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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.] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view (Kristan Kennedy, B.E.W.E.L.L.P.O.P.E.L., 2025; Pope.L, Maybe, 2009-2010), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [To the left sits a chair adorned in cloth and green onion. On the gallery wall is a square MDF wall with graddied sardine cans along in. On the floor in front of this MDF wall is an assortment of objects: bag, box, electrical cord, and more sardine cans.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure leans down and places a beer can on the stage.] -
[Two figures illuminated by a circular spotlight in an interior space. A mirror leans against the wall directly behind them. One figure stands in a brown suit, their hands behind their back. They are blindfolded. A second, mostly nude figure crouches directly below them.] -
Performance at Artists Space, 1980s [Five people dressed in white, carefully looking down and stepping around an otherwise empty room.] -
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.] -
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.] -
Passages from People Who Led to My Plays. Performance documentation, March 1, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Paula Court. [A figure sits in a dimly lit corner in profile, gazing forward. They flip through pages of a script displayed in front of them. An open laptop sits to their left.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view featuring contact sheets from Losing Ground, c. 1982, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up image of two black and white contact sheets mounted on a wall.] -
The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [An exhibition wall with multiple posters hanging in between two large speakers and a tv on a pedestal in the center.] -
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.] -
Cave of Animals: Cave of the Future, site recording, 2024 -
Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, mixed media
7 x 12 x 17 inches (variable)
$5,000
[A brown object with a processing chip imbedded in its front sits on a white base. On top of the object, a small potato sits with two wires attached.] -
Demonstrations outside Artists Space during the opening of Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, November 16, 1989. [A line of people marching forward hold up signs reading, "NO TAXATION WITHOUT ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION" and "FASCISM BEGINS WITH CENSORSHIP,' among other messages.] -
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.] -
Yates McKee, Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (New York: Verso Books, 2017); edited by Nina Felshin, But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism (Toronto: Bay Press, 1995). [A collage of images including book covers, "Strike Art," and "But is it Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism," displayed alongside images of protestors holding up banners reading "Decolonize This Place" and a large banner draped across a clocktower that reads, "Free Education to All."] -
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Production still from Black Picture Show, 1978, picturing Sam Waymon. Photo: Marshall Johnson. Image courtesy of the artist. [A black-and-white photograph of a figure sitting in front of a microphone. The left side of their face and body is in shadow.] -
Teaching Artist Stephanie Costello with 8th grade Portfolio student from P.S. 140, 2021 -
Salad Days 2. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [Five photographic collages installed in white frames arranged in a horizontal row along a blank wall.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Plastic bags of objects appear on a white gallery wall.] -
Abasement #86. Performance documentation, April 6th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers stand behind a table operating various musical equipment. ] -
Nayiel Walker, Self Portrait, 2018 [An abstract painting, mostly blue, purple, and black, with splashes of yellow and pink. Several of the brush strokes take on a vaguely anthropomorphic association.] -
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[White text on a blue and grey ombré background. The text reads: “March 22 / Sibyl Kempson / Timmy Straw.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Union Gaucha Productions in collaboration with Fabio Kacero. Still from Totloop, 2003. 16mm film (silent, color), 4 min 49 sec. Courtesy of Union Gaucha Productions. [A still from Totloop, set during the twilight, featuring an empty model house being lit on fire, with a small tree visible to its left.] -
Audrey Glassman, Untitled, 1983. Cibachrome, 28 x 42 inches. [A cropped face of a figure is seen on the right with the image of a lantern light perched on a tree branch filling the left side of the image.] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a gallery space, taken from a wide angle. There is a checkerboard floor, with three large sculptures placed down the center. A large red painting is hung on the left wall. On the right wall are a series of paintings and durags.] -
Sandinista Sistema de Television. Still from Aqui En Esta Esquina (Here On This Corner), 1983. Video (sound, black and white). Spanish with English subtitles. [A figure standing central in the image with a microphone and two slightly upholstered chairs behind him. The logo "CDF" can be seen written on the wall next to another word of partial view. Video scan lines and black edges of CRT monitor are visible.] -
