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Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of paintings hanging on the walls of a large gallery space with white walls. The work closest to the camera is a realistic painting of a baby, shown for the waist up.] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Painting of figures with Native American headdresses on a white gallery wall with a sculpture appearing in front of it.] -
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Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view (Simon Gush, Sunday Light, 2013 / Without Light, 2016; Victor Masayesva Jr., Itam Hakim, Hopiit. 1984; ektor garcia, portal DF/SF, 2021; ektor garcia, textile bronceado, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo. [Photograph of a corner of a basement gallery space with large columns along the back. Behind the columns are benches placed in front of video displays. On the right is a CRT TV monitor, and to the left is a projected video.] -
Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play. Installation view, Artists Space, 2015. [Six pornographic illustrations of men near trees are framed on a wall.] -
Gerry Morehead. Installation view, Gerry Morehead, Jim Pavlicovic, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white installation view of a large rectangular artwork featuring several dark portions, dots, and text.] -
Flipside. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A red leather armchair with a coffee table on a gray rug in the corner of a room. On the coffee table, there are several books, a lamp, and an old radio. On the opposite wall, there are three photographs each showing the view out of three different windows.] -
Carissa Rodriguez, You Know the Rules. You Fall in Love. You Lose. Filmed by Jordan Lord, recaptured by Rodriguez through her Pokémon Go app. [An animation of two screengrabs from a phone, each showing the Pokémon "Gastly" above a computer screen with text reading "Whenever you do not understand what's happening in your life, just close your eyes, take a deep breath and say, "God I know this is your plan just helpme through it."] -
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Students visiting Sleepwalk at Parasol Projects, LES, 2022 -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [A color photograph of an arepa placed on a purple tablecloth.] -
Axine M by Jeremiah M. Carter. [Color photograph of a figure standing in a field of wheats. Their face is obscured as they look downwards, and by wheats in front of the camera. ] -
David Rodriguez, Free Rain, 2021, digital photography -
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.] -
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Establishing Shot. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A dim, twilight image of a city on a coastline. Bright, turquoise blue streetlights dot the photograph.] -
[Two cars sitting on a city street in front of a dumpster covered with a tarp.] -
Carol Sun, Herstory, 1991. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 76 inches. [A postcard showing an image of sheets of paper, books, chains, a teapot, and other assorted objects on a checkerboard.] -
Tim Doud, 2001. [A painting of a bald man with glasses looking off to the side. He wears a red Lacoste polo shirt.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Nicholas Glastonbury & John Keene. Saturday March 6, 2021, Artists Space. [A pink colored background features black text in the top half of the image that reads, "Segue Reading Series / Nicholas Glastonbury & John Keene / March 6 / 5-6:30pm on Zoom / Suggested donation: Five dollars / Zoom ID: 830 2698 4031." Black text in the bottom right corner reads, "Artists Space."] -
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.] -
“Chinatown Is Not for Sale.” Installation by Chinatown Art Brigade. Artists Space Books & Talks, Saturday, October 22, 2016. Courtesy Chinatown Art Brigade, Decolonize This Place and Artists Space, New York. Photo: Marz Saffore [Chinatown anti-gentrification paraphrenelia posted on the wall, with phrases like "Tenants Unite!", "Housing is a Human Right!", "Stop Gentrification Now!" and "Who did you Displace to open your Gallery?", written in English and Mandarin. A monitor displaying a person holding a megaphone at a protest is fixed on the wall, the handouts surrounding it.] -
Chloe P. Crawford, Upright Nationalism, 2022. Video, 4 minutes 18 seconds. Photo: Steven Cottingham. [A color photograph of a video monitor mounted on a wall with two headsets hanging nearby] -
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.] -
Abasement #80. Performance documentation, September 22nd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers play side by side on stage. One performer plays the drums and the other a standing bass. The performers are bathed in colorful lights, created by a live video projection of the performance.] -
[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.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure in a red suit performing in a darkly lit room with LED light sculptures in the background. The figure holds their left hand out in a gesture, and with their right hand holds a mask in front of their face.] -
Traditions: Five Painters. Installation View, Artists Space, 1978. [Various paintings hang on the walls as guests enjoy the exhibition opening.] -
Rashaad Newsome. Still from Shade Compositions, 2012. Video, color, sound; 50 minutes. Courtesy the artist. [A group of five performers dressed in red and white monochromatic outfits stand in front of microphones gesturing with their hands.] -
