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The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Six figures stand before a set of music stands in front of a seated audience in an interior space with industrial columns. They stand side by side in a horizontal line and are illuminated by overhead lights. A figure at the group's center looks up towards the audience, speaking. Their outstretched hand gestures towards the crowd.] -
Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two framed collaged images on a white wall. Both display a central image of two dogs.] -
Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [A view of a gallery space with concrete floors, white walls, and white columns. In the foreground, a grouping of five striped cylinders of varying sizes are placed on the floor. Other works are visible in the background.] -
Yates McKee, Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (New York: Verso Books, 2017); edited by Nina Felshin, But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism (Toronto: Bay Press, 1995). [A collage of images including book covers, "Strike Art," and "But is it Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism," displayed alongside images of protestors holding up banners reading "Decolonize This Place" and a large banner draped across a clocktower that reads, "Free Education to All."] -
Nandi Loaf, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, ricardo nagaoka, Sydney Schrader. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Along two white walls a series of paintings are arranged. Many of the paintings loosely depict human figures or abstracted body parts in brown and red toned paint against white backgrounds.] -
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Abasement #65. Performance documentation, September 18, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two musicians perform on stage. To the left, one of them sits on a chair with an electric guitar laying on his legs. To the right, a musician stands playing the saxophone. Rainbow lights are projected onto the stage.] -
“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."] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [A figure stands in the center, speaking into a microphone. To their right, two figures wear tall, pointy hats. To their left, a figure waves a flag while running.] -
Nandi Loaf, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, ricardo nagaoka, Sydney Schrader. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [A series of paintings made with brown and red paint against a white background are hung on a wall.] -
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.] -
Abasement #81. Performance documentation, October 20th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a stringed instrument while wearing a suit adorned with multiple appendages and colors. The suit obscures the performer's face and body, revealing only an arm. ] -
Baskets. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A series of amorphous, basket-like objects sit on a series of plinths of varying heights in a gallery space. The baskets are composed of a variety of materials, including wood, grass, gourd, and paper.] -
Fifth Season Act, Apotheosically. Performance documentation, May 31, 2012, Artists Space. [Close up detail of a sculpture composed of a large glass pane with a painted canvas installed in the pane's center. The back of the canvas faces the viewer, and faint words are penciled onto its surface. A golden tassle and necklce cluster and hang around the canvas' edge.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view, c. 1973, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a projection in a dark room above a glass display case holding ephemera.] -
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Pictures. Opening Reception, Artists Space, September 23, 1977. Maureen McFadden of National Distillers and Chemical Corporation (sponsor), (left), Irving Sandler (middle), Helene Winer (right). Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white photograph of three figures standing in a gallery space. They each hold a drink in their hand and are smiling.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure dances on stage against an orange and blue projection.] -
Salad Days 3. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Jeremy Ross. [Several sculptures and 2D works sit in a large gallery space with wooden floors and white columns. To the right, a stool-like object sits on a white plinth, illuminated by a bright overhead light. On the ground in the center of the image, an overturned cardboard box rests on the floor. A colorful structure resembling a well is installed in the background.] -
Shala Miller & Malcolm Peacock, with Amiri Baraka's Cellar Vigil. Installation view (Malcolm Peacock, How to address the full capacity of our will, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A gallery space with a wooden camper structure placed in the left corner. Two wooden ramps lead to the front and side of the structure. A freedstanding walls juts out from the right wall. A white projector hangs from the ceiling on the right side of the space.] -
Hikima Bermejo, Untitled, 2014 [A skewed, black-and-white drawing of a power outlet, with cords connected to both plugs.] -
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.] -
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Jana Euler: Unform. Installation view, Artists Space, February 21, 2020 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two large, orange slug sculptures forming circular ring shapes around cast-iron columns suspended by elastic cords are visible inside a white-walled gallery space along with square paintings on walls in the background.] -