Sherry Markovitz. Installation view. Artists Space, 1985. [One sculpted deer head is seen in the foreground with a paper mache design and a darker deer head sculpture is seen in the background with horns. Both are hung in a white-walled gallery space.] -
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.] -
[19 thinly outlined boxes arranged in columns of decreasing height on a black background. Each box contains a glowing, symmetrical, orange and purple geometric shape of varying complexity. In each box's lower right corner, white text lists three coordinates. There is a gradient key from purple through orange and yellow to white, with a minus sign at one end and a plus sign at the other, and above that, a complex mathematical formula. In the upper righthand corner, white text reads, "Betsy Fagin and Alan Felsenthal" and "sat, 5/23 / 5pm nyc time / zoom id: 378 232 567."] -
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Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Miniature houses constructed of documents are displayed in vitrines in the middle of the room. Various photographs utilizing the wall and floor are displayed to the left on a purple section of wall. Tan, illustrated sacks of variable sizes hang on a white wall to the right.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. Along the middle of the space are placed various television monitors and musical instruments and audio devices. To the right on the wall are a series of photographs and prints, and two vitrines hang on the wall.] -
Hall of Records, Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2025. Photo: Jenna Bascom. [Aerial view of three long dining tables with rows of candlebras running down the middle of each. Rows of seated guests on each side of the tables are chatting and having dinner. ] -
John Mendelsohn. Installation view from John Mendelsohn and Donald Sultan. Artists Space, 1977. [A black and white photograph of a canvas filled with black and white abstract angular forms that are reminiscent of tables.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An entryway with layered, decorative carpets and black-and-white images displayed across the height and length of the wall. A small school desk sits on the left in front of a large bookshelf.] -
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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 Photo: Filip Wolak [A wide angle image of a mockup real estate office consisiting of a table,chairs, a water coolor, and multiple tv monitors. The windows are lined with real estate listings and on the wall reads "New Red Order"..] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Paintings and collages appear on a white gallery wall and a scultpure on a pedestal sits in the foreground.] -
A member of the collective Winter Count working on the film We Are in Crisis, 2016, North Dakota. [An over-the-shoulder photo of a person holding a boom microphone pointed at a small oil pipeline fire several dozen feet away.] -
Yasunao Tone, Carles Hac Mor, and Barbara Held performing Música desterritorialitzada at Metronom, Barcelona, Spain, 1997. [Black-and-white photograph of three figures performing together. On the left, a figure in a striped shirt and glasses sits down in front of a table full of audio equipment, wearing headphones. In the middle, a figure in a graphic shirt stands and reads off a piece of paper. The rightmost figure wears a glitter and mesh top and plays the flute standing.] -
Group Material: Primer (for Raymond Williams). Artists Space, 1982. [A large taxidermied eagle hangs upside down from the ceiling holding line tape that repeats "A GOVERNMENT FOR THE RICH BY THE RICH". Posters and drawings on the wall are visible around the eagle.] -
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Arts and Family Engagement evening, student panel on high school portfolio preparation, P.S. 140, 2017 [A classroom setting with several students and adults sitting across the room at desks and tables, looking at a teacher speaking to them in a corner of the room] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure stands on the stage with a mic, speaking to the crowd.] -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 9, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [A figure whose face is illuminated by red light plays flute into a microphone.] -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two white walls are suspended on six vertical poles and are arranged so that they form a right corner. A large grid-like composition composed of many small squares is mounted on the left wall. On the right wall there are many photographs and printed video stills either mounted in grid patterns or one above the other.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Two figures perform in a basement. On the left a figure with a video camera and shoulder rig takes footage of another figure on the right, dressed in a blue morph suit, and pushing a semicircular rolling table made of wood and fresnel lenses. Along the back wall blue and purple tinted live CCTV video footage is projected.] -
Joan Jonas, Night Light, 2013, Steel and LEDs, 37 x 15 x 10 inches (94 x 38 x 25 cm), Edition of 10 + 1 AP, Signed certificate. [The photo shows steel rods that make a curved pyramid shape laying on its side with an LED light-strip running along one of the rods. The sculpture lies on a wooden floor against a white wall.] -
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Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play. Installation view, Artists Space, 2015. [Two illustrations hung on a wall. On the right, a naked man inserts his penis into the a globe. On the left, a man gazes up at a rendering of Michealangelo's "David."] -
