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Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, The Lil Rat that Made it on Board the Ship, 2021; Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Goyas lil bat from “sueño de la razón produce monstruos”, 2022), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A hulking biomorphic black sculpture, composed of car parts and a large black t-shirt smeared with pigmented dragon skin silicone, hangs from the ceiling. To the right, a small sculpture of scuffed white plastic, brown fur, and various jutting animal teeth sits on a shelf.] -
Jazmín López, Amazon, 2022. Chandelier and blood. Photo: Steven Cottingham. [Color installation image showing a chandelier hanging from the ceiling and resting on the floor in front of a dark column.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring t'ai freedom ford & Terrance Hayes. Saturday February 20, 2021, Artists Space. [A purple colored background features black text in the top half of the image that reads, "Segue Reading Series / t'ai freedom ford & Terrance Hayes / February 20 / 5pm on Zoom / Suggested donation: Five dollars / Zoom ID: 830 2698 4031." Black text in the bottom right corner reads, "Artists Space."] -
[An exhibition flyer featuring an image of a small fig tree growing in an interior space. Yellow text superimposed over the image lists the participating artists as well as dates for the opening event and gallery hours.] -
Served Up! R.M. Fischer. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A black-and-white photograph of a gallery space with several floor lamps installed throughout.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó, Especie: archivo natural, 2022, sounds, lamp, phone booth, phone booth hotline, fish tanks, atmospheric water, yucca, corn, dracaena, snake plant, dragon tree, tree trunks, handmade lyca garments for tree trunks, mirror pond; Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [A large mirrored pond made of a wooden base with a reflective lining on top is surrounded by three tree trunks, plants, fish tanks, and a phone booth. A large lamp hangs from the ceiling with a metal locker in the back.] -
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Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Wishing Well (Korpi), 2023/24; There's something happening here, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [In a large dark room, a modular structure is recessed into a raised floor covered with black carpet. The structure is lit in bright blue light, and hosts open water. Red light shines in the back room.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a white gallery wall with three vitrines containing musical scores built into the wall. On top of the vitrine is a manipulated flute, and a series of black-and-white images. Two black-and-white photographs are hung to the right of the vitrine.] -
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.] -
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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. [A man holds a woman over his shoulder as looks to the right. Writing can be seen on the wall behind them. Subtitles are burned into the bottom of the screen that read, "I'm the boss in my house...stay here!" Scan lines are in the image and the box of the CRT monitor is visible.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner 2024. Barbara Gladstone and Emily Wei Rales. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Two women stand close together and smile at the camera. Barbara Gladstone, who stands on the left, is wearing a black long-sleeved cowl-neck gown. Emily Wei Rales, who is on the right, wears a dark eggplant dress with fringe accents and trim.] -
Portraits of Peter Osborne and Brendan Harvey. [Portraits of two figures are arranged side-by-side. On the left, a figure wearing a white shirt sits at a table with different objects spread out on its surface, speaking into a microphone. On the right, a black and white photo of a figures bust sits inside a larger black square.] -
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.] -
On Being an Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [The interior of a Soho loft space. In the foreground, a plastic bucket hands from a red rope attached to an overhead pulley that is suspended from a wooden plank hanging overhead. '"ARTISTS SPACE" is written on the far wall, and a number of bookcases, a white pedestal with a clear plastic hood, and a front desk populate the room. Behind the front desk are two neon quotation marks.] -
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Sam Pulitzer: A Colony for “Them”. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A metal plaque engraved with text is displayed on a white gallery wall that extends into the left half of the image's frame. Past and to the right of the wall, a series of colorful panels are staggered around a white column in front of a red wall. Some of the panels are decorated with cartoonish illustrations of animals and forests. Large text on one of the visible panels reads, "We're all going to really miss doing your work for you."] -
Ed Atkins, Death Mask II: The Scent, 2010. HD video with sound, 8 minutes 19 seconds. Courtesy the artist, Cabinet Gallery, London and Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin. [An open folding calculator, turned on its side and illuminated by bright green, peach, and pink lights.] -