Catily Dominici, Untitled, photography, 2016 [A black-and-white image of Batman fighting another man facing away from the camera overlaid with a translucent façade of walkup apartment buildings in Manhattan] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers stand side by side on stage. One performer plays a brass instrument and the other a woodwind instrument. The performers and room are bathed in colorful light, created from a projection of a geometric pattern of green, blue, and red stripes.] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [In the center of the gallery space wall rests a large, square MDF wall with a grid of empty sardine cans. To the left of this MDF wall is a chair adorned with various objects, and in the forefront red, white, and blue wax candles spelling "LOVE." To the right of the MDF wall is an artwork on the floor in the spce of the Star of David with painted text on top. On the wall is a black and white painting and a framed text drawing. ] -
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[A computer rendering of a purple and amorphous form composed of long, extending tube shapes on a white background.] -
DUOX: DUOX4Larkin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A plastic surface with five wheels lies upturned on a wooden floor. Eleven metal buckets sit on the upturned surface, some filled with multicolored objects. A silver pole extends out from each of the buckets. In front of the buckets sits a large container of Muscle Milk enclosed in a net bag.] -
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.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance, smoke and an orange light fill the room.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Louis Stein, and Haim Steinbach. Contact sheet of photos from exhibition opening, Artists Space, 1979. Photos by Gary Burnley. [Contact sheet of installation images taken during exhibition opening.] -
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Konrad Lueg Mr. C & A, 1963 © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Daniela Steinfeld [A color-blocked, red and grey, illustration of man's head with a blue hat turns toward the left of the frame.] -
Beech Forest. Performance view, Artists Space, 2007. [Three standing lights point to illuminate a white wall. Standing beside them facing the wall is a figure wearing a coat and a hat with her hands lightly clasped behind her back. Barely visible on the wall beside her are stenciled outlines of trees.] -
[Black, Arial text, reads, "The Library of Helen DeWitt."] -
Angela Bulloch, Rules of the Space, 2012, from the Rules Series, Silkscreen print on record sleeve, 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches, Signed and numbered [A numbered list of rules is arranged on white ground in various black fonts. Text reads: "Rules of the Space / 1. This SPACE is OCCUPIED. Anyone CAN SLEEP HERE / 2. NO Police (Pigs) and NO Informants (Rats) / 3. No Press OR Photos / 4. This is a Safer SPACE No Bullshit / 5. NO Peacekeepers or WANNA-BE POLICE / 6. INVITE EVERYONE (Except the aforementioned pigs and rats) / 7. create the world you want to see in the future (occupy the future) / 8. The HISTORICAL BREAK / 9. SEQUESTER THE BOSSES / 10. SHUT IT DOWN!!! / 11. Flush the toilet - don't shit on the floor.. this isn't Zucotti. / 12. PANTS ARE OPTIONAL / 13. DEMAND NO. 1 CATS (AND WE WANT THEM MEOW!) / 14. Louder! Louder!! LOUDER!!! If You Wanna Exploit LABOR you havta be you have to be 15ft from the door / 15. Rock & Roll ALL NIIIGHT AND PARTY EV-ERY DAY! / 16. CREATE MYTHS TO SUSTAIN CATASTROPHE] -
Flyer for Inquiry & Investigation, 2018. [A piece of stretched cloth covered with painted words reading, "Inquiry" and "Investigation," along with digitally superimposed event information.] -
ART CLUB2000 Untitled (Drum kit), 1994 Miniature drum kit and spotlight Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up of a dramatically lit small drum kit that reads "art club 2000".] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance.] -
Students at the Schomberg Center, 2024 -
[A darkened classroom, lit dimly with overhead orange lights. Three rows of chairs and desks face an image projected on a screen. The image is a blurred figure with a pale face enveloped in a black cape.] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [On the left wall of the gallery space sits of shelf containing a display case of photographs and jars. In the corner of the walls sits a televion on the floor playing a video. On the right wall is a painting vertically reading "NIGHTMARE" with skulls, stars, and abstracted forms superimposed on top. To the right of this is a framed landscape. A painted ceramic sits on a table in the foreground.] -
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.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a basement with two sculptures made of wood and fresnel lenses placed on either side of the image. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photo of an installation and sound work in a gallery space. Wooden tables with black table tops are stacked upon eachother, creating a structure of tables about 20 feet high. The tables are densely packed and populated by a variety of insturments, automated sound objects and other found items such as hair care products and medicine bottles. Behind the stack of tables, a large piece of cardboard hangs on the wall, filled with drawings and collaged elements.] -
Jutta Koether: xxapollo. Performance documentation, January 5, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink, holding a microphone and piece of paper, stands surrounded by a crowd of audience members arranged in a circle. The room is lit with a slightly pink light and light spots are reflected at even intervals.] -
