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Executive Director & Chief Curator Jay Sanders. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Jay Sanders stands at a podium in front of a microphone, smiling while mid-speech. Various gala attendees clap from their seats at circular tables arranged around the podium.] -
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Mot Caché, 1978. Rubber stamp and stamped ink on postcard, 4 x 5 x 4 in. and 3 ½ x 5 ½ in. Photo: Chris Grunder and Benjamin Blackwell. [A rubber stamp sits to the right of a postcard, against a white background. The design on the rubber stamp reads "mot / caché" in the center, and various other words run along the edges of the stamp. The postcard bears a mirrored version of the stamp's design.] -
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. [Sixty images with dark backgrounds and a white, pixelated spot emanating from their centers arranged in a grid formation on an indigo blue gallery wall.] -
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Paul Sharits [A black and white photograph of a man standing outside, surrounded by trees and grass, with his hand on a tripod.] -
Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, The Baby & The Mouse, 2025. Hercules plushie, Fievel Mousekewitz plushie, Nike Air Force shoes, TV, speakers, recordings from DVD of the animated musical Hercules (1997), recordings from the DVD of the animated musical An American Tail (1986), voice acting. Photo: Carter Seddon [Two toys, sitting on a white rug and propped up by white sneakers, face a TV screen. The TV screen between them displays a scene from the cartoon *Hercules*] -
Circus Amok, Escape to New York. Performance documentation, August 13, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Paula Court [A figure points a microphone towards an audience, while various figures wearing white costumes and balancing plants on their heads can be seen just out of focus in the background.] -
Abstraction in Process. Installation view, Artists Space, March 26, 1987 - May 2, 1987. [On the right abstract paintings on rectangular wooden blocks, a column bisects the frame centrally and painted wood constructions are visible on the walls in the background in a white-walled gallery setting.] -
Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown, Jr.), portrait by Ting Ding, 2019, Shirt & Harness by HECHA / 做. [A man in t-shirt and fabric harness crouching, face slightly obscured behind metal pipes, wearing a baseball cap saying "MAKE TECHNO BLACK AGAIN"] -
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Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, mixed media
12 x 13 x 5 inches (variable)
$5,000
[A brown and gold object stands on a white base. On the flat surface of the object sit an onion and a lemon, each connected to a wire. In the base of the object a processing chip is embedded. Under the lemon, a gold earring hangs down.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance.] -
ART CLUB2000 Untitled (Grim Reaper), 1999 Wood, galvanized netting, black fabric, chain, plastic scythe, and rubber skeleton hand Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A grim reaper shrouded in deep red light pulls back a black curtain, beckoning one into a seperate vacant room.] -
Renee Gladman, Prose, 2019. Pigment on paper, 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the Artist [A block of horizontal, very small cursive text is written in white on a black background.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork by Haim Steinbach. [View of colorful panelled designed wall with shelves holding plants and other items. A blue desk with pamphlets on them is visible in the front left corner which is near a doorway into another room.] -
This drawing by Jean-Louis Forain, published on the front page of a Parisian newspaper in 1920, rallied support for the original Droit De Suite. [Drawing depicting an impoverished beggar and his child outside an auction house where the father's painting is being sold for large sums.] -
Keeph Little, Artists Space construction site no.1, 2020, digital photograph Keeph Little, Artists Space construction site no.1, 2020, digital photograph [A window sill with cups, cans and cloth is visible and a crane can be seen outside of the window with the text: "New Holland" written on it. Circular green graffitti is visible on the facade of the building behind the crane.] -
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Jack Smith: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An image of a man with black material painted around his eyes projected onto a black gallery wall. A portion of a red Coca-Cola sign reading "Trink Coca-Cola" is superimposed over the man's image. To the right of the video projection, an amorphous black sculpture with red feathers is displayed on a small shelf.] -
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Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two framed collaged images on a white wall. Both display a central image of two dogs.] -
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Photo: Reily Horan [The artist devynn emory in their grandmother's fleece jacket covered in polar bears, standing in front of a silver sterile table. In the background is collaborator Joseph and cinematographer Jorge discussing where the ancestor forms draped in yellow fabric should be placed.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure is shown in profile performing on stage into a microphone, with a music stand placed in front of them.] -
Rolando Politi, lets free the caps from being "bonded to the threads of a bottle." Image courtesy Rolando Politi. [A color image of a decorated waste container on the street. The container is adorned with bottle caps in different colors, sizes, and materials, nailed to the surface of the bin. The dense arrangement of the caps on its surface creates complex color patterns and textural accentuations.] -