Charlotte Posenenske, Series D Vierkantrohre (Square Tubes), 1967. Galvanized sheet steel, dimensions variable. Photo: Burkhard Brunn. [Black and white photograph of three, geometric metal structures sitting on a wide, outdoor concrete plaza. One of the metal structures is situated in the center of the photograph, while the additional two sit behind it, flanking it on either side. The structures are composed of hollow cube-like and triangular components.] -
Photo: Reilly Horan [The artist devynn emory in their grandmother's fleece jacket covered in polar bears, standing in front of a silver sterile table. In the background is collaborator Joseph and cinematographer Jorge discussing where the ancestor forms draped in yellow fabric should be placed.] -
[Black text on a light yellow background. The text reads: “May 17 / Nazareth Hassan / Karla Kelsey.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Michael Brewster. Text and documentation of installations, Inside, Outside, Down and Soliloquies, 1977. [A speaker balances on its side on the top of a step ladder in a gallery space. Directly above the ladder are four large window panes which look out onto trees.] -
Ocean water from Nakoso Beach, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan, June 2021 [Two metal bowls, a water bottle with a funnel in its spout, and a blue plastic bucket stand on a sandy ocean beach] -
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Vivienne Dick. Still from She Had Her Gun All Ready, 1978. [Close-up of the face of a figure with short, light hair. The figure looks downwards. They are illuminated by a dim red light.] -
Harvey Weiss statement, 1993. [Black text on a white background reads, "WAILING WALL / This work is an act of retribution, / an assault on indifference and denial, / a proclamation of loss, / for the dead and the living, / a wailing wall."] -
Ei Arakawa, Mega Please Draw Freely, 2021 (The artist wears Uniqlo Roger Federer). [A person in a red shirt, white cap, and multicolored pants smiles and poses with a tennis racquet, standing atop a large piece of paper with colorful drawings on it. In the background are people sitting on the ground and printed images of trees.] -
Ritsuko Taho, Untitled, 1985. [A black and white photograph of two constructed shoe-like objects on small constructed shape sitting on the grass in a foresty area.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Richard Loranger and Yanyi. Saturday, November 21, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [Two cropped photographs of figures cut into irregular shapes are laid over a light blue background. White and blue text on the image reads "Richard Loranger / Yanyi / Segue."] -
Abasement #70. Performance documentation, July 1st, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [View of 3 performers on stage from center left. Performers pictured in front of soft pink, blue, and white light against a wall. Leftmost performers is seated, speaking into a microphone and manipulating a tape machine with hands. Performer in center is drinking from a blue water bottle. Rightmost performer is making sound through cupped hands into microphone. Sharply defined shadows against back wall. ] -
Opening at the Tanager Gallery, NY, 1959. [A black and white photograph of a crowded room filled with people conversing.] -
KH Hödicke Magic Window Cleaner II , 1967 80 copies + 40 artists proofs, signed and numbered screen print on Plexiglas, 83 x 59 cm Courtesy of Edition Block, Berlin [A red image, portraying a window squeege at the bottom left of frame, of which the section of it's width above is a darker red.] -
Front Yard Exhibition Galerie Parnass, Villa Jährling, Moltkestraße 67 February 1964 Photo: Rolf Jährling, Zentralarchiv des internationalen Kunsthandels ZADIK [A black and white image of four paintings of various sizes displayed against a fence with a thin layer of snow, marked with footprints, beneath them.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Three figures perform in a basement. On the left a figure in a blue morph suit wears a pair of wings made of fresnel lenses. On the right another figure in a blue morph suit stands behind a rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Another figure to the far right takes video footage.] -
Abasement #62. Performance documentation, December 5, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance, some are seated on the floor or chairs, while others stand behind them.] -
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Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A bar with four wooden stools positioned in the corner of a room. A neon sign hangs above to the left of a fiber sculpture. On the left wall, a monitor is displayed on top of plastered posters.] -
Heist Divination (fwiw remix). Performance documentation, October 25th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Photograph of a performer standing behind a small desk that holds audio equipment. The performer stands upright with their hands held together in front of their face. To the performer's right a music stand holds a score. The background is bathed in blue and red light. ] -
[White text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Nov 11 / Dior J. Stephens / Dawn Lundy Martin." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware of a Holy Whore). Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1971. [Two men sit at a bar discreetly discussing an event that occurs off-screen. Two other men appear in the background, focused on a separate activity.] -