[Close-up image of the faces of a man and a woman, both of their figures cut off by the frame. The woman stands slightly in front of the man, who stands directly behind her shoulder. She wears lipstick, jewelry, and has short hair, while the man is older and wears a suit with a stiff collar. Neither figure looks at each other, gazing elsewhere.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Several black-and-white magazines and documents opened and organized on a white surface.] -
Photo courtesy the artist [Color photograph of a mound of brown rocks and dirt. In the middle of the frame, jutting out of the mound is a broken piece of clear glass with a gold metallic finish on the outside.] -
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.] -
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Dave Burns, SEACH FOR TRUTH, 2003. Digital photograph, archival light jet print. Courtesy the artist. [Two men wearing identical white shirts and blue jeans crouch outdoors at night. The figure on the right grasps two tree branches with both hands. His pants have been dropped to the ground and he sticks his bare rear out. The second figure on the left is fully clothed and crouches behind the other figure, shining a flashlight at his rear end.] -
Tiffany Sia, In Plain Sight (detail view), 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A close-up photograph of an orange LED light on the gallery floor. Black vinyl on the floor in front of the LED reads, "SIGHT]."] -
Jon Rubin. *Alice Underwater. Installation view from Dark Rooms, Artists Space, 1985. [A figure sits in front of a two screens next to each other with impressionistic forest imagery. The light from the projection spills out onto the walls and ceiling while the figure and the floor is shrouded in darkness.] -
Union Gaucha Productions Still from Totloop , 2003 16mm film (silent, color), 4 min 49 sec Collaboration with Fabio Kacero Courtesy of Union Gaucha Productions [An overexposed image of a person looking at the camera, their face partially obscured by the exposure.] -
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. ] -
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Drake Carr: Housecalls. Performance documentation, September 10, 2023, Artists Space at the Armory Show. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A color image of a white wall with windows and black and white curtains. Through the window, a cross-legged figure is partially seen sitting on a chair. Only the legs and hands are visible.] -
Cindy Sherman, Jack Hanley, Claudia Gould, Alexandra Auder. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Cindy Sherman, Jack Hanley, Claudia Gould, and Alexandra Audler stand together and smile at the camera in front of a red wall with an illusionistic landscape view inside a painted pointed arch window. ] -
Cover of FWIW: Constantina Zavitsanos. -
The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [Three metal cutouts of hands hold neon green cards displayed on a white wall. The hand on the rightmost side of the wall is holding up its middle finger.] -
Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of four framed works displayed in a horizontal line on a white wall. The drawings, made on black paper, depict abstract compositions made up of white lines, arrows, circles, and illegible textlines.] -
From below, a musician is seen manipulating electronics housed inside of a lunchbox that pictures a schoolbus painted with different colored rectangles that have sharp black borders. Above the schoolbus is text that reads "The Partridge Family". The walls behind the musician are bathed in soft green light. -
Richard Hollis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A grid of 6 documents sitting opened on a table.] -
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Shala Miller, Genesis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color documentation image of Shala Miller's Genesis, 2023. Three monochrome projection panels float equidistantly in a dark room, with vinyls on black walls.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure, wearing reflective one-way mirror film around their body, hanging off the ledge of an open doorway entrance.] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A large black biomorphic sculpture hangs in the foreground. In the distance, various biomorphic sculptures hang from the ceiling, sit on pedestals, or hang from the walls, receding deeper into the gallery. Three large pink banners emblazoned with silver stars hang from the ceiling in the background.] -
The Serving Library. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A three-shelf, wooden bookshelf sits in a small enclave in a white-walled room. Various multicolored books fill the shelves and additional books rest on top of the bookshelf. Installed on the wall directly to the right of the shelf is a glowing, red neon tube that gently illuminates the room.] -
Abasement #74. Performance documentation, December 2nd, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers on stage with a few audience members in the foreground. The performer on the left is sitting, looking down, and playing guitar. The performer on the right is standing and holding a bow. The audience and musicians are tinted with orange and red toned lights. An abstract orange and green projection covers the back wall.] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Contact sheet of installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of installation images showing artwork hung up on walls .] -
