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Immanent Madness. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985-86. [A drawing of a chain attached to a constructed wall with text on the lower left of the page reading, "IMMINENT MADNESS THE WALL WE ARE NO LONGER CHAINED TO".] -
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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 close up image of three tv monitors on a wall with vinyl lettering that reads "New Red Order", in the right corner is a water cooler.] -
Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell Collins Guide to Roses , 1959 – 1962 Book cover collage Courtesy Islington Local History Centre [A green book cover, with it's title at the top reading, "Collings guid to ROSES;" a yellow rose against a white background, and a collaged photo of a dogs face below it. The right bottom corner of the page reads, "by Bertram Park."] -
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Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view (Matthew Langan-Peck, Player 3, 2024; Matthew Langan-Peck, Box 7, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Closeup view of two wooden box sculptures sitting side by side in a gallery. The box on the left is painted light yellow and has a pair of headphones hanging from its side; its lid is slightly ajar. The closed box on the right is covered completely in imitation gold leaf.] -
[Text reading “'We Cover for You. / – NRO” is overlaid on an image of a plastic gloved hand that applies blue plaster with a wooden stick.] -
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.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of pink, green, and yellowed paper. Pieces of yellow paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
Beverly Semmes, Still from Cornelia Walking Through the Formal Garden in the Pink Feather Coat and Hedge Hat, 1988. [A photograph of a figure in a long furry coat who walks along a path in a lush garden, their back facing the camera.] -
Salad Days. Installation view, Artists Space, 2004. [A black converse shoe with a white sock. Extending out of the shoe is a white plastic false shin with a metal bone coming out of the top.] -
[Dark blue text overlays red-pink background. The text reads: “March 25 / Ralph Lemon / Tracie Morris." 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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Hito Stereyl, excerpt from In Free Fall, 2010, HD video with sound, 30 mins. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. [A moving image of a man, dressed in a pilot uniform, in front of a panning image of Earth from space, holding a laptop. The camera zooms in on the video playing on the laptop screen of a man releasing his parachute while skydiving.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. Various musical instruments and audio devices are placed around the middle of the room, photographs and vitrines hang on the walls, and various television monitors and projected images are placed along the sides of the room.] -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: his beard is soft, my hands are empty. Installation view (what he thinks about when he sees him, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of a soft sculpture, placed on the floor and leanning against a blue and white wall. The sculpture depicts a Black Queer figure dressed in black, with accents of white, blue and yellow. On top of their head is a wooden brush.] -
New Economy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [On the far wall is a triptych of photographic posters that show piles of logs with a bottom text, "Nothing is real, Everything is Possiblem." In the corner of the room are stacks of red crates with cola bottles and on the opposit wall is a sculpture resembling a part of bicycle that is attached to the wall.] -
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Community Listening event, Listening to the LES, P.S. 140, 2018 [A photograph of a classroom environment with several students sitting around the edges of the room and a few drawing directly onto a white tablecloth in the center of the room. An image of the underside of a large bridge is shown on a monitor at the front of the room] -
Installation view of Barbara Bloom's Solution. From Barbara Bloom, David Salle, Artists Space, 1976. [Color photograph of a figure sitting at the head of a table with seven chairs in an empty room. In front of each chair there is a small stack of papers.] -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view (ephemera c. 1970s), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a vitrine from above. Various ephemera, including magazines, correspondence, and photocopied photographs in black-and-white are placed inside.] -
Hikima Bermejo, Untitled, 2014 [A skewed, black-and-white drawing of a power outlet, with cords connected to both plugs.] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Three figures perform in a basement. Two figures in blue morph suits act out a scene together. The figure on the right scratches a fresnel lens attached to a wooden rolling table while the left figure walks toward the table. A third figure takes video footage of the scene.] -
Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo (1975–1979). Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A framed photograph displayed on a white wall. The photograph shows multicolored flowers laying on a white surface with a black background.] -
