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Abasement #85. Performance documentation, March 2nd, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers play stringed instruments on stage while bathed in pink light. The performer closest plays an electric bass. ] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Chris Martin and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. February 12, 2022, Artists Space. [Blue text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: Chris Martin / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, February 12, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays the guitar sitting down, while another figure stands behind him playing the bass.] -
Attention Line. Installation view (costumes worn by Johanna Went, 1970s-2000s), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [Two life-sized costumes.] -
[Black text on a grey background. The text reads: “Feb 28 / Nick Mauss / Lola Sinreich.” 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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Chumlum. Dir. Ron Rice. 1964. 16mm, (sound, color). [A collage-style image with a person looking towards the camera, a woman's hand, beads and several other objects.] -
What Do We Carry? Coil pots and coiled personal timelines, December 2024 -
Margit Lewczuk. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985. -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [A television monitor positioned on the ground with its wiring exposed. A pair of headphones rests on the ground to the right of the monitor. It displayes a still image of a washed-out portrait that implies movement through the blurring and repeititon of the face.] -
A black and white image of three figures performing on stage. The figure on the left plays the saxophone, a clarinet is on the floor, right in front of them. The figure in the center plays the drums, and the one on the right, the double bass. Three microphones are scattered across the stage. -
Anja Kirschner and David Panos, still from Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, 2011. [A man and a woman in a split screen view with a black space between them. The man's face is turned to the side; the woman is facing towards him, her eyes cast downwards, with two fingers pointing.] -
Abasement #71. Performance documentation, August 5th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close up of a solo musician sitting on stage playing a string instrument in their lap with a bow. They are looking to the side and they are covered in red light. The wall behind them is blue-tinted with patterned image projections.] -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (Hand painted LP, 1966; Photograph of Milford Graves and Don Pullen, c. 1970s), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation photograph of a hand painted LP in a glass frame and a small photograph in a plastic bag in a gallery space.] -
Hito Steyerl, excerpt from, Liquidity, Inc., 2014 HD video with sound, 30 mins Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York [A moving image of a computer generated ocean horizon line that pixelates into a recorded video of a real ocean horizon.] -
[A figure with dark, short hair wearing a brown shirt and white pants looks into the viewfinder of a large videocamera. They appear to stand on a precipice above the ocean, and their camera is aimed at the water below them.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure standing in an orange-lit space filled with various audio equipment and a stereo player. They crouch down to press adjust a dial on an audio mixer.] -
[Two shirtless men doing the splits on top of large boulders outdoors.] -
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[An orange flyer features black sans serif text that reads: "Artists for ARTISTS SPACE / a benefit exhibition / April 27–May 13, 2023." Underneath is the list of participating artists: "Richard Aldrich, Ei Arakawa, Oto Gillen, Renee Gladman, Robert Gober, Richard Hawkins, G. Peter Jemison, Sanya Kantarovsky, Danny McDonald, Julie Mehretu, Jill Mulleady, Ulrike Müller, Yoshitomo Nara, Elizabeth Peyton, Pope.L, Andy Robert, Julia Rommel, Cosima von Bonin."] -
The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Five figures standing before a set of music stands. The figure closest to the viewer stands in profile and gazes ahead, while two figures directly behind them look towards him with furrowed brows.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [Half-eaten fruit, chocolate, candles, and grape leaves sit on a low, stone tabletop under dim lighting.] -
Cover of Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop, Verso, 2025. [Book cover featuring yellow and white text on a black background, and a black-and-white photograph. The text reads "Everything Is Now / The 1960s New York Avant-Garde— / Primal Happenings, / Underground Movies, / Radical Pop / J. Hoberman."] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure in a blue morph suit leans their arms on top of a rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses, pushing it toward another figure that stands in front of them filming them. In the background a third figure in a blue morph suit sits and leans down on top of a rectangular wooden frame. Blue footage is projected onto the back wall.] -
[A red background with white text which reads: "BDS IS THE FLOOR NOT THE CEILING", followed by the Decolonize This Place Logo.] -