New Red Order with Ashley Byler and Jeremy Pheiffer / Kate August and Enver Chakartash Urge 2 Merge, 2021 3 channel video, color 12 minutes (loop) Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a dark exhibition space with three video projections projected on to a wall.] -
[Black text on a grey background. The text reads: “March 21 / Dave Morse / Anahid Nersessian.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Portrait of Dorothy E. Roberts. [A black woman stands, smiling, with her arms crossed in front of her. Behind her is a small fountain inside a courtyard.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A view of five vitrines, displaying various documents, arranged in columns in the middle of a room. On either wall, book cases used for display.] -
[Pink cursive text at an ascending angle which reads "Undoolay," with horizontal green text underneath that reads "Lucas Duwenhogger."] -
Yasunao Tone, Carles Hac Mor, and Barbara Held performing Música desterritorialitzada at Metronom, Barcelona, Spain, 1997. [Black-and-white photograph of three figures performing together. On the left, a figure in a striped shirt and glasses sits down in front of a table full of audio equipment, wearing headphones. In the middle, a figure in a graphic shirt stands and reads off a piece of paper. The rightmost figure wears a glitter and mesh top and plays the flute standing.] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays the saxophone on a stage.] -
Log Cabin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2005. [Several sculptures, video works, and other artworks installed in a gallery space with wooden flooring. A large sculpture on the image's right side is composed of a series of wooden rifles gathered to form two, pole-like structures, between which a quilt-like blanket is wrapped around a supporting pole. To the left of this sculpture, a second, long structure composed of a series of white tiles runs diagonally across the gallery floor, forming a long line. Several TV monitors and 2D works are installed on the gallery walls behind the two sculptures.] -
Abasement #68. Performance documentation, February 12, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color photograph of a vocalist and a musician playing a bass at the edge of the stage. The vocalist has long curly black hair and wears an army-green cargo jacket. They are kneeling down as they hold the microphone up to the mouth. To the right of the vocalist, the bassist looks out to the crowd as picks the strings. The drums and the drummer are visible behind them. The wall behind the stage is illuminated by a bright white light emitted from a projector. ] -
John Mendelsohn and Donald Sultan, Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A rectangular, abstract painting is mounted on a black frame at an angle to the white gallery wall.] -
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Drake Carr: Housecalls. Installation view, Artists Space at the Armory Show, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of front view of a booth inside an art fair. On the right wall hangs a colorful drawing. At the center of the booth, an installation shows the corner of a domestic space, with a window on each side and black and white curtains with pink flowers. Through the windows, the leg of a chair, a lamp, an easel, and some drawings can be seen.] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [Several figures stand along a wall. One figure, seated, uses a computer at a small round table.] -
Clarke, Kevin. From Americans on a Red Velvet Couch (Project). 1979. [A four-paneled view of a figure on a couch, or in one case without a figure, in an empty inground dwelling place.] -
Benje LaRico. Prova, 1986. Enamel, Plastic, Wood, Linoleum. 63.5 inches x 84.5 inches x 2.75 inches. [A black and white image of a painted abstract figure.] -
Brad Kronz, I Reject the Good Opinion of Others, 2024. Wood, carpet, paper, latex paint, staples, bolts, nails. Photo: Carter Seddon [Two boards, one horizontal on the ground and the other vertical on the wall, meet at a right angle. The bottom board sits covered with stripped carpet, the top nearly covered with marroon carpet. ] -
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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.] -
Still from The Empty Plan (2010). [A person is standing at the end of a stage, dressed in a long coat, with a stern expression on her face. A man sits at a desk in the corner, his head in his hands. There is a white trifold screen behind them, with an extra chair, and a banner written in German.] -
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Alan Michelson, Permanent Title, 1993. [Eleven beige sacks of various sizes, depicting text and illustrations, are arranged on a wall.] -
[Two human arms and one robotic arm are writing the partially formed word "EVOLUTION" in tandem on a white piece of paper.] -
Abasement #83. Performance documentation, January 5th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers sit at tables facing eachother on stage. Each performer operates a mixing board abundant with cables. The tables are lit from a single bulb above. ] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of yellow, orange, blue, and red paper. Small pieces of paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
