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Ann Goldstein has been a museum professional for over forty years. She currently serves as Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Large at the Art Institute of Chicago and on the board of directors and as President of the Michael Asher Foundation. Goldsstein joined the Art Institute in 2016 as Deputy Director, and Chair and Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Prior to joining the museum, she served as Director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from 2010–2013, and as Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) from 1983–2009. She is recognized for such large-scale historical survey exhibitions as A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, 1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, and A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, as well as numerous solo exhibitions and projects over the years with Jo Baer, stanley brouwn, Judy Fiskin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Richard Hunt, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, William Leavitt, Steve McQueen, Cady Noland, Pope.L, Josephine Pryde, Nancy Rubins, Lawrence Weiner, and Christopher Wool, among others. In addition to the Asher Foundation, Goldstein serves as a member of The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation Fellows Forum, on the board of trustees of the Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation, and as a member of the Serralves Museum Advisory Committee. In recognition of her work, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presented her with the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence in 2012. -
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keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure in a completely dark room, facing one wall and shining a light from their body against the wall.] -
Lyndon Barrois Jr.: Mirage Collar. Installation view, Artists Space, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color installation view of a gallery space with three dark columns. A wicker pannier and a yellow brocade couch are visible in the foreground. In the background, a multi-tiered door, several paintings, a wooden stool and nightstand are also visible.] -
[Two black and white portraits appear in blue circles atop a salmon-colored background. A text panel near the left portrait says "MAKING WATER, LAURA JARAMILLO." A text panel near the right portrait says "Mirene Arsanios, The Autobiography of a Language: Essays and Stories."] -
Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A display case presents ten clear small boxes, each filled with various liquids and items. Some contain liquid mercury, disassembled toy parts, newsprint images, and temporary tattoos on silly putty. ] -
Drake Carr, Raul Lopez, 2023. Colored pencil on paper. 30 1/8 x 20 3/16 inches. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of an unframed colorful drawing. The drawing shows a figure wearing a dark coat, sitting cross-legged on a chair. A purse sits on the floor right behind the chair. In the back, a piano and sheet music.] -
Dream Lines: Marian Zazeela. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Framed works on paper hang on a white gallery wall. Some feature large circles composed of smaller ornamental swooping lines. Others feature abstract calligraphic strokes that resemble text.] -
Basie Allen, Palm-Lined with Potience. Book cover. 2022. [A black and white image of sun shining through various stems and foliage.] -
Sean Snyder, still from Casio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars, 2004-5. Courtesy Lisson Gallery, London. [A person in army camouflage and a military gun grabs a handful of packaged cookies from a stand selling assorted candies, snacks, sodas, and other food.] -
A New World Order III: The Curio Shop. Installation view, Artists Space, 1993. [A black and white photograph of a room filled with plinths of varying heights, several objects suspended from the ceiling, and a pile of small fans with a mess of wires sitting on the floor.] -
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Installation view, Robert Morgan. Artists Space, 1977. [A black-and-white photograph of a gallery space with a video projected on the wall. There appear to be multiple bodies in the video.] -
Portrait of Eiko Ishibashi [A color photograph of a figure in a pointed hat with a wide brim, wearing a black and white robe. The figure is pictured amid tree branches and vines that block their face. They hold a twisted vine in their left hand.] -
Robert M. Young, still from Short Eyes, 1977. 35mm, 100 min. [A man wearing a denim vest is seen within the cramped, barred space of a prison.] -
[A paper clipping announcing Parasite's event offerings from 1998, with a dark image of a person looking at a book.] -
New Red Order with Ashley Byler and Jeremy Pheiffer / Kate August and Enver Chakartash Urge 2 Merge, 2021 3 channel video, color 12 minutes (loop) Image courtesy Artists Space, New York Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a dark exhibition space with three video projections projected on to a wall.] -
