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Constantina Zavitsanos, the one who knows may show the one who knows (detail), 2024. Digital print on dibond. 30 x 30 in. [A photograph made in a two mirror Schlieren system with knife edge shows the silhouette of a hand holding a small lit flame in front of a round mirror, staged in a black surround. Typically invisible, heat waves are visible along the golden shadowy gradient of a telescope mirror. At the bottom a candle’s wick and its mirror image break the circle.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A green, blue, and yellow abstract landscape painting hangs on a white wall. A purple buffalo painting is hanging on the wall to the left. To the right, a tall paper is pinned into a purple section of wall.] -
Untitled, Taro Quirk, City-As-School high school student, 2021, digital photograph. -
ART CLUB2000 Untitled (Stop on in when staying at The Mega Hotel), 1996 Oriented strand board, acrylic paint, plastic chain, and hardware 48 x 36 inches Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A white sign that reads "Stop on in when staying at The Mega Hotel!" sits outside of the gallery door.] -
Charlotte Posenenske. Configured by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Six geometric, silver metal sculptures installed on low dolleys with wheels sit, scattered, across a wooden gallery floor. The sculptures are modular, hollow, and consist of cube-like and triangular metal components. Long arrows of colorful tape are installed on the gallery floors.] -
Exhibition announcements (assorted). Artists Space, 1999. Graphic Design: Sara Soskolne. [Nine fanned announcement cards in assorted colors. Black text on each card announces the Lise Soskolne exhibition at Artists Space, noting the time and exhibition location.] -
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.] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of 3 performers on stage. The musician on the left is standing over electronic audio equipment while looking down. To their side a musician is sitting down holding a microphone close to their mouth. On the right side of the image a musician is sitting down playing the violin. In the middle of the stage there is a drum kit. The backs of audience members are visible in the bottom of the image. There is an abstract orange projection on the back wall, which also covers one of the musicians.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A chalk drawing appears above two chairs on the left and in the corner is a television monitor on a pedestal with framed drawings behind it. A doorway leads into the next space.] -
Gordon Onslow-Ford, Play, 1985. [Various abstract star-like symbols appear wih a black background.] -
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.] -
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Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley at Artists Space, co-presented with Frieze New York 2023. Performance documentation, May 19th. Photo by Vanessa Diaz/CKA. Courtesy of Frieze. [Color photograph of a harpist, and a row of singers seated, and singing into a microphone stand. Audience members fill the room on either side of the seated performers.] -
Betty Tompkins, Sex Painting #4, 2013, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [Painting depicting a close-up image of a figure's mouth licking the top side of a foot. A large thumb is pressed against the bottom of the foot, holding it up to the mouth. The painting is composed of soft, muted gray and purple hues. A white band stretches across the lower edge of the image. Black text running along the center of the image's bottom edge reads, "2020Solidarity - Betty Tompkins," while small, faint gray text running along the lower right edge of the image reads, "A project by Between Bridges."] -
[Rainbow and white text on a black background reads "Book and/Edition/Sale/July 16-19/Downstairs/at ARTISTS/SPACE."] -
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.] -
Installation view. Artists Space, 1983. Foreground: Jeff Koons. New Wet/Dry Triple Decker, 1982. Plexiglass, fluorescent light, new vacuum cleaners. 124 1/2 x 28 x 28 inches. [In the foreground is a set of vacuum cleaners on display vertically above each other on a plexiglass shelf rack with fluourescent lights underneath each one. Behind it on a wall is a Duratrans on a lightbox with text that reads: "New 100% Meri Ultra-lights" and a picture of a pack of ciagrettes appears next to the text. These works appear in a white-walled gallery space with a window in the far left back and a fluorescent light visible above.] -
["We (not I)" typed in red, black, and blue serif font.] -
Dies alles Herzchen wird einmal dir gehören (All This Darling Will Once Belong To You). Performance organized by Paul Maenz and Peter Roehr, Galerie Dorothea Loehr, September 9, 1967. DVD transfer, 6 mins, 55 secs. [Black and white image of a crowd of people gathered in a large open space. Several hollow, metal sculptures composed of geometric components are installed in the space. Some performers interact with the sculptures—one figure walks across one of the metal forms that lays on the ground.] -
Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle, Cartographies of the Absolute (Zero Books, 2015). [A blue and white book cover depicting a stylized map of Detroit radiating out from the center "slums," to an encircling zone of "middle class," out to "affluent suburbs." Several arrows point out in each direction of the semicircle, beginning in the "slums" and headed outwards, labeled as "police payoffs," "job discrimination," "mortgage money," and more.] -
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, still from Mouth to Mouth, 1975. Video, black and white; 8 minutes. Courtesy University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. [A mouth silently forms the shape of the eight Korean vowel graphemes while video noise or ‘snow’ threatens to drown it out.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr., Unseen Hand (Fall Guy); Sinner Man, 2022. Couch, jute, antique cane, plastic, copper, brass, conservation glove; Police tape, laser prints, museum board, MagiColor manual. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a yellow brocade couch in a gallery space. A long tangled rope extends from the bottom of the couch towards the camera. In the background, police tape against frames a rectangle on the wall, and three additional strips of police tape extend from the wall to the floor.] -
Gary Falk, Brigid Kennedy, Ladd Kessler, Peggy Yunque. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [A dim photograph of mulitple sculptures placed in the exhibtion space. A couple of black curtains are hung in the gallery.] -
I ♥ John Giorno. Reading documentation, Artists Space, 2017. [Photo of John Giorno wearing a navy blue t-shirt and black framed glasses, standing in front of a microphone and reading from loose pages held in his left hand.] -
Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, Artists Space, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Installation view of several works in a gallery space. Twelve long wooden poles are mounted on a white gallery wall in a circular formation, projecting out from the wall and intersecting a line of black columns, forming a teepee shape. A large piece of brown linen stained with various black, white, and rust-colors hangs from the poles. Part of the linen drapes on the ground below the teepee structure. A wooden wardrobe stands against a wall in front of the structure. Several bottles filled with urine stand in a line behind the structure, in front of an abstract sculpture in the corner of the room. The sculpture contains a humanoid head, a TV monitor, and haphazard pieces of wooden and cardboard.] -
Tom Rubnitz. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Painted objects attached to the wall in a white-walled gallery space.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view (Timo, 2023; Adobera 1 (adobe brick mold), 2023; Sancha, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with paintings done on adobe panels that rest on steel armatures, and are laid out around the space. The artworks depict paintings of various figures. On the wall hangs a wooden ladder horizontally.] -
Yuki Kimura, Wardrobe Extensions Version 5, 2019, three wood wardrobes with metal hardware, wood panel, paint. Photo: Daniel Pérez [A wooden wardrobe stands against a white wall. In the background, four projectors sit on the floor amid one black column. Two white test patterns are projected on white walls.] -
[Purple text against a black-and-white photograph reads "Magic Episodes / The Letters of Scott Burton / and Eduardo Costa, 1970-1980 / a conversation with David J. Getsy / and Patrick Greaney."] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs suspend a piece of red fabric between themselves.] -
Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, Artists Space, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three unmatching plastic bottles filled with urine are sitting in a line on a wood floor. In the background, a mixed-media installation piece sits in front of the gallery doors. Wooden poles project into the frame through two standing columns.] -
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.] -
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LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [The gallery space displays an assortment of artworks on the left wall. On the far left, closest to the viewer, is a painting of Pope Francis with a top text reading "I WOKE UP LIKE THIS" and a bottom text reading "...FLAWLESS." An assortment of art objects, shelves, framed paintings, sculptural installations, and digital media recede into the gallery space along this wall. On the right a row of columns recede into the gallery space.] -
Matters of Sensation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A metal form sits on a sloped gray slap on top of a low, rectangular plinth. The 3D form is composed of thin metal sheets that together form an amorphous shape that casts a series of shadows on the surface below it.] -
Jana Euler: Unform. Installation view, Artists Space, February 21, 2020 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Partial view of two large orange slug sculptures forming a circular ring shape around cast-iron columns suspended by black elastic cords and two square paintings of the human form are on adjacent walls in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [A figure in a blue dress stands behind a white table, they slowly unfold a book as another figure in the audience stands and reaches over to read off of the paper.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