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Heist Divination (fwiw remix). Performance documentation, October 25th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Five dice float at the top of a container of water, which is tinted blue. There are small ripples created across the surface of the water and the frame of structure containing the water is slightly visible through the ripple distortion.] -
Nandi Loaf, WÜNDERBAR, 2025. Artifical tree (monument), custom 4-4-0 model locomotive + semi-autonomous rail system, re-routed grid hardware, ornaments, site-specific electrical circulation. Photo: Carter Seddon [A red light beams from a black toy train as it moves along the train track. Smoke emits from the chimney of the toy train.] -
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.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Detail view of a black display case depicting an image of woman printed on a white cloth, with the title *2000 WASTED YEARS*. She is sitting down in an antique chair, one foot up, wearing a full-body black-and-white suit adorned with black English and Japanese lettering.] -
Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Two colorful drawings are exhibited on a black wall. On the left, a series of open boxes is drawn in red. To the right, the drawing is crowded with the depiction of an open book, airplanes, and multicolored boxes. Both drawings are signed with F-.] -
Wish I Were Here. Photo: Alexandra Stock. [A young boy with his arms outstretched leans against a wall. The wall is covered with a larger than life photograph of a crowd of people holding flags and signs, as in a protest or a rally.] -
Isabelle Frances McGuire, The Death of a Giant, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A life-size off-white foam sculpture of a naked human form, in the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, rests supine on a low white platform.] -
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.] -
Abasement #85. Performance documentation, March 2nd, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers play side-by-side on stage. The performer on the left plays a cello, and the performer on the right plays a 17-stringed instrument. ] -
Program schedule for Sigrid Burton, Bruce Colvin, Ellen Phelan, Artists Space, 1976 -
[A man in a white shirt and pinstriped vest and pants casually holds a black jacket over one shoulder. "Undoolay" is in pink script on the bottom of the image, crossing over "Elective Affinities".] -
Richard Kennedy, Both, Artists Space, 2017. [A photo of three performers standing in the middle of a room, surrounded by the audience. Two performers linked hands, and the third stands in between them, arms raised.] -
Passages from People Who Led to My Plays. Performance documentation, March 1, 2020, Artists Space. Photo ©️ 2020 Paula Court. [Two figures in dark clothing stand before two music stands in front of a seated audience. The figure on the right appears to read from a text propped on the stand, while the figure on the left looks towards the audience, speaking and gesturing towards them with one hand.] -
Folio Series: Intangible Economies, 2012. [A white book cover depicting silver coins with the text "♥good for all night♥".] -
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Left: Andrew Siedenburg, Material Support, 2022. Masking tape, charcoal, and construction fasteners on gessoed luan. Right: Andrew Siedenburg, Doghouse with Tin Snips, 2022. Masking tape, charcoal and constructions fasteners on gessoed watercolor paper over masonite. Photo: Steven Cottingham. [Color photograph of two works with white, black, brown and grey hues hanging on the wall side-by-side.] -
Jutta Koether, Fifth Season Act, Apotheosically, Artists Space, 2012. [An installation view of a brightly colored painting lodged into a rectangular sheet of glass which is made to stand upright by being wedged into a block of concrete which sits on a floor scattered with wood chips.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a pale yellow background, with red and orange accents throughout. Cut up pieces of light pink paper are scattered throughout the image, and feature typewritten text listing the performers and event details.] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two white walls forming a corner in an exhibition space. Displayed on the left wall is a large a photograph of an eye visible through a round hole in a white fabric hood. Displayed on the right wall is a photograph of a figure in a green KKK hood against a black background.] -
Unnaturally Yours: Selected by Willie Cole. Installation view, Artists Space, 1996. [Two sculptures installed in a gallery space with wooden flooring. A large sculpture consisting of a suspended, orange tarp pulled in different directions by various wires sits in the cetner of the room. Small, tan mounds and a white side table are arranged around the orange tarp. On the gallery wall behind the large sculpture hangs a smaller sculpture that resembles a set of pink lungs.] -
[A young deer made out of puzzle pieces with red streamers coming out of its eye and hip, as if bleeding. It is on a multimedia background showing bricks and grass.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color image of four individuals holding hands and dancing in a circle energetically. The background depicts a dimly lit venue with a glowing discoball and a variety of guests.] -