Drake Carr: Housecalls. Performance documentation, September 9, 2023, Artists Space at the Armory Show. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A color image of a white wall with two windows with black and white curtains with pink flowers. Through the right window, a figure is seen sitting on a chair. Through the left window, a figure is seen standing in front of an easel with a canvas, holding a color pencil.] -
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] -
Laurie Anderson; PersonA. Performance documentation, April 25, 1974, Artists Space. [A black and white image of a person sitting on a pedestal, performing in front of a crowd.] -
Patricia Hearst – a Second Reading. Installation view, Artists Space, 1979. [Photographs mounted to black backgrounds are hung up in a row on a white wall.] -
Devynn Emory: Grandmother Cindy. Performance documentation, May 8, 2022, 7pm. Artists Space, New York. Photo: Paula Court [Two figures wearing medical scrubs stand on the edge of pieces of red fabric, stretching their arms outward.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Three large wall text pieces appear in a white-walled gallery space.] -
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Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a gallery space. A free-standing wall sits in the middle of the space, holding framed CDs, a projected image of a man and a truck, and an audio device. On the floor in front of the wall sits a television monitor.] -
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.] -
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, taken from a low angle, looking up at three hanging screens positioned around the center of a gallery room. Below the screens, performers are seated in wooden chairs, singing into microphones. A performer in the background stands and waves his hands to conduct the group. All around the performers, audience members fill the room.] -
Young Fluxus. Installation view, Artists Space, 1982. [Various sculpted insects appear on the white gallery wall and the word "Bread" appears in the center of the right section and the word "Queen" appears in both parts of the image.] -
Vaginal Davis, The White to be Angry, 1999, color video converted to digital. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a gallery space with walls painted red and a projection with speakers in front of the right-facing wall.] -
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Attention Line. Installation view (James Luna with the High Cheekbones, 2006, Jacket from the exhibit All Indian All the Time, 2005), Artists Space, June 11, 2022 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [An image of a wall with a poster hanging on the left, and and a brown and white jacket hanging on the right.] -
[A green poster with white text giving information about a virtual reading event. There is an image at the bottom of a person looking into digital, VR-style goggles with large headphones. Smaller white text in the bottom corner reads, "stay well & be good to each other."] -
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Photo: Stephen Barker. [A male figure sits inside a crowded room with lots of wooden chairs, and large paintings and posters hung on the walls. Light streams in from the windows in the back.] -
[Six books in different colors fanned out. Each book's cover has a solid color with black text that spells out a person's name.] -
Nuestro Reflejo exhibition at Morris Jumel Mansion, Washington Heights, 2025 -
Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color photograph of a corner of a gallery space. On the left wall is a shelf holding a machine, speakers, and a light sensors. A black-and-white photograph also hangs on the wall. In front of the right wall is a standing vitrine containg various ephemera.] -
Tony Vevers, c. 1976. Painting from Eleanor Magid, Tony Vevers, William White, Artists Space, 1976. [A black and white photograph of an abstract painting with an ovular form in the top left corner and a line on the right.] -
Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of two performers on stage standing next to each other. The performer on the right is holding a microphone close to their mouth as they touch an audio board. The performer on the left is holding a microphone with both arms in the air, looking down at the board. There are drums to the sides of both performers. The scene is lit with soft pink and green light. ] -
Ilana Halperin: Physical Geology (slow time). Installation view, Artists Space, 2009. [Protruding clusters of dots and triangles form designs in a gray surface.] -
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 the center of a gallery room, in which performers are seated in wooden chairs around the center, alongside three hanging screens that project a video still of a figure's face against a dark background. All around the room, audience members sit on the floor or stand.] -
New Red Order, Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, Artists Space, January 23, 2020. Photo © Paula Court. [A figure stands in front of a music stand speaking into a microphone. They are backlit by an image of a rippling upside down American flag.] -
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rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with large panels of adobe with paintings of various figures on them. Adobe bricks are laid out on the floor to create a small walkway.] -