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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.] -
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Underground: Jose Gabriel Fernandez. Installation view, Artists Space, 1991. [A transparent cone-shaped structure set in a bare room with wooden floors. There is a small hole in the wall just behind the structure.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a colorful background, with blue, pink, yellow and beige paper. Cut up pieces of beige paper are scattered throughout the image, and feature typewritten text listing the performers and event details.] -
Susan Eder. Installation view, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white installation view of a rectangular photographic work with wide white matting.] -
[Catalogue cover design featuring an architectural sketch of an abstract contraption. A silhouette of a figure is transposed on top of the rendering. Black sans-serif text at the top and bottom edges of the cover reads, "Joel Saunders & Scott Sherk / SIGHTING THE GALLERY / Artists Space / December 12, 1992 - January 30, 1993."] -
Nan Goldin, Suzanne and Phillippe on the train, Long Island, 1992, Framed C-print, 16 x 20 in / 41 x 51 cm, Edition 1 of 100, Signed & Numbered. [Two people sit with a dark blue seat back behind them. One, on the right of the image, looks to the camera with the other lays asleep on their lap across the bottom of the image.] -
Adrian Piper, It's Just Art, Artists Space, April 29, 1981. [A black-and-white image of a woman, wearing all black clothing and sunglasses, standing with her arms raised. An image is projected on the wall behind her, with a description reading "A Cambodian boy stands near the side of a road in Ban Laem, Thailand . . . and Cambodian civilians are turned back yesterday near Thailand . . .". Above her head, there is a cartoon thought bubble, with the text "14. We defend each other / (you certainly didn't come to an art performance to hear a lecture on current events)".] -
Sean Snyder, still from Two Representations of a Given Place (Pyongyang), 2001-4. Courtesy the artist; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Lisson Gallery, London; and Galerie Neu, Berlin. [A slightly blurry image of a city in the evening. An outline of a tall, triangular building is visible against a sunset sky.] -
Beverly Semmes, Eel Mat (detail), 1989. Copper, aluminum, hay, and chicken wire. Dimensions variable. [Long, thin bundles of hay are arranged one over the other, mimicking the woven pattern of a textile.] -
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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.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of three figures, wearing all white, performing in a dark gallery space. The leftmost figure lays on the floor with their legs spread and hands pushing their chest up. On the right, a figure with a flashlight around their hips stands with their shoulders and head flung back. The third figure contorts their body on the floor in the rightmost corner.] -
Michael Kalil, an analytical study for Osmotic Membrane (detail), 1986. [A scan of a constructed line drawing using different architectural notations like dashed and construction lines.] -
Abasement #65. Performance documentation, September 18, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A color image of a figure, seen from behind, performing on stage. The figure sits on a chair and plays the guitar, and the audience is on the background. Red, and purple light fills the room.] -
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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 installation photograph of two wooden cafe chairs with green cushions in a gallery space with a column on the left. Resting on the chairs are two television monitors with cords that extend to outlets on the ground.] -
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Flyer for Ways to Move. November 13, 2025, Artists Space. [A green and white, textured background displays a silhouetted, leaping figure and the foliage of a tree. In the top left corner, "Artists Space / Ugly Duckling Presse / present the launch:" is written in white text. In the center "Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars / Justin Allen / Rudy Gerson / Mario Gooden / Nile Harris / Marguerite Hemmings / Joselia Hughes / Benjamin Krusling / Shanzhai Lyric / Andrew Smyth / x / Jonathan González" appears in white text. In the bottom right corner "Thursday, November 13th / 7:00pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley" is written in white text.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Various framed works on paper hang on two facing white gallery walls. Each features small looping ornamental symbols, drawn with pencil within the individual boxes of gridded paper, to form larger shapes and structures. The large work on the right wall features repeated ornamental symbols in gold on pink ground.] -
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[Graphic logo reads I ♥ John Giorno in red text.] -