Installation view from Annual Selections Show, Artists Space, 1985 [A close up black and white image of multiple paintings hanging on a white wall and a sculpture occupying the gallery floor.] -
Meryl Vladimer. Installation view, Louisa Chase, Ted Stamm, Meryl Vladimer, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white photograph of a sculpture comprised of nine dark orbs on a dark circular backgroun.] -
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A video plays on a monitor installed on the wall of a gallery space. Two pairs of headphones attached to the monitor rest on a wooden bench facing the screen. The front pages of several newspapers are displayed on a gallery wall to the left of the monitor, while to the right, a paragraph of wall vinyl is installed on the lower half of the gallery wall.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of a woman captured mid-performance in a dimly lit venue. The performer is situated before a microphone and a music stand, while a crowd of seated and standing audience members attentively watch. Bright spotted lights from a disco ball out of view sparsely illuminate the environment.] -
Motoharu Jonouchi, Document 6-15, 1961-62 [Black-and-white image of a group of figures in suits and white shirts surrounding a large military tank, they are grabbing the sides and trying to control the vehicle.] -
Ethan, Transit Station, digital photograph, 2023 -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three television screens installed on a gallery wall. Two screens are positioned in a portrait orientation and the third in a landscape orientation. Their cords loosely fall to the ground below and run beneath a door. Each screen displays images of one or several figures mid-speech or mid-movement.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands on stage behind a table with a laptop, preparing to perform.] -
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.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of four individuals crowded together as they look at something on a cellphone. Two individuals in the group are seated at a dinner table, where other guests are also engaged in conversation. A dimly lit and elegant venue full of other individuals can be seen in the background.] -
Gillian Wearing, All I Ever Wanted Was Love, 1992/93, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [Photograph of a youthful figure with short brown hair wearing blue jeans and a dark shirt with a green jacket tossed over their left shoulder. A black bandana covers their mouth, obscuring the lower half of their face. They hold a sign in front of their chest with both hands. The phrase, "ALL I EVER WANTED WAS LOVE" is scrawled across the sign in handwritten text. A hand-drawn image of a sun and palm tree decorate the right side of the poster. The figure stares directly at the viewer and poses against a dark wall. Small white text placed at the image's lower left corner reads, "2020Solidarity - Gillian Wearing."] -
Audrey Glassman, Untitled, 1983. Cibachrome, 28 x 42 inches. [Sculptures of lizards and turtles are seen on the top portion of the image in bright lighting on a white gallery wall and on the bottom of the image is a 10-gallon hat.] -
Still from Resonating Surfaces, 2005. Courtesy of Manon de Boer, Auguste Orts and Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels. [A grainy image of a woman looking to her left. She is leaning against the back of a chair, one arm outstretched while the other is bent and holds a cigarette.] -
Amy Westpfhal, still from The Informational Cookie Project, 2006. [A figure in a white military uniform shirt approaches a group of women on a city street. She holds out a platter of small cookies wrapped in small plastic wrappers to one of the figures, who has taken the cookie, unwrapped it, and reads a small note attached to it.] -
Shala Miller, Modern-Day Sisyphus I, 2023. Courtesy the artist [Black-and-white print featuring multiple photographs of a naked body, spotlighted against a black background and collaged together. Flashes of white light across the print obscure parts of the image, bringing the body in and out of focus.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Las Nietas de Nonó, The page you are looking for is not found, 2022, coconut fiber, copper wire, desks, chairs, security monitors, videos, zinc sheets, clay rocks; Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak [Image of two desks, each with a chair, TV monitor playing a video, and clay rocks placed on top.] -
David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren, Self-Portrait of David Wojnarowicz, 1983/84, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [A collaged image featuring a black and white photograph of a figure with short, dark hair wearing a partially unbuttoned shirt against a white background. The figure crosses their arms casually in front of their chest, their right hand holding a lit cigarette. Bright red and yellow strokes of paint resembling fire flames have been painted over the photograph, emerging from the figure's right side. Fragments of a world map have been collaged over the left side of the figure's face. Additionally, an illustration of the Earth and several small illustrations of clocks are collaged along the figure's right arm. A small illustration of a running figure, engulfed by flames, is positioned next to the figure's right elbow. Small black text running along the image's bottom edge reads, "2020Solidarity - David Wojnarowicz with Tom Warren / A project by Between Bridges."] -
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Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, metal antenna