Nam June Paik Young Penis Symphony from Wolf Vostell, décollage No. 3 , 1962 © Nam June Pak Estate Collection Peter Wenzel [Red text that reads, "Young Penis Symphony, -curtain up-, the audience sees only a huge piece of white paper stretched across the whole stage mouth, from the ceiling to the floor and from the left to the right wing. Behind this paper, on the stagem stand ten young men... ready, -after a while- The first sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., The second sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., The third sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., The fourth sticks his penis out throught the paper to the audience..., The fifth sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., The sixth sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., The seventh sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., The eight sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., The ninth sticks his penis out throught the paper to the audience..., The tenth sticks his penis out through the paper to the audience..., N.J. Paik, Expected world premier about 1984 A.D., ref. Taiyono Kisetza Ishihara"] -
Eileen Neff, Cezanne's Dream, 1992. Mixed media installation. Photo: Erik Landsberg. [A bed with a mountain at its center in a partially constructed room with a floor and a single wall. Surrounding it are several framed paintings and empty frames, a bench with fabric piled on it, and a high shelf with a skull.] -
Other Minds, San Francisco. Photo: John Fago [Black-and-white photograph of a figure, walking in the middle of the frame between two sets of suspended wires that run from across the room. The figures hands manipulate the wires on each side of them.] -
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] -
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.] -
[An orange-tinted image of a woman partially obscured by a table full of electronic equipment and a large plant.] -
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.] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure sits behind a table with a laptop and a microphone in front of them.] -
Abasement #71. Performance documentation, August 5th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Three musicians sit on stage and play various electronic instruments. They are bathed in red, blue, pink, and purple light projections and a large scale image of a web. In the foreground audience members are lit with red and yellow lights.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with large panels of adobe with paintings of various figures on them. Adobe bricks are laid out on the floor to create a small walkway.] -
[A slightly weathered sepia photograph of a sculpture of a white cup and saucer. Printed on the cup is the text "HOT COFFEE." The sculpture is set in a desert landscape with low brush plants and brown hills in the background.] -
Angela Bulloch, Rules of the Space, 2012, from the Rules Series, Silkscreen print on record sleeve, 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches, Signed and numbered [A numbered list of rules is arranged on white ground in various black fonts. Text reads: "Rules of the Space / 1. This SPACE is OCCUPIED. Anyone CAN SLEEP HERE / 2. NO Police (Pigs) and NO Informants (Rats) / 3. No Press OR Photos / 4. This is a Safer SPACE No Bullshit / 5. NO Peacekeepers or WANNA-BE POLICE / 6. INVITE EVERYONE (Except the aforementioned pigs and rats) / 7. create the world you want to see in the future (occupy the future) / 8. The HISTORICAL BREAK / 9. SEQUESTER THE BOSSES / 10. SHUT IT DOWN!!! / 11. Flush the toilet - don't shit on the floor.. this isn't Zucotti. / 12. PANTS ARE OPTIONAL / 13. DEMAND NO. 1 CATS (AND WE WANT THEM MEOW!) / 14. Louder! Louder!! LOUDER!!! If You Wanna Exploit LABOR you havta be you have to be 15ft from the door / 15. Rock & Roll ALL NIIIGHT AND PARTY EV-ERY DAY! / 16. CREATE MYTHS TO SUSTAIN CATASTROPHE] -
Martin Beck, An Organized System of Instructions (Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and Sternberg Press, 2017). [A hardcover book depicting a blueish outdoor park obscured by several grey sheets.] -
Danh Vo: Autoerotic Asphyxiation. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A center-parted white chiffon curtain revealing a set of six framed images mounted on the wall. A white bar runs slightly right of center of the image.] -
Charlotte Posenenske. Configured by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Installation view, Artists Space, 2010. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Six geometric, silver metal sculptures installed on low dolleys with wheels sit, scattered, across a wooden gallery floor. The sculptures are modular, hollow, and consist of cube-like and triangular metal components. Long arrows of colorful tape are installed on the gallery floors.] -
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.] -
Seth Price, Untitled, 2010, Inkjet print on Dibond, 7 x 9 in / 17,8 x 22,9 cm, Signed and numbered [A silhouette figure of a person riding a horse, mid-stride. The combined figure appears as a white cut-out, with a black shadow, on a transparent (alpha) background. Details are sketched onto the silhouette in blue pen.] -
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Yasunao Tone, Molecular Music, 1984-85 [Color image of a bird sculpture placed in an ornately decorated room.] -