James Coleman. Still from Seeing for Oneself, 1987-88. Slideshow (black and white), 40 min. [A black and white film still of four people in period dress standing in from of an ornately carved fireplace. The people stand in two pairs, apparently engaged in conversation.] -
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Too Black, Too Strong! Installation View, Artists Space, 1988. [A black and white image of two couches set in front of a TV monitor on a pedestal and two speakers installed on either side of it. The TV screen is on, but no clear image is visible on it. A door to exit is visible in the background.] -
Still from video of Yasunao Tone performing Paramedia, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 1990 [Color image of a figure looking to the left and leaning over a table filled with audio equipment. The figure holds sheets of paper with instructions, and manipulates an audio machine.] -
Sheida Soleimani, Dukhan Field, Qatar, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Denny Dimin Gallery [A color photograph of a performance piece showing a nude person lying face-down and completely covered in green paint. They are laying on a large set of green, patterned, and painted paper with a soccer ball and glass of white liquid near their body.] -
John Torreano. Installation view, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white installation photograph of a gallery space. Two dark square canvasses hang on the wall, one is a large and the other small.] -
Abasement #73. Performance documentation, November 4th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two musicians sit on stage. The musician on the left is leaning over a table and using electronic instruments. The musician on the right is looking down and playing the guitar. The stage is lit with red and white lights and projected with a patchworks of patterns.] -
Heist Divination (fwiw remix). Performance documentation, October 25th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [A group of people sit on the floor of a dimly-lit gallery. The audience is facing towards a wall on the left side of the image where a projection of live transcription text is projected. On the right side a performer bathed in green light holds their hands together as they stand infront of a mic. The audience member in the foreground is lit with red light, as well as an exit sign on the back wall. The rest of the gallery walls are blue and purple tinted.] -
Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, Duane Linklater. Installation view, 2019. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Twelve long wooden poles are mounted on a white gallery wall in a circular formation, projecting out from the wall and intersecting a line of black columns, forming a teepee shape. A large piece of brown linen stained with various black, white, and rust-colors hangs from the poles. Part of the linen drapes on the ground below the teepee structure. Several sculptures are visible behind the structure, containing disembodied humanoid heads arranged among platforms and pieces of wood, cardboard, and other materials.] -
[White and yellow text on a green background reads "THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ABOUT ARTIST-CURATED EXHIBITION," and other details about the events.] -
The Artists File at Artists Space, 1986. [A black and white photograph of a number of unmounted 35mm slides on a lightbox is visible in the foreground with a computer and printer visible in the background in an office setting.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a large empty room bathed in a red light. Along one wall, a performer dressed in white stands against the wall, bending over and looking to their left. A bright white light shines from their hips and a sheath of crinkly, reflective one-way mirror film lays on the ground in front of them.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure leans into a microphone from the side with blue, purple, and pink projections cast onto them.] -
Jenny Holzer. Poster, 1982. [Magenta pink background with black text that reads, "YOU GET AMAZING SENSATIONS FROM GUNS. YOU GET RESULTS FROM GUNS. MAN IS AN AGRESSIVE ANIMAL; YOU HAVE TO HAVE A GOOD OFFENSE AND A GOOD DEFENSE. TOO MANY CITIZENS THINK THEY ARE HELPLESS. THEY LEAVE EVERYTHING TO THE AUTHORITIES AND THIS CAUSES CORRUPTION. RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD GO BACK WHERE IT BELONGS. IT IS YOUR LIFE SO TAKE CONTROL AND FEEL VITAL. THERE MAY BE SOME ACCIDENTS ALONG THE PATH TO SELF-EXPRESSION AND SELF DETERMINATION. SOME INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL BE HURT. HOWEVER, G-U-N SPELLS PRIDE TO THE STRONG, SAFETY TO THE WEAK AND HOPE TO THE HOPELESS. GUNS MAKE WRONG RIGHT FAST."] -
Renee Gladman, Slowly We Have the Feeling: Scores, 2019–22, pastel and pigment on paper (grid of nine), dimensions variable. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of nine framed works displayed as a grid against a white wall. The drawings are done on black paper and depict abstract compositions made up of colorful shapes and strokes, and white lines and arrows.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A number of trays of items appear around a flickering light beam over a white sheet on the ground.] -
[A series of booklets with monochrome covers sit in stacks on the interior of a windowsill. Each of the booklets' covers displays thin text spelling out various names, including "Ian Wallace," "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev," and "G. M. Tamás."] -
Terry Fox: All These Different Things Are Sculpture. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of the corner of a gallery space. On the left white wall, a collection of six framed black and white photographs are arranged in a grid. Each frame is black, with three on the top and three on the bottom. On the right wall are four paper-based items hung in a row. The right-most item is an enlarged map, next to it are three smaller pieces of paper with handwritten notes and drawings. ] -