3 1/2 x 13 x 12 inches (variable)
$2,500
[A multicolored object sits on a white base. A metal antenna extends out on a diagonal.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Two figures perform next to each other on stage. One stands, hands out, singing in front of a microphone. The other sits down, playing the guitar.] -
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.] -
Richard Klauber. Installation view, Ruth Hardinger, Richard Klauber, Artists Space, 1975. [A color installation photograph of a white abstract painting with black lines on a white wall.] -
Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view (Vital, 2025), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A darkened gallery space with dark blue walls and dark blue carpeting with a large wall projection. The projection depicts a black patient in a blue hospital gown laying down on an examination table. A white doctor holds a stethoscope to the patient’s stomach.] -
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[White text on a bright fuchsia background. The text reads: “Nov 1 / Jzl Jmz / Edward Salem.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Leslie Hewitt, Make it Plain, 2006. C-print. [A large, framed photograph of two books, a wooden rectangle, and a photograph stacked vertically on each other. There is a second photograph offset to the right in the image.] -
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.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Sarah E. Brook and Sara Jimenez. March 19, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a light blue background. The top left corner reads: Sarah E. Brook / Sara Jimenez. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, March 19, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
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.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a performer dressed in white, kneeling on all fours. A bright light from their pelvic area shines onto the floor, as viewers stand around the figure.] -
Rhinestone Sharecropping. Berkeley: I. Reed Books, 1981. [A book cover with text reading: "RHINE / STONE / SHARE / CROPPING / a novel / by BILL GUNN author of / Black Picture Show." Below the text is an image of multiple filmstrips arranged to form a grid.] -
You Are The Everything and The Everything Is In You. Installation view, Artists Space, 2005. [A corner of a gallery space with wooden floors. Two framed works on paper hang on the left wall. A light blue color has also been imprinted on the central portion of the wall. A long scroll of paper stretches horizontally across the wall to the right. The paper is covered with black and pastel-colored markings.] -
[A photo of a city alleyway acts as the background for this image. Superimposed on the photo are two groups of people in motion with right arms raised, holding cellphones. The group on the right faces toward the viewer, the group on the left faces away.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs move a table with wheels, on which a mannequin lies.] -
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"] -
Installation view, Robert Morgan. Artists Space, 1977. [A black-and-white photograph of a gallery space with a video projected on the wall. There appear to be multiple bodies in the video.] -
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Apartment Show: If the dogs are barking. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A collection of posters, drawings, paintings, photographs, and collages hang in clusters on a white gallery wall. On the right of the wall is a closed doorway. A long, multicolored poll wedged into a wood stump sits on the gallery floor.] -
[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.] -
[Video still of a figure laying on their back on top of an overturned, white table on a small stage area. They stretch their legs straight up above themselves. They wear a pink dress with black tulle fabric and brown boots. Scattered papers are strewn around them onstage.] -
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Abasement #85. Performance documentation, March 2nd, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays the drums on stage, bathed in red light, while colorful geometric patterns are projected on the wall behind.] -
Abasement #66. Performance documentation, October 9, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two figures facing each other, performing. The figure on the left holds a ramrod on his left hand, and is sitting on a chair. In front of the figure, there is a table with unusual instruments made of wood. The second figure is on the right. They are holding a microphone. In the background, audience members face the performers. The room is illuminated by red light.] -
Selections from the Artists File, installation view, Artists Space, 1986. [Black fabric drops down from the black table top in an oval-like shape.] -
Tom Murrin, Johanna Went, 1985. Acrylic on foam core, 14.75 x 20 inches. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Patty Wallace. [A painting of a person with red hair, cross-shaped earings, and black paint under their eyes.] -
Audrey Glassman, Untitled. Cibachrome, 28 x 42 inches. [Two figures sitting at opposite ends of a couch looking outside of the image to the right. A telephone sits on a table next to the couch on the right.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Tyrone Williams and Joselia Rebekah Hughes. Saturday, December 11, 2021, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a mauve background. The top left corner reads: "Tyrone Williams & Joselia Rebekah Hughes." The center right reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE." The bottom left reads: "Saturday December 11 - 5pm, 11 Cortland Alley + Zoom". The image of a 5 dollar bill is placed within the text.] -