[A digital greyscale rendering of a loose spiral made from flexible bricks.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a seated audience all facing the right of the room. A figure in the back middle is standing and operating a film projector. The room is bathed in red light.] -
The Library of Helen DeWitt Kitchen view, Courtesy Helen DeWitt. [Several neutral, blue toned books, propped up by a red book stand, fill the frame on the shelf they sit in.] -
Louisa Chase. Installation view, Louisa Chase, Ted Stamm, Meryl Vladimer, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white installation photograph of a sculpture. The work features two wooden rods, connected to form an obtuse angle in the center. The end of each rod has a set of wheels, and the piece rests on a sling-like piece of sturdy fabric.] -
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.] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sits on stage, playing a double-neck guitar. ] -
Abasement #84. Performance documentation, February 16th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer stands behind a table operating a sound system in front of an audience. The wall behind the stage is lit with white geometric patterns. ] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Michele Abeles, 5507, 2016, Digital C print , 18 x 12 in / 45,7 x 30,5 cm , Signed and Numbered. [A woman dressed in black uses both hands to hold her phone to an ear while looking off to the right. A product scanner in the foreground suggests a retail setting.] -
Jack Smith, Untitled, 35mm slide, c. 1980. Copyright: Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. [A double exposure divides a photograph into two scenes. On the left, a man reclines against a floral patterned ground next to a tray with a lobster. The man on the right holds a pair of sunglasses in his right hand while gazing towards a drink on the table in front of him.] -
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[A dirty, gray tile floor with small wisps of hair scattered across it.] -
Renee Gladman, Untitled (moon math), 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of an abstract drawing consisting of horizontal white lines scratched across black paper with circles interspersed throughout the composition. On the right side of the drawing are arrows, and blurred, scribbled lines and illegible text. Yellow marks accentuate different parts of the composition.] -
Duncan Campbell: Make it new John. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A black and white image of a man working intently on a machine is projected on a standing screen in an open room.] -
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Ministry of Interior building in Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba. [The façade of a building adorned with a large, metal frame sculpture of the face of Che Guevara.] -
Eniya Alonzia, The Sky, digital print, 2019 [A skewed black-and-white image looking up at the façade of a building and the sky. An LED sign spelling "DINER" hangs from the left side of the building] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure sits behind a table, looking at a laptop, and speaking into a microphone.] -
Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing. Installation View, Artists Space, 1989. Photo: Frances Miller Smith. [A gallery with low lighting and white walls is hung with a painting and a grid of photographs. More artworks are visible around a corner in another room.] -
Selections from the Unaffiliated Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Contact sheet of installation and opening photos from the exhibition.] -
[White and yellow text on a green background reads "THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT ARTIST-CURATED EXHIBITION," and other details about the events.] -
Drake Carr: Housecalls. Installation view, Artists Space at the Armory Show, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a room with white walls and pink carpet. A large painting depicting multiple fish leans on the left wall, along with a white canvas, and a cut-out of the picture of a potted plant. Across the room, a white table, a white lamp, a wooden easel and cushioned chair can be seen. Five colorful drawings of different sizes hang and lean on the back wall. A cut-out of a photograph of a piano with some sheet music hangs on the right wall.] -
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![The image shows a crowd of figures drawn with black ink. Four text bubbles project from the crowd that read: [top left]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='2100' height='1661'%3E%3C/svg%3E)
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."] -
Abasement #65. Performance documentation, September 18, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A close-up image of a musician surrounded by three microphones is sitting on the floor playing the violin. Three other violins lay on the stage before her. Abstract images are projected onto the back.] -
[White Xs on an orange background forming an image of 'K.] -