Rip It Up and Start Again. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A projection of a close-up image of an unidentified figure's mouth and chin is displayed on a wall of a light-filled gallery space. Two small speakers sit above the projection at its top right and left corners. A series of yellow cards sit in a clear container mounted on the wall to the right of the projector. Bold text printed on the front of the cards reads: "I'M SORRY, BUT THIS IS HOW I LEARN."] -
Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Three TV screens, mounted on a black wall, glow with various images. Each TV plays a performance by Ralston Farina. In front of the screens sit two display cases.] -
Valerie Tevere, UNITED STATES, 1996. [A city street with a concrete median and wall made from gray metal supported by wooden planks. The median has the words "Property of LACTC" printed on it. Hanging just above that are four postered portraits displayed in a horizontal line. Each poster features three letters below its portrait image that together spell out "UNI/TED/STA/TES". The portraits are framed by traffic signs that say, "WRONG WAY" and "USE SIDEWALK."] -
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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] -
[A black and white scan of an invoice from Corcraft Products issued to Artists Space at 38 Greene Street. The customer number reads "9102000". The invoice details a net purchase of $603.10] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A large gallery space houses a variety of plinths made of MDF, atop of which are placed various archival objects. Along the far back wall is a large photograph affixed to the wall that depicts a driveway with a large white reconstructed wall.] -
Anne Bray. Man on First and Third, 1987. Slide/Sound Installation. [A black and white photograph with two projectors hanging central with projections on one wall and another hanging screen in a gallery space.] -
Nandi Loaf, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, ricardo nagaoka, Sydney Schrader. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [A series of paintings made with brown and red paint against a white background are hung on a wall.] -
André Breton, Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares (New York: View Editions, 1946). Collection of Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller, Cologne. [A halftone image of the Statue of Liberty printed in bright green and red ink. A cut-out of a black and white photograph of an older man's face has been pasted over the statue's face. The words "Young Cherry Trees Secured Against Hares André Breton" are printed around the body of the statue in green ink.] -
P.S. 140 students performing at YAP (Young Artists Perform), 2019 [Eight people sit in a row on a wooden stage in front of a navy blue curtain. They are holding pieces of paper, one speaks into a microphone.] -
Manuel DeLanda, Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (still), 1980, 16mm-to-digital, Color, Sound, 30 minutes. [A figure wearing a trenchcoat stands in a psychadelically lit bathroom while smoking a cigarette.] -
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.] -
P.S. 140 students painting sound, 2019 [An image of several students paitning with watercolors, each on their own desk] -
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.] -
The New Normal. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A bedroom scene set up in the middle of an open room. There is a beige rug, with a chrome lamp and matching bed frame. The bed has blue sheets with a dark blue comforter cover and a red blanket. There is a wooden chair facing in, and a brown table with assorted bottles on top. On the far side of the bed is a coffee machine, microwave, and television. In the background, various framed images are hung on white gallery walls.] -
Split/Vision. Installation View. Artists Space, 1985-86. [Framed square and rectangualar photographs are visible in a white-walled gallery space with white columns centered in the image.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [Along the wall is a glass display case holding ephemera, hanging above are two black and white contact sheets.] -
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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] -
Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Three photographs are mounted next to one another on a colorful gallery wall, which is covered with a photo decal of a mosaic. Each of the photographs show different urban walls covered in grafitti. Graffiti on a city wall shown in the far right photograph reads, "pueblo nueva."] -
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.] -
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Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [A figure facing a microphone looks upon a computer with audio software open.] -
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rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view (110 North Bound, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a wall of a gallery space. Hanging in the center of the wall is an adobe panel painting of the entrance to a freeway tunnel.] -
