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Milford Graves, Hand-painted Drums, c. 1970s. Wood and metal bass drums, toms, snares, acrylic paint, and mixed media. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [An aerial view of a hand painted drumset on a wooden floor.] -
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Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Gary Burnley. [A black and white photograph of a multicolored globe sitting on a wooden floor.] -
Juan Downey, Hepewe, 1976 - 77. Photograph by Juan Downey. Courtesy the Juan Downey Estate, Marilys B. Downey. [A shirtless man holding a film camera outdoors.] -
Catalina Parra, Fosa común, 1984. Installation at Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, New York, USA. Courtesy Archive, Catalina Parra, New York. [A woman uses a shovel to dig a shallow rectangular pit in a grassy field. Four burlap sacks filled with earth lay to the left side.] -
Crystal Z Campbell: Ode to the Underloved. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a video installation in the center of the floor of a gallery space. A walkway made of plywood runs along the edges of the room, around the projection. The projection depicts a negative film image that has been mirrored along the center. Objects are arranged on a blue background to create vaguely recognizable images.] -
ART CLUB2000 Untitled (Old Navy - November 1996), 1996 Vinyl signs and glass wax Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up of glazed over windows displaying the Old Navy logo and the date "November 1996"] -
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.] -
Min Joong Art. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [A photograph of building facades in Manhattan. Hanging on the central facade is a piece of white fabric the length of two stories. On the white fabric, there is a gestural painting of in a figure grapsing another figure from behind. Below them is a line of text in Korean.] -
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.] -
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[A crowd of people standing outside a brick building, mingling and talking.] -
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.] -
Activated Walls. Installation view, Artists Space, 1993. [A person working in a small space enclosed by walls, painted red with white text. At the top of the wall, large letters read "AZT=DEATH", with a paragraph of text stretching across three walls. Underneath, there are a dozen white pieces of a paper taped up.] -
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Tom of Finland Untitled , 1985 Graphite on paper Collection John McConnell, San Diego [A man wearing a POLICE cap and aviator glasses, straddling half-naked. Two men wearing glossy leather jackets and boots, hold him close with their pants down. One takes the policeman from behind while the other holds the policeman's genitals in his hand.] -
Group Material: Primer (for Raymond Williams). Artists Space, 1982. [A brick on the bround with black text on it that reads, "No heat." Above this brick in black lettering on the wall is text that reads from left to right, "born brick burn."] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A side view of a sculpture of a man leaning againt a white column. He hols a book in his right hand. He is wearing a purple shirt and blue patterned shorts.] -
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."] -
Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [A row of small folded blue books are displayed on a black table. A piece of white coral is also placed in the middle of the table.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A view through a doorway into a white-walled gallery space with drawings on the walls and a banner on the windows.] -
35 Artists Return to Artists Space. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Photographic and sculptural works appear in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on standing on stage. They are both looking to the side with microphones close to their mouths. They are surrounded by drums, cymbals, and a audio board on a table. The wall behind the performers is decorated with an abstract orange, blue, and pink projection, which also covers the performers. Multiple rows of seated audience members are visible in the foreground.] -
Keith J. Sanborn, A Public Appearance and a Statement, 1987. 18.5 minutes, 3/4" (original format 16mm), black and white. Film still. [A dense crowd of people surrond a casket being carried into the back of a hearse.] -
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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.] -
Mark Morrisroe. Still from Nymph-O-Maniac (1984). [Three people wearing facemasks. One is dressed in an ultra-feminine mask, nightgown and open robe, facing the camera. The other two are facing the first figure, dressed casually in t-shirts and a denim vest.] -
El Bosque Luminoso Bajo El Mar, M.S. 324 exhibition, Threads of History, May 2023 -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Various people having conversations and looking around at the art during the exhibition opening.] -
[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.] -
[A figure, silhouetted by the sun, pushes a bike with a wooden contraption anchored across its handlebars, upon which various obscured objects hang. The figure is situated on a dirt road next to a body of water, which stretches out behind them in the distance. Urban buildings are visible in the far distance.] -
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.] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [Various figures in glittery costumes pose in front of a circus backdrop, holding out open fans.] -
