
Attention Line. Installation view (posters and ephemera from Other Cinema, c. 1970s-80s), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a brightly lit wall, upon which various ephemera are mounted.]