Char Jeré: Zoo or an Orchestra. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photo of an installation and sound work in a gallery space. Wooden tables with black table tops are stacked upon eachother, creating a structure of tables about 20 feet high. The tables are densely packed and populated by a variety of insturments, automated sound objects and other found items such as hair care products and medicine bottles. Behind the stack of tables, a large piece of cardboard hangs on the wall, filled with drawings and collaged elements.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr., Divine Agent, 2022. Wicker pannier, plastic, copper, brass, conservation glove, moonshine jug, solvent transfers, plywood, brass, wooden owl figurine, dyed silk. Dimensions variable. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a gallery space. Two small paintings hang on the wall between concrete columns set into the wall. In the foreground, a large wicker pannier is visible. Two strips of police tape can be seen in the right corner of the frame.] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
Pena Bonita, Stalled, 1987. Color photograph. [A man lifts up the hood of a white car on the side of the road amidst a sprawling open landscape. The front doors on both sides of the vehicle are open.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 30, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure dressed in black performing in front of an audience in the background. The room is dark, with LED light sculptures made from dried SCOBY in the background. The figure sits on the floor, looking off to the right and holding a mask in front of their face.] -
Axine M by Jeremiah M. Carter. [Color photograph of a figure standing in a field of wheats. Their face is obscured as they look downwards, and by wheats in front of the camera. ] -
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [Several rectangular sheets of cream colored paper hang side-by-side on a gallery wall. The papers are arranged in clusters of three or more and appear blank, with faint creases visible on their surfaces.] -
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.] -
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.] -
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See Around. Installation view, Artists Space, 2008. Photo: Adam Reich. [A dimmed room with three projections, one casting purple light, the other two depicting stills of shorelines. In the corner, a small, round seat is visible.] -
Pedro Lasch, Crumbs: Drawing on a Limited View of New York City's Cultural Wealth, 2000. [A round, diner-style table with a white mug, napkins, a baked good sitting on top of its open wrapper, and a small card with text. A long, straight line of crumbs stretches across the diameter of the table.] -
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.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A figure and a microphone are silhouetted in front of an image projection. The image shows a face obscured with white plaster, overlaid with red text reading “New Red Order” and white text reading “1-888-NEW- RED1 newredorder.org."] -
Joel Katz, History Lessons, 1990. Installation view, Artists Space, 1990. [A photograph, taken from above, of rows of school desks facing a television with a map behind it.] -
Shala Miller performs Genesis: Medley. Performance documentation, May 11, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Roy Baizan. [Black & white photograph of a music score and handwritten lyrics on a music stand, with a cello bow.] -
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Photography and the City attendance sheets. Courtesy Harvard University Archives. [College-ruled paper with numerous tallies in different colors and orientations] -
Brittany, Plant observation, watercolor painting, 2025 -
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Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Several black and white photographs and documents organized into a grid on a white surface.] -
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.] -
Jutta Koether, xxapollo. Performance documentation, Artists Space, January 5, 2020. Photo © Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink grips a heart-shaped canvas in front of her, while her eyes look past the camera. She is surrounded by rapt audience members behind her. There are light spots reflected at even intervals patterning the room.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #2. Performance documentation, April 13, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of a dark basement room. On the back wall is projected an image with Chinese characters, and English characters that read "Three Poems of The Tong Dynasty."] -
Abasement #71. Performance documentation, August 5th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A musician standing on stage playing a small wooden instrument. They are looking down and wearing a headlamp. In front of them are multiple electronic instruments and cords. The wall in the background is scattered with white dots reflected from a disco ball.] -
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Detail view of the smaller display case, looking through a narrow glass window. Five mugs are stacked in a corner, and a short pipe curls around the center of the case. A black-and-white image of a shirtless man wearing ripped jeans and boots is printed on the surface.] -
[Black and white image of several popular romance novel covers arranged in a grid formation. Dispersed amongst the covers are photos of desert canyons and other abstract, inky images.] -
Portraits of Peter Osborne and Brendan Harvey. [Portraits of two figures are arranged side-by-side. On the left, a figure wearing a white shirt sits at a table with different objects spread out on its surface, speaking into a microphone. On the right, a black and white photo of a figures bust sits inside a larger black square.] -