UniBodies. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [Detail view of a sculpture with a shiny grey finish. The shape of the sculpture forms a skeletal structure around amorphous square voids.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring manuel arturo abreu and JJJJJerome Ellis. February 5, 2022, Artists Space. [White text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: manuel arturo abreu / JJJJJerome Ellis. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, February 5, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An individual TV monitor with three wooden chairs placed in front of it, each holding headphones. Edward Snowden appears speaking to the camera onscreen.] -
SCRAAATCH, Tower of Babel, 2019, Les Urbaines. Photo: Mathilda Olmi [Two figures perform in front of large projected images.] -
Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A corner made by two white walls. One wall has four framed images of yellow amorphus shapes on different backrounds, arranged in a horizontal line. The other wall has three framed images, one hung by itself and the other two stacked vertically.] -
Group Material: Primer (for Raymond Williams). Artists Space, 1982. [A large taxidermied eagle hangs upside down from the ceiling holding line tape that repeats "A GOVERNMENT FOR THE RICH BY THE RICH". Posters and drawings on the wall are visible around the eagle.] -
virgil b/g taylor, Minor Publics. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph looking down an alleyway. Sets of grey and yellow posters hang from the brick wall of the alleyway.] -
Leaflet cover for Extended Definitions, Artists Space, 1989. [A black and white close-up photograph of an eye. Text at the top reads, "Extended Definitions: Video Experiments in Perception." Text at the bottom reads, "September 28-November 4, Artists Space."] -
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A Living Testament of the Blood Fairies. Installation view, Artists Space, 1996. [Black and white image of several sculptures and two-dimensional artworks installed in a gallery space bisected by three white columns. Behind the columns, a large dark tarp covers two gallery walls that form a small corner. To the right of the columns, a large glass container filled with honey rests on a plinth. To the left of the columns, a wide doorway opens up into another gallery room, where several chandelier-like sculptures hang from the ceiling, while three spindly structures are propped on the floor.] -
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Kathe Burkhart and Chrysanne Stathacos: Abortion Project. Installation view, Artists Space, 1991. [Black and white image of a gallery enclave. The walls are covered with long lists of individual signatures that form several rows from floor to ceiling.] -
Ethan, Transit Station, digital photograph, 2023 -
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Yasunao Tone, 2,880K=120", 1964 [Black-and-white image of a hand holding a stopwatch.] -
[19 thinly outlined boxes arranged in columns of decreasing height on a black background. Each box contains a glowing, symmetrical, orange and purple geometric shape of varying complexity. In each box's lower right corner, white text lists three coordinates. There is a gradient key from purple through orange and yellow to white, with a minus sign at one end and a plus sign at the other, and above that, a complex mathematical formula. In the upper righthand corner, white text reads, "Betsy Fagin and Alan Felsenthal" and "sat, 5/23 / 5pm nyc time / zoom id: 378 232 567."] -
Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, Artists Space, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An 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.] -
Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism. Installation view of the section “Galerie Schmela (1966),” Artists Space, 2014. [A white table with various documents sits in the ceter for a room. On the right, a televsion displaying a man walking sits on a pedestal. In the background, a black and white image of a crowd at a dinner table is displayed.] -
Seth Laderman. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [A PrintFile photo preserver is visible with two black and white photographic artworks inside and the top photograph has tape around it with writing on it.] -
Split/Vision. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985-86. [Papers lies on a table in front of exhibition wall text, baskets with paper are hanging on an adjacent wall. Framed paintings can be seen in the white-walled gallery space in the background.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A close up view of a sculpture of a man holding a book. The man's hand holds the spine of a book close to his purple shirt.] -
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Yuki Kimura, The Circle, 2019, 21 stainless steel round trays. Photo: Daniel Pérez [21 silver, round, stainless steel trays sit nested on a wood floor.] -
[A black and white scan of an invoice from Corcraft Products issued to Artists Space at 38 Greene Street. The customer number reads "9102000". The invoice details a net purchase of $603.10] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure dressed in black performing in front of an audience in the background. The room is dark, with LED light sculptures made from dried SCOBY in the background. The figure sits on the floor, looking off to the right and holding a mask in front of their face.] -