Laura Ortman, cover artwork for My Soul Remainer, 2017. [A black and white composite photo showing a close-up of an eye superimposed under an illustration of a sunset over a sea horizon.] -
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [Three free-standing walls supporting a series of shelves are arranged at right angles around a pole in a gallery space. The shelves display a series of pieces of paper containing both images and text. The shelves are yellow, and a portion of the center of the column has also been painted yellow.] -
K8 Hardy , Sharing 2014, 2014 , C-print, 23 ½ x 18 ½ in / 59,7 x 47,1 cm (image size), 24 x 18 4/5 in / 60,1 x 47,8 cm (paper size), Signed and Numbered. [A framed photo of a hand in the lower left corner adjusting a skewed image of K8 Hardy partially undressed in a windowed room, looking over her shoulder with her left arm held aloft.] -
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.] -
Installation view from J.B. Cobb, Martha Edelheit, Ree Morton, Artists Space, 1973. [A black and white photograph of a gallery space. A painting of nude reclining women hangs on the left, and a figure in a suit and tie looks on from the right.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (ephemera c. 1970s), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a vitrine from above. Various ephemera, including magazines, posters, press releases and photocopied images are placed inside.] -
Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a musician on stage, seated in a chair, holding an instrument that appears to be a guitar across their lap. To their right, a microphone is positioned close to an amp. Their feet control several pedals placed on the floor. Their long blonde-brown hair falls down over their chest and back as they gaze down in deep focus at the instrument in their lap. Behind the musician, a diamond-shaped, geometric pattern, outlined in bright pink is projected on the back wall. ] -
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.] -
Five Spanish Artists. Installation View, Artists Space, 1985. [In the foreground is one dark painting image and in the background is a painting of a figure coming out of a square brick chimney-like structure with marking above them. These two paintings appear in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Millie Wilson, The Painter Who is Not One, 1990, detail. Acrylic on canvas, text, type, photos, wall paint, 13 by 25 feet, variable. [A small square of illegible text, an abstract image of two black squares on grey, and a painting of a person in period dress and a top hat all hang on a blue wall.] -
Still from The Empty Plan (2010). [A hand is writing in German on a chalkboard with white chalk.] -
Spread from Harun Farocki Diagrams. Images from Ten Films, stills from Images of the World and the Inscription of War, 1988. [Fifteen images arranged in a grid, depicting close-ups of human faces and arial views of war.] -
Enough Tiranny. Installation view, Serpentine Gallery, 1972. [A black and white photograph showing a room filled with various standing lights and assorted objects sitting on the floor. Two people are standing, their outlines casting shadows on a white wall with the word "TIRANNY" handwritten in large, block letters.] -
[A man in a sleeveless Metallica shirt stands in front of a makeshift music studio, looking at the camera.] -
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Collaborative team designing butterfly, 2018 [Four people pose for a photo, leaning on a table with three drawings of butterflies splayed across the surface. A papier mache butterfly composed of saturated pink and gold paper and red, yellow, black and white cotton balls hangs above the people at the top right of the image.] -
Selections from the Artists File, installation view, Artists Space, 1986. [A number of wooden sculptures appear in various shapes in a white-walled gallery space.] -
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.] -
Terry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of the white wall of the gallery space. In the center, a projected image of two hands tying rope around the body of a fish. The black and white projected image is flanked by two sets of six black and white framed photographs. Each frame is black, with three on the top and three on the bottom. ] -
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Better homes and gardens back by popular demand, detail, 2021. Magazine, artists tape, overall dimensions variable. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of several works on yellow paper hung on a white gallery wall.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [Several silhouetted figures backlit by a red glow stand among columns. The figure in the center holds a white-lit object in the air.] -
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Salad Days 2. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [A metal desk with each of its legs perched on top of four vertical cinderblocks. The side of the desk is decorated with a dark blue and aqua blue stripe. A bright red ball rests on top of the desk.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of beige, yellow, pink, turqoise and red paper. Small pieces of paper with red typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
[A red background with white text which reads: "DUMP THE FINE ART OF GENTRIFICATION", followed by the Decolonize This Place Logo.] -
Students creating prints at International Print Center NY, 2019 [Two people in aprons use a printmaker. One stands in the foreground, using the machine, while the other stands to the left in the background.] -
Paul Lamantia. Paper Doll Lounge, 1985. [Two figures appear entangled on a pedestal in front of other figures along with another figure in the background hanging upside down.] -