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Still from Polly II - A Plan for a Revolution in Docklands (2006). [Two people dressed in black looking down. Superimposed on top of them is a poster reading, "JENNY DIVER CALLS ON ALL PEOPLE OF THE FLOOD EAST ORGANIZE NOW! PEACE TO HUMBLE DWELLINGS! WAR TO THE PALACES!"] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Three figures perform in front of an audience. Two figures in blue morph suits face off with a wooden table between them, while a third figure takes video footage of the scene.] -
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Joseph Hilton, Beside the Sleeping Guards (of Cairo) Day and Night, 1986. [A diptych drawing of one figure sitting cross-legged on the left and another figure lying down next to flowers in a vase depicted on the right.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two paper bags with handles sit on a white shelf. The left bag is red and decorated with two illustrated portraits, one of which is a Native American man. The bag to the right has a larger portrait of a Native American man next to illustrative fish on a colorful background.] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two gold picture frames with black and white portraits of a woman (left) and a man (right) face each other on a shelf.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure standing in an orange-lit space filled with various audio equipment. They lean down to press adjust a dial on an audio mixer.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Exhibition wall text on the left next to a vitrine of objects and posters on the right back wall.] -
Slab works, c. 1978–1980. Cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint. Dimensions unknown. Courtesy of the Frances Mulhall Achiles Library, Artist File, Whitney Museum of American Art [Installation view of three cast concrete blocks - the middle one leaning against the last one - standing on a wood floor.] -
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Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 9, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [A seated crowd watches a performer who stands behind a table on a stage. The room is illuminated by red light and the reflection of a disco ball.] -
Isa Suero, from Help, 2020, portfolio, digital photograph [A figure wearing a red hoodie pours oil into a cooking pan on a stove while a figure wearing a T-shirt and jeans in the background chops a produce item. Another pot is visible on the stove along and a cabinet and light appear above the stove.] -
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Sistema Sandinista de Television. Still from Golpes de la Corazon (Blows of the Heart), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). Spanish with English subtitles. [One figure stands in a small square construction waist high and a nearby child stands inside another square construction with their head peeking out at the other figure. A figure stands behind them by a washbasin with clothes hanging from a clothesline in front of them. Bushes and trees appear behind them along with another edifice in the background. Video scan lines and black edges of CRT monitor are visible.] -
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab. The Transborder Immigrant Tool, 2007–ongoing. Pages excerpted from The Transborder Immigrant Tool publication. Courtesy the artist, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and University of California, San Diego. [English version of the poem “You can survive without eating anything for three weeks in hot weather…/En climas cálidos, puede sobrevivir hasta tres semanas sin comer nada...” is written in the top-left portion of the page while the Spanish version is written in the lower-right. A grey line of varying widths divides the two languages.] -
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.] -
Invitation from Hommage an Schmela (Homage to Schmela) December 9 – 15, 1966 Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf Estate Konrad Lueg [A scanned image of paper, angled at its forlds, that reads, "Hommage en schemla." On the bottom page are sections of dates with handwritten information.] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A woman wearing headphones stands in front of a horizontal monitor displaying an image of two illustrated eyes and a nose. Behind the monitor, several framed photographs lean against a wall. A long, red carpet runs across the floor underneath the photographs.] -
New Economy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [In the foreground is a low sculpture made of folding metal framework that contains blue and white geometric prints as well as boxes. In the background are stacks of boxes that are printed with the words "Das Kapital." Behind them are black and white posters with identical graphs that are titled "The Wealth of Nations."] -
Blue Sky Gallery exhibition P.S. 140, 2019 [In this photograph, eleven people pose for a picture in front of drawings and paintings that hang on the wall. Most stand while three kneel.] -
New Music Circle, St. Louis. Photo: Theo R. Welling [Color photograph of a hand, fingers outstretched and manipulating a group of suspended wires that run across the frame.] -
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972–2009. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [The word "TIRANNY" is handwritten in block letters on a wall. In front of it, there is a low-hanging disco ball, surrounded by various objects set on the floor, including a vase with flowers, a silver ball, a brown box, and more. The room is lit with a green hue.] -