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James Coleman. Still from Seeing for Oneself, 1987-88. Slideshow (black and white), 40 min. [A black and white film still of a person with a white beard wearing an apron seated in front of a workbench covered in glass bottles and scientific instruments. He holds an hourglass and the wall behind him is lined with dials.] -
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[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.] -
Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A gray wall with dozens of drawings arranged in rows of four. The drawings depict single buildings in black on white paper. In front of the wall, a gray object stands on a white plinth.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of an installation work. A row of structural columns cut through the installation. In the foreground, a kinetic scutlpure featuring a sock being dipped into a pot sit on the floor next to a column. Behind the first column, two windows with images painted on the glass hang from the ceiling. Behind the windows, ceramic sculptures and kinetic sculptures featuring branches surround another column. To the right of the ceramic sculptures and branch sculptures, large paper-mache sculptures rest on the floor and hang on the walls. In the right forground, a large drawing done on craft paper featuring a cow hangs on the wall. In the background, two large drawings done on cardboard are hung from a wooden partition wall.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner 2024. Drake Carr and George Wells. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Two men, Drake Carr and George Wells, sit around a circular dining table, both gazing out while listening to a speaker who is out of frame. Carr rests his elbow on the back of his chair.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A large gallery space houses a variety of plinths made of MDF, atop of which are displayed archival objects such as journals and postcards. On the right wall in the foreground is a large photograph affixed to the wall which depicts a wooden museum bench with a box housing red deaccession catalogs made available within The Museum of Modern Art‘s exhibition space.] -
Observational drawing exercises [A pineapple and two bananas sit on a table with a person's hands in the midst of drawing the fruit with pencil at the center of the image.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [Lining the wall are multiple glass display cased filled with ephemera, text and images hang on the wall above them, in the corner sits a tv monitor on a shelf.] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Specific Objects (Swing), 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A person bathed in pink light bends over a table with equipment controlling projection visuals. ] -
A film by Michael Asher. Documentation, January 23rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: John Miller. [A film projector is set up in the middle of a darkened room, facing a blank wall. A rectangular grey image is projected onto the wall. A group of seated spectators are backlit by the projected image.] -
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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 situated in the corner of two walls, to the left of the space. Through the open doorway can be seen a small ciruclar window and a shelf with various items placed on it.] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer on stage playing the cello. They are facing sideways to the audience, wearing sunglasses and a purple jacket. To their side there is a collection of audio equipment, as well as a music stand and a speaker. The audience is sitting down facing the stage. The room is dark, except for a projected image of a disco ball on the back wall.] -
A Strategy Hinted At. Installation view, Artists Space, 1997. [A gallery space with a seat made from a wooden block in the center. On one wall, five artworks hang in a horizontal line. Several perpendicular walls emerge from the gallery wall to the right of the space. The perpendicular walls are arranged such that they create small booths, with a square hole in each wall.] -
Installation view from From Here to Eternity: Fact and Fiction in Recent Architectural Projects, Artists Space, May 24, 1986 - June 28, 1986. [A shell of an architectural edifice stands over a small moveable two-wheeled car in a gallery space.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, 7:30pm. Artists Space, New York. [Two figures wearing scrubs hold a piece of red fabric between them.] -
The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [An angled view of a wooden table containing various papers, books, and documents displaying text and images. Windows to the street surround the background.] -
Students visiting Sleepwalk at Parasol Projects, LES, 2022 -
[A person wearing a blue jacket and headphones sits at a table, surrounded by windows with view to a rocky, dry terrain.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Kimberly Alidio and Rae Armantrout. October 8, 2022, Artists Space. [Light blue text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: "Kimberly Alidio & Rae Armantrout / October 8, 5pm." The middle reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortland Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519."] -