Nick Mauss, This afternoon, 2012, 5-color, hand-stenciled gouache on paper, each unique 24 x 18 inches, Signed and numbered. [A gestural line drawing of two figures embracing set against a geomatric pattern of blue, teal, brown, red, and pink rectangular forms.] -
LIFE—a group show, curated by Arnold J. Kemp. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon [An assortment of artworks are seen in the large gallery space. On the left, an assemblage of materials affixed to the wall on floor connected through a metal thread. Behind are framed works and a plinth displaying colorful sculptures. In the right of the gallery are red, white, and blue wax candles spelling "LOVE" sitting abundantly on metal armatures. Further to the right is a colorful artwork forming the Star of David, and behind on the gallery walls are glimpses of assemblage artworks.] -
The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [An angled view of grey, metal book shelves sat towards left frame in the center of a room. The shelves are populated with books of various sizes and colors. In the background, right frame, a table with charis and books sits infront of a wall opening leading to an entrance/exit.] -
[Two small tomatoes arranged side-by-side against a blank, white backdrop. Text placed directly underneath the tomatoes reads, "Salad Days 2006 ~Second Course~."] -
El Bosque Luminoso Bajo El Mar, M.S. 324 exhibition, Threads of History, May 2023 -
[A person with a long braid is sitting on one of many brightly colored bundles of objects. The bundles are sitting on the dirt ground.] -
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.] -
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.] -
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.] -
Mark Morrisroe. Untitled (1988). © The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur. [A yellow-toned close-up of a person's bare chest. There is a hummingbird tattoo on the person's right breast, and they are wearing two chain necklaces.] -
Chang Yuchen: Coral Dictionary Vol. 1: 2019-2022. Performance documentation, April 28, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Lane Lang. [A figure in a blue dress sits behind a white table, with speakers and projectors on either side of them. The figure leans over and opens a small book.] -
Yasunao Tone Concert #3. Performance documentation, March 16, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color image of four figures seated in a row on a stage. Each figure sits behind a music stand.] -
Drake Carr, Martin Cohn, 2023. Colored pencil on paper. 40 1/16 x 32 3/16 inches. Image courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of an unframed drawing of a figure wearing a yellow dress. The figure is seen from a three-quarter view. To the right, near the head, there is a floating blue fish. Behind the figure, a brown column stands.] -
New Red Order: Informants Get Paid! Performance documentation, January 23, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A table covered with a red tablecloth. The tablecloth is decorated with two white images: a person riding a horse and stylized text reading "THE URGE TO MERGE." Lying on the table, there is a magazine with a green cover with a figure holding an axe. The cover text reads, "NEVER SETTLE" and "SPECIAL Future Recruits Issue".] -
Chorus: A Sound Poetry Festival. Performance documentation, November 11, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A figure sits behind a table, a microphone in front of their face, as they close their laptop and grab a stack of papers on the table.] -
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring S*an D. Henry-Smith and Joey Yearous-Algozin. March 26, 2022, Artists Space. [Black text overlays a white background. The top left corner reads: S*an D. Henry-Smith / Joey Yearous-Algozin. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, March 26, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."] -
Jutta Koether: xxapollo. Performance documentation, January 5, 2020, Artists Space. Photo © 2020 Paula Court. [A person dressed in all pink steps over a mass of wires. She is illuminated from behind by a bright, white wall. In the foreground, dimly lit figures face varying directions.] -
Carolyn Lazard: Two-way. Installation view (Fiction Contract, 2025), Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Greg Carideo. [A darkened gallery space with a video projection centered on a dark blue wall. The projection depicts a close-up of a black birthing mannequin reclined on a hospital bed in a blue patient room. A newborn mannequin swaddled in a hospital receiving blanket lays on the birthing mannequin’s chest.] -
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Abasement #77. Performance documentation, April 7th, 2025, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color image of a performer leaning over a record player with headphones on. One of their hands is partly out of frame while touching the machine. The background is out of focus, and bathed in bright blue light. A small portable light is placed on top of the record player, illuminating both it and the performer. ] -
Jack Smith Untitled (Plaster Foundation of Atlantis), 35mm slide, c. 1970. Copyright Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. [Remnants of discarded objects fill the frame. A flattened rubber chicken sits in the middle next to various bottles and boxes. On the right reads a white square in black and red font, "Exotic, Tropical Fruit."] -
