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Jutta Koether, xxapollo. Performance documentation, Artists Space, January 5, 2020. Photo © Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink holds a colorful heart-shaped canvas in her right hand while extending her left arm in the air. She is surrounded by rapt audience, who carefully track her movements.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photo of an installation work in a gallery. Two windows with images painted on the glass hang from the ceiling. A branch emerges from the left edge of the image. Behind the windows, a colorful drawing on craft paper hangs on the wall.] -
Salad Days 2. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [A microphone connected to a stand and an amp sit on the floor of a gallery space. The microphone stand has been adjusted such that the microphone is pointed down and hovers directly over a small answering machine on the ground. Wall vinyl installed on the wall directly behind the microphone stand displays a phone number: "+1 (212) 226-2786)."] -
Fifth Season Act, Apotheosically. Performance documentation, May 31, 2012, Artists Space. [Close up detail of a sculpture composed of a large glass pane with a painted canvas installed in the pane's center. The back of the canvas faces the viewer, and faint words are penciled onto its surface. A golden tassle and necklce cluster and hang around the canvas' edge.] -
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.] -
Anonymous action at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 10, 2016. [An image of a gold public bathroom toilet with a red Decolonize This Place sticker placed at the top of the toilet seat.] -
Installation view from From Here to Eternity: Fact and Fiction in Recent Architectural Projects, Artists Space, May 24, 1986 - June 28, 1986. [A shell of an architectural edifice stands over a small moveable two-wheeled car in a gallery space.] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Contact sheet of installation views, Artists Space, 1979. [Contact sheet of installation images showing artwork hung up on walls .] -
John Miller, The Ruin of Exchange and Other Writings on Art (JRP Ringier, 2012). [A book cover depicting a a desert with a hollowed-out egg shaped rock in the foreground and a tank in the background.] -
Trip to Artists Space to see fwiw Constantina Zavitsanos exhibition, 2024 -
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Jason Simon, still from Vera, 2003. 25 min. [A woman seated on a couch wearing a green button-down shirt captured mid-laughter.] -
Four Scottish Artists. Opening Reception, Artists Space, 1979. [A photograph of the exhibition opening reception. A group of visitors look around at the art.] -
Drawings by Sydney Schrader. [A notebook spread featuring pencil drawings on paper.] -
[The letters "JA" written in black, stylized text on a white background.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure wearing a baseball cap sits in a chair and plays the guitar.] -
Jayce Salloum, Episode 1: So. Cal., 1988. 33 minutes, 1/2", color. Film still. [A person driving a car is seen from behind, as if the camera is in the backseat. Their face is hidden by the headrest of the car seat. Trinkets hang from the rearview mirror.] -
Collage project on mapping and migration -
Drake Carr, Walk-Ins, 2023, New York Life Gallery. Photo: Ethan James Green [Scanned spread of a collage featuring photographs overlaid with accented drawings. The main image depicts a woman posing strikingly with her arms raised and feet firmly apart, the red dress she wears flows out dramatically behind her. In the background a man stands at a large canvas, his hand raised in the act of drawing the figure posing. Film strips depicting the same woman in different poses are overlayed on top.] -
New Red Order Cover the Earth, detail, 2021 Painted mural with cut vinyl, dibond prints, kiddie pool, sod, inflatable alligator, turtle sandbox, beach towels, towel racks, beach balls, beach chairs, beach umbrella, real estate lawn sign, cooler, and pool noodles. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a multicolored exhibition space consisting of beach paraphernalia, a real estate lawn sign, and a mural wall collaged with images and drawings] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a dimly lit basement. Along the back wall, on the left, a shadow of a figure in profile is cast onto a blue and purple projected screen.] -
[The Decolonize This Place Logo in red text.] -
[A screenshot of the google images search results for the query "exit not escape."] -
[A red background with white text which reads: "BDS IS THE FLOOR NOT THE CEILING", followed by the Decolonize This Place Logo.] -
Union Gaucha Productions. Still from Phantom Limb, 1998. 16mm film (silent, black and white), 21 min 45 sec. Courtesy of Union Gaucha Productions. [A black and white still of a hallway with a patterned balcony, which descends into stairs. Three geometric paintings are hung along the walls.] -
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".] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A continuous strip extends around the perimeter of the room, hung up on the walls. The strip alternates between photographic stills and black boxes overlaid with white text.] -