Attention Line. Installation view (James as Jimmy, 2001, Guitar from the exhibit All Indian All the Time, 2005), Artists Space, June 11, 2022 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [On the left, a framed photograph hangs on the wall. In the center, a sculpture built around a red electric guitar hangs from the wall. In the distance on the right, various posters and ephemera adorn the wall.] -
Sanya Kantarovsky, Growth VI, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a watercolor painting. Against a purple and brown background, emerge flowers with bright blue petals opening up in the middle of the composition. In the background, other blue flowers, and plants surround them. A pair of eyes, nose and mouth are painted over the largest blue flower placed in the middle.] -
Jeff Feld, Performance of the only part of Robert Rauschenberg's "Pelican" that I know, 2001. [A person on roller skates and knee pads with a large, fabric umbrella held on his back.] -
Susan Eder. Installation view, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white installation view of three square photographs with wide white matting attached to a wall.] -
Salad Days 3. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Jeremy Ross. [Three black television monitors installed on white plinths in a gallery space in a semi-circluar formation. Faces of three disparate figures are displayed on each screen. The face displayed in the center monitor's screen is a deep blue color.] -
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 photograph of a gallery space with works on paper hung on the far wall and plants, works on paper, and a collage mounted on the right wall, which is painted pink.] -
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Cindy Sherman. Work unknown. [A woman sits in front of a typewriter inserting a piece of paper. She is dressed in 1950s fashion.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure standing behind audio mixing equipment and a microphone in front of an orange background. A white light shines down on them from the left.] -
Ed. Mario Pfeifer, A Formal Film In Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue – A Critical Reader (Spector Books, 2013). [A white book cover with black text in English and Hindi.] -
Works by Dieter Roth Published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer [Fibe book covers displayed in a line against a white background. Each one has been illustrated over with various colos of marker and pen.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure dances on stage against an orange and blue projection.] -
The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Six figures each stand before a music stand in front of a seated audience. They are arranged side by side in a horizontal line, illuminated by overhead lights. A figure at the group's center is speaking. Their outstretched hand gestures towards the crowd.] -
Tom of Finland Untitled , 1947 Gouache on paper Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection [An illustration including two men, wearing blazers and dress hats, gazing downwards next to another man. This man, dressed in dungarees and a baseball cap, is holding his penis.] -
Folio Series: Intangible Economies, 2012. [A white book cover depicting silver coins with the text "♥good for all night♥".] -
David Rodriguez, Free Rain, 2021, digital photography -
Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Twelve long wooden poles are mounted on a white gallery wall in a circular formation, projecting out from the wall and intersecting a line of black columns, forming a teepee shape. A large piece of brown linen stained with various black, white, and rust-colors hangs from the poles. Part of the linen drapes on the ground below the teepee structure. Several sculptures are visible behind the structure, containing disembodied humanoid heads arranged among platforms and pieces of wood, cardboard, and other materials.] -
Drake Carr: Housecalls. Performance documentation, September 10, 2023, Artists Space at the Armory Show. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A color image of a white wall with windows and black and white curtains. Through the window, a cross-legged figure is partially seen sitting on a chair. Only the legs and hands are visible.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of visitors standing around a gallery space, conversing and studying the works on the wall.] -
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Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A figure stands next to a fold-out table in a dimly lit space. They look down at their feet while their hand rests at their hip.] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a gallery space divided by two walls, with columns running down the middle. There are multple paintings and drawings hanging on the walls. In the center of the back room, a black-and-white checkered floor. To the right, an A-frame sign with the words "Barber Shop." Another space, on the right, is illuminated with blue light.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Various box-like structures fill the gallery space. Central in the space, a white pedestal presents a small wooden stool. ] -
Abasement #66. Performance documentation, October 9, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performance space illuminated by red light. In the center, two standing figures play the violin. On the left, audience members look towards the performers. On the right, a stage filled with music equipment, such as speakers, cables and microphones. In the background, a table filled with electronic equipment, and a man looking at a computer monitor.] -