Hito Steyerl. Still from Liquidity, Inc., 2014. HD video with sound, 30 minutes. [A video projection playing in a blue lit room with a large curved surface for viewing.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a man standing at a podium, reading from a program. The individual is flanked on both sides by guests seated at dinner tables within an elegant and decorative venue.] -
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.] -
Installation view. Artists Space, 1983. Foreground: Jeff Koons. New Wet/Dry Triple Decker, 1982. Plexiglass, fluorescent light, new vacuum cleaners. 124 1/2 x 28 x 28 inches. [In the foreground is a set of vacuum cleaners on display vertically above each other on a plexiglass shelf rack with fluourescent lights underneath each one. Behind it on a wall is a Duratrans on a lightbox with text that reads: "New 100% Meri Ultra-lights" and a picture of a pack of ciagrettes appears next to the text. These works appear in a white-walled gallery space with a window in the far left back and a fluorescent light visible above.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
Metaphysical Visions. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [In the foreground of a white gallery space is a large sculpture made of a wooden box topped with a floral textile and wooden chairs. Another sculpture and painting are installed behind it.] -
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Nandi Loaf, +, 2025 [On a white gallery wall, a vinyl cut out of a black cross or "plus-sign" sits perfectly in the center.] -
Kevin Labadie. Installation view. Artists Space, 1983. [A number of dark paper-thin objects are visible in the foreground and a netted covering with small pieces of string dispersed around it with light emanating from behind can be seen in the upper section of the image.] -
[A dirty, gray tile floor with small wisps of hair scattered across it.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A purple square on a white wall with various photographic media displayed.] -
[A black and white line drawing of a person in an art gallery looking at a portrait on the wall. There is another piece on the wall of a person holding a rectangular box and blowing a bubble.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon [In an open gallery space, three vitirnes stand surrounded by walls displaying large color photographs with thick black borders. The inner display of a vitrine reveals smaller color photographs.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a white gallery wall with three vitrines containing musical scores built into the wall. On top of the vitrine is a manipulated flute, and a series of black-and-white images. Two black-and-white photographs are hung to the right of the vitrine.] -
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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 on the floor of a dark room. The figure has one leg raised in the air, shining a light from their pelvic area onto the floor and wall across from them. A small TV monitor sits in the corner.] -
Vito Acconci reads. Event documentation, May 14, 1996, Squat Café at Artists Space. [A crowd sits in a semi-circle arrangement of wooden chairs within a gallery space. In front of the audience, a man sits at a white table and reads from a piece of paper while speaking into a microphone. Directly behind the man is a large statue of a baby with glowing blue eyes.] -
Abasement #82. Performance documentation, November 17th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sings onstage, obscured by hair and bathed in shades of blue light. ] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Two figures dressed in blue morph suits walk around a basement space. One figure on the right stands behind a semi-circular rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Along the back wall blue and purple live CCTV video footage is projected.] -
[A screenshot of the google images search results for the query "exit not escape."] -
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Salad Days. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A white wall with orange and yellow lollipops arranged in lines. In front of the wall is a small television on a white plinth.] -
Opening at the Tanager Gallery, NY, 1959. [A black and white photograph of a crowded room filled with people conversing.] -
Abasement #65. Performance documentation, September 18, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A close-up image of a musician sitting on the floor playing the violin. Three other violins lay on the stage before her.] -
John Torreano. Untitled, 1974. Oil and glass jewels on canvas. Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white photograph of a square white canvas covered in shiny and textured black splotches.] -
Mark West, Welcome to the Neighborhood (detail), 1986. [A drawing of shadowy unrecognizable forms.] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a darkened gallery installation with multiple projectors and a golden egg sculpture in the left back corner. In the left foreground, a pinhole projector wrapped in foam and secured with red string sits on a pedestal. On the wall to the left, an image of a golden ornamental hoop and pin, along with four small pink and green strawberries, is projected. In the center back, a pinhole project inside a rectangular plaid plastic travel bag with straps sits atop a pedestal. It projects an image of a green square with a crenellated metal opening onto the back wall. To the right, a projector inside a plywood box sits atop a pedestal. On the wall to the right, an image of an image of a red pearlescent ball, with a small white pearlescant ball attached on top, is projected.] -
Artists Performance Series. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A black and white photograph of a gallery space. On the left, a window casts soft light onto a table and two chairs. On the right, a television monitor is positioned on a low bench.] -