Abasement #67. Performance documentation, January 15, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on stage, both seated in chairs. The musician on the left plays a violin while the musician on the right plays a guitar that is placed across their lap. Each musician has several pedals placed on the floor that they control with their feet. Two amps flank the pair of musicians. The musicians and the entire stage is cast in a light pinkish purple light emitted from a projector. A design of overlapping circles with a triangle in the center are projected onto the back wall.] -
New Red Order with Maiingan “iNDiO1763” Wiikwedong, Gaile Pranckunaite, and Inpatient Press. Conscientious Conscripture, 2018 - Ongoing Polyester knit feather flag, polyester knit fabric step-and-repeat, table, tablecloth, chair, vinyl retractable banner, dibond print on easel, three televisions, red phone, newspaper box, and childrens activity book. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A table with red cover that reads "NEW RED ORDER" sits in between three tv monitors. On either side of the tv monitors sits a banner and a newspaper dispenser.] -
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Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism 2014 Gerhard Richter Party, 1963 © Atelier Gerhard Richter [A black and white paintng of a group of individuals in party attire, multiple accents of red are placed throughout the painting.] -
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.] -
Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Mach Zehnder Interferometer, 2018. [Detail view of an interferometer emitting a green light onto a white wall.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr.: Mirage Collar. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a doorstop shaped like a donkey. The donkey carries a bundle of sticks on its back and props open a brown door.] -
Still from The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009). [A animated cartoon in tones of black, blue, and grey depicting a silhouette of a prisoner with a chain on his leg and hands in the air, facing a large door with multiple locks.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A side view of a sculpture of a man leaning againt a white column. He hols a book in his right hand. He is wearing a purple shirt and blue patterned shorts.] -
Traci Tullius, Some People Never Learn, 2001. [A figure with long brown hair wearing a gray sweater over a light pink and white button-down shirt closes their eyes as a thrown book flies towards their face.] -
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 "replace frony" and "Keep 1st amendment, stop helms," among other phrases.] -
[Collaged atop a yellow and orange field is a series of abstract graphic elements and an upside down image of a face. In the bottom right corner an upside down text reads "ABASEMENT 60."] -
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Flyer for Palm-Lined with Potience. April 28, 2022, Artists Space. [A dark grey background with black silhouettes of leaves and foliage. In the top left corner, "Artists Space / Ugly Duckling Presse / present the launch:" is written in yellow-orange text. In the center "Palm-Lined with Potience / Fury Young / Jaylen Strong / Alex Tatarsky / Benjamin Krusling / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves / JJJJJerome Ellis / x / Basie Allen" appears in yellow text. In the bottom right corner "Thursday, April 28 / 7:00pm 11 Cortlandt Alley" is written in yellow-orange text.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [An ashtray with the text, "Martini," three Schweppes bottles, six Coca-Cola bottle, and nine drinking classes arranged face down on a silver platter are displayed on a white counter top.] -
Yoshitomo Nara, No War Girl, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a drawing of a cartoon girl, standing on a black hill, against a gold background. The girl holds up her middle finger, and above it in the top-right corner is text that reads "FUCK YOU WAR."] -
Local Transit. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. [A long sheet of paper with a drawing of highway signs and a gas station on it hanging on a white wall. Hung above that are three paintings of logos.] -
Ethan Crenson, Fission, 1996. Mixed media installation. [A corner of a room filled with ping pong balls set atop mousetraps. They are lit from the side by a fluorescent tube light.] -
Jason Hirata, Gavroche, 2019. 5000º Kelvin industrial LED retrofit bulb, gallery power grid. [In the corner of a room, close to the ceiling, a white L-shaped wall mount holds an LED lightbulb upright. A black wire connected to the lamp is taped to the wall with black tape and disappears off to the right of the image.] -
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.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of a room with black walls. A figure stands behind a harp, next to a stool and music stand. A spotlight shines on the harp. In the middle of the space is a hanging screen that plays a projected video of a close-up of a face.] -
Ei Arakawa: WEWORK BABIES. Performance documentation, December 8, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A man gazes up at a baby doll mid-flight, holding out his right hand towards it. A group of people gaze towards the doll, smiling.] -