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.] -
Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Mach Zehnder Interferometer, 2018. [Detail view of an interferometer emitting a green light onto a white wall.] -
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[White text on a grey ombré background. The text reads: “March 1 / Marina Abramović / William Parker.” 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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Pictures. Installation view, Artists Space, 1977. Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white installation photo of a gallery space. An illuminated low pedastal on the floor holds a crescent shaped object.] -
LaToya Ruby Frazier, A Message In Nestle Water Bottles from Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan at Sussex Drive and West Pierson Road, Flint, MI, 2017/2023, set of three archival pigment prints on Canson Platine Fibre Rag, 16 x 24 inches (40.6 x 61 cm) -
Eiko Ishibashi: Two New York Nights. Performance documentation, June 8, 2022, 8pm. Artists Space, New York. [Several figures sit on the ground, legs crossed.] -
Perspective: The State of Existing in Space Before the Eye. Leaftlet cover, Artists Space, 1989. [At the center of a page there is an image of a charcoal drawing of a foot overlapping a scrap of an architectural diagram on a black background. Above this image, text reads, "Don Stinson, Perspective: The State of Existing in Space Before the Eye." Below the image, text reads, "September 28-November 4, Artists Space."] -
Poster for Top Hat, 1935. [A bright yellow poster for Top Hat (1935) features a man in a black tuxedo with coattails and a woman in a long white dress with a full skirt, captured in exuberant dance atop a black top hat. Orange rays radiate from around the woman, while around them are smaller illustrated vignettes of the dancing couple in various poses amidst music notes. Text at the top of the poster reads "They're dancing cheek-to-cheek again!" and bold type listing the featured actors' names, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The movie title is superimposed on the top hat in red type. Further film credits include Irving Berlin (music and lyrics), and supporting cast (Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erick Rhodes, and Eric Blore), with direction by Mark Sandrich.] -
Ted Stamm, Blue Line Group, 1975. Installation view, Louisa Chase, Ted Stamm, Meryl Vladimer, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white installation photograph of thirteen dark squares hung in a gallery space.] -
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.] -
Ei Arakawa: WEWORK BABIES. Performance documentation, December 8, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A large group of people photographed from above, stading in Cortlandt Alley, forming a small circle in the middle. Some people standing near the center hold baby dolls.] -
Lise Soskolne. Installation view, Artists Space, 1999. [Three large, monotone paintings, each hung on its own white wall. A protruding white wall with a blue canvas and white text in French partially obscures a black canvas with white text. Perpendicular to that is a red canvas.] -
Portfolio Development, Blue Sky Gallery exhibition (an homage to Virgil Abloh), June 17, 2022 -
Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Installation view (ephemera c. 1980-1998), Artists Space, October 8, 2021 – January 15, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color photograph of a red poster with three faces and Japanese captions. The poster is beneath other ephemeral material, including an open book, a pamphlet, and a black and white photograph.] -
Activated Walls. Installation view, Artists Space, 1993. [A person working in a small space enclosed by walls, painted red with white text. At the top of the wall, large letters read "AZT=DEATH", with a paragraph of text stretching across three walls. Underneath, there are a dozen white pieces of a paper taped up.] -
Frank Dimario, Octavius Neveaux. [A yellow print of a person with glasses leaning over and looking forward. Next to him is another person, his hands holding his chest, looking down.] -
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Jenny Snider. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie, 1985. [An adult figure stands in the foreground while a smaller figure stands in the background in a corner. Above the figures reads: "It's a sin to tell a lie."] -
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keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. [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.] -
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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.] -
Reinventado, Word Up Community Bookshop and MS 324 students, 2019 [An exhibition view of various artworks. Several stylized portraits hang on the right; in the middle, a large didactic titled "REINVENTADO." On the left, several small photos of students in a classroom hang underneath a red-white-and blue airplane suspended from the ceiling] -
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.] -
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.] -
Abasement #61. Performance documentation, November 7, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure plays the violin in front of a microphone.] -