_____, 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 Cindy Sherman. [Three black and white photographs hang on white walls in the corner of a room. The photos depict a woman in various positions: laying down, reaching up to a bookshelf, and sitting on a ledge gazing out a window.] -
She Who Is: Adrienne Kennedy and the Drama of Difference. Installation view, Artists Space, February 29 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Six glass vitrines displaying books, photographs, and other paper ephemera are installed in the center of a gallery space. A series of old Hollywood films are projected on the back wall of the exhibition space.] -
Yoshitomo Nara, No War Girl, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a drawing of a cartoon girl, standing on a black hill, against a gold background. The girl holds up her middle finger, and above it in the top-right corner is text that reads "FUCK YOU WAR."] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs move a table with wheels, on which a mannequin lies.] -
[Close-up of two hands holding a series of black and white photographs, as if presenting them to the viewer. The top photograph depicts the roof of a small home that has caved in, battered by a recent storm. Debris and fallen branches are strewn around the home.] -
[Red text reading “we cover for you / new red order / 1-888-NEW-RED1 / newredorder.org” is overlaid on an image of a person in a black shirt holding a rock in front of their face.] -
David Salle. Untitled (Camus), 1976. Mixed media on paper. From Barbara Bloom, David Salle, Artists Space, 1976 [A black and white photograph of a gallery space. A piece with a large black paint swatch hangs on the wall on the right.] -
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)".] -
Installation view from Four Artists: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Artists Space, 1985 -
Abasement #78. Performance documentation, June 16th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on stage playing the guitar and drums. The performer on the left is wearing round sunglasses with a music stand in front of them. The back wall is lit with small white dots from a disco ball.] -
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 two wooden cafe chairs with green cushions in a gallery space. A television screen with a cord extending down to an outlet in the floor rests upon the chair closest to the camera. A pillow with black backing and a gold-silver sequined front rests on the chair in the background.] -
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [Several rectangular sheets of cream colored paper hang side-by-side on a gallery wall. The papers are arranged in clusters of three or more and appear blank, with faint creases visible on their surfaces.] -
3 Artists Select 3 Artists. Installation view, Artists Space, 1984. [Two paintings and a small indistinguishable sculpture are visible on adjacent walls with wall text on a wall to the left of them in a white-walled gallery space. The painting on the right shows a darkened American flag next with a block of black extending from the lefthand corner and the small sculpture to its right on the bottom. The painting on the left reads "MANNA" on the top and bottom with a large black "M" in the center of the image.] -
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Untitled (scrapbook), date unknown, Copyright Jack Smith Archive, Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels [A light colored paper with four photographs. Two images are the same, which feature a scene involving people and various props. The photograph at the top right features a man with a blue face posing next to a black and red sign. The image at the bottom left includes three people posing near one another.] -
[Books packed on two adjacent metal shelving units.] -
McArthur Binion, Jonathan Borofsky, Mary Obering. Installation view, Artists Space, 1973. [A black and white installation photograph of a tall stack of papers in a gallery space.] -
Gulf Labor action at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 29, 2014. Image courtesy Global Ultra Luxury Faction/Gulf Labor. [A photo looking down from the top of the Guggenheim Museum's atrium, showing people crowded around an unfurling banner.] -
[Eight pieces of paper with text in various languages arranged in a grid.] -
Masao Adachi, Galaxy, 1967 [Sepia toned image of a figure leaning over and biting the neck and shoulder of another figure that leans back, their face contorted in pain.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of a installation and sound work. In the right foreground, two lab tables contain a lab equipment such as beakers, distilling chambers, jars, hot plate and two blenders. On the left midground, an antique cabinet with its doors open, reveals shelves and drawers filled with more lab equipment, such as a microscope and household items such as a dustpan. In the background, two box television screens sit on top of wooden lab tables. A posterboard with a periodic table rests on top of the televisions. Each "element" of the periodic table features a small lightbulb that glows.] -
Calvert Coggeshall. Untitled (green, red), 1987. Oil on canvas. [Abstract painting with green filling most of the space with red lines emerging from the center outward.] -
_____, 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. [A white wall with the Artists Space logo affixed. Light bulbs are affixed to the edge of the wall. In the background a piece hangs on the wall.] -
[White text on a grey ombré background. The text reads: “March 29 / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge / James Sherry.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