Still from video interview with Naomi and Stephen Antonakos, conducted by Dean Inkster and Sébastien Pluot, 2010. [Two people in the middle of a conversation. The woman is wearing a red cardigan, a white collared shirt, and has short gray hair with square black glasses. The man is wearing a checked blue and white collared shirt and has gray facial hair and round black glasses.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
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 multiple works including an orange wall that reads "Wandering with no specific intent or has something specific in mind but doesn't tell what it is." met with a tower of gap shoe boxes. Near the gallery wall are life like cutouts of individuals dressed in animal costumes.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of four individuals crowded together as they look at something on a cellphone. Two individuals in the group are seated at a dinner table, where other guests are also engaged in conversation. A dimly lit and elegant venue full of other individuals can be seen in the background.] -
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, and holds the end of a small folded up book. On the other side of the table, a row of people sitting on wooden chairs hold different sections of the book and read off of it.] -
New Red Order Give it Back, 2020 Acrylic LED displays with cut vinyl, water cooler, poster, couch, desk, chairs, magazine rack, The New Red Times Magazine, and three televisions. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a white facade with real estate listings in the windows, and above them, in vinyl lettering reads "NRO".] -
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Ian Bader. Spalation Clock, 1977. Section 2. [Drawing of architectural section in center of paper with white surrouding it.] -
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Abasement #86. Performance documentation, April 6th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Three performers stand on stage in front of an audience. Two performers operate at a table with musical equipment while the third plays an electric string instrument. The room is dimly lit. ] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Robert Glück & Ted Rees. Saturday, October 17, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [A collaged image, depicting the upper body of a man, with his fists to his chin, overlaid with lower body of a horse. Blue text on top and bottom of image reads "Robert Glück / Ted Rees / Segue".] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Bookstore at 55 Walker Street. [A photo of the bookstore at 55 Walker Street - the front half is a bookstore, while the back half is an empty exhibition/performance space. Both have white walls and a light wood floor. They are divided by a temporary wall with a large doorway, which leaves a large gap between the top of the temporary wall and the ceiling. The back half is empty, with windows letting in light on the furthest wall. The front half has bookshelves adorning the walls, with a lower shelf to keep some books on display. A red pipe runs floor-to-ceiling between two columns of shelves.] -
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.] -
Amalia Soto, My Apology, 2022. Single-Channel video, 23:59 minutes, wall vinyl. Photo: Steven Cottingham. [Color installation image showing a video monitor mounted on a wall which is covered in tiled images of YouTube pages. A pair of wired headphones is hanging to the right of the monitor.] -
Social Surfaces. Installation view, Alexander and Bonin, 2017. Photo: Ron Amstutz. [A wide blue mop with a yellow handle is tethered to a white pillar by a black cord, and is stretched with the handle angled forward. Resting against the pillar is a tv, angled and facing slightly leftwards, displaying a sculpture in a parking lot.] -
S*an D. Henry Smith, stringency principle of the looking drum, presented at 47 Canal, New York, February 17, 2023. Photo: S*an D. Henry Smith [Photograph of a wooden table covered in a plethora of audio equipment, a tambourine, and wiring. Around the table are three microphone stands, that point at the empty space above a black chair behind the table. Next to the chair is a camera and tripod.] -
Jeff Gibson, Delusions of Grandeur, 1989. Media unknown, 20 x 24 inches. [A close-up, black and white image of a face, with parts of the image chipping off and revealing a black backing.] -
Abasement #62. Performance documentation, December 5, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A seated figure in a black hoodie and black beanie plays the guitar with red and purple light cast onto them.] -
A New World Order II: Remapping Tales of Desire. Installation view, Artists Space, 1992. [Two maps, one of Asia and one of the Western United States, on red backgrounds positioned side by side. Black and white photographs are overlaid on particular cities in each map.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of one side and the entrance into a gallery room. The walls are painted black, and at the corner of the entrance stands a performer singing into a microphone stand. Around him and along the wall audience members sit on the floor or stand.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure wearing a blue shirt kneels down onto the stage, working on audio equipment. Red light is cast onto them.] -
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Barbara Levy: Photographs. Postcard, Artists Space, 1979. [A view of a city street and the tail end of a bicycle is obscured by window blinds.] -