[A white poster giving information about a virtual reading event. There are overlaid gray and white images of a statue of an angel with a sword, and two figures in beak masks. Orange texts reads “Frederic Tuten/Vi Khi Nat/Virtual Reading/18 April 2020/5:00 PM E.T./Artists Space x Segue Series/Zoom Meeting ID 378 232 576] -
Screenshot from Tan Lin's Bibliographic Sound Track, 2012. [Screenshot of two vertically oriented rectangular shapes, one white and one blue. Fragments of text appear in both rectangles, spelling out phrases like "17 black random [marks on] : lemon," "Particles disable rendering [ I ]," and "Etc. a state to each other."] -
Cynthia Hawkins. Untitled, 1987. [Abstract white paintings with black smudges dispersed throughout.] -
Gerry Morehead. Installation view, Gerry Morehead, Jim Pavlicovic, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white photograph of two black circles on a dark background.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. Frames 31-36: Installation views of Tad Savinar’s “Rock” in Room 207. [Contact sheet of photos from the exhibition.] -
DIVA TV Collective, Target City Hall, 1989. 27 min. [Onlookers and news reporters with cameras crowd around helmeted police officers surrounding a graffitied truck.] -
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.] -
The Friends of Artists Space Dinner, May 8, 2010. Michael Clark & Company's performance. [A man with a shaved head stands in front of a crowd seated at a long table in a large gallery space. He stares in front of him with one hand resting at his hip and wears a white collared shirt and a black, knee-length skirt.] -
Pena Bonita, Stalled, 1987. Color photograph. [A man lifts up the hood of a white car on the side of the road amidst a sprawling open landscape. The front doors on both sides of the vehicle are open.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, 7:30pm. Artists Space, New York. [Projections of elongated gold figures.] -
Apartment Show: If the dogs are barking. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A ceramic figure of a headless gray dog sits on the top of a shining metal barrel in an open gallery space. A garland of sausages connected to the ceramic dog drapes over the sides of the barrel. A wooden chair sits behind and to the right of the barrel. Many paintings, drawings, photographs, and posters hang on the gallery walls.] -
Abasement #81. Performance documentation, October 20th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer on stage surrounded by equipment plays for an onlooking audience.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon -
T.J. Wilcox, I Fell in Love With Vanessa Redgrave, 2010, Perfect bound flip book 4-page cover plus 100 pages, 50 in color, with a text by the artist 3 x 6 1/2 x 3/4 inches, Signed and numbered [An image of a woman with frizzy hair, smiling and looking past the viewer. The image is slightly distorted, as if from a VHS tape.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure in a blue morph suit kneels down on one knee, placing their hands on top of a table made of wood and fresnel lenses while audience members watch in the background.] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view (what he thinks about when he sees him, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a soft sculpture, placed on the floor and leanning against a blue and white wall. The sculpture depicts a Black Queer figure dressed in black, with accents of white, blue and yellow. On top of their head is a wooden brush.] -
Viv Latta, Fresh Air, digital photograph, 2020 [Black and white photograph of a city street: a man stands, holding a lit cigarette in his mouth. He is flanked on one side by a staircase and on the other by a portable toilet. A large truck is parked behind him with its headlights on.] -
Nina in Position. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [Close up of a small sculpture resting on a square wooden support jutting out from a white gallery wall next to a window. The sculpture has a metallic color and an irregular, round shape, with a tree-bark like texture. A similar sculpture and support are mounted on the other side of the gallery window.] -
Heist Divination (fwiw remix). Performance documentation, October 25th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. -
Abasement #83. Performance documentation, January 5th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays a wooden wind instrument on stage. Connected by plastic tubing and wooden rods, the instrument stands higher than the seated performer. ] -
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. Gladman’s first solo exhibition Narratives of Magnitude was held at Artists Space from January 13th to March 18th, 2023. She is the author of fourteen published works. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The Paris Review, Harper's, BOMB magazine and n+1. She has been awarded fellowships, artist grants, and residencies from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and is a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize winner in fiction. She makes her home in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel. [Photo: Philippe Mangeot] -
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.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. Various musical instruments and audio devices are placed around the middle of the room, photographs and vitrines hang on the walls, and various television monitors are placed along the sides of the room.] -