MTL+, Water Is Life. 2016. Courtesy the artists. [A blue flyer with the text "Water is Life - No DAPL" with a graphic of an eagle holding the neck of a snake in its beak.] -
Pictures. Opening Reception, Artists Space, September 23, 1977. Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white installation photograph of a gallery space. On the wall, a trapezoidal shape with riders on horseback slowly emerging from the top is visible. On the right, two figures converse.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (ephemera, c. 1980s), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a vitrine from above. Various ephemera including press releases, photographs, and notes are placed inside.] -
Saul Becker: Nature Preserves. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [Brown, dried plants hang upside down in front of a white wall.] -
Gerhard Richter, Schloß Neuschwanstein, 1963 (Neuschwanstein Castle). Courtesy Atelier Gerhard Richter [A blue and green, abstracted watercolor illustration of a white castle settled in a landscape.] -
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.] -
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Passages from People Who Led to My Plays. Performance documentation, March 1, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Paula Court. [Two figures in dark clothing stand before two music stands in front of a seated audience. The figure on the right is speaking, her hand pinched in a small gesture at her torso.] -
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Martha Wallner and Miriam Loaisiga. Still from Con Guerra O Sin Guerra (With or Without War), 1987. Video (sound, black and white). 20 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. [Two figures are sitting at the table with one hand tightly gripped to the other. Four men stand behind them looking on and partial text on the wall is visible in the background. Subtiltes burned onto the bottom of the image read,"I'm sorry, I mean Mercedes won and Solis lost." Scan lines in the image and the outer box of a CRT monitor are visible.] -
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. ] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Silver, italic text displayed across the top edge of a white gallery wall reads, "Tier 3 1980 Dallas 1963 Cabins 2007 Color TV 1954 TITMH 2013 Alexis de Tocqueville 1992." An image of the moon in a black sky and a small letter are displayed side-by-side on the gallery wall beneath the silver text.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Two iron columns run across the gallery floor. Central in the room, on the back wall, five rectangular boards stand stacked on top of each other. The bottom plank is darker in color. In front of the columns, a stool adorned with a box sits to the left. Two abstracted boxes sit to the right, one black, the other made of a wood material similar to the central stack. ] -
Abasement #74. Performance documentation, December 2nd, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer playing a blue retro-style guitar stands in front of a large audience. The crowd faces the musician, some of them are sitting closer to the stage and others stand in the background. A red stage light on the ceiling illuminates the room. White dots reflect around the room from a disco ball. ] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Portrait of a figure in a blue shirt looking into the camera.] -
Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, mixed media
12 x 13 x 5 inches (variable)
$5,000
[A brown object stands on a white base. On the flat surface of the object, an onion and a lemon are connected by a rainbow wire.] -
Marie Karlberg. Still from Belongz to me, 2010. [A woman in a mask smoking a cigarette standing over a person lying on blankets on the street wearing cardboard heels.] -
H_edge. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Whitney Cox. [A large gallery space full of hundreds of metal cutouts shaped like curved "x"'s hanging from lengths of metal chainlinks. The cutouts are arranged in the gallery so that they form a hedge-like landscape of varying heights. Visible through the cutouts is a black and gray composition installed on a gallery wall.] -
Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. [A painting of a female bartender standing behind a bar, facing the viewer. A large mirror directly behind her reflects the space of the crowded bar before her. Another woman behind and to the right of the bartender, her back to the viewer, turns to speak to a man with a top hat and mustache.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A color image of a gallery space. From left to right: a shovel standing upright on a pedestal, a shovel with an iron claw at the base, a tree log on a pedestal and another tree log on pedestal, with a griffon vulture perched on the branch.] -
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Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An entryway with layered, decorative carpets and black-and-white images displayed across the height and length of the wall. A small school desk sits on the left in front of a large bookshelf.] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Charles Clough. Installation view, Exchange Show: Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, Artists Space, 1976. [Installation view of a gallery space with a large dark wall in the center.] -