Adam and Zack Khalil, still from INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./], 2016. [An image of a person with long brown hair pointing a pistol at the camera is superimposed on top of an image of a picturesque lake.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Detail view of white lettering on a black glossy structure: "SMASH FALSE DREAMLANDS".] -
Duncan Campbell: Make it new John. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large room with a wooden table in the foreground. A standing screen is centered between two white poles, showing a projected image of a white sign with handwritten text reading "DELOREAN DREAM WORKERS NIGHTMARE."] -
Still from Fiction Contract, 2025. [Close-up of a black person leaning over a black birthing mannequin laying on a hospital bed in a patient room.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
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Drake Carr: Housecalls. Performance documentation, September 9, 2023, Artists Space at the Armory Show. Photo: Joshua Wildman. -
Dies alles Herzchen wird einmal dir gehören (All This Darling Will Once Belong To You). Performance organized by Paul Maenz and Peter Roehr, Galerie Dorothea Loehr, September 9, 1967. DVD transfer, 6 mins, 55 secs. [Black and white image of a crowd of people gathered in a large open space. Several hollow, metal sculptures composed of geometric components are installed in the space. Some performers interact with the sculptures—one figure walks across one of the metal forms that lays on the ground.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large, shiny black structure consisting of three columns supporting a large, irregularly shaped flat plane installed in a gallery space. A black-and-white image wraps around the rightmost, cylindrical column of the structure. The image depicts a person dressing a mannequin in an office.] -
Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free: A History of Squat Theatre. Installation view, Artists Space, 1996. [A gallery space with two white columns bisecting the room. There are black and white images on the wall and a large sign suspended from the ceiling with red letters reading "squat." Behind the sign, a large seated baby with glowing eyes is visible through a paned window.] -
Reese Williams. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [A number of framed photographs and texts are hung on walls in a gallery space.] -
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 CRT monitors, a vending machine, a tulip chair against a seafoam colored wall, and a glass display table backed by tiled photographs.] -
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[A vintage, black and white photograph of the interior of a shop window, which looks out upon a city street. Two men stand to the left side of the window, casually leaning against a pole and talking. Various metal vases, cutlery, and ornaments are displayed on the shelves within the window.] -
James Coleman. Still from Seeing for Oneself, 1987-88. Slideshow (black and white), 40 min. [A black and white film still of two people in period dress engaged in conversation at the far end of an ornate allway lit by candlelight. In the foreground, a person in a maid's costume peeks around one end of a colonnade, observing.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A TV monitor is displayed left of center on a white wall plastered with black-and-white posters that read, "Wanted, wee willy," and two large "e"s. To the right behind a doorway, large beanbags sit infront of bookshelves.] -
Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of three performers on stage. In the right foreground, a performer with medium length dark hair and glasses vocalizes into a microphone. Blurred in the left background are two more performers. The one standing closest to the vocal artist plays a tenor saxophone instrument while the musician behind him plays a guitar. The entire trio and interior is cast in a cobalt blue light emitted from a projector. ] -
Frederick Hammersley. Hide and Speak, 1973. Oil on Linen. 40 inches x 40 inches. [Abstract painting with orange squares and black lines around the side and center with white filling most of the central area.] -
SCRAAATCH, Tower of Babel, 2019, Les Urbaines. Photo: Mathilda Olmi [Two figures perform in front of large projected images.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure performs on stage, standing straight and looking at material held on a music stand in front of them.] -
Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism. Installation view of the section “Kaiserstraße 31A (1963),” Artists Space, 2014. [A wall-sized, black and white photograph of chair and man in front of a train car is adjacent to an angled wall displaying photographs and documents behind glass. In the right hand foreground is a 35mm projector.] -
Andy Robert: PAPALOKO. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a gallery space with several sculptures placed on the floor. To the left, a shovel is attached to a child's chair. In the center, a taxidermied griffon vulture is perched upon a pile of concrete rubble that sits in between two shovels standing upright on pedestals. To the far right, a radiator lays flat on the ground.] -
[A poster design featuring the text "Shellshock Rock An Alternative Blast From Belfast" superimposed onto a grainy, black and white graphic of an open mouth yelling into a microphone. A smaller graphic of a man running with a guitar case is situated to the left of the text "Shellshock."] -