Jolene Rickard, from Corn Blue Room, 2000. [A black and white image of electrical towers stretching into the distance.] -
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Christopher Wool, untitled (wool poster between bridges), 2020, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [A black and white image featuring a large, dark shape that resembles a plus sign. The plus sign sits at the center of a white backdrop covered by various irregular markings, including a large ink blot and print markings. While the surface of the plus sign is opaque, the background markings are slightly transparent. Small black text placed at the image's lower left corner reads, "2020Solidarity - Christopher Wool," while text placed at the image's lower right corner reads, "A project by Between Bridges."] -
Arts and Family Engagement evening, student panel on high school portfolio preparation, P.S. 140, 2017 [A classroom setting with several students and adults sitting across the room at desks and tables, looking at a teacher speaking to them in a corner of the room] -
Yates McKee, Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (New York: Verso Books, 2017). [A book cover with the title "Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition" and author Yates McKee in black and grey on white ground. In the upper right corner, a red-toned image shows a group of standing men.] -
A seated musician wearing a white t-shirt with the name Xenakis printed above an image manipulates electronics on top of a small table. The wall behind features swirling white, purple, and orange light. -
The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [An exhibition wall with multiple posters hanging in between two large speakers and a tv on a pedestal in the center.] -
Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay. Installation view, Artists Space, 2016. Photo: Jean Vong. [A framed, oval-shaped painting of a man and a conical plant sculpture decorated with hanging crepe paper tassels are displayed in a gallery.] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [A figure stands in the center of the image, juggling several small white balls above their head.] -
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Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [To the left, various stools and black boxes are dispersed around the floor of the gallery. Suspended above hangs a transparent sheet, framing three large white balls and a selection of drawings. Wooden rectangular panels stand stacked on the right wall. Towards the center of the space is a box-like structure made of similar wooden paneling. ] -
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Yasunao Tone in Concert with Barbara Held. Performance documentation, January 19, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure sits in front of a table with audio equipment, including a commodore computer and flute-to-haiku converter.] -
Book spread from FWIW, Constantina Zavitsanos and Artists Space, 2024. [White text composed into a circle against a black background reads “A TRIBE CALLED QUEST” across the center of a book spread. The text appears handwritten, and between each word is an ankh symbol. Four stick figures move across the page, each one performing a different motion.] -
Fontaine Dunn, Everything's Always Just the Same, Only Different, 1976. From Gary Bower, Fontaine Dunn, Hermine Ford, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white image of a painted spiral.] -
Edgar Oliver reading at Marble Cemetery. Photo: © Paula Court, 2018. [Man standing outside at a microphone in front of a large silver inflatable penis, reading from a purple folder.] -
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.] -
Mark Fell, Isomorphism and Totality (projection still), 2010. [An emanating, abstract blue and black circle on a teal backdrop.] -
Abasement #82. Performance documentation, November 17th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer stands on stage, operating a sound system. The performer and the wall behind the stage are illuminated in red light.] -
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Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays the guitar sitting down, while another figure stands behind him playing the bass.] -
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. Two geometric abstract paintings hang on the wall above.] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Small sculptures on pedestals are lined up diagonally in front of a map and various images.] -
Selections from the Unaffiliated Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Dark photograph of a plywood sculpture in a gallery space.] -
Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978/9. Videotape still. [VHS-distorted image of Wonder Woman holding up her fist, from which emanates a burst of energy.] -
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.] -
Jeff Preiss, still from STOP, 2012. 16mm film transferred to digital video. [Close-up photo of a person with red hair, leaning against a wall while looking away from the camera.] -
Association Apsolutno, still from a.trophy, 2002. [A slightly grainy, black and white image of a deer standing on snowy ground in front of woods. There are two detached antlers on the ground in front of the deer.] -
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.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a dimly lit basement. Along the back wall, on the right, a shadow of a figure in profile is cast onto a blue and purple projected screen.] -