Anja Kirschner and David Panos, still from Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, 2011. [A man and a woman in a split screen view with a black space between them. The man's face is turned to the side; the woman is facing towards him, her eyes cast downwards, with two fingers pointing.] -
Hilary Lloyd. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two screens are mounted, one above the other, on two metal poles. They show a single image split across the two screens of a black fabric with white dots, zigzags, and lines. In the background, there are two more screens mounted vertically on two metal poles. They show a black image with white light spots.] -
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. A row of four small speakers, evenly spaced and held on small wooden shelves, span the left wall. On the right 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. ] -
Renee Gladman, Slowly We Have the Feeling: Score, 2019-2022. Pastel and pigment on paper. Courtesy of the Artist [A drawing of a diagram on black paper with a white circle in the center and arrows and angles pointing around the circle is accentuated by blocks and lines of orange, blue, pink and red that intersect with or fill in areas around the white lines.] -
University of Colorado, still from On Art and Artists Series. Andres Serrano: What Follows…, 1991. 31 min. [Andres Serrano wearing a dark blue shirt and looking at an off-camera interviewer mid-speech.] -
[Two Artists Space tote bags lay in the autumn grass. One is black with a white line drawing, the other is pink with a black bold graphic.] -
[White text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Nov 4 / Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué / Xan Forest Phillips." Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure dressed in all white, dancing in a corridor bathed in red light.] -
[White text on a turquoise and grey ombré background. The text reads: “Feb 22 / Eszter Balint / Juliana Huxtable / Rezarta Seferi.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays the guitar sitting down, while another figure stands behind him playing the bass.] -
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.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a basement with various sculptures made of wood and fresnel lenses placed around the space. Contact microphones are attached to the fresnel lenses and audio wires wrap around the floor. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer sitting on stage in front of a table with a laptop and audio equipment. They are leaning forward, using both hands on the machine. The laptop on the table shows live audio tracks, with bars of various colors. The room is dark and the audience is out of focus in the background. White dots of light fill the room.] -
Underground: Gail Rothschild. Installation view, Artists Space, 1990. [A group of human figures made of clay are seated on benches around a long table, which extends to the length of a dark room. The walls of the room are patterned with handprints.] -
Contemporary Architecture - an installation by realities:united. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [In a gallery space, a large white overhead LED-style sign acts as both a drop ceiling and overhead lighting. It displays two numbers, a 2 and a 5. Below are a black sofa and, facing it, a small television on a wooden pedestal.] -
James Carpenter. Shaking. Installation view. Artists Space, 1985. [An indistinguishable projection on the wall with an installed light appearing above it facing the opposite direction and a bright light coming in from the upper right corner of the image. A column bisects the image.] -
[Two human arms and one robotic arm are writing the partially formed word "EVOLUTION" in tandem on a white piece of paper.] -
Jean-Michel Wicker. wee willy wanted (la rivoluzione siamo me), 2013 [A black-and-white image of a man, a white bar with text, that reads "WANTED," covers his face. Below, a white bar with text that reads, "wee willy."] -
Hani Rashid, Corset Shop in Paris, 1985. Mixed media with ink, old paints, acids, chalks, 33 x 24 inches. [Drawing with various stools and faces in the center rectangle with lines emerging under it stretching towards the bottom.] -
Corrugated Slogans and An Anthology of Invalid Format. [A white book lying on a larger blue book.] -
DUOX: DUOX4Larkin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A glass case filled with colorful paraphernalia sits on an orange table. The case is bound lengthwise and widthwise with straps. On top of the case sit two magnifying glasses and several stacks of plastic cups.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a closeup of a figures hands holding a block of ice on top of thekeys of a reed organ. The reed organ is covered in a sheet of clear plastic.] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon -
Yasunao Tone performing Paramedia, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 1990 [Black-and-white photograph of two figures sitting behind tables filled with audio equipment. They are focused on manipulating the audio machines in front of them.] -
Laurel Woodcock, (Untitled), Neon Quote, 2005. Neon sculptures. Courtesy the artist. [The exterior of a Soho building at night. Inside the third floor are two glowing blue neon quotation marks visible from outside.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A large display case whose top and bottom portions are made of a shiny, black material. Held between these black components is a glass vitrine that displays several objects, including a flat surface covered with inky text that reads, "BC." Behind and to the right of the display case, a shiny, black cubic structure—nearly of ceiling height— is installed in the gallery.] -