Unstretched, bound, outside mission, 2020, acrylic on linen, bubble wrap, ratchet strap, chicken wire, dimensions variable. [A large, orange and brown stuffed slug sculpture is strapped around a Greco-Roman style columns on the facade of a cast iron building. The slug’s antennae point towards the blue sky. Further down the street are additional buildings, parked cars, and a Detour sign.] -
Nick Mauss, This afternoon, 2012, 5-color, hand-stenciled gouache on paper, each unique 24 x 18 inches, Signed and numbered. [A gestural line drawing of two figures embracing set against a geomatric pattern of blue, teal, brown, red, and pink rectangular forms.] -
Our Terrible Country. Dir. Mohammad Ali Atassi & Ziad Homsi. 2014. [A movie poster depicting the title and pertinent information of the film, showing a man walking away from the camera down a dirt road in the desert, shot in sepia.] -
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Metahaven, WikiLeaks, 2011, Scarf. Photo: Meinke Klein. [A portrait of a woman whose face is covered by a colorful cloth that extends over her entire top body. Only the top of her ear and hair are visible.] -
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.] -
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.] -
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[An animated gif of a rotating, square painting installed in a white-walled gallery space. The painting depicts four superimposed nude bodies in various positions (standing, crouching, extending their arms) in an amorphous yet contained space. The painting framed in a black wooden frame with handles on each of its four sides. The animation depicts the painting spinning clockwise, such that at every angle the figures appear to stand in a different position, carrying out a new action.] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sits on stage, playing a double-neck guitar. ] -
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.] -
Jack Smith, still from Yellow Sequence, 1963. 16mm, (sound, color), 20 minutes. [A faded image of a silhouette holding an umbrella outdoors] -
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.] -
[Two people on a city street in front of a graffitied brick wall. One faces the camera, holding a megaphone and a piece of paper at his sides. The other is walking, facing the side, and speaking into her megaphone and reading off a sheet of paper.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring John Yau & Patrick Rosal. April 30, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a white background with two bunches of pink flowers in the upper right and lower left corners. The top left corner reads: “John Yau / & Patrick Rosal / April 30, 5pm.” The middle reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519.”] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Norman Fischer and Farnoosh Fathi. Saturday, January 15, 2021, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a mauve background. The top left corner reads: "Norman Fischer & Farnoosh Fathi." The center right reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE." The bottom left reads: "Saturday January 15 - 5pm, Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519, Suggested donation $5". The image of a 5 dollar bill is placed within the text.] -
Yasunao Tone performing Music for Reed Organ (1962), Repetition and Structures, Mills College, Oakland, California, 1972 [Black-and-white photograph of a figure sitting in a chair on stage, with their hands behind their head. They are sitting behind a reed organ covered in a plastic sheet with an ice cube placed on top of the keyboard. Behind the reed organ is a clock on a music stand.] -
In the Kaleidoscope Room, by Elizabeth Stone. [A book cover of In The Kaleidoscope Room by Elizabeth Stone, with the title and author written at the top in yellow text. Underneath, there is an image of a woman's face with orange lazers shooting out of her forehead in the shape of a soda bottle, with a straw coming out of the top. Behind her are light green and dark green checkered mountains. Under that is an old silver car with yellow headlights on a pink and blue checkered floor.] -
Brad Kronz, Forces at Work II, 2025. Wooden stool, felt, subwoofer, acrylic, wood, fabric, paper, board, screws and bolts, mc cable, leaves. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Wide view of a white-walled gallery space with various artworks visible on the walls.] -
Richard Hollis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [In the foreground, one side of a book stand displaying various posters and documents. Two more in the background include more items. Two people congregate in a coversation around a bookstand in the background.] -
Abasement #75. Performance documentation, February 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color image of a performer. They are looking down as they play guitar, using a wrench to strum on the guitar strings. In the foreground a sticker reads "WAR IS OVER!". The performer and the room around them is tinted with blue light.] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands on stage speaking into a microphone.] -
Robert Hall. Babalu, 1986-87. Painted Construction, oil on plywood. 48 inches x 34 inches. [A black and white photograph of a painted construction.] -
Abasement #68. Performance documentation, February 12, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three performers on stage. In the foreground, in the lower right corner a musician wearing headphones plays drums. To the left hand side in the midground, two bald performers look at one another. One of the performers wears a red robe and holds a microphone. The other performer wears a blue tunic and faces the performer in the red robe. Stage lights shine down on all three performers. ] -