Excerpt from Hito Stereyl, Guards, 2012, HD video on freestanding screen with sound, 20 mins. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. [A moving image of a person, dressed in black, side stepping slowly in the gallery as the camera pans over to them.] -
DUOX: DUOX4Larkin. Installation view, Artists Space, 2012. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [An installation view of a large room. To the left, an orange water dispenser is positioned between three white columns. In the center of the room is an abstract sculptural work. In the lower right foreground are eleven metal poles mounted in metal buckets that are filled with multicolored objects.] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a basement with two sculptures made of wood and fresnel lenses placed on either side of the image. Along the back wall a blue projected image of live CCTV footage of the basement is displayed.] -
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.] -
Laura Poitras: 9/11 Trilogy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A person sits on a wooden chair where there are three arranged, wearing headphones and looks at a TV monitor. The monitor displays a construction landscape in the Middle East.] -
Abasement #83. Performance documentation, January 5th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer plays an electric guitar on stage. The performer and stage are bathed in blue light and geometric patterns. ] -
Apartment Show: If the dogs are barking. Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [A ceramic figure of a headless gray dog sits on the top of a shining metal barrel in an open gallery space. A garland of sausages connected to the ceramic dog drapes over the sides of the barrel. A wooden chair sits behind and to the right of the barrel. Many paintings, drawings, photographs, and posters hang on the gallery walls.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure in a red sweater sits in a chair on stage. Two microphones are positioned around them. They hold a wooden stick and a red bell up.] -
Till They Listen: Bill Gunn Directs America. Installation view featuring various ephemera from Personal Problems, c. 1980, Artists Space, June 5 – August 15, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A close up of a glass display case holding images and multiple booklets of text.] -
Jack Smith in Jack Smith’s Fear Ritual of Shark Museum, Cologne, 1974 Photograph © Gwenn Thomas. Courtesy Exile Gallery, Berlin and Southfirst, New York Courtesy New York University, Fales Library and Special Collections [A black and white image with an organic border features Jack Smith in a white cloak standing in front of a wall. To the left of him are two posters that read, "Krone," at the top in block letters. Behind him are large, white block letters that read, "R O N." A ghost-like figure with multiple arms is pictured above him.] -
[White text on a bright fuchsia background. The text reads: “Nov 22 / Rosamond S. King / Noa Micaela Fields.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Louise Lawler, Why Pictures Now (traced); Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Sometimes Silver or Gold, 1981/2013, Archival pigment print with hand painted gouache in multiple colors, 3 x 6 in / 7,6 x 15,2 cm (image size), 10 x 8 in / 25,4 x 20 cm (paper size), Signed and Numbered [A line drawing of an ashtray containing a book of matches with "WHY PICTURES NOW" written on the front.] -
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.] -
Paintings by Kathleen Gilje, sculpture by Mike Metz. ISelections from the Unaffiliated Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1981. [A sculpture sits to the right in front of two paintings in a gallery space.] -
Everything is common. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Steven Cottingham. [Color photograph of a gallery space with two dark columns. In the foreground, a cornhole board is visible resting on the floor. In the background, a work on a video monitor is installed on a desk that has two chairs in front of it. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling near the furthermost column and rests on the floor. In the left side of the background, a wall is filled with images and has a mounted monitor with a video work.] -
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Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Various colorful posters hang in a disassembled row on a black wall. In front of the wall sits a large display case exhibiting newspaper clippings, flyers, and drawings.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure wearing black, holding a long wooden stick over a reflective surface with an orange construction net over it.] -
[Black text overlays a light purple background. The text at the top reads: “Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE / Spring 2025 Season / April/May curated by Futurepoem / Saturdays at 5pm: 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom"] -
Tiffany Sia, A Wet Finger in the Air, 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of three TV screens stacked on top of each other. Two small speakers are visible on either side of the TV screens.] -
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.] -
Lines of Loss. Installation view, Artists Space, 1997. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A wooden door opens on a view of a tiled, single-user bathroom. To the right of the room is a small, porcelain sink and warped mirror. Behind the sink is a tan toilet below a thin window.] -