[William Carlos Williams' poem "For Eleanor and Bill Monahan" written in black text on a white background.] -
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Abasement #63. Performance documentation, July 17, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of an individual seated and intently looking into a computer screen. The bright glow from the computer illuminates the performer's face and the electronic gear on the worktable before him.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Iron columns run down the center of the open gallery. To the left sits a pair of wooden boards adorned with maroon and striped carpet. On the wall opposite hangs a smaller wooden square. A stool-like structure stands to the right of the iron columns. ] -
Abasement #81. Performance documentation, October 20th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A band performs on stage, bathed in white light. The guitarist and drummer play alongside a singer, performing between them.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Stacked wooden planks stand on the left wall. One plank rests at an angle as if supporting the others above. Three other sculptures are seen dispersed around the gallery. ] -
Charlotte Posenenske. Configured by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three geometric, silver metal sculptures sit on low dolleys with wheels on a wooden gallery floor. The sculptures are modular, hollow, and consist of cube-like and triangular metal components. Long arrows of colorful tape are installed on the gallery floors.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner 2024. Cindy Sherman, Jack Hanley, Claudia Gould, Alexandra Auder. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Cindy Sherman, Jack Hanley, Claudia Gould, and Alexandra Audler stand together and smile at the camera in front of a red wall with an illusionistic landscape view inside a painted pointed arch window.] -
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Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A hallway with one gray wall and one white. On the gray wall, there are a series of drawings on white paper arranged in a 4x7 grid. On the white wall, there are four frames. Light is refracted on a third wall at the end of the hallway.] -
devynn emory, Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, Artists Space [In a darkened space, a person dressed in blue faces to the right holding red fabric behind them. On the back wall are images of figures draped in yellow fabric.] -
Jutta Koether: xxapollo. Performance documentation, January 5, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person bends over an electric piano, her hair falling over her face. She is illuminated from behind by a brightly lit wall.] -
Reenactment of Chris Burden's Shoot (Synthetic Performance in Second Life), 2007. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery, New York. [A digital rendering of two people in a room with white walls. One avatar has long blonde hair and is pointing a gun at the other avatar, who stands up against the wall.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Small house-like wooden sculptures appear on a table with a large white image on the ground between them. A video monitor and framed images are visible in the background.] -
[Video still of a figure in glasses wearing a pink dress with black tulle fabric on a small stage. An overturned, white table is siutated to their right, and papers are strewn across the ground. The figure hunches over, looking out towards the audience. Their left hand is bent at their chest and points upwards, while their right hand touches the back of their head.] -
[A lamp pole, left of center, in an upward angled view of a sunny, cloud covered sky. The pole has a coiled wire running upward to a security camera mounted on its top.] -
[Black text on a grey background. The text reads: “Dec 20 / Robert Fitterman / Theodore Harris.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren, Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1983/84, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [A collaged image featuring a black and white photograph of a figure with short, dark hair wearing a partially unbuttoned shirt against a white background. The figure crosses their arms casually in front of their chest, their right hand holding a lit cigarette. Bright red and yellow strokes of paint resembling fire flames have been painted over the photograph, emerging from the figure's right side. Fragments of a world map have been collaged over the left side of the figure's face. Additionally, an illustration of the Earth and several small illustrations of clocks are collaged along the figure's right arm. A small illustration of a running figure, engulfed by flames, is positioned next to the figure's right elbow. Small black text running along the image's bottom edge reads, "2020Solidarity - David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren / A project by Between Bridges."] -