Ed Levine. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [View of a wall construction in a gallery setting.] -
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Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cutouts and printed images overlay a colorful background with red, white, blue and yellow pieces collaged together. A cutout of an eye is placed in the center, and to the right of it is text that reads "ABASEMENT 66." Along the bottom right is a cutout of yellow paper has handwritten text in red ink, listing the performers and date of the performance.] -
Mystery Men, Darold Biggs, Silver Key in Photography -
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] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Three figures perform in a basement. Two figures in blue morph suits act out a scene together. The figure on the right scratches a fresnel lens attached to a wooden rolling table while the left figure walks toward the table. A third figure takes video footage of the scene.] -
I Thought I Had Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 1992. [A cross-shaped panel installed on a white wall. The left arm of the panel is painted gray, while its vertical bisector is painted a dark black color. The right arm of the panel features a collage of three identical black and white images of a doctor wearing protective gloves while injecting a figure's arm with a syringe.] -
City Seers, BRIDGE photography exhibition, the DOOR, May 2025 -
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Rip It Up and Start Again. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. -
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.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (Instrument for Aleitheia, 1987), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a piano. Six solenoids are placed along the piano's strings.] -
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.] -
P.S. 140 students recording sounds at Tompkins Square Park, 2019 [A cropped image of a group of students smiling for the camera in Tompkins Square Park. One holds a recording device, which has been overlaid with an opaque orange image of a lampshade. Green digital circles emanate out from it, as if to simulate a doppler-effected sound.] -
Paul Chan, Wht is the nture of lw, 2011, Inkjet print and silkscreen on paper, 19 1/3 x 16 1/8 in / 49 x 48,6 cm, Signed and numbered. [A collage-style image. The background is a 19th century-style painting titled "Start of the Famous Race between the Natchez & Robt," drawing from an actual race between two steamboats named the Nachez and the Robert E. Lee in 1870 New Orleans. The painting depicts a maritime scene. It appears slightly ripped at the top, with a black background, and black, blue, and yellow opaque squares appearing in each corner. At the bottom, "THE END" is printed in a square formation. In the center, a printed, black, numbered list is overlaid on top of the painting, with 20 elements. The text reads: "1. Dylan quote: To be just, one has to be against the law / 2. Artist are "natural" lawbreakers / 3. Art synonymous with freedom (against law) / But art is not lawless, it simply followed another law (law as tendency) / 5. Expression is the following of a more natural law (perhaps higher law in line with nature and non-man made law / 6. Diotima? Marcus Aurelius? Hardot / Natural law, nature) / 7. Artmaking is when one discovers a law that one already follows (science) / 8. In the end, it is law against law. / 9. But still, law is sin (St. Paul) and death. / 10. Petrified unrest / manic energy / overproduction / 11. What is truly against the law? / 12. Duchamp / against one's taste / contranatural / (perverse) / 13. Kant = Contranatural is Anti-Christ / 14. His anti-art was in fact a private pleasure forced to live on for others. / 15. Crime and pleasure (≠ happiness) / 16. Crime is what is pleasing only to onself? / 17. Real art is what is pleasing to oneself? / 18. Real art is a real crime? / 19. Adorno quote as Nietzschean bluster / 20. The real crime is that what we do for ourselves is pleasing"] -
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, CONTEXT, 2021. Chromogenic print with pigment ink pen, 41 ½ x 41 ½ inches. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A digital print of four books with annotated notes on each side.] -
Michael Bewster, An Acoustic Sculpture, A Clicker Drawing. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A black and white photograph looking through a doorframe onto several barely illuminated rectangular shapes. A microphone hangs from the top right corner of the doorframe, pointed down towards the floor.] -
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.] -
Terry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak [A color image of a gallery space. A freestanding white wall runs perpendicular into an existing white wall. On the right side, projected onto the existing wall, is a black and white image of a spoon resting next to a bowl of water. To the left of the projected image is a single black frame containing a black and white photograph, hung above a small floating vitrine. Installed in a single row on the freestanding wall, is a series of seven black and white photographs housed in black frames. Behind the freestanding walls, a sliver of window that faces the street outside is visible. Contained within the four transom windows are black and white enlargements of a white man smoking and blowing smoke rings. ] -