Pride Goes Before a Fall/Beware of a Holy Whore - An Exhibition in Two Acts. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. [A sculpture of a man leans against a white column in an otherwise empty gallery space.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of two performers sitting on the ground in a dark venue space that is illuminated by deep red overhead lights. The performers are holding up clear, geometric objects against a neon yellow and blue projection on a wall.] -
Susan Eder. Installation view, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white installation view of several photo strips with wide white matting attached to a wall.] -
The Issues of Our Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. Photo: Adam Reich. [A miniature clay sculpture of a man sitting, cross-legged, in an armchair is displayed on a carpeted floor. A curled wire extends from underneath the edge of the carpet where it meets the wooden floor below it.] -
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, still from Mouth to Mouth, 1975. Video, black and white; 8 minutes. Courtesy University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. [A mouth silently forms the shape of the eight Korean vowel graphemes while video noise or ‘snow’ threatens to drown it out.] -
Selections from the Artists File. Installation view, Artists Space, 1989. [A photograph showing a row of text-based paintings hanging on a gallery wall. Beyond them, another gallery space with other artworks is visible.] -
Zaha Hadid. Installation view, Artists Space, 2003. [A dimly lit gallery space with wooden flooring. Several sheets of thin gray board hang from the gallery ceiling by thin wires such that they form a set of suspended display walls. The boards are arranged such that they face one another and form a hallway-like area that one can walk through. Various photographs and architectural renderings of buildings are displayed on the walls. A wall arranged to the far right of the others displays black san-serif wall text. Large header text on the wall reads, “ZAHA HADID.”] -
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Cecilia Dougherty. Still from Grapefruit, 1989. Video. [Two people with hats, sunglasses, and long straight hair. One looks into the camera, the other diagonally past.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of bright yellow paper. Pieces of paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
Hito Steyerl, Red Alert, 2007. Installation on 3 computer monitors. Courtesy of the artist. [Three red-orange panels in white frames hang on a white wall in an open space.] -
Abasement #81. Performance documentation, October 20th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [An illuminated performer sings into a microphone. ] -
Place, (title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Two photographs are mounted on a white gallery wall.] -
Herman Wallace. Drawing. [A colored pencil rendering of a prison cell is contained inside a rectangular box with rounded edges, floating on a white lined sheet of paper. A pink heart in motion extends beyond the confines of the cell and onto lined paper.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner 2024. Drake Carr and George Wells. Photo: Jenna Bascom [Two men, Drake Carr and George Wells, sit around a circular dining table, both gazing out while listening to a speaker who is out of frame. Carr rests his elbow on the back of his chair.] -
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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.] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of yellow, pink, and orange paper. Pieces of paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
Not yet titled, 2019
Clay, glaze, mixed media
12 x 13 x 5 inches (variable)
$5,000
[A brown object stands on a white base. On the flat surface of the object, an onion and a lemon are connected by a red and orange wire. In the base of the object, a processing chip is embedded.] -
Abasement #70. Performance documentation, July 1st, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers pictured in front of soft pink, blue, and white light projected onto the wall behind them. Performer on left is smiling and pointing at the performer on right, who is seated in front of a mixing board and microphone.] -
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Pictures. Opening Reception, Artists Space, September 23, 1977. Photo: D. James Dee. [A black and white photograph of two figures standing in front of a wall of framed silhouettes.] -
Abasement #84. Performance documentation, February 16th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A performer, bathed in purple light, plays a guitar on stage.] -
Artists Draw. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Various drawings are hung up on white walls. The drawings consist of simple shapes and lines.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner, 2023. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color image of two individuals smiling jovially towards the camera. A dimly lit interior space with red flocking on the walls can be seen in the background.] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [A plaque with text is hung up next to an open doorframe. Through the doorframe, a continuous strip extending around the perimeter of the room is visible. The strip on the walls alternates between photographic stills and black boxes overlaid with white text.]