Richard Hollis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A view of a book stand perpendicular to a wall in which staggered posters are hung. The book stand displays various documents and materials.] -
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Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph of a large gallery. In the center of the room, a person gazes at large, geometric sculptures.] -
Avery Singer, The Studio Visit, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York/Rome and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin. [Abstract painting of two people sitting at a table, having a conversation.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure performs on stage behind a table with audio equipment and holds an audio box to their mouth.] -
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Portrait of Jackie Wang. [A figure, centered within the frame, leans against a beige tiled wall and stares directly into the camera.] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (∞, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Against an urban landscape, a metal pinhole camera tin is mounted to a roof post.] -
![The busts of two figures are drawn in black ink in front of a grey background. Below each figure is a text bubble that read: [below figure on left]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='1500' height='1057'%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Amy Sillman, Turtlenecks, 2007, Archival ink jet on Somerset Paper, 11 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches (28.6 x 44.5 cm), Edition of 17, 10 AP, 1 BAT, Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Printed by Jean-Yves Noblet Contemporary Prints. [The busts of two figures are drawn in black ink in front of a grey background. Below each figure is a text bubble that read: [below figure on left] "When did you get here?" [below figure on right] "Are you going to Basel?" At the bottom, center of the page is written "Turtlenecks."] -
Abasement #76. Performance documentation, March 3rd, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of five performers on stage. From left to right, they are playing guitar, saxophone, drums, and trumpet. The room is lit up with pink and white projections. The backs of multiple audience members are visible in the bottom of the frame. A few of the performers are lit with yellow light, as well as some of the audience.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of three figures, wearing conical costumes made of reflective one-way mirror film, standing at the doorways of a gallery space.] -
Jack Smith, still from Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment), 1970-73. 16mm transferred to video, (sound, color), 27 minutes. [A figure wearing all black clothing, a black hood, heavy eyeshadow, and a fake mustache looks at the floor.] -
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Traditions: Five Painters. Installation View, Artists Space, 1978. [3 paintings hang on a wall. The painting to the left is circular, the center painting is rhombus shaped. The painting to the right is square.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A crowd of people sitting in a dimly lit room. Most have their eyes obscured by black blindfolds. In the background, a white projection with black text just visible reads, "No-peep show."] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An open hallway in a window-filled exhibition space. A gallery wall on the left side of the room displays a sideways, brown and gold American flag as well as a black and red fleg. A monitor sits on the ground to the right of the exhibition space, near one of the windows. A visitor stands in the background, viewing artworks displayed in the hallway.] -
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Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Close-up color image of a persons hands on a red audio mixing device. Various blue and red cords stick out of the machine. A camera on a tripod sits on top of the machine. The background is blurred, with a few audience members visible. The scene is lit with soft pink light.] -
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.] -
David Kroll. The Aftermath of Columbus' Coming, 1985. [A drawing of various animals running or flying around in an indoor dwelling with three figures in states of disarray around them.] -
Ei Arakawa: Social Muscle Rehab (outdoor performance). Performance documentation, October 16, 2021, Artists Space. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Tennis players stand in an alleyway, ready to hit balls from an automatic ballfeeder. A crowd watches intently in the background. Suspended above them the words "Social Muscle Rehab" are painted in white capitalized text on black and green signs.] -
We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [A cloth image is emerging from the darkness.] -
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Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Four clusters of photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall. Some of the photographs are black and white, while others are in color. All show images of a single or groups of figures. On the far right, a small projection of a man in a white shirt illuminates the wall.] -
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Artists Performance Series. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. [A black and white photograph of a gallery space. A chouch with two figures is visible in the lower left corner. On the walls, several framed works are hung, each with a grid of smaller black and white images.] -
Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view (Vital, 2025; Borne, 2025), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A darkened hallway with dark blue walls and light blue linoleum tiling leads into an open gallery space with dark blue carpeting. On the left sits a bench, which faces a large wall projection on the right. The projection depicts a black patient in a blue hospital gown sitting in a chair. The projection is partially obscured by a wall.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon -
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Nandi Loaf, ???., 2025. Hardware. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Into an outlet socket on a wall is plugged a large black adapter with two USBs plugged into it. Screens on the USBs flash text that reads "TEMP 12 / Lucky miner 00:13." In the outlet above the USBs is a black plastic cover.] -
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Hilary Lloyd. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A wide shot of a gallery space with wood floors and large windows. In the foreground is a screen mounted on two metal poles on a wheeled base. In the midground, there are two screens mounted on floor to ceiling metal poles arranged at a 90-degree angle to each other. In the background, there is another screen just visible from behind a white column.] -
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[A red deflated balloon, folded at the neck, with white text that reads, "Living with Pop."] -
I Thought I Had Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 1992. [Close up image of a rectangular panel installed on a white wall. The canvas is covered in color block washes of black, gray, and white paint. Left-aligned, serif text positioned at the upper half of the canvas reads, "she said it's gone too far. I thought I had time. / I thought I had more time. / Room 409 / Memorial Sloan-Kettering / 1990 A.D."] -
Sean Snyder, still from Casio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars, 2004-5. Courtesy Lisson Gallery, London. [A person in army camouflage and a military gun grabs a handful of packaged cookies from a stand selling assorted candies, snacks, sodas, and other food.] -
[A rendering of a head with two faces, one positioned head-on and the other seen in profile, is made from gradient strips of red, orange and yellow color. Dissecting lines and geometric shapes define the face's blocky features. The top lips are blue and the bottom red, while the left eye is black with a white dial and the right eye is a hazy blue with yellow lightning coming out of it. Under the image, text in red, white, blue serif font reads: the segue reading series and artists space present / a reading by David Larsen and Sara Larsen / saturday, may 9, 5 pm nyc time / zoom id: 378 232 567.] -
BGL, Elevator, 2007. Site-specific installation. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A third floor entrance off of an elevator. Beyond its black-floored vestibule is a large object standing at an angle inside the doorway. It emulates the interior panels of an elevator. A partially obscured sign saying "ARTISTS SPACE" is visible in the room beyond the doorway on its far wall.] -
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Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a beige background, with red accents throughout. Pieces of yellow paper featuring typewritten text listing the performers and event details are cut out and scattered throughout the flier.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A bookcase displays documents within as well as on top of its glass. Above, right of center, three black and white photographs are hung, in white frames, on the wall.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Emily Lee Luan & imogen xtian smith. November 5, 2022, Artists Space. [Light blue text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: "Emily Lee Luan & imogen xtian smith / November 5, 5pm." The middle reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519."] -
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Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [A view through a doorway into a white-walled gallery space with drawings on the walls and a banner on the windows.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. Frames 31-36: Installation views of Tad Savinar’s “Rock” in Room 207. [Contact sheet of photos from the exhibition.] -
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Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a figure in profile, seated behind a reed organ covered in a sheet of clear plastic. A clock sits on a music stand behind the organ. The figure reaches their arm under the plastic and holds the arm of the organ.] -
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 display of four black and white photographs on a beige gallery wall.] -
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Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of an installation work in a gallery. On a wooden partition wall in the back of the space, two large carboard drawings hang. To the left, in front of the wooden parition, a paper-mache sculpture is placed on the floor. In the center of the image, ceramic works and kinetic sculptures made of branches surround a structural column. Behind the column, there are more paper-mache sculptures placed on the floor and hanging off the wall. In the right foreground, two windows with images painted on the glass hang from the ceiling.] -