J.B. Cobb, Optical, 1973. From J.B. Cobb, Martha Edelheit, Ree Morton, Artists Space, 1973. [A black and white photograph of a television set upon a wooden side table in front of a window in a gallery space.] -
[A person with a long braid is sitting on one of many brightly colored bundles of objects. The bundles are sitting on the dirt ground.] -
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. -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [A figure wearing blue clothing uses the body of another person beneath them to hold their weight up.] -
YAP (Young Artists Perform), P.S. 140, 2018 [Several students sit, looking down towards printed sheets of paper, in front of colorful silk banners with writing stating "Your dreams can become a reality," "like a cheetah in a snail's race," "bridge can just go like boom bom boom BOOM," "I see a light it's so BRIGHT -Destiny" and others.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure in an orange and white-lit space, leaning forward slightly to adjust a dial on a piece of audio equipment.] -
Zilia Sánchez. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A square, gray canvas with a large white circle centered towards its bottom edge hangs on a light, mauve-colored wall. At the bottom center of the circle, the canvas stretches outward in a verticle line.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (Flute from Lyrictron for Flute, 1968; Score for Trio for a Flute Player, 1985), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. -
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Sam Pulitzer: A Colony for “Them”. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A framed image installed on a white gallery wall that extends into an exhibition space. A glass wall framed by black, metal paneling is positioned to the left of the white wall. Through it, several freestanding, colorful panels decorated with cartoonish illustrations of pinwheels and forests are displayed in an open room.] -
Film still from Now Voyager, 1942. [A black and white image of a woman looking into the camera. She has a wide-brimmed hat with a sheer veil over her face, and dark makeup.] -
Abasement #85. Performance documentation, March 2nd, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [*Abasement #85*. Performance documentation, March 2nd, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman.] -
[A sideways image of a photograph sitting on top of an open book. The photographs shows four people sitting next to each other. The book page is split with a column of text and a black and white image of a billboard that reads, "Growing with Birmingham!"] -
[White text on a blue and grey ombré background. The text reads: “March 22 / Sibyl Kempson / Timmy Straw.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sits behind a white desk, on top of which are piled various audio equipment. ] -
Jim Lutes. Lazy, 1985. [A view of a large amorphous creature with eyes and mouth on the right next to a dwelling space with a figure lying on a bed with clothes and other accoutrements nearby.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of two figures performing in a dark gallery space, lit only by an installation of LED lights covered in dried SCOBY material. One figure wearing black leans down in front of one of the LED lights. Partly hidden behind a column, another figure stands wearing a red suit.] -
Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 1993 – 2016. [A black and white image of a building. A black flag hangs that reads, "ARTISTS SPACE."] -
Friends of Artists Space Annual Dinner, 2017. [A photo of a room full of people seated at three long, rectangular tables. Each table has numerous glasses of wine, sparkling water, candles, and empty plates of food. In the foreground, people are talking to each other and smiling.] -
Ally Bueno, Katz's, 2017. [A black-and-white photo of a man smiling with his arms crossed, standing in front of a number of hanging salamis, and wearing a hat with a logo stating "send a salami"] -
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Abasement #66. Performance documentation, October 9, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A close-up color image of two figures performing. One plays the drums, and the second figure plays the double bass. To their right, a large black speaker, and a microphone. Images are projected onto the back wall. The room is illuminated with red and blue light.] -
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Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs stand across from each other, with a table with a mannequin on it in the middle.] -
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SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A figure in a blue morph suit leans over a wooden box placed on the floor, while another figure to the left films them. Blue light is projected onto the back wall to the right.] -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large, rectangular wall is suspended at the center of three vertical poles in a bright room. The wall is covered in abstract, smooth and multicolored shapes. Amongst the shapes there are several figures of different ages and dress performing different tasks. One raises his fist in the air. Two identical looking boys stare at the viewer. Another figure wears a hat with rabbit ears.] -
Social Surfaces. Installation view, 55 Walker Street, 2017. Photo: Ron Amstutz. [An angled view of paintings and photographs against multiple walls. In the background, a pink wall installation is mounted.] -
I ♥ John Giorno. Reading documentation, Artists Space, 2017. [Photo of John Giorno wearing a navy blue t-shirt and black framed glasses, standing in front of a microphone and reading from loose pages held in his left hand.] -