Anna Gili, Casi del Mare. [Five glass sculptures of varying colors arranged in a line. They are painted with small circular and oval dots.] -
Wall Drawing. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [Multi-wall drawing of various figures visible in gallery space.] -
[Black text on an orange background. The text reads: “Oct 12 / Nancy Mercado / Sloppi Chulo.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Yuji Agematsu: Chasing Milford. Performance documentation, January 15, 2022, Artists Space. [A color photograph of a figure with raised arms in an orange-lit space.] -
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Jordan Kantor, Untitled (forensic scene), 2004. Oil on canvas, 32 x 48 inches. Courtesy the artist. [A black and white oil painting of two people on black tile flooring. Only their legs are visible. One person is lying on the ground, the other is squatting and holding a notebook.] -
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 a vending machine against a glazed over window, a glass display table backed by tiled photographs, a lightbox with an image of sitting individuals and a colorful shack structure.] -
CaptionKari Altmann, still from XOMIA, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Ellis King Gallery. [Two figures crouch next to two abstract artworks standing on the floor of a gallery space. Both people have dyed hair and half-blue facepaint.] -
Sidewalk Archives, Artists Space, April 2023 -
[White text on a bright fuchsia background. The text reads: “Nov 15 / Lauren Cook / Funto Omojola.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Still from The Empty Plan (2010). [A man holding a clipboard at his side walks past a large, columned white wall with palm trees on either end.] -
Danica Barboza, From a Chapter in Acclimatization, 2019, hand-modeled clay, acrylic paint, rope, yarn, wood, plastic clothing hangers, condensed foam, PVC piping, newspaper, plastic bottle, orange plastic crates, black plastic shipping crate, signature tape-binding with protective gloss, shower curtains, child’s wooden chair, plastic child’s toy, white shelving unit, metal table leg, wooden shipping crate, cherry wood stained card-table top, Insignia TV monitor, wooden pole, metal pole, painted silicone, natural hair, painted glass. Photo: Daniel Pérez [Three sculptures grouped together in the corner of a gallery, with a street in Manhattan visible through large windows at the rear of the room. The largest sculpture stands behind the other two; clustered pieces of wood, string, cardboard, paper, metal, and plastic are propped up, arranged on top of one another, all standing on a large cardboard base. A humanoid white bust lies on top of the structure, its face cut in half. The two smaller sculptures also depict humanoid faces - one in white, the other with skin and hair - and both appear to grow out of masses of misshapen cardboard and wood standing on the floor.] -
Union Gaucha Productions. Installation view, Artists Space, 2015. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A diagonal view of six monitors in a row are lined up in the middle of a floating bookshelf, displaying stills from the film. On the left corner of the image, a desk holds long slips of black paper with white text on it, curled and intertwined, resembling film strips.] -
Still from The Wolf Man, 1941. [A black and white image captures the dark silhouette of trees shrouded with thick fog. In the center stands a man with wolf-like features, grimacing over a woman who is seemingly unconscious in his arms. Her body is arced back, supported by the wolf man's arm under her shoulders and around her waist.] -
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Aloïs Godinat: New Works. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A large black speaker rests at an angle in the middle of a wood floor. On the walls, a red cloth with black polka dots, a black and white photograph, and a taped black square with an X and horizontal line through the center are displayed.] -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two video monitors are mounted on a colorful gallery wall covered with a photo decal of large, white letters and a ram's head. Four stools sit in front of the monitors. A pair of headphones rests on each stool, connected to the monitors.] -
Robert Gober, Untitled, 1992. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a framed fragment of newspaper. The headlines of the two articles featured read, "Bush Is Sent Forth as Champion of Family Values," and "Jury Convicts Man Who Locked His Children in Bronx Apartment." An image of steel pots and pans is placed on the bottom-left corner, and an image of a woman with her arms draped over a man in a suit is placed on the bottom-right corner.] -
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*] -
Louise Bourgeois Jitterbug, 1998 Lithograph, 18 x 24 in / 46 x 61 cm, Signed & Numbered. [Two red and blue spidery forms interlace, floating in the center of the page atop a blank sheet of staff paper.] -
Renée Green. Still from Partially Buried Continued, 1997. Video, color, sound; 36 minutes. Courtesy the artist, Free Agent Media, and Video Data Bank. [A television box monitor displays a diagram connecting Robert Smithson to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and the past to the present and the future.] -