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.] -
Sidewalk Archives, Artists Space, April 2023 -
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Scott Billingsley, still from Hold Up, c. 1977. Color video, 10 min. [A color photograph of two figures in a dark space. The figure on the left wears a mask and points a gun at the figure on the right who is behind a bar.] -
Sistema Sandinista de Television. Still from Golpes de la Corazon (Blows of the Heart), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). Spanish with English subtitles. [One figure stands in a small square construction waist high and a nearby child stands inside another square construction with their head peeking out at the other figure. A figure stands behind them by a washbasin with clothes hanging from a clothesline in front of them. Bushes and trees appear behind them along with another edifice in the background. Video scan lines and black edges of CRT monitor are visible.] -
Perspective: The State of Existing in Space Before the Eye. Leaftlet cover, Artists Space, 1989. [At the center of a page there is an image of a charcoal drawing of a foot overlapping a scrap of an architectural diagram on a black background. Above this image, text reads, "Don Stinson, Perspective: The State of Existing in Space Before the Eye." Below the image, text reads, "September 28-November 4, Artists Space."] -
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Autotelemachy, 2017. Collage, 59 x 68 inches. Photo: Filip Wolak [A collage of eucalyptus sprigs, other plants, and human figures attached to a framed map.] -
Paper Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A wide cyclindrical glass bottle with a lightbulb inserted at its opening.] -
Limpe Fuchs, 2012. Festival Experimentelle Musik, Munich. [Black-and-white photo of a person pulling two ends of a rolled-up rope] -
[Black and white line drawing of a bucket with handle.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of an installation work. A large, paper-mache sculpture of a cow-like creature stands next to a crocheted blanket laid on the floor. On top of the blanket there is a red thermos with two red mugs and a miniature white couch. On the back wall behind the paper-mache sculpture and blanket is a round mirror. The mirror contains a reflection of a large box TV with a static screen. On the left-side background, behind the paper-mache sculpture, two blow-dryers hang from a freestanding metal fixture.] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Three large pink fabric banners by Isabelle Frances McGuire, each bearing three silver star patches, hang from the ceiling to rest on the floor.] -
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. In the foreground is a painting of a panther that approaches the viewer. Adobe bricks are laid out on the floor to create short walkways.] -
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[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.] -
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Jose Miguel Salcido, Sin Titulo (Nhsr), 2009. [A man spray paints a large piece of abstract blue graffiti against a white city wall below a graphic emblem of an eagle. The street is dark, but he is illuminated by the flash of the camera.] -
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Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of the silhouette of a figure on the right, they are bent over with a small radio in their hands. To the left is a standing microphone placed over speakers on a desk, with light sensors dangling on the wall behind.] -
Vaginal Davis, The White to Be Angry (still), 1999. [A grainy black and white photo of a woman craning her head and shoulders, looking into a large camera. In the background there are trees with leaves.] -
G. Peter Jemison, Apple Blossom Furry (Daffodils), 2000. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a painting, done on a paper bag, placed on a white pedestal. The painting features an apple blossom tree, with a light blue sky in the background, and green grass. The tree is painted over a blue square in the middle of the bag that reads "Mikasa."] -
Frank Palaia, When Will We Learn?, 1990. Automobile hood, paint, 48 x 58 inches. [A car hood is shown hanging on a white wall, painted with small, silhouetted figures of people and animals,] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A figure facing a microphone looks upon a computer with audio software open.] -
Hito Steyerl, Lovely Andrea, 2007. Digital video with sound, 30 mins. Courtesy of the artist. [A dim room with four benches in front of a large video projection screen. A still image of a woman suspended by rope is projected.] -
Carlos Motta. We Who Feel Differently, 2012. New Museum, New York. Courtesy Mor Charpentier Galerie, Paris [Installation photograph. The floor is covered with multicolored carpet strips, some of which are raised above the floor to create seating or shelving for CRT television monitors. On the wall, several black-and-white artworks are hung, depicting human figures, and text is printed on the wall "WE WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY." Several visitors stand and sit around the room.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A photograph of an empty room, dimly lit with chairs in the background, where a projection is playing on the wall. The projection displays an image of a man with tan skin and facial hair, wearing aviators, talking to a soldier.] -