Covers of Jef Geys: Catalogue Raisonnable, WIELS, 2025 and Ghislaine Leung: Holdings (2015-2025), the Renaissance Society, 2025. [Two books lay side by side. On the left, a gray cover with black text reads "JEF GEYS." On the right, a yellow cover with white text reads "SCORE / NON-SCORES / SUB-SCORES."] -
Richard Klauber. Installation view,Ruth Hardinger, Richard Klauber, Artists Space, 1975. [A color installation photograph of a black and white abstract painting on a white wall.] -
Tisziji Muñoz with Francisco Mora Catlett and AfroHORN. Performance documentation, October 21, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A standing figure looks at the camera while playing the bass.] -
Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A hallway with one gray wall and one white. On the gray wall, there are a series of drawings on white paper arranged in a 4x7 grid. On the white wall, there are four frames. Light is refracted on a third wall at the end of the hallway.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A photograph of an empty room, dimly lit with chairs in the background, where a projection is playing on the wall. The projection displays an image of a man with tan skin and facial hair, wearing aviators, talking to a soldier.] -
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled, 2011 (print mo’ money), 2011, Copper etching plate, Signed certificate. [A printing plate for a $100,000 bill, featuring a portrait of Woodrow Wilson.] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Many colorful documents, photographs, and posters installed on a white wall in an exhibition space. A small television monitor displaying a green image sits on the ground beneath the posters and other artworks.] -
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John Salvest, Cipher, 1989. Wood, brass, plexiglass, alphabet noodles, 80 x 24 x 6 inches. [A narrow, white door with the number "0" on it is partially open against a white wall, obscuring what is behind it.] -
Episode. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A dark screening room with a single brown couch. An image is projected on the wall, showing a hallway with a slightly ajar door, through which blue light is filtered.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cutouts of faces printed in green ink, with red dots and accents, overlay a yellow and red printed background that has also been collaged together and drawn over with red and blue abstract lines. A block of black typewritten text on a white background is placed upside down in the bottom left of the image, and reads "ABASEMENT 65" and then the list of performers. On the right side of the image is text that reads the time and place of the event.] -
Flipside. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A framed photograph with a red border of a naked man on a blue shag carpet. The man is seated, leaning slightly back on his hands with his legs extended. He is bald with a full grey beard.] -
[Black text on a green background. The text reads: “Jan 11 / Charles Bernstein / Sol Cabrini.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
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Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [A figure in a blue dress sits behind a white table, with speakers and projectors on either side of them. The figure leans over and opens a small book.] -
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Pool Show. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Frame photographs and text hang on the wall in a gallery space.] -
Ursula Biemann, still from Writing Desire, 2000. Video, 23 minutes. Courtesy the artist. [A nightime view of a truck driving past a parking lot. In the top left of the image is a superimposed video of a blond woman. The words "Hello I'm Natascha" appear in red to the right of the woman.] -
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Abasement #84. Performance documentation, February 16th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sings into two microphones while green, purple, and white lights illuminate the stage and wall behind it. ] -
Matthew Langan-Peck, Golden Egg 1, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a corner in a darkened gallery space. A large golden egg sculpture sits on the floor in the corner.] -
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Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [An image of two figures in blue scrubs standing on opposite ends of a sterile table. A medical mannequin on the table is covered in shiny red silk fabric. In the background, there are projections and forms draped in yellow fabric.] -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Various people having conversations and looking around at the art during the exhibition opening.] -
General Idea: Image Virus, by Gregg Bordowitz, published by Afterall Books, 2010. [A book cover design consisting of a pattern of bright red, green, and blue letter tiles spelling out "AIDS" in square formations. White text overlaid on top of the patterning in the cover's upper left corner reads "General Idea Imagevirus Gregg Bordowitz"] -
Brad Kronz. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Various box-like structures fill the gallery space. Central in the space, a white pedestal presents a small wooden stool. ] -
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“Chinatown Is Not for Sale.” Artists Space Books & Talks, Saturday, October 22, 2016. Courtesy Decolonize This Place and Artists Space, New York. Photo: Marz Saffore [A panoramic image of the audience at Artists Space and Decolonize This Place's event, featuring colorful banners on the wall that read "ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY," "Black Lives Matter", "Don't Play with Apartheid #BDS".] -