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Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of a large gallery space with multiple rooms visible. In the foreground, the floor is covered with flooring, except for a silhouette of a human figure which has been cut out of the flooring, through which the concrete below is visible.] -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Four drawings are hung in a row on a white wall. The foremost depicts a man and a woman looking out a window through window blinds. The next depicts two men sitting at a table.] -
[A grid of blue hearts on a yellow background.] -
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[Black text on a grey background. The text reads: “Jan 24 / Carrie Hunter / John Yau.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Tiffany Sia, Too Wet (detail view), 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of a foggy gallery window. The words on the windowsill read "THREAD VII (TOO WET)."] -
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Louisa Chase. Installation view, Louisa Chase, Ted Stamm, Meryl Vladimer, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white installation photograph of a gallery space. Two floor bound sculptures are visible in the foreground, and in the background a few framed works hangfrom the wall.] -
David Kulik, Frank Majore, Kevin Noble, Ken Pelka, Pat Place, Rene Santos, and Brian Weil. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Photographs hanging on a wall in a gallery space.] -
The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A projection on a wall in a dark room shows an image of a man holding a boombox with the text, "SELF PORTRAIT (2006), Burt Barr, American, b. 1938" displayed to the right of his figure.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A series of reproduced photographic stills are displayed in a row along a white gallery wall. The stills are taken from a television broadcast and depict graphics from commercials, and the inside of a television studio. In the foreground is a magazine, displayed open on a plinth made from MDF. ] -
Michael Robinson. Still from And We All Shine One, 2006. [A digitally rendered image of a green with mountains in the background, pixellated with horizontal lines.] -
[White text on a pink background spells out 24 artists' names, arranged to form the composite words "ACTIVATED WALLS."] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a dimly-lit basement with various sculptures made of wood and fresnel lenses placed around the space. Contact microphones are attached to the fresnel lenses and audio wires wrap around the floor. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Audience members are seated along a back wall, with a figure in a blue morph suit seated on a rectangular wooden frame alongside them. Blue light is projected onto a screen in the background.] -
Stashu Kybartas, Danny, 1986. 20 minutes, 3/4", color. Film still. [A person in a plaid shirt and jeans is seated with their hands in their lap in from of a plaid background, looking to the left of the camera.] -
Jerry Beck. Installation view of Cryptic Cross. Artists Space, 1985. [A sculpted pedestal with a black object on it is visible below a sculpted multilayered cross hanging on a gallery wall. Sharp lighting shrouds most of the image in darkness with a light falling on the figure on the pedestal.] -
[A black and white line drawing of a person in an art gallery looking at a portrait on the wall. There is another piece on the wall of a person holding a rectangular box and blowing a bubble.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Black and white drawing of two cows. A tv sits on the floor between them, and a smoke column is seen in the background. A blue piece of tape with the words Moooo hurting is taped on top of the smoke column. A wooden structure, an electronic device, and a small canvas painted in blue with the word River written across it, cover part of the cow drawing on the left.] -
Abasement #68. Performance documentation, February 12, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image a performer in a bald cap with both of their hands raised with elbows at shoulder height. The performer occupies the center of the image wearing a blue dress covered in a square and circle pattern. From the left, bottom corner, a microphone on a stand rises to meet the performer in the center. In the lower, right hand corner, another bald performer, dressed in a red top bends down towards the performer in the center of the image. The wall behind both the performers is filled with a projected image in hues of yellow, brown and white. ] -
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“Palestine, BLM & Boycott in the Arts.” Artists Space Books & Talks, Friday, November 4, 2016. Courtesy Decolonize This Place and Artists Space, New York. Photo: Andrés Rodriguez [A projection on the wall displaying two posters, one that reads "Black Lives Matter" featuring an upside down image of the Empire State building, and to its right, one that reads "Palestine, BLM & Boycott in the Arts" with a yellow background, orange lightining-style graphic, and Arabic text.] -
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.] -
[Black text on a light green background. The text reads: “May 9 / Patricia Spears Jones / Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Marina Cappelletto. Still Life with Three Eggs, 1987. [House-like form with three egg-shaped objects surrounding it with some shadowing visible.] -