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Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view (Fiction Contract, 2025; Borne, 2025), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A darkened gallery space with dark blue walls, dark blue carpeting, and light blue linoleum tiling. In the foreground a bench is centered in front of a large wall projection. The projection depicts a close-up of a newborn black mannequin laying down, being tended to by medical professionals.] -
Social Surfaces. Installation view, Pearl River Mart, 2017. Photo: Ron Amstutz. [A diagonal view of photographs, paintings, sculptures, and prints against two walls. In the corner rests a TV displaying a person with their back turned.] -
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Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 10, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a suit performs on stage.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Kimberly Alidio and Joyelle McSweeney. Saturday, November 7, 2020, Artists Space. Artist: Keith Higginbotham [A group of basketball players sit on a bench, a cutout photograph of a pink flower collaged over each of their heads. On top of the lower half of the image, black text reads "Kimberly Alidio / Joyelle McSweeney" and the lower left corner pink text reads "Segue."] -
P.S. 140 student poems from “I am” project, 2018 [Two poems. On the left, by Quentin: "I am from a computer and websites and games. / I am from a fun house and a loud house. / I am from an acacia tree and a bush whose stems I remember as if they were my own. / I am from Fourth of July and birthdays and from being sick toether and my sister Sivanda. / I am from my niece and being observant and independent. / I am from "stay out of the trouble" and "wait until you're older" and *Wheels on the Bus.* / I am from always eating at 7 o'clock. / I am from Manhattan and Puerto Rico and Africa and chicken and rice and seafood. / I am from fighting all the time and shiny and precious jewlery." The second poem, by Gabby, reads: "I am from Hip Hop music and cocoa butter and sprite. / I am from Joy and love. / I am from a cherry tree and daisies whose stems I remember as if they were my own. / I am from church and birthday parties and from bravery and confidence. / I am from Sabrina and cleaning the house and from family that is protective of me. / I am from 'mind your business' and 'I don't have friends, I have associates' and 'stay alive longer!' and the song *Body Party* by Ciara. / I am from visiting with family in Pennsylvania. / I am from East Harlem and West Indians and fried chicken and mac 'n cheese. / I am from Shakina who passed and I am named after her and a beautiful Egyptian statue"] -
Ethan Crenson, Fission, 1996. Mixed media installation. [Mousetraps on a wooden floor in motion, snapping to capture ping pong balls resting atop them.] -
Gary Burnley, Martin Cohen, Candance Hill-Montgomery, Lewis Stein, Haim Steinbach. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. Artwork: All is Pretty Andy Warhol!, Martin Cohen. [People standing around a gallery space with various globes surrounding them and frame images hanging on the wall to the right.] -
Jenny Holzer. Maxim Poster, 1982. [Gritty street wall background with a white poster on it with black text that reads, "ABUSE OF POWER SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE / ALIENATION CAN PRODUCE ECCENTRICS OR REVOLUTIONARIES / AN ELITE IS INEVITABLE / ANGER OR HATE CAN BE A USEFUL MOTIVATING FORCE / ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL / DISGUST IS THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO MOST SITUATIONS / EVERYONE'S WORK IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT / EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE DESERVE SPECIAL CONCESSIONS / FAITHFULNESS IS A SOCIAL NOT A BIOLOGICAL LAW / FREEDOM IS A LUXURY NOT A NECESSITY / GOVERNMENT IS A BURDEN ON THE PEOPLE / HUMANISM IS OBSOLETE / IDEALS ARE EVENTUALLY REPLACED BY CONVENTIONAL GOALS / INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED / KILLING IS UNAVOIDABLE BUT IS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF / LABOR IS A LIFE-DESTROYING ACTIVITY / MONEY CREATES TASTE / MORALS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE / MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT FIT TO RULE THEMSELVES / MOSTLY YOU SHOULD MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS / MUCH WAS DECIDED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN / MURDER HAS ITS SEXUAL SIDE / PAIN CAN BE A VERY POSITIVE THING / PEOPLE ARE NUTS IF THEY THINK THEY CONTROL THEIR LIVES / PEOPLE WHO DON'T WORK WITH THEIR HANDS ARE PARASITES / PEOPLE WHO GO CRAZY ARE TOO SENSITIVE / PEOPLE WON'T BEHAVE IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE / PLAYING IT SAFE CAN CAUSE A LOT OF DAMAGE / PRIVATE OWNERSHIP IS AN INVITATION TO DISASTER / ROMANTIC LOVE WAS INVENTED TO MANIPULATE WOMEN / SELFISHNESS IS THE MOST BASIC MOTIVATION / SEPARATISM IS THE WAY TO A NEW BEGINNING / SEX DIFFERENCES ARE HERE TO STAY / STARVATION IS NATURE'S WAY / STERLIZIZATION IS OFTEN JUSTIFIED / STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BREED / TECHNOLOGY WILL MAKE OR BRAKE US / THE FAMILY IS LIVING ON BORROWED TIME / THE LAND BELONGS TO NO ONE / TIMIDITY IS LAUGHABLE / TORTURE IS HORRIBLE AND EXCITING / TRADING A LIFE FOR A LIFE IS FAIR ENOUGH / UNIQUE THINGS MUST BE THE MOST VALUABLE / YOU DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE / YOU MUST REMEMBER YOU HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE."] -