Flyer for Ways to Move. November 13, 2025, Artists Space. [A green and white, textured background displays a silhouetted, leaping figure and the foliage of a tree. In the top left corner, "Artists Space / Ugly Duckling Presse / present the launch:" is written in white text. In the center "Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars / Justin Allen / Rudy Gerson / Mario Gooden / Nile Harris / Marguerite Hemmings / Joselia Hughes / Benjamin Krusling / Shanzhai Lyric / Andrew Smyth / x / Jonathan González" appears in white text. In the bottom right corner "Thursday, November 13th / 7:00pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley" is written in white text.] -
Selections from the Unaffiliated Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Dark photograph of a plywood sculpture with shelves in a gallery space.] -
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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 corner space in a gallery, below a staircase, that is bathed in red light. At the bottom of the stairs are a group of performers wearing conical costumes made of reflective one-way mirror film.] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [Along the gallery wall from left to right is an assemblage scultpure of found objects ranging from lightbulbs to racoon tails. To the right is a sculpture of chicken wings dangling from the wall. Further along is an offwhite square nearly flush with the wall. And on the floor sits a chair adorned with cloth and green onion.] -
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Shala Miller & Malcolm Peacock, with Amiri Baraka's Cellar Vigil. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [The corner of a gallery space with a wooden camper structure placed there. Two ramps lead to doorways along the front and side of the structure. The edge of a free-standing white wall sits to the left of the camper..] -
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Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves: The x in florxal is silent when spoken. Installation view, Artists Space, 2021. Photo: Filip Wolak. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. [A gallery wall painted pink with a window in the middle. On the windowsill are several potted plants. Works on paper and a collage are hung on the wall.] -
[Four images arranged in a rectangular tile formation. Each image shows a digital rendering of a large structure composed of suspended sheets of red material installed in a gray room. The red sheets are stacked on top of one another, suspended from lengths of wire that run from ceiling to floor. The sheets are arranged differently in each image, bending towards and away from each other. They arranged such that they resemble irregular layers of sedimentary rock or strata. Various digitally-rendered figures observe the structure in each image.] -
Richard Hollis. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A view between two book stands, perpendicular to the wall, displaying books, documents, and papers. On the wall, posters are staggered including various text and images.] -
Research photograph taken in Lyon, France, July 1990, prior to the realization of Michael Asher’s 1991 project for Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France. Photograph by Michael Asher. Michael Asher Archive, © Michael Asher Foundation. [Black-and-white photograph of a pane of glass with a paper stuck to it that reads "FIGHT AGAINST SYSTEM! / DO THE RIOT THINGS!" In the reflection the photographer holds a small film camera up to his face to take the picture.] -
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Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [Two figures stand facing one another, smiling. One wears a baseball cap and the other holds a camera.] -
Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Gloria Gloria, Balenciaga 2010 FW/RTW by Nicolas Ghesquiere, and Kate Moss as a hologram for Alexander McQueen, 2022. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a gallery space with three large white biomorphic sculptures by Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya hanging from the ceiling throughout. The sculptures are composed of discarded car parts, pigmented silicone, animal horns, clothes, and various other found materials.] -
Laurie Simmons: Photographs. Postcard, Artists Space, 1979. [A fully furnished miniature living room containing a couch, midcentury television set, antique radio, rug, and paintings hung on the walls. A doll made to look like a woman sits on the couch.] -
[Black text on a light yellow background. The text reads: “May 10 / Mirene Arsanios / Roberto Balò.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
35 Artists Return to Artists Space. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Sculptural and painted works appear in a white-walled gallery space.] -
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.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of an empty gallery room, with black walls. Hanging around the center of the space are three hanging screens playing the same synchronized video. Along the back wall a cello lays against a wooden chair, next to a harp and stool. On the side wall a spotlight shines on a microphone stand.] -
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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.] -
Charles Long. Installation view of Gnomons' Land, 1987. Film Installation. [A black and white photograph of two projected images emerging from darkness.] -