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Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on stage, both seated in chairs. The musician on the left plays a violin while the musician on the right plays a guitar that is placed across their lap. Each musician has several pedals placed on the floor that they control with their feet. Two amps flank the pair of musicians. The musicians and the entire stage is cast in a light pinkish purple light emitted from a projector. A design of overlapping circles with a triangle in the center are projected onto the back wall.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure dressed in white, laying down on a window ledge facing the street. They raise on arm up and a white light shines from their pelvic area.] -
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of one wall of a gallery space, shot head-on. The wall is painted black, and six colorful, and intimate paintings of Black Queer figures are arranged across it. White and yellow drawings are pained onto the wall, complementing and placed around the artworks.] -
Heji Shin, Camp Habibi II, 2013, C-print, 20 x 16 inches, Signed edition of 100, 5APs, Courtesy of the artist. [Detail view of a camel's head in profile against a palm tree and blue sky.] -
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Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [Three large prints rest on the floor against a windowed wall. Two on the left are black and white, of an interior room. On the right is a colorful illustration of two women.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays a bell into three microphones.] -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the drums on stage. The stage and the wall behind it are bathed in blue, pink, and orange light. ] -
Four Artists: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985. [Three paintings appear on two adjacent walls in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Visit to the exhibition Dawoud Bey: In This Here Place, Sean Kelly Gallery, Chelsea, 2021 -
Patricia Caire. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Three figurative paintings hanging on walls in a gallery space.] -
Crystal Z Campbell, Revolver, 2022. 16mm film transferred to Digital Video, Stereo, Sound. 17:27 min. Courtesy the artist [Negative film image of two hands holding down either side of a blue board. Objects are placed to create vaguely recognizable patterns and figures.] -
Log Cabin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2005. [Several sculptures, paintings, video works, and photographs installed in a gallery space with wooden flooring. A sculpture consisting of a white panel affixed to a wooden board upon which two striped rocks rest is installed on the ground. A TV monitor is installed in the room's corner directly behind the sculpture. The portion of the wall directly behind the TV monitor has been covered with a grid of poster-like images. Three color photographs and two paintings with muted purple and gray tones frame the monitor on its left and right sides.] -
Metaphysical Visions. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [In the foreground of a white gallery space is a large sculpture made of a wooden box topped with a floral textile and wooden chairs. Another sculpture and painting are installed behind it.] -
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.] -
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In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A video plays on a monitor installed on the wall of a gallery space. Two pairs of headphones attached to the monitor rest on a wooden bench facing the screen. The front pages of several newspapers are displayed on a gallery wall to the left of the monitor, while to the right, a paragraph of wall vinyl is installed on the lower half of the gallery wall.] -
Yasunao Tone, Score for Trio for a Flute Player, 1985. [Six lines of calligraphy written in black ink on white paper are lined by musical staves.] -
Susan Eder. Installation view, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white installation view of several photo strips with wide white matting attached to a wall.] -
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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.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of an installation work in a gallery. Two windows with images painted on the glass hang from the ceiling. A branch emerges from the left edge of the image. Behind the windows, a colorful drawing on craft paper hangs on the wall.] -
Herman Wallace. Drawing. [A colored pencil rendering of a prison cell is contained inside a rectangular box with rounded edges, floating on a white lined sheet of paper. A pink heart in motion extends beyond the confines of the cell and onto lined paper.] -
Four Scottish Artists. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [3 large canvases hang on a white wall. In the lower right-hand corner of the canvas to the left is a small image of a dog. On the left side of the center canvas is small a human figure. On the upper right-hand corner of the canvas to the right is a small image of a woman's ankle and foot.] -
Iliana Polanco, Curve, photography, 2016 [A close-up, black-and-white photo of a small dirt area surrounded by a metal fence. A large tree stands in the middle of the image, surrounded by short plants and a small flower] -