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.] -
Crystal Colon, Cherish Atlas, 2014 [An artwork depicting a long pier with checkered black floor, splitting a waterway, with the outline of a city skyline in the distance. Two long cream-colored couches appear in the foreground, alongside a round and rectangular red table. The top left corner of the image contains an empty white circle] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of visitors standing around a gallery space, conversing and studying the works on the wall.] -
Devin Kenny, “What would Upski think?”, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A device with several electrical wire connections is displayed on a metal wire shelf.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery wall. A video is projected onto it. Next to the projection is a shelf holding an audio device consisting of a machine, speakers, and light sensors. A black-and-white photograph also hangs on the wall.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Diana Cage & Jackie Ess. Saturday March 20, 2021, Artists Space. [A yellow colored background features black text in the top half of the image that reads, "Segue Reading Series / Diana Cage & Jackie Ess / March 20 / 5pm on Zoom / Suggested donation: Five dollars / Zoom ID: 830 2698 4031." Black text in the bottom right corner reads, "Artists Space."] -
Benito Huerta, Attempted, Not Known. Media unknown, dimesions unknown. [A wooden ornament with a string attached at its top, is carved with the outlines of the worlds continents, becoming a miniature globe.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley at Artists Space, co-presented with Frieze New York 2023. Performance documentation, May 19th. Photo by Vanessa Diaz/CKA. Courtesy of Frieze. [Color photograph of two performers, seated side by side, singing into a microphone stand. Next to them can be seen the corner of a hanging screen positioned in the center of the room. Behind and around the performers audience members sit on the floor or stand.] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Doris Guo, Bathroom Kitchen Confusion, 2023; Doris Guo, Fruit Basket, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of the corner of a darkened gallery space with two small pinhole projector sculpture installations. The pinhole projector on the left is housed in a polka-dot patterned gift-wrapped box. On the wall, an image of a white ceramic teacup with a radial swirl pattern is projected. On the right, the projector is wrapped in white foam padding and secured with red string. On the wall, it projects an image of a square containing an golden metal hoop and pin along with four small, glittering pink and green strawberry ornaments.] -
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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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.] -
Robert Gero, Untitled, 1989. Sandstone, salt, aluminum, 60 x 9 x 9 inches. [A rectangular column of rough, brown material is capped by a smooth cube of white stone.] -
Collier Schorr, Traitor, 2001-2004. Courtesy Modern Art, London. [A black-and-white photograph of a man sitting down against a gray background wearing a Nazi uniform, holding a basket of apples.] -
The columns held us up. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. Photo: Adam Reich. [A low futon couch on a wooden platform with multicolored pillows is fit into the corner of a room with two windows. There is a short table with two placemats and brochures, and a television. In the foreground, there is a white plinth with a glass top housing an orange object.] -
Chumlum. Dir. Ron Rice. 1964. 16mm, (sound, color). [A collage-style image with a person looking towards the camera, a woman's hand, beads and several other objects.] -
Demonstrations outside the opening of Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, Artists Space, 1989 [Protesters standing in a line hold a variety of signs with statements such as "Helms impedes the 1st Amendment," "Obscene Art?", "I have no taste," and "No taxation without artistic representation"] -
Tom of Finland, Reference Pages, ca.1966 – 90. Collage on paper. Courtesy Tom of Finland Foundation. [A book case displaying 5 paper collages of men's portraits.] -
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Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A drawing of a figure on white paper. The figure has horns and lines emenate from its eye.] -
Hito Steyerl, Liquidity, Inc., 2014. HD video with sound, 30 mins. Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. [An angled view of a large ramp looking on to a large video monitor screen positioned at the base. The room is tinted blue. On the screen, an iPhone 4 sits on a glass table, its lock screen on view; the time reads, "4:39."] -