MS 324 group work, collaborative drawing, 2019 [Five people's hands work on a colorful, abstract drawing with the drawing at the center of the image on a wooden table.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Samiya Bashir and Jasmine Gibson. October 22, 2022, Artists Space. [Light blue text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: "Samiya Bashir & Jasmine Gibson / October 22, 5pm." The middle reads: "Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519."] -
Leben mit Pop - Eine Demonstration für den kapitalistischen Realismus, 1963 (Living with Pop – A Demonstration for Capitalist Realism) © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Reiner Ruthenbeck [A black and white image of two men sitting in a living room. The furniture is elevated on white pedestals. The man on the left sits on a chair; on the right on a sofa. A table with items sits inbetween them.] -
Elephant Cemetery. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [A gallery room filled with various sculptures and objects. There are four plinths of varying heights with black, white, silver, and mirrored surfaces. There are three televisions sitting on the floor against a white wall. On the other side, there are two projectors sitting on a table projecting small images on white walls. In the foreground, a rectangular cube painted like bricks is wrapped around a column.] -
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.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A wide shot of a person sitting at a table with a computer. The table is covered in a red tablecloth with white lettering that reads, "WHAT ARE SAVAGES FOR?" and "THE URGE TO MERGE." Lighter red, stylized text reads "NEW RED ORDER" and "NEVER SETTLE." Behind the table, a projected image shows a man with one hand outstretched superimposed on a city skyline. On either side of the table are informational posters with printed text.] -
Mel Kendrick, Dinnever Hill. Installation view, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white installation photograph of a gallery space. Placed on the floor pairs of dark squares lean against a white wall on the far end.] -
Portrait of Milford Graves, New York, c. 1987. Photo: Lona Foote. Courtesy the Photo Estate of Lona Foote [A black-and-white image of a man sitting on his knees with two African drums placed in front of him. His head looks downward while his left-hand hovers above the drums. His right hand firmly holds the side of a shaker instrument.] -
Abasement #68. Performance documentation, February 12, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a musician standing behind a long table on a stage. The musician plays a large soundboard placed on the table. The musician wears a black long sleeve top and looks down at the soundboard as they play. They have short blond hair with bangs. A colorful image, almost like a close-up shot of a cell rendered in pink, red, blue and black is projected onto the stage and the wall behind the stage. A shadow of the musician appears on the back wall. ] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of two figures performing in a dark gallery space, lit only by an installation of LED lights covered in dried SCOBY material. One figure wearing black leans down in front of one of the LED lights. Partly hidden behind a column, another figure stands wearing a red suit.] -
Entrance to Marble Cemetery. © Paula Court Photography, 2018. [A black metal gate with raised letters that read "New York Marble Cemetery, Incorporated 1831" with several inflatable lobsters attached to the gate.] -
The Owl Answers. Performance documentation, February 29, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Filip Wolak. [Close up of three figures standing side by side. The figure on the right raises a fist in the air and appears to shout towards the figures on their left. They wear glasses and an intricate, gold and black collar piece. The figure directly to their left gazes downwards, pressing their fingers to their temples.] -
Julianne Swartz, Line Drawing, 2002. Site-specific installation, dimensions variable. [Close-up image of a peep hole installed in a light mauve wall. Through the peep hole, a figure wearing a blue shirt and black pants is visible in profile. Their image is warped by the surface of the peep hole, swirling and reflecting around the hole.] -
The Mind/Body Problem. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Alan Wiener. [Six watercolor paintings affixed to a white wall with pins. The paintings are various sizes, five depicting the sky and landscapes at various times of day. In the center, a man is depicted facing backwards, pulling down his pants to expose a tattoo of a triangle.] -
Collaborative team designing butterfly, 2018 [Four people pose for a photo, leaning on a table with three drawings of butterflies splayed across the surface. A papier mache butterfly composed of saturated pink and gold paper and red, yellow, black and white cotton balls hangs above the people at the top right of the image.] -
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Abasement #66. Performance documentation, October 9, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performance space illuminated by red light. In the center, two standing figures play the violin. On the left, audience members look towards the performers. On the right, a stage filled with music equipment, such as speakers, cables and microphones. In the background, a table filled with electronic equipment, and a man looking at a computer monitor.]
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