Attention Line. Installation view, Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a room with several display cases and a projection, with bright lights cast against the wall.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Dazie Grego-Sykes and Douglas A. Martin. Saturday, October 24, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [Yellow rectangles with cropped black text are arranged haphardly on a white background. Black text over the top and bottom of the image reads "Dazie Grego-Sykes / Douglas A. Martin," and positioned in the center vertically, black text reads "Segue."] -
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[A hand-drawn image in pencil of a bedroom or living room scene. The room's double windows have been blown open, scattering several papers across the room. A crudely drawn figure stands upright in an uncomfortable manner in the middle of the room.] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers stand side by side on stage. One performer plays a brass instrument and the other a woodwind instrument. They are bathed in a red-orange light, created from a projection.] -
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Judy Rifka. Installation view, Deborah S. Freedman, Judy Rifka and Ernest Silva. Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white photograph of three forms over a wooden background. The forms are vaguely triangular and are white, grey, and black.] -
Marina Cappelletto. Still Life with Three Eggs, 1987. [House-like form with three egg-shaped objects surrounding it with some shadowing visible.] -
Brad Kronz, Egna Spartan, 2025. Plywood, wood filler, stain. Photo: Carter Seddon [Lit from above, a square wooden panel hangs in the center of the wall. ] -
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.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Jesse Darling and Fiona Alison Duncan. February 19, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a blue background. The top left corner reads: Jesse Darling / Fiona Alison Duncan. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, February 19, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
_____, 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.] -
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. ] -
Miyoko Ito at the opening of Miyoko Ito: A Review, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1980. [Faded photograph of artist Miyoko Ito standing with her arms crossed in front of two of her paintings.] -
[A grainy, black and white image of a vintage automobile driving on a winding, deserted road through a set of mountains. The car is in the foreground of the image, with part of its body cut off by the image's frame.] -
Aisha Rodriguez, Untitled, 2014 [A pen and watercolor artwork of several glasses resting on a surface, each filled with different color liquids and casting shadows towards the viewer] -
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.] -
Leila Torres, Self Portrait, 2015 [The bust of a teenage girl looking up and away from the viewer's perspective, with a green, grey and yellow background. On the green section, white text reads, "We have lingered in the chamber of seas. With seaweed both red and brown. Till Human Voices Wake us. And we drown"] -
Vidas Perdidas. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A folding wall is erected in the center of a gallery space. Its top features painted portraits of eight people from the waist up. Below them, the lower half of the wall is covered in white, handpainted text on a black background. The text extends onto the floor, and its bottom edge is bordered by a row of votive candles. Behind this wall, other artworks are partially visible.] -
Portfolio Development, Blue Sky Gallery exhibition (an homage to Virgil Abloh), June 17, 2022 -
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.] -
New Red Order Cover the Earth, detail, 2021 Painted mural with cut vinyl, dibond prints, kiddie pool, sod, inflatable alligator, turtle sandbox, beach towels, towel racks, beach balls, beach chairs, beach umbrella, real estate lawn sign, cooler, and pool noodles. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a multicolored exhibition space consisting of beach paraphernalia, a real estate lawn sign, and a mural wall collaged with images and drawings.] -
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Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay. Installation view, Artists Space, 2016. Photo credit: Jean Vong. [Two foldable room dividers are installed in a large gallery. Multiple paintings are hung on the dividers, each depicting a scene of men in public and private spaces, engaged in various activities of work and leisure.] -
Laura Cottingham & The Anita Pallenberg Story. Installation view, Artists Space, 2017. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An empty dim-lit room with chairs with a projection on the wall. The projection features a close-up image of a person with wavy brown hair covering their face, lying facedown on a fluffy white carpet.] -
[A screenshot of the google images results page for the search query "institution".] -
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Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A photograph of an empty room, dimly lit with chairs in the background, where a projection is playing on the wall. The projection displays an image of a man holding up the Iraqi flag.] -
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 small drum set lit by a spotlight sits underneath a demolished wall.] -
Reinventado, Word Up Community Bookshop and MS 324 students, 2019 [An exhibition view of various artworks. Several stylized portraits hang on the right; in the middle, a large didactic titled "REINVENTADO." On the left, several small photos of students in a classroom hang underneath a red-white-and blue airplane suspended from the ceiling] -