Ellen Fullman. Performance documentation, April 26th, 2024, Artists Space. [Color photograph of a hand, fingers outstretched and manipulating a group of suspended wires that run across the frame.] -
Leslie Thornton. Jennifer, Where Are You?, 1981. [A closeup of a young girl with dark hair and bangs, frowning as she applies red lipstick in a messy circle around her mouth.] -
Zilia Sánchez. Still from Soy Isla. Compréndelo y Retírate, 2000. [A VHS recording of a person holding an object on the beach.] -
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[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)"] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Meinke Klein. [Several parallel dividers constructed from metal fencing positioned between black metal frames are arranged in an exhibition space. Colorful textiles and t-shirts are displayed on the fencing.] -
Holly Morse, Bringing Home the Bacon, 1989. Oil on linen, 24 x 24 inches. [A slice of bacon on a red background, with the words "bringing home the B." spiraling on top of it in black text.] -
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.] -
Matthew Langan-Peck. Installation view, Au feu rouge, Edouard Montassut, 2024 [Color image of a white gallery space, with three large boxes placed throughout. On the left, one side of a box is shown with a painted landscape of green hills against a blue sky, and a black fence in front of it. In the background, another wooden box is painted with a dark finish, and a pair of headphones are hung on the box. In the foreground, to the right of the room, sits a beige box.] -
Kayla Asalcedo, Lower East Side Map, 2018 [A black-and-white drawing in a collage style, depicting many public parking signs, street-level façades, advertisements, buildings, a bycicle, smoke, and two large, flowing arrows] -
Audio Works. Installation view, Artists Space, 1978. [A viewer is visible through the open door to a gallery room.] -
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Hilary Lloyd. Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two portrait-oriented screens are each mounted on two floor to ceiling metal poles. The screens face outward at a 90-degree angle to each other and show abstract images.] -
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.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (Instrument for Aleitheia, 1987), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a piano from above. Six solenoids are placed along the piano's strings, and are attached by wires to a device placed on a chair next to the piano.] -
Frames 2-9: installation views of Ken Lum’s “Untitled Sculpture”; Frames 10-23:installation views of Nic Nicosia’s “Domestic Dramas” ; Frames 27-35: installation views of Peter Waite’s “Las Meninas”. Artists Space, 1982. [Contact sheets made from the installation of the exhibition.] -
Catherine Ross, still from Fingering and Footing, 2005. [A split screen of two people, each visible between their nose and their chest. Both are extremely excited, with their hands raised up.] -
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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.] -
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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Ted Rees and Jean Day. January 21, 2023, Artists Space. [Purple and dark gray text overlay a light gray background with abstract patterns and a drawing of a male figure smoking a pipe in the bottom left corner. The text in the middle reads "Ted Rees / Segue Reading Series / Jean Day."] -
K8 Hardy , Sharing 2014, 2014 , C-print, 23 ½ x 18 ½ in / 59,7 x 47,1 cm (image size), 24 x 18 4/5 in / 60,1 x 47,8 cm (paper size), Signed and Numbered. [A framed photo of a hand in the lower left corner adjusting a skewed image of K8 Hardy partially undressed in a windowed room, looking over her shoulder with her left arm held aloft.] -
Jenny Snider. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie, 1985. [A painting of two figures, one in the foreground and the other in the background. Towards the top of the painting reads, "IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE".] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Three large pink fabric banners by Isabelle Frances McGuire, each bearing three silver star patches, hang from the ceiling to rest on the floor.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three floor-standing, backlit images of a woman wearing a white Adidas soccer jersey decorated with a "bc" logo. The images are identical and are arranged one behind the other. Paragraphs of text are superimposed across two of the photos.] -
Jutta Koether: xxapollo. Performance documentation, January 5, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink bends at the waist over her extended leg, over a heart-shaped canvas. She is surrounded by a crowd of audience members. There are light spots are reflected at even intervals over the performer and the crowd.] -
Group Material: Primer (for Raymond Williams). Artists Space, 1982. [A brick on the bround with black text on it that reads, "No heat." Above this brick in black lettering on the wall is text that reads from left to right, "born brick burn."] -
Fishing for sound in the East River, 2022 -
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Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. -