Ana Vieira-Gerbracht, Untitled, 2021, digital photography -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Andrea Abi-Karam, Eduardo Kac and Montana Ray. October 15, 2022, Artists Space. [Light blue text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: "Andrea Abi-Karam / Eduardo Kac & Montana Ray / October 15, 5pm." The middle reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519."] -
Still from livestream Foam Party Cancelled. [An internet browser displaying artistsspace.org/stream with two videos shown side-by-side, streaming from Ustream. On the left, a camera near the floor shows an empty room and a wall with the words "FOAM PARTY CANCELLED" drawn on. On the right, a close-up image of a bird sculpture and two candles, with a person's face and painting in the background.] -
Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Alexander Huseby, BC Reloaded, 2012. [A photograph of a woman looking into the camera with one hand raised to her cheek. She wears a striped white Adidas soccer jersey with the "bc" logo in one corner, and her eyeshadow stops abruptly in the middle of her right eyelid, creating an artificial crease down her face.] -
Ethan Crenson, Fission, 1996. Mixed media installation. [A corner of a room filled with ping pong balls set atop mousetraps. They are lit from the side by a fluorescent tube light.] -
New Red Order with Maiingan “iNDiO1763” Wiikwedong, Gaile Pranckunaite, and Inpatient Press. Conscientious Conscripture, 2018 - Ongoing Polyester knit feather flag, polyester knit fabric step-and-repeat, table, tablecloth, chair, vinyl retractable banner, dibond print on easel, three televisions, red phone, newspaper box, and childrens activity book. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A table with red cover that reads "NEW RED ORDER" sits in between three tv monitors. On either side of the tv monitors sits a banner and a newspaper dispenser.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [View of a small diamond-shaped object framed in a box on the wall next to a doorway in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Peter Saville, Bespoke archival box with hand-marbled paper and band, 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 in / 62,2 x 52 x 3,8 cm, Signed and Numbered. [A print of marbled, amorphous forms in blue, grey, and white is centrally intersected by a horizontal orange band.] -
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.] -
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Selections from the Unaffiliated Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Contact sheet of installation and opening photos from the exhibition.] -
[Black and white photograph of several wooden boxes and drawers filled with small animal bones and preserved insects. Several animal skulls are scattered around and in between the drawers.] -
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.] -
[Four framed drawings on a wall depicting chaotic, colorful scenes of crowds.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Saretta Morgan and Jennifer Scappettone. Saturday, December 5, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Anastasios Karnazes. [A snowy mountain landscape and flowing water is collaged with clear circular and rectangular shape graphics on top of the image. Blue text over the image reads: "Saretta Morgan / Jennifer Scappettone / 5 December / 5 pm EST / Segue."] -
Shala Miller, Modern-Day Sisyphus I, 2023. Courtesy the artist [Black-and-white print featuring multiple photographs of a naked body, spotlighted against a black background and collaged together. Flashes of white light across the print obscure parts of the image, bringing the body in and out of focus.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person stands at a microphone reading off sheets of paper. In the background, there is a slightly blurry image of a book cover: "Twice-Told Tales" by Nathanial Hawthorne.] -
Tony Vevers, c. 1976. Painting from Eleanor Magid, Tony Vevers, William White, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white photograph of an abstract painting with an ovular form in the top left corner and a line on the right.] -
Abasement #63. Performance documentation, July 17, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of an individual seated at a table with a variety of musical and electronic equipment and gear in front of him. The individual stares with focus at a computer screen, which illuminates his face in the darkened performance space. A variety of guests can been seen seated all around the musician's work table.] -
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Crystal Z Campbell, Revolver, 2022. 16mm film transferred to Digital Video, Stereo, Sound. 17:27 min. Courtesy the artist -
Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall, 2010. HD video with sound, 30 mins. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. [A view down an isle, between theater seating and blue track lighting, to a projected video screen. On the back wall, a still image of a man, in a pilots uniform, gestures toward the viewers with two fingers. Hito Stereyl stands behind him with her arm outstretched.] -
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. [Two prints, of books with annotations written on the side, are hung on a white gallery wall.] -
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.] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Paintins appear on white gallery walls with two sculptures on pedestals on the gallery floor.] -