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Ilana Halperin: Physical Geology (slow time). Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [Protruding clusters of dots and triangles form designs in a gray surface.] -
A Strategy Hinted At. Installation view, Artists Space, 1996. [Five works depicting wood patterns in various tones are arranged in a horizontal line on a white wall.] -
The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A dark room with a video projection on the wall and several benches. The image shows a crowd of people, some children and some adults, sitting on grass and watching a guitar player.] -
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Lisa Hoke, View, 1985. [A flowing figure with a circle underneath and small shapes covering head and hand with a white background.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Two figures perform in a basement. On the left a figure with a video camera and shoulder rig takes footage of another figure on the right, dressed in a blue morph suit, and pushing a semicircular rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Along the back wall blue and purple tinted live CCTV video footage is projected.] -
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.] -
Will Lee, Sentence, 2022. Videogame. Photo: Steven Cottingham. [An image showing a video game work consisting of a monitor, a keyboard, and instructional booklet arranged on a wooden desk.] -
Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1967. Graphite on paper. Private Collection, Sweden. [A half-naked man sits inside a prison cell wearing a police cap and gripping a large electric dildo. His erect penis emerges from the fly of his leather pants, while a naked man on the floor licks the back of his leather boots.] -
Mel Kendrick, Dinnever Hill. Installation view, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white installation photograph of a gallery space. Placed on the floor, canvasses of dark rectangles on white backgrounds lean against a white wall.] -
Audio cassette tapes for Echo Chamber, Sharon Hayes & Brooke O'Harra. [Rows of audio cassette tapes are tightly packed together. Many of the tapes have handwritten labels describing what is on the tape. ] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a basement with a rectangular shaped sculpture made of a wooden frame with fresnel lenses placed along the top and sides. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Lila Zemborain and Justin Allen. Saturday, December 4, 2021, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a mauve background. The top left corner reads: "Lila Zemborain & Justin Allen." The center right reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE." The bottom left reads: "Saturday December 4 - 5pm, 11 Cortland Alley + Zoom". The image of a 5 dollar bill is placed within the text.] -
[Four framed drawings on a wall depicting chaotic, colorful scenes of crowds.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands behind a microphone and table with audio equipment. They hold one hand over their mouth and the other around their neck.] -
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.] -
Charlotte Posenenske. Configured by the staff of Artists Space. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A geometric, silver metal sculpture sits on a wooden gallery floor in a brightly-lit gallery space. The sculpture is modular and consists of rectangular and triangular metal components arranged in a tall, ring-shaped structure.] -
Milford Graves, Untitled Drawing, 2020. Ink, Sharpie, acrylic paint, collage elements on paper. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a mixed media collage with various drawings and handwritten text in a white frame.] -
Union Gaucha Productions. Installation view, Artists Space, 2015. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An angled view of scattered video projection stills at various heights and sizes on a wooden wall. The wooden wall is displayed in a room with white walls and faux-grass flooring.] -
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Works by Mark Morrisroe. Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [In a corner of a gallery space, a small black and white photograph hangs in a black frame on the left wall. On the right, a small white panel of black text hangs above a sign attached to a glass box that protrudes from the wall. Inside the box are what appear to be bloodied white linens, and on the sign above them the words "AM I DEAD YET" are written in blood.] -
Devin Kenny, Not This, 2018. Single channel video. [A screencapture from a video taken on a phone in Times Square, depicting a person facedown beside a car, still in motion, in the street.] -
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.] -
The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [A book shelf, of the center are four shelves, filled with books whose covers contain small printed text. In the center of the second from the bottom shelf, a book sits horizontal.] -
Neil Goldberg, Fortune 500 Dream Fax Project, 1996. [A pink piece of paper with the typed text "Dream Fax Transmission Sheet" positioned at its top edge. Underneath, there is a handwritten account of the artist's dream from 3/26/96.] -
Michelle Santiago, Trap, photography, 2014 [A photograph with a striped blue and white blurry background. In the center of the image, outlined in a blurry orange circle, is a clear image of a rope tied into a knot, holding a white object] -