_____, Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper & Cindy Sherman Have Agreed to Participate in an Exhibition Organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 through October 28, 1978, Artists Space, 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 1978. Artwork by Cindy Sherman. [Three black and white photographs hang on white walls in the corner of a room. The photos depict a woman in various positions: laying down, reaching up to a bookshelf, and sitting on a ledge gazing out a window.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [An audience watches a performance.] -
Cindy Sherman. Work unknown. [A woman sits in front of a typewriter inserting a piece of paper. She is dressed in 1950s fashion.] -
The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [Nineteen books and documents, organized into a grid, sit against a white background. Two materials in the top center, and one on the top right, are opened to middle pages.] -
Gerry Morehead. Installation view from Gerry Morehead, Jim Pavlicovic, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white image of a black circle with a fish painted on it.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley at Artists Space, co-presented with Frieze New York 2023. Performance documentation, May 19th. Photo by Vanessa Diaz/CKA. Courtesy of Frieze. [Color photograph of two figures preparing to perform. In the foreground, out of focus, is the side profile of a figure playing a white keyboard, with music sheets in front of them. To the right, in focus, another figure sits on a wooden chair, eyes closed in concentration and behind a microphone stand.] -
Tilo Schulz, Remake Performance, Artists Space, 2004. [Two men walking inside a large inflatable sphere being followed by a crowd of people, some who are filming them, outside in a grassy and paved area.] -
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.] -
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Still from livestream Foam Party Cancelled. [An internet browser displaying artistsspace.org/stream with two videos shown side-by-side, streaming from Ustream. On the left, a camera near the floor shows an empty room and a wall with the words "FOAM PARTY CANCELLED" drawn on. On the right, a close-up image of a bird sculpture and two candles, with a person's face and painting in the background.] -
Installation view from Four Artists: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Artists Space, 1985 -
Our Uprisings: Art Action Assembly. Event documentation, November 20, 2016, Artists Space. Courtesy Decolonize This Place. Photo: Marz Saffore. [View of the audience at the Artists Space and Decolonize This Place event, with banners of resistance posted along the walls. One visible reads "Akai Gurley Murdered by NYPD Open Mic Moved To Streets," while another reads "ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY."] -
The Queen's Rules Suspended and Brachiating Installations. Postcard, Artists Space, 1978. [Two figures are in silhouette on a white background, separated by a black diagonal line. The figure on the left appears to be crouching, while the figure on the right is standing with one leg raised.] -
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.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #3. Performance documentation, March 16, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a figure working on a laptop, seated behind a white desk.] -
[Divided into two section, left featuring an upside-down dot matrix of the Empire State Building. At the top, handwritten text reads, "Decolonization is **not** a metaphor. Triangulation of indigenous struggle, black liberation, and a free Palestine produce a re-arrangement of relationshps that make empire look like this." Below reads, "Black Lives Matter." The left section contains a bright yellow back ground, red illustration, and black text that reads, "PALESTINE, BLM & BOYCOTT IN THE ARTS," and arabic text below.] -
[Black text overlays a color-scheme grid background. The text reads: “Jan 27 / Lee Ann Brown / Brian Kim Stefans" Smaller text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)] -
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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.] -
Alvin Baltrop, The Piers (exterior view of day's end), 1975-8. Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust and Third Streaming, New York. [People sitting on small wooden planks at the end of a pier. A large hole is visible in the side of the pier.] -
Pictures. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white photograph of an artwork. A gainst a black background, 35 circles are drawn. Inside of each sphere is a miniature scene, either featuring people, planes, or household interiors.] -
Ed Bereal, Bodacious Buggerilla performance documentation (still), c. 1970s, color film converted to video, 15 minutes. Image courtesy of the artist. [A colored image depicts a figure's upper half of the body facing front against a black background. The figure's face is painted white with contrasting makeup. The figure is wearing a fake white nose, a white wig, and an American flag patterned hat and scarf around his shoulder.] -