LaMonte Westmoreland. The Watermeleon Series, 1986. Mixed Media collages. [A black and white photograph of two mixed media collage works hanging side by side on a gallery wall.] -
Nuestro Reflejo, Threads of History exhibition, Morris Jumel Mansion, March, 2025 -
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New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A table covered with a red tablecloth. The tablecloth is decorated with two white images: a person riding a horse and stylized text reading "THE URGE TO MERGE." Lying on the table, there is a magazine with a green cover with a figure holding an axe. The cover text reads, "NEVER SETTLE" and "SPECIAL Future Recruits Issue".] -
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Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A figure in overalls leans forward to paint broad strokes of lighter paint on a black tarp hung on a wall. Painting supplies sit on a table directly behind them.] -
When Time Becomes Form: The Money Mountain. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. [Roughly two dozen stuffed laundry bags, piled up against a wall. The bags are white and are each imprinted with a large black dollar sign.] -
Screenshot from Tan Lin's Bibliographic Sound Track, 2012. [Screenshot of two vertically oriented rectangular shapes, one white and one blue. Fragments of text appear in both rectangles, spelling out phrases like "17 black random [marks on] : lemon," "Particles disable rendering [ I ]," and "Etc. a state to each other."] -
Jack Smith, still from Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment), 1970-73. 16mm transferred to video, (sound, color), 27 minutes. [A figure wearing all black clothing, a black hood, heavy eyeshadow, and a fake mustache looks at the floor.] -
Flyer for Abasement: #60. October 3, 2022, Artists Space. [Black and white printed images are collaged over a yellow and beige background, with scribbles of red and white ink. In the bottom middle a torn piece of paper reads sideways: "ABASEMENT 60 / abasement 60." In the bottom right corner upside down text reads "ARTISTS SPACE / october 3."] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Two figures perform on stage. To the left a figure sits on the floor playing on a small wooden organ and to the right a figure stands behind a desk using a mixer. Orange and blue light are projected onto the stage.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, New York, 2022. [Inside a pink-hued room are three tanker desks and three rolling office chairs in a single-file line. Security monitors with color videos sit on each desk alongside small pieces of clay. In the distance, tree trunks wrapped in fabric rest on the floor and construction nets hang from the ceiling. A wooden structure and an aquarium with purple-colored lights are positioned behind the tree trunks.] -
Poor Man's Expression - Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art, edited by Martin Ebner and Florian Zeyfang, published by Sternberg Press, 2011. [A book cover design displaying an image of a series of triangular shapes of varying colors arranged in an abstract comoposition. Some of the triangles are semi-transparent and are overlaid over others. Large block lettering situated above and below the composition reads, "POOR MAN'S EXPRESSION Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art."] -
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Liam Gillick, Thinking, 2010. Inkjet print on Sunset Cotton Etch 285 gsm. [A black and white graphic illustration of a primitive man with leaves encircling his head and his waist, leaning on a branch. The thought bubble above his head reads "Thinking more about production than consumption..."] -
ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999. Installation view, Artists Space, November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A display of four black and white photographs on a beige gallery wall.] -
Matters of Sensation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [Two large structures made of long, white strips that swirl around one another and form a vertical column are mounted from the ceiling and floor of an open gallery space. Black text posted on a gallery wall to the right of the image reads, "MATTERS OF SENSATION." To the left of the image, in the background, three rectangular forms rest on white plinths.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Louis Stein, and Haim Steinbach. Contact sheet of photos from exhibition opening, Artists Space, 1979. Photos by Gary Burnley. [Contact sheet of installation images taken during exhibition opening.] -
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[White text on a grey and blue ombré background. The text reads: “March 8 / Farnoosh Fathi / A. B. Spellman.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
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 of white picket fence opening with dark painted background behind it.] -
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ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999. Installation view, Artists Space, November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A view of a life like cutout of an individual dressed in an animal costume placed against a gallery column. Behind the cutout is a series of seven images displayed on a white gallery wall] -