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Matters of Sensation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A metal form sits on a sloped gray slap on top of a low, rectangular plinth. The 3D form is composed of thin metal sheets that together form an amorphous shape that casts a series of shadows on the surface below it.] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two video monitors installed on a freestanding wall in an exhibition space. A woman stands in front of the leftmost monitor, which displays a bright, red image. A larger monitor to the right displays a cool-toned scene of an ocean. White text superimposed over the image reads, "Death Mask III."] -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez.. [In a large, open gallery space, several photographs hang on walls to the right. To the left, multiple small monitors mounted to a colorful gallery wall play video works. In front of the monitors, there are wooden stools with headphones resting upon them.] -
The Library of Helen DeWitt Kitchen view Courtesy Helen DeWitt [Three white shelves, that extend the entire length of the frame, are filled with books of various colors and sizes.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A green, blue, and yellow abstract landscape painting hangs on a white wall. A purple buffalo painting is hanging on the wall to the left. To the right, a tall paper is pinned into a purple section of wall.] -
Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure standing behind audio mixing equipment and a microphone in an orange-lit space. A seated observer watches in the foreground.] -
Brad Kronz, I Reject the Good Opinion of Others, 2024. Wood, carpet, paper, latex paint, staples, bolts, nails. Photo: Carter Seddon [Two boards, one horizontal on the ground and the other vertical on the wall, meet at a right angle. The bottom board sits covered with stripped carpet, the top nearly covered with marroon carpet. ] -
Ocean water from Nakoso Beach, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan, June 2021 [Two metal bowls, a water bottle with a funnel in its spout, and a blue plastic bucket stand on a sandy ocean beach] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure performs into a microphone, their mouth open, performing using material held on a music stand in front of them.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [Several silhouetted figures backlit by a red glow stand among columns. The figure in the center holds a white-lit object in the air.] -
Jim Hodges, Untitled, 1999, Etching and aquatint with chine-collé, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm), Edition of 30, Signed & numbered. [A white image with a faint grey line that bisects the page lengthwise. In small text, the word "with" Iies at the center of the image.] -
Cover of Common Ruin, Win McCarthy, 2023. [Scanned image of a white page featuring a geometric drawing of a building divided into squares. Some of the squares are colored in charcoal and others are lightly filled in with pencil. Light smudges of black charcoal appear across the page. In the upper-center of the page, text reads: "Win McCarthy / Common Ruin".] -
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[Black text on a light green background. The text reads: “April 11 / Blake Butler / Ariana Reines.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
New Red Order Give it Back, detail, 2020 Acrylic LED displays with cut vinyl, water cooler, poster, couch, desk, chairs, magazine rack, The New Red Times Magazine, and three televisions. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York [An image of a magazine rack with numerous copies of a magazine with a city-scape is positioned upside down, the point of the skyscraper reaching towards the bottom of the image. Googley eyes, eyebrows, and a mouth are drawn near the top of the building. Red serif font across the top of the image reads "The New Red Times Magazine." White serif font in the bottom left corner reads "TIRED OF LIVING ON STOLEN LAND?" Below, red serif font reads "GIVE IT BACK."] -
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ART CLUB2000 Gli Avvoltoi (The Vultures), 1995 Vinyl paint and newsprint flyer Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [Behind two large columns is a wall mural displaying multiple cartoon vultures resting on black scaffolding. Beside the mural sits a pile of newsprint flyers.] -
Ed Atkins, Death Mask II: The Scent, 2010. HD video with sound, 8 minutes 19 seconds. Courtesy the artist, Cabinet Gallery, London and Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin. [An open folding calculator, turned on its side and illuminated by bright green, peach, and pink lights.] -
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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 wearing a conical sheath of reflective one-way mirror film. They stand in the corner of a dark room, shining a bright light against the wall behind them. Their silhouette can be vaguely seen under the mirror film.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Installation view, Artists Space, New York, 2022. [A color image of a dark room featuring illuminated yellow and orange shapes floating on the wall and reflected on the floor.] -
Gary Falk, Brigid Kennedy, Ladd Kessler, Peggy Yunque. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [A dim photograph of hanging sculptures and multiple objects on white pedestals.] -
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Installation view from International Projects: Belgium, featuring Didier Vermeiren, Artists Space, 1984 [Black and white image of multiple sculptures displayed in the exhibition space.]