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of red and yellow paper. Pieces of beige paper with typewritten text listing the performers and event details are scattered around the flyer.] -
Association Apsolutno, still from a.trophy, 2002. [A slightly grainy, black and white image of a deer standing on snowy ground in front of woods. There are two detached antlers on the ground in front of the deer.] -
Minako Iwamur, Family, 1978. [A painting of five figures seated for a portrait. Their faces are blurred out, and the entire image has been similarly rendered in soft, blurred strokes] -
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We the People. Installation View, Artists Space, November 12, 1987 - December 23, 1987. [Dolls with photos adjacaent to them hangon the wall on protruding nails and black text is also visible around them. An object can be seen on the floor and a text-based painting is on a wall adjacent to the dolls in this white-walled gallery setting.] -
The Library Vaccine. Installation view, Artists Space, 2014. [A series of books sit at eye level on a wall that displays a black and white photographic collage graphic behind them.] -
Tiffany Sia, In Plain Sight (detail view), 2021. Courtesy Artists Space, New York. Photo: Filip Wolak [A photograph of a gallery space with eight photographs and print-outs hung on the walls next to a wooden bench. In the foreground, there is an orange LED light on the floor.] -
Betty Tompkins, Sex Painting #4, 2013, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [Painting depicting a close-up image of a figure's mouth licking the top side of a foot. A large thumb is pressed against the bottom of the foot, holding it up to the mouth. The painting is composed of soft, muted gray and purple hues. A white band stretches across the lower edge of the image. Black text running along the center of the image's bottom edge reads, "2020Solidarity - Betty Tompkins," while small, faint gray text running along the lower right edge of the image reads, "A project by Between Bridges."] -
SCRAAATCH. Installation documentation, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Image of a basement with a table made of wood and a fresnel lens tabletop on the right side of the space. Along the top of the image the basement windows are tinted blue.] -
Adam and Zack Khalil, still from INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./], 2016. [An image of a person with long brown hair pointing a pistol at the camera is superimposed on top of an image of a picturesque lake.] -
Demonstrations outside Artists Space during the opening of Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, November 16, 1989. [A person holds a sign that reads "KEEP ART FREE!" in handpainted text.] -
rafa esparza: Camino. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [Color image of a gallery space with large panels of adobe with paintings of various figures on them. In the foreground is a painting of a panther that approaches the viewer. Adobe bricks are laid out on the floor to create short walkways.] -
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Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism. Installation view of the section "Galerie h (1966),” Artists Space, 2014. [A angled view of a grey wall with documents displayed behind glass. The closest image depicts a colorful illustration of shapes, with two, green, square documents to the left of it.] -
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. ] -
SCRAAATCH. Performance documentation, November 18, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Audience members are seated along a back wall, with a figure in a blue morph suit seated on a rectangular wooden frame alongside them. Blue light is projected onto a screen in the background.] -
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. The figure on the right speaks and gazes forward. One of their hands rests on the music stand, the other reaches out in front of themselves, their fingers extended.] -
keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a large empty room bathed in a red light. Along one wall, a performer dressed in white stands against the wall, bending over and looking to their left. A bright white light shines from their hips and a sheath of crinkly, reflective one-way mirror film lays on the ground in front of them.] -
Nuestro Reflejo exhibition at Morris Jumel Mansion, Washington Heights, 2025 -
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.] -
Gwynn Murrill, Impala, laminated wood blocks, 1972. From Don Wynn, Judy Pfaff, Gwynn Murrill, Artists Space, 1974. [A black and white photograph of a wooden bust of a horned deer like animal, attached to a white wall.] -
Hito Steyerl, Liquidity, Inc., 2014, HD video with sound, 30 mins. Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps, New York. Installation view from Hito Steyerl, Artists Space, 2015. [An angled view of a large ramp leading to a large video monitor screen. The room is tinted blue. On the screen, an iPhone 4 sits on a glass table, it's lock screen on view; the time reads, "4:39"] -
Sherry Markovitz. Installation view. Artists Space, 1985. [One sculpted deer head is seen in the foreground with a paper mache design and a darker deer head sculpture is seen in the background with horns. Both are hung in a white-walled gallery space.] -