Unholding. Installation view, Artists Space, 2018. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An angled view of two adjacent walls, in between sit vitrines with minature houses constructed from documents. From left to right on the wall: colorful paper bags, a monitor with a video still, a purple section of wall with various photographic objects.] -
Klara Lidén, Untitled (mailbox), 2012, Archival inkjet print, 24 x 18 inches, Signed and numbered certificate. [A black and white photo captures a New York City postal service box.] -
Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1988. [A view of a gallery space with concrete floors, white walls, and white columns. In the foreground, a grouping of five striped cylinders of varying sizes are placed on the floor. Other works are visible in the background.] -
devynn emory, Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 18, 2022, Artists Space [A person dressed in blue stands next to a mannequin draped in red fabric lying on a rolling table. To the left is an IV stand and people seated in the background.] -
Our Terrible Country. Dir. Mohammad Ali Atassi & Ziad Homsi. 2014. [A movie poster depicting the title and pertinent information of the film, showing a man walking away from the camera down a dirt road in the desert, shot in sepia.] -
LaMonte Westmoreland. The Watermeleon Series, 1986. Mixed Media collages. [A black and white photograph of two mixed media collage works hanging side by side on a gallery wall.] -
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Mark Morrisroe, Untitled [Stephen and Mark], c. 1984. Courtesy The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur. [A greyscale Polaroid of two shirtless men looking into each other's eyes.] -
Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall, 2010. HD video with sound, 30 mins. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. [A view down an isle, between theater seating and blue track lighting, to a projected video screen. On the back wall, a still image of a man, in a pilots uniform, gestures toward the viewers with two fingers. Hito Stereyl stands behind him with her arm outstretched.] -
Still from Hicham Gardaf, In Praise of Slowness, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. [A color film still depicting a person who walks up a dirt path carrying a myriad of empty plastic bottles. To the person's right is a billboard facing away from the camera.] -
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Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A continuous strip extends around the perimeter of the room, hung up on the walls. The strip alternates between photographic stills and black boxes overlaid with white text.] -
Tim Doud, 2001. [A painting of a bald man with glasses looking off to the side. He wears a red Lacoste polo shirt.] -
ART CLUB2000 Untitled (Sharf Shack) after Kenny Scharfs “Scharf Schak,” 1996 Wood, vinyl coated wood paneling, paint, glitter, and hardware 8 x 8 x 3 feet Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A view of a built shack structure displaying a colorful cartoon face and a graphic sign that reads "Sharf Shack".] -
Fifth Season Act, Apotheosically. Performance documentation, May 31, 2012, Artists Space. [A figure in a white suit crouches on the floor of a gallery space, speaking into a microphone held in one hand while reading from a series of papers stewn about her on the ground. The ground is unevenly covered in a grainy, brown dirt-like material. A flashlight rests on the ground at her feet, pointing towards and illuminating a sculpture composed of a large glass pane wedged into the center of a square concrete block. String, golden tassles, and other sparkling ornaments hang on the glass pane.] -
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New Red Order Give it Back, 2020 Acrylic LED displays with cut vinyl, water cooler, poster, couch, desk, chairs, magazine rack, The New Red Times Magazine, and three televisions. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [A wide angle image of a mockup real estate office consisiting of a leather couch, a magazine rack, a table and multiple tv monitors. The windows are lined with real estate listings.] -
Circus Amok, The Experimental Walking Tour, 2002. Performed in various parks across the five burroughs. [A color photograph of several figures marching in the middle of the street while holding up posters. One of the figures is wearing stilts, while others are pushing carts or instruments on wheels. From the sidewalk, various pedestrians look on.] -
Freya Hansell. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [A black and white photograph of various objects hanging in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Screenshot from Tan Lin's Bibliographic Sound Track, 2012. [Screenshot of two vertically oriented rectangular shapes, one white and one blue. Fragments of text appear in both rectangles, spelling out phrases like "17 black random [marks on] : lemon," "Particles disable rendering [ I ]," and "Etc. a state to each other."] -
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.] -
[The word "WAGE" with periods seperating each letter appears on a multi-colored background. The "A" in "WAGE" is colored yellow.] -
Abasement #79. Performance documentation, August 11th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer sits behind a white desk, on top of which are piled various audio equipment. ]