Based on a True Story. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [Three paintings arranged in a horizontal line on a white wall. Each painting depicts a man walking on city streets or in a park.] -
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[A looseleaf sheet of paper with "Spring 2012 F.R. DAVID" printed on the top in red type. The page is filled with handwritten black text.] -
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Amy Sillman, MoMA Opening, 2007, Archival ink jet on Somerset Paper, 14 x 16 3/4 inches (36.6 x 42.5 cm), Edition of 17, 10 AP, 1 BAT, Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Printed by Jean-Yves Noblet Contemporary Prints. [The image shows a crowd of figures drawn with black ink. Four text bubbles project from the crowd that read: [top left] "I curated the next show! You'll love it! I just like what you do, right up your alley!" [top center] "This is my work but the wall label is really wierd..." [bottom left] "Oh! You two split up?! I had no idea! Two years ago? Goodness! I remember when you went on your first date! Your were so happy! Are you seeing someone new?" [bottom right] "I love your work." On the bottom right is written "MOMA opening 9-06."] -
Exterior of exhibition invitation. International Art Exhibition for Palestine. Beirut, 1978. Courtesy Mona Saudi. [A flyer with an abstract, colorful artwork on the left and exhibition information on the right.] -
[Close up of the torso and legs of a figure with long hair wearing nylon tights and a blue silk jacket on their bare chest. They are illuminated by red stage lights and appear to stand on a stage in front of a drum set and speakers.] -
Yasunao Tone performing Music for 2 CD Players at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, 1986. [Black-and-white photograph of a blurred figure in motion sitting behind a wooden desk surrounded by audio equipment in a sparse room.] -
Replica of a Lost Original. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A gray television sits on a rectangular wooden board. There is a mass of wires next to it that snakes towards a pile of nearby photographs.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. [Color photograph of a corner space in a gallery, below a staircase, that is bathed in red light. At the bottom of the stairs are a group of performers wearing conical costumes made of reflective one-way mirror film.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a gallery space with an installation consisting of a large mirrored pond, made from a wooden base with a reflective lining on top, that is surrounded by tree trunks, plants, fish tanks, and a phone booth. A large lamp hangs from the ceiling, and an orange construction net is placed over the pond.] -
Richard Weise and Harald Vizenor. Still from Harold of Orange, 1983. 16mm film (sound, color). 33 min 21 sec. [A black and white portrait photograph of seven individuals looking at the camera with text partially visible behind them.] -
Tiffany Sia, The Bastard Scroll (detail), 2020. Ink on paper. [A piece of white paper with perforated edges displays vertical black Chinese calligraphy. English text in black above the calligraphy reads "Too Salty" and below "Too Wet."] -
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.] -
Installation View from Moderns in Mind, Artists Space, April 12, 1986 - May 10, 1986. [A long rectangular sculptue lies on the floor in front of paintings hanging on adjacent walls in a gallery setting.] -
U.S. Projects: Howard Fried. Installation view, Artists Space, 1983. [A sink structure on wheels sits atop a tilted wooden table top with legs of varying sizes. Light from the ceiling is seen emanating onto the structure in the white-walled gallery space.] -
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 three chairs spread out in a gallery space with three dark columns. A television screen rests on each of the chairs.] -
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Sistema Sandinista de Television. Still from Golpes de la Corazon (Blows of the Heart), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). Spanish with English subtitles. [One figure stands in a small square construction waist high and a nearby child stands inside another square construction with their head peeking out at the other figure. A figure stands behind them by a washbasin with clothes hanging from a clothesline in front of them. Bushes and trees appear behind them along with another edifice in the background. Video scan lines and black edges of CRT monitor are visible.] -
Guyton\Walker, Fruit Stickers for Artists Space, 2010. Set of 15 inkset printed stickers. [A grid of citrus fruits and coconuts, each cut in half to reveal the interior flesh, is presented in a variety of high contrast colors against a white ground.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a 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.] -
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three planks of glass lean on a white wall. Etched displays read from left to right; "The more you teach the less you learn," a smiley-face,"But I swear dis beat go."] -
“Chinatown Is Not for Sale.” Installation by Chinatown Art Brigade. Artists Space Books & Talks, Saturday, October 22, 2016. Courtesy Chinatown Art Brigade, Decolonize This Place and Artists Space, New York. Photo: Marz Saffore [Chinatown anti-gentrification paraphrenelia posted on the wall, with phrases like "Tenants Unite!", "Housing is a Human Right!", "Stop Gentrification Now!" and "Who did you Displace to open your Gallery?", written in English and Mandarin. A monitor displaying a person holding a megaphone at a protest is fixed on the wall, the handouts surrounding it.]
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