Gillian Wearing, All I Ever Wanted Was Love, 1992/93, 23.5 x 16.5 inches [Photograph of a youthful figure with short brown hair wearing blue jeans and a dark shirt with a green jacket tossed over their left shoulder. A black bandana covers their mouth, obscuring the lower half of their face. They hold a sign in front of their chest with both hands. The phrase, "ALL I EVER WANTED WAS LOVE" is scrawled across the sign in handwritten text. A hand-drawn image of a sun and palm tree decorate the right side of the poster. The figure stares directly at the viewer and poses against a dark wall. Small white text placed at the image's lower left corner reads, "2020Solidarity - Gillian Wearing."] -
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [Two gold picture frames with black and white portraits of a woman (left) and a man (right) face each other on a shelf.] -
Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis, 2025. Marionette. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A marionette wearing a black suit, collared shirt, and white Nike Air Force 1s is positioned laying prone on a windowsill. Red curtains cover half of the window behind the marionette. In the corner, a small stage lights is directed at the marionette. Outside of the window is an alleyway with graffiti.] -
Gerhard Richter Hotel Diana , 1967 80 copies + 40 artists proofs, signed and numbered screen print, 59,4 x 80 cm Courtesy of Edition Block, Berlin [A sepia photograph of an angled, above view of two men lying in seperate adjacent beds. On the walls above them, hang two small picture frames.] -
Frozen Lakes. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A man stands at a copy machine with the hood lifted and its light on. On a wall directly behind the copy machine, black fabric hangs from a small, horizontal pole to the right of the standing figure.] -
Mungo Thomson, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (12 Step), 2004. [A black bumper sticker with white text on the back of a silver car reads, "The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths."] -
Abasement #62. Performance documentation, December 5, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman [Two figures are seated on stage. The figure on the left plays the violin and the figure on the right holds a briefcase full of audio equipment.] -
Elephant Cemetery. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [A gallery room filled with various sculptures and objects. There are several cube and rectangular sculptures in various sizes, some solidly painted with black, white and silver, and some painted with a brick pattern. There is a table with two projectors projecting a small image on the wall. On the far wall, there are a series of framed drawings. On the righthand side of the room, there is a half-wall behind which a piece made of 7x4 rectangular images hangs on a wall.] -
Ralston Farina: Time // Time. Installation view, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [The title TIME // TIME is written centered on a white wall. To the right, a white shelf displays objects and a colorful poster of Ernie Kovacs.] -
Cover of Issue No. 1, Topical Cream, 2025. [Magazine cover featuring a photograph of a woman in a brown blazer against a white background. She holds a magazine in her right hand. Text across the top reads "Topical / Cream." At the bottom text reads "No. 1 / Intersectional Art Annual / Lumi Tan / Karen Finley."] -
[A simple graphic of words forming the shape of a triangle reads, "A NEW SYMBOL PROPOSED & PROJECTED INSIDE THIS SPACE IS (LIKE EVERY LOGO) ALL SURFACE: A BUBBLE BLOWN AROUND NOTHING INFLATED TO BURSTING POINT BY THE LAZY ASSUMPTION THAT WHAT WE LOOK LIKE IS WHO WE ARE IN OTHER WORDS, 'IDENTITY' = IDENTITY."] -
AIDS Forum: Danny Dries - Generic Memorial (for WM. Schwedler, 1942-1982). Installation view, Artists Space, 1992. [A black and white image of an antique wooden chair with a plush seat. A mold of a human brain emerges from the center of the chair's cushion.] -
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.] -
Kayla, digital photograph, 2023 -
Abasement #87. Performance documentation, June 15th, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A seated performer in a black leather dress sings into a microphone, with their mouth open wide and left arm outstretched. On the wall behind, a projection of an abstract design of blue circles is juxtaposed by an orange-tinted photograph of a galaxy and stars.] -
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 of white picket fence with dark painted background behind it.] -
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.] -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (Wishing Well (Korpi), 2023/24; There's something happening here, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [In a large dark room, a modular structure is recessed into a raised floor covered with black carpet. The structure is lit in bright blue light, and hosts open water. Red light shines in the back room.] -
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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David Kulik, Frank Majore, Kevin Noble, Ken Pelka, Pat Place, Rene Santos, and Brian Weil. Installation view, Artists Space, 1980. [Two photographs are hanging next to each other on a wall.] -