Sidewalk Archives, Artists Space, April 2023 -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [An ashtray with the text, "Martini," three Schweppes bottles, six Coca-Cola bottle, and nine drinking classes arranged face down on a silver platter are displayed on a white counter top.] -
Trip to Artists Space to see Renee Gladman exhibition, 2023 -
The Friends of Artists Space Dinner, May 8, 2010. Executive Director & Curator, Stefan Kalmár, and friends of Artists Space. [Three figures pose for a photograph in a gallery space crowded with milling people who talk amongst each other. They hold drink glasses in their hands and are illuminated by the camera's flash.] -
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.] -
Raúl Zurita, documentation of La vida nueva, 1982. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Ana María López. [Blotted smoke-dots curve across a vast blue sky, spelling out the phrase "MI DIOS ES PARAISO", above a jagged skyline of red brick buildings. The photograph is taken from the vantage point of the Flushing Airport, where a pile of debris, which appears to be torn-up asphalt, and a few puddles litter the runway. Three planes are parked in the lower fourth quadrant.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of an empty gallery room, with black walls. Hanging around the center of the space are three hanging screens playing the same synchronized video. Along the back wall a cello lays against a wooden chair, next to a harp and stool. On the side wall a spotlight shines on a microphone stand.] -
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Julien de Smedt, Le Passe Muraille, 2006. Animation. Courtesy the artist. [An extremely warped digital image of the interior of a messy office space facing a series of windows, through which the highly warped facades of city buildings are visible.] -
Drake Carr and George Wells. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Two men, Drake Carr and George Wells, sit around a circular dining table, both gazing out while listening to a speaker who is out of frame. Carr rests his elbow on the back of his chair.] -
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Jack Smith in Jack Smith’s Fear Ritual of Shark Museum, Cologne, 1974 Photograph © Gwenn Thomas. Courtesy Exile Gallery, Berlin and Southfirst, New York Courtesy New York University, Fales Library and Special Collections [A black and white image with an organic border features Jack Smith in a white cloak standing in front of a wall. To the left of him are two posters that read, "Krone," at the top in block letters. Behind him are large, white block letters that read, "R O N." A ghost-like figure with multiple arms is pictured above him.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of the entrance into a gallery space, with columns running down the hallway. At the forefront of the image are two large paintings made of adobe, and resting on steel armatures. Each painting features a representation of a person walking slowly. In between the armatures are adobe bricks layed out into a walkway on the floor.] -
[Black text overlays a light gray background. The text at the top reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE / Winter 2025-26 Season / December/January 2025-26 curated by Roof Books: / Lonely Christopher & James Sherry / Saturdays at 5pm: 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom"] -
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Laurel Woodcock, (Untitled), Neon Quote, 2005. Neon sculptures. Courtesy the artist. [The exterior of a Soho building at night from the opposite street corner. Inside the third floor are two glowing blue neon quotation marks visible from outside.] -
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Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure unpacks various audio and projection equipment onto a table. Blue, purple and pink washes of light are projected onto them.] -
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.] -
Paper Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A large, empty room with three white walls. The right wall displays glossy papers folded into geometric shapes. The left wall has symmetric, geometric patterns drawn on it.] -
Salad Days 2. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [A microphone connected to a stand and an amp sit on the floor of a gallery space. The microphone stand has been adjusted such that the microphone is pointed down and hovers directly over a small answering machine on the ground. Wall vinyl installed on the wall directly behind the microphone stand displays a phone number: "+1 (212) 226-2786)."] -
[Dark blue text overlays red-pink background. The text reads: “February 11 / Felix Bernstein / Whitney Claflin." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
Crystal Colon, Cherish Atlas, 2014 [An artwork depicting a long pier with checkered black floor, splitting a waterway, with the outline of a city skyline in the distance. Two long cream-colored couches appear in the foreground, alongside a round and rectangular red table. The top left corner of the image contains an empty white circle] -
Abasement #86. Performance documentation, April 6th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Three performers stand on stage in front of an audience. Two performers operate at a table with musical equipment while the third plays an electric string instrument. The room is bathed in red light.]