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Don Baum, Safe, 1984. [A black and white photograph of a sculpted, rough-hewn house-like object with a black background.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr., Masters of Fine Arts, 2011/2022. Oil on canvas, artist frame, solvent transfer, plywood, curtains, frames, lights, easels, conservators coat, headlamp. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of an installation. In front of dark green curtains, a painting in a gold frame is illuminated. To the left, a conservator's coat hangs from an easel. Several empty frames and a studio light are visible on the right.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley at Artists Space, co-presented with Frieze New York 2023. Performance documentation, May 19th. Photo by Vanessa Diaz/CKA. Courtesy of Frieze. [Color photograph of a group of performers, seated in a circle around a gallery room. The performers include a choruse of singers, a pianist, and a harpist with their instruments. They sit underneath three hanging screens that surround the center of the room. The screens depict a video still of a figure's face, obscured by a bright light in one corner.] -
Hilary Lloyd. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A single screen showing a splitscreen image is mounted on two poles that stretch floor to ceiling. The screen stands alone in a large, open space with windows in the background.] -
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Courtesy No Total. [A cartoon drawing of a bedroom with a purple bed, chair, and window] -
ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999. Installation view, Artists Space, November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A view of a vending machine against a glazed over window, tiled images on a white gallery wall, and a glass table surrounded by four wooden chairs.] -
Scavenger Hunt, Serena Booth, City-As-School high school student, 2021, digital photograph. -
Helen DeWitt. [A woman leaning against a wall.] -
[A flyer for Concert's tour, ending at Artists Space on June 30. The yellow flyer features two black speakers mounted on stands.] -
Photo: Stephen Barker. [A male figure sits inside a crowded room with lots of wooden chairs, and large paintings and posters hung on the walls. Light streams in from the windows in the back.] -
Super 8 Films Exposition. Installation view, Artists Space, New York, 1977. [A black and white photograph of a room with several rows of chairs. Along the back wall, two projectors stand on pedastals and a figure on the right adjusts a film reel.] -
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Lyndon Barrois Jr., Unseen Hand (Fall Guy); Sinner Man, 2022. Couch, jute, antique cane, plastic, copper, brass, conservation glove; police tape, laser prints, museum board, MagiColor manual. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a yellow couch in a gallery space. A cane with a white glove rests on the couch cushions and a rope extends from its base. In the background, police tape demarcates a rectangle on a wall, and three strips of police tape extend from the wall to the floor.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (ephemera from FESTAC, c. 1977), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a white framed vitrine containing ephemera such as newsprint and several photographs.] -
Abasement #68. Performance documentation, February 12, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color photograph of a musician holding a guitar. The musician wears a white-button up with a black tie and black leather pants. Medium-length red-and-black streaked hair falls around their face as they look down at the guitar. The musician and the wall behind them is illuminated by a projected image that is mostly white, but features large black letters at the top of the projection. ] -
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Matters of Sensation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [Three sculptural forms sit and hang in a large gallery space. A large gray form with anemone-like tendrils is spread across the floor. Behind it on the gallery wall there is a large, shiny orange sculpture covered in bud-like forms. To the left of the space hangs a yellow sculpture with metal spikes protruding from its surface.] -
The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [On the left, two cream-colored folding chairs sit underneath a clear lampshade descending from the ceiling. On the right, the back of a projection screen is positioned between two standing speakers. A monitor sits on the ground beneath the screen.] -
Installation view from Six Sculptors, Artists Space, January 25 ,1986 - February 22, 1986. [Sculpted boots appear wih leaves on a leaf-covered section of the floor surrounded by a picket fence. In the background a white door opens up with a stack behind it. Nearby tree branches and other rustic constructions populate the gallery space.] -
Black Cat Collective. Still from Many Faces of Paper, 1989. [Black and white video still of a figure in a packed crowd, speaking into a microphone. A date and time stamp at the bottom left corner of the still read, "PM 1:11" and "FEB. 15 1988."]