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.] -
Installation view of Barbara Bloom's Solution. From Barbara Bloom, David Salle, Artists Space, 1976 [A group of people seated around a table in an empty room. In front of them are various cups and papers, they appear to be in deep thought.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Six plexiglass slides holding large poster boards, arranged side-by-side such that they create two adjacent walls in the middle of a gallery space. The bottom left corner of each poster is marked with a year ranging from 1993-1997 and is filled with a collection of images and short texts. The rightmost poster is blank, save for a single photo.] -
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Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Candice Hill-Montgomery. [Black and white photograph close up of white picket fence and painted dark background.] -
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Flipside: Symposium. Program view, Artists Space, 2005. [A circle of people sitting in chairs in discussion. Facing towards them are additional rows of chairs filled with an audience. To the left of the audience, there is a white plinth with a glass top housing several porcelin objects on a red fabric. On the wall behind the circle of speakers, there is a plaid composition featuring red, green, and peach colors.] -
Sistema Sandinista de Television. Still from Aqui En Esta Esquina (Here On This Corner), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). 30 minutes (excerpted). Spanish with English subtitles. [The back of one figured centered in the image as another figure appears in front of him alongisde a young shirtless child to the right and a seated audience is seen in the background. Scan lines in the image and the outer box of a CRT monitor are visible.] -
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Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer inside a handmade costume, decorated with pink paper tissue branded “Miu Miu”. The hand of the performer reaches out over the audience, holding a tube with tassels made of paper. The tops of heads of audience members are visible in the edges of the image. Multiple phones are facing the performer while recording. The background is decorated with multicolor abstract projections.] -
Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Mach Zehnder Interferometer, 2018. [Detail view of an interferometer emitting a green light onto a white wall.] -
Installation view from Split/Vision, Artists Space, 1985-86 -
Installation view from Four Artists: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Artists Space, 1985 -
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.] -
[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.] -
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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.] -
Split/Vision. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985-86. [Photographs of different housing interiors hang in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Katsuhiro Saiki. Installation view, Artists Space, 2003. [A low platform on a concrete floor supporting a glasstop photograph of pink clouds on a blue sky.] -
Cave of Animals: Cave of the Future, site recording, 2024 -
Five Spanish Artists. Installation View, Artists Space, 1985. [A few indistinguishable paintings appear on adjacent walls in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Arts and Family Engagement evening, student and parent panel on high school portfolio preparation, P.S. 140, 2019 [A classroom with several adults sitting around the perimeter. In the center, colorful student artworks are arranged across several desks.] -
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Twerk (New York: Belladonna Books, 2015). [A book cover design featuring large pink text that reads, "TWERK" against an abstract turquoise background. Parts of the letter "K" and "T" extend off the page and have been overlaid with a lacy ribbon pattern.] -
Robert Longo. Performance documentation, Exchange Show: Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white image of two hands behind a figure's back. They cross their index and middle finger on each hand.] -
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Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a gallery space. On the left wall hangs a framed work that consists of a colorful abstract drawing made on white paper, with pencil strokes surrounding the colored shapes. On the right wall, three framed works hang on a horizontal line. The three abstract works are made on black paper, and depict colorful compositions.] -
Miguel Angel Rios, Morir ('til Death), 2003. [A collection of black spinning tops on concrete. Several are upright, spinning, and several have fallen onto their sides. A white grid is just visible on the ground beneath them.] -
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Louise Lawler, Who Says, Who Shows, Who Counts, 1990, Three chablis glasses with glass shelf, 8 1/2 x 14 x 4 1/4 in (21,6 x 35,6 x 10,8 cm), Edition of 50, Signed & numbered. [Three wine glasses sit next to each other on a glass shelf with a black background. Each glass has text lasered into the front. From left to right the first says, "who says," the second, "who shows," and the third, "who counts."] -
The Mind/Body Problem. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Alan Wiener. [A gallery space with two columns. On the right side of the columns is a small platform from which two black curtains hang. Behind that are two stools underneath a mirror mounted on the wall. On the other side of the columns, four paintings hang on a white wall in a line. Just visible beyond the end of the wall is another space with additional paintings hung on that wall.] -