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.] -
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Sixth Anniversary Exhibition. Installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of stills depicting numerous installation views.] -
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Film still from Teaching TV, Artists Space, 1990. [A black and white image of a group of children clustered in front of a store window. On the right, the text "NO FRESH WORDS" overlays the image.] -
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[Black text on a grey background. The text reads: “March 14 / Matana Roberts / Kate Valk.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
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Ernest Silva, Artist's Suitcase, 1975. Installation view, Deborah S. Freedman, Judy Rifka, Ernest Silva, Artists Space, 1975. [A color photograph of an abstract painting, composed of curving blue, teal, purple and pink forms.] -
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.] -
MTL+, Artists: NYC Not for Sale, 2016. [A flyer for the event depicting MTA subway routes in white on a red background. Event title reads "ARTISTS: NYC NOT FOR SALE" with a strikethrough on the alternative subtitle "IN THE BUSINESS OF GENTRIFICATION."] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Two figures stand behind a table, setting up audio equipment.] -
Dark Rooms Photograph of Carolee Schneemann's War Mop, mechanized mop, plexiglass fulcrum, TV monitor. Sculpture/Video Installation, 1985. [A black and white image of a dimly lit room with a TV monitor on the floor and mechanized mop leaning over it.] -
Patricia Thornley. Untitled (detail), 1985. Electrical wire, string, fans, photograph, spotlight, wood, wax, dirt, water. Dimensions variable. [A spotlight shines on a photograph hanging on a white wall framed by string and electrical wire hanging around it and falling to the black floor underneath.] -
El Nascimiento De La Tierra, Recirculation, Word-Up Community Book Store pop-up, May 2024 -
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Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Various people having conversations and looking around at the art during the exhibition opening.] -
Leslie Hewitt, Make it Plain, 2006. C-print. [A large, framed photograph of two books, a wooden rectangle, and a photograph stacked vertically on each other. There is a second photograph offset to the right in the image.] -
BAS, Istanbul. [A wide shot of an interior space. Several books and pamphlets rest on metal shelving to the image's left and right. A low wall separates the foreground of the image from the background, in which a figure sits at a long desk with their back to the viewer. More pamplets and books are strewn about and propped upon this desk. Several gray square and rectangular canvases hang on the walls.] -
Julie Mehretu, Mind-Wind Earth Drawings, #4, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of an abstract painting done on white paper, with black flowing lines running across the composition in various directions, and swathes of colorful paint accenting the background. The lines are blurred, as if in motion.] -
Charlotte Posenenske 2010 Series D Vierkantrohre (Square Tubes), 1967. Configured by the staff of Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Perez. [An image of an exhibition space filled with metal square tubes on dolly carts.] -
Jana Euler: Unform. Installation view, Artists Space, February 21, 2020 – September 19, 2020. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large, orange slug sculpture forming a circular ring shape around a cast-iron column suspended by eight elastic cords such that it encircles the column and rests at its vertical center. This is next to a square painting of a partially nude human figure in a white-walled gallery space. In the foreground the viewer can identify a partial view of a large, orange slug forming a circular ring near the ceiling.] -
Lee Mullican, Four Musicians, 1984. [An abstract painting littered with dots, black shapes and line forms.] -
Ei Arakawa: WEWORK BABIES. Performance documentation, December 8, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [Several people hold a makeshift metal structure upright, fastening additional metal poles onto the structure. A small crowd stands behind them watching.] -
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 three works on yellow paper hung on a white wall.] -
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David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon [Three glass topped vintrines carry smaller color photographs. The gallery walls behind display five photographs, each depicting a different hazy space adorned with thick black borders. ] -
[Black text overlays a pixelated gradient pattern in various hues of pink and yellow. The text reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE / Winter/Spring 2024 Season / April/May Curated by Futurepoem” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “Saturdays at 5pm: 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom"] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [On the right, a figure speaking into a microphone appears to be in conversation with two humanoid blue birds.]
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