Episode. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A dark screening room with a single brown couch. An image is projected on the wall, showing a hallway with a slightly ajar door, through which blue light is filtered.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure in motion in an orange-lit space next to a small piece of audio equipment with a wire on the floor. A crowd looks on in the background.] -
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Lyndon Barrois Jr., Divine Agent, 2022; Balthazar (After Bresson), 2021. Wicker pannier, plastic, copper, brass, conservation glove, moonshine jug, solvent transfers, plywood, brass, wooden owl figurine, dyed silk.; blue graphite on paper, antique brass frame. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a gallery space. In the foreground is a large wicker pannier with a white glove, small wooden stool, and ceramic jug on top. In the background a small portrait of a donkey in blue is visible.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Louis Stein, and Haim Steinbach. Contact sheet of photos from exhibition opening, Artists Space, 1979. Photos by Gary Burnley. [Contact sheet of installation images taken during exhibition opening.] -
Photographic work by David Kulik, Frank Majore, Kevin Noble, Ken Pelka, Pat Place, Rene Santos, and Brian Well. Announcement card, work by Pat Place, Artists Space, 1980. [A black and white image of a toy alligator holding a medicine bottle, surrounded by miscellaneous objects.] -
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.] -
Richard Hawkins, Sarrasine 3, 2013, Archival pigment print on Sunset Cotton Etch 285 gsm with collage element on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 188 gsm, 19 x 16 inches, Signed and numbered [A photo and drawing collage featuring the image of a man in contrapposto with a phone to one ear. In the background, stairs leads into an arched passageway.] -
Tiffany Sia, The Bastard Tongue (detail view), 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A long sheet of paper is suspended over the gallery floor. Handrails for the stairs are visible on each side of the photograph.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó, Still from FOODTOPIA: en el suelo áspero, 2022. [A woman wearing a gold headdress, hoop earring, and necklace stares off into the distance. The background is filled with trees and vegetation.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Filip Wolak [A color photograph of a figure standing in an orange-lit space filled with various audio equipment and a stereo player. They lean down to press adjust a dial on an audio mixer.] -
Flyer by Gee Vaucher. [Event flyer with black and brown text on a beige background of distressed paper. The text contains the event details.] -
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Abstraction in Process. Installation view, Artists Space, March 26, 1987 - May 2, 1987. [intermezzo?] -
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Milford Graves, Cosmos 2 - 5, 2020. Wood, copper netting, hand-painted drum, lights, metal, casters, acupuncture head, figurines, artifact, turntable, printed label, metal, glue, copper netting tubing, hand-painted drum, plasma globe, tree branch, model brain, lights, printed label, stones, transducer, amplifier, wires, wooden crate, metal bracket, anatomical model, copper pipe, outdoor house lamp, transducer, amplifier, printed label. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of four sculptures mounted on wooden pedastals. The sculptures are connected by copper netting and are composed of objects including a model of a human head, a plasma globe, a drum, lights, and wires.] -
The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [Two gray silhouettes displayed next to each other on a white wall. In front of them, a gray table displays colorful documents.] -
Still from The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009). [A white bust with a plaque reading "DEFOE" below it. Slightly offset and partially in shadow is a man seen in profile, dressed identically to the bust with a powdered wig.] -
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Enough Tiranny Recalled (Artists Space), 2009, 6 color screenprint, 24 x 24 in (60 x 60 cm), Edition of 10 + 3AP. [The screenprint shows a collage of photos some in black & white and some in color. Some images show scenes with people and others document different multimedia installations. On top of the collage in large white block letters is written "Enough / Tyranny, / Recalled."] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Louis Stein, and Haim Steinbach. Contact sheet of photos from exhibition opening, Artists Space, 1979. Photos by Gary Burnley. [Contact sheet of installation images taken during exhibition opening.] -
Nina in Position. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A series of sculptures in a large gallery space with wooden floors. In the center of the image, a dark sculpture forming an hourglass shape rests on a white plinth, while three potted ferns rest on another, low plinth to the right. A long chain with white appendages hangs from the gallery ceiling.] -
Price, Seth by Seth Price, edited by Beatrix Ruf, text by Michael Newman, published by JRP Ringier, 2010. [Book cover design featuring a white mask in the shape of a human face installed on a white backdrop. Ribbons of white material extend from the mask's lower right side, curling on the backdrop. Black text reading "PRICE, SETH" is superimposed on the image's upper left corner.] -