SCRAAATCH, Untitled July 4th Performance, 2022. Photo: Mo Costello. [A microphone and lights are set up in a field, with trees along the horizon line.] -
Film still from Mo’ Money, 1992, Columbia Pictures. [A color film still of two figures at a table. Only their lower torsos and hands are visible. The figure on the right wears a watch and shuffles a deck of red playing cards next to several green bills.] -
The Friends of Artists Space Dinner, May 8, 2010. Julie Ault's speech. [A woman in a dark dress with shoulder-length auburn hair stands before a microphone in a gallery space, reading from a sheet of paper. She looks up from the paper to gaze in front of her.] -
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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 face down across two ledges of a raised desk.] -
Kent Monkman. Still from Dance to Miss Chief, 2010. [Two skewed images of Native American men holding drums on either side of a person in a sheer red dress and mask, posing for the camera.] -
Zilia Sánchez. Still from Soy Isla. Compréndelo y Retírate, 2000. [A VHS recording of a person holding an object on the beach.] -
UniBodies. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [In the foreground, a clear and grey sculpture rests on top of a white pedestal. In the background, four additional sculptures in arranged from light to dark tones, hang in a row.] -
Underground: Jose Gabriel Fernandez. Installation view, Artists Space, 1991. [A large cone-shaped object in a room with wooden floors and a window covered with a sheer curtain. A light, floral print decorates one wallpapered wall; the same print covers the cone.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [Two silhouetted figures kissing behind a microphone. They are backlit by a white projection with black capitalized text reading "RENUNCIATION KISSING STATION".] -
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Installation View from Recent Art From Chicago, Artists Space, March 8, 1986 - April 5, 1986. [Dirt appears on the edges of the floor and in the plastic clear cases hanging above them in a gallery setting.] -
Gary Falk, Brigid Kennedy, Ladd Kessler, Peggy Yunque. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Grainy photograph of a wall drawing in a gallery space.] -
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Pictured right:. Scott Burton. Pastoral Chair Tableau, 1971—74. From Scott Burton, Pamela Jenrette, Artists Space, 1975. [A dyptich of color photographs. The one on the left shows an empty alleyway. The one on the right shows six chairs in front of a blue curtain.] -
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Split/Vision. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985-86. [A number of framed images appear on the wall, on the left there is an organized section of 16 and 8 are hung horizontally next to that grouping.] -
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972–2009. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An installation shot of a room warmly lit by yellow and pink light. There is a low-hanging disco ball, surrounded by various objects set on the floor, including a vase with flowers, a second disco ball, strands of string lights, and more.] -
[A black and white image of a girl sitting sideways on stone steps against a wall reading a book. Several more books are piled in front of her.] -
Bill Gunn and Duane Jones on the set of Ganja & Hess. Image courtesy Tom Cummings. [A black-and-white photograph of a group of men shooting a scene on an outdoor film set. They are surrounded by trees and grass.] -
Nuestro Reflejo, Threads of History exhibition, Morris Jumel Mansion, March, 2025 -
[Flyer featuring three computer-generated shapes: a sphere, a curved plane, and a flat plane. Each of the shapes is black, covered in a white grid pattern, and features a warped image of a red triangle. The shapes sit on a blue and yellow gradient background. Red sans-serif text positioned at the top and bottom of the image reads, “artists space & / the segue series / present a / reading by / Dia Felix / and / Jeremy / Hoevenaar / saturday, may 16 / 5pm nyc time / zoom id: / 378 232 567 / be there or be non-euclidean.”] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two square paintings adjacent to eachother.] -
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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 four large paintings hanging on a white wall. In the paintings, queer black bodies interact with each other in different settings, such as a hair supply store. Drawn directly on the wall, roses, a hand, a ring and other elements surround the paintings. At the center of the image, hair accesories sit on the floor.] -
Yasunao Tone and Suzanne Fletcher performing Voice and Phenomenon, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, 1976. [Black-and-white photograph of a TV against a brick wall, connected to a camera recording directly above a spotlighted chair and desk. A figure sits across the empty chair at the desk, while another figure kneels down to the left side of the desk working on something.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of a gallery room with black walls. Around the center of the room are three hanging screens. Around the edges of the room, performers wearing all black stand under spotlights. Along the back wall sit a cellist and harpist with their instruments. The audience sit on the floor in front of the performers.]