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Traditions: Five Painters. Installation View, Artists Space, 1978. [Various paintings hang on the walls to the left and right.] -
Gary Falk, Brigid Kennedy, Ladd Kessler, Peggy Yunque. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [A dim photograph of mulitple artworks hanging on a white wall in the exhibition space.] -
Danica Barboza, From a Chapter in Acclimatization, 2019, hand-modeled clay, acrylic paint, rope, yarn, wood, plastic clothing hangers, condensed foam, PVC piping, newspaper, plastic bottle, orange plastic crates, black plastic shipping crate, signature tape-binding with protective gloss, shower curtains, child’s wooden chair, plastic child’s toy, white shelving unit, metal table leg, wooden shipping crate, cherry wood stained card-table top, Insignia TV monitor, wooden pole, metal pole, painted silicone, natural hair, painted glass. Photo: Daniel Pérez [Three sculptures grouped together in the corner of a gallery, with a street in Manhattan visible through large windows at the rear of the room. The largest sculpture stands behind the other two; clustered pieces of wood, string, cardboard, paper, metal, and plastic are propped up, arranged on top of one another, all standing on a large cardboard base. A humanoid white bust lies on top of the structure, its face cut in half. The two smaller sculptures also depict humanoid faces - one in white, the other with skin and hair - and both appear to grow out of masses of misshapen cardboard and wood standing on the floor.] -
Min Joong Art. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [A photograph of a gallery space. The right half of the image is taken up by a wall with printed text identifying the exhibitions, "Min Joong Art: A New Cultural Movement from Korea," and, "I Miss the Revolution."] -
Sam Pulitzer: A Colony for “Them”. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A shallow white cylinder sitting on a dark wooden floor. A small green light glows from inside the cylinder.] -
Installations by Jurgen Partenheimer and Stuart Wilson. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Three figures appear in distinctive dress flowing through space around each other as if in a duel amongst themselves with a black background.] -
Thomas Bayrle, Woody Allen: f ilms fi lms fil ms film s fil ms fi lms f ilms, 2011, Bespoke archival box wrapped in silkscreened cotton book cloth, 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 in / 62 x 52 x 4 cm, Signed and numbered certificate. [A black-and-white image, tiled across with tiny, interlocking patterns, similar to a Pacman level. The pattern is skewed - made more or less dense - to form the curvature of a face with dark glasses.] -
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Jenny Snider. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie, 1985. [A painting of two figures, one in the foreground and the other in the background. Towards the top of the painting reads, "IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE".] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with various artworks organized within it. On the wall is an adobe panel painting of the side of a freeway. In the middle of the space is a small pile of freeway rubble with a bird sculpture placed on top of it. In front of the wall is a walkway made of adobe bricks, leading to a painting on adobe panel of a woman in a purple dress.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure smiles and stands behind a music stand and microphone.] -
P.S. 140 student workshopping poems, 2019 [Two people stand at the front of a full classroom in front of a projector screen that says, "Poetry workshop / Ms. Rebecca / Today's task: create headline poems." One reads from a notebook, the other listens on.] -
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.] -
Attention Line. Installation view, Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [On the lefthand side of the image is a television monitor; on the righthand side, two paintings hang from the wall.] -
New Economy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [An installation view with a deconstructed skateboard on a pedestal in the foreground with two suitcases in the background and a two dimensional depiction of a stereo system along with other small wall works.] -
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Vivienne Dick. Still from Guerilla Talks, 1978. [A figure with short hair energetically strums an electric guitar, their mouth wide open. Another figure with dark hair, partially cut off in the image, leans down to strum another guitar or base instrument.] -
Jolene Rickard, from Corn Blue Room, 2000. [A black and white image of electrical towers stretching into the distance.] -
ART CLUB2000 Selections from ART CLUB2000 archive, detail, 1992–1999 Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A glass case displaying archival documents and images] -
Demonstrations outside Artists Space during the opening of Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, November 16, 1989. [A line of people hold signs with messages including, "ED HELMS impedes THE 1ST AMENDMENT" and "OBSCENE ART?".] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A continuous strip extends around the perimeter of the room, hung up on the walls. The strip alternates between photographic stills and black boxes overlaid with white text.] -
David Kroll. The Intrusion of Fear, the Fear of Knowing, 1985. [A fanciful drawn landscape of hunters following deer next to a figure in front of their desk next to a window and fireplace.] -
Sixth Anniversary Exhibition. Installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of stills depicting numerous installation views.]