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Tim Doud, 2001. [A painting of a bald man with glasses looking off to the side. He wears a red Lacoste polo shirt.] -
Attention Line. Installation view (costumes worn by Johanna Went, 1970s-2000s), Artists Space, June 11 - August 20, 2022. Photo: Filip Wolak [A brightly lit photograph of three human-sized costumes in front of a wall.] -
Sherry Kromer Schapiro. Still from Am I My Mother's Keeper?, 1989. 5 min. Photo: Micki McGee. [White block text reads SPECIES EXTINCTION on a background of grey and white swirls.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon [Five black and white images hang on a gallery wall. The photographs vary in size yet share a similar quality of speckled light. ] -
Joelle de la Casiniere. Still from La Grimoire Magnetique, 1983. 26 minutes. Photo: Micki McGee. [A black and white image of person in a coverall jumpsuit and backwards baseball cap reading aloud from a music stand. Behind them, a pair of sunglasses is shown on a white background.] -
[Black text on a grey background. The text reads: “March 7 / Forrest Gander / Jennifer Scappettone.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
[Black text on a light yellow background. The text reads: “May 17 / Nazareth Hassan / Karla Kelsey.” Text in the bottom left corner reads: “5pm / 11 Cortlandt Alley + Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / $5 (all proceeds go to readers)"] -
Daniel Tilsdale. Still from Contacts, Ponytails, Noses and Bleach, 1988. Graphite on Xerox (presented in slide format). [A close up black and white image of a slide projection with two figures.] -
Milford Graves at the Festival d'Automne à Paris, 1974, Black and white photograph. © Philippe Gras [A black and white photograph of a man in a leopard print costume standing center stage with his hands up and palms open facing toward the viewer. He stands with his legs outstretched and behind him rests a drum set which sits next to a gong. Microphones are positioned near his body, one on each side.] -
Nuestro Reflejo, Threads of History exhibition, Morris Jumel Mansion, March, 2025 -
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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 low windows on a brick facade covered in layered black and yellow film.] -
Las Nietas de Nonó: Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN. Performance documentation, October 29, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata [Color photograph of a figure in a red suit preforming in front of a seated audience. The figure sits at a tanker desk with a TV monitor placed on top of it. They have papers taped and placed over their face.] -
Portrait of Milford Graves, New York, c. 1987. Photo: Lona Foote. Courtesy the Photo Estate of Lona Foote [A black-and-white image of a man sitting on his knees with two African drums placed in front of him. His head looks downward while his left-hand hovers above the drums. His right hand firmly holds the side of a shaker instrument.] -
Louisa Chase. Installation view, Louisa Chase, Ted Stamm, Meryl Vladimer, Artists Space, 1975. [A black and white installation photograph of a sculpture. The work features two wooden rods, connected to form an obtuse angle in the center. The end of each rod has a set of wheels, and the piece rests on a sling-like piece of sturdy fabric.] -
[A Frida Kahlo painting and portrait of woman against a black background.] -
Friends of Artists Space Dinner 2024. Wade Guyton, Kathy Halbreich, Andy Robert, Joan Jonas. Photo: Joshua Wildman [A group of people sit around a circular dining table. Wade Guyton and Kathy Halbreich are on the far left side of the frame. Andy Robert and Joan Jonas face each other and are mid-conversation. Robert wears a diamond-patterned sweater, black jacket, and black, red, and yellow striped beanie. Jonas wears a black jacket over a blue blouse with small red polka dots and scalloped edges, and her hair is held out of her face with a decorative clip.] -
Guilt for Shame. Performance documentation, August 22, 2013, Artists Space. Photo: Lyndsy Welgos. [A man stands, motioning towards at an LED light sculpture hung on the wall. A woman sits on one of three benches circling the man, and the audience is seated on the floor behind them.] -
Dyonis, Underworld, 2020, collage, pastel and pen and ink -
Constantina Zavitsanos: fwiw. Installation view (∞, 2024), Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Against an urban landscape, a metal pinhole camera tin is mounted to a roof post.] -
Lines of Loss. Installation view, Artists Space, 1997. Photo: Bill Orcutt. [A square hole has been cut out of a blank, white gallery wall. Through the hole, several brown paper and cardboard boxes are visible.] -
ricardo nagoka, Shroud (detail) Steel, human body, 2025 [In this close-up shot, a white pleated structure resembles a tent structure. Underneath the pleat there appears a backlit illumination. In the left side of the frame a ventilation tube extends from the front towards the back of the white structure.] -
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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.] -
Michael Asher. Installation View, Artists Space, 2025. Photo: Carter Seddon. [A set of stairs lead into a gallery space with two series of photographs on each wall. On the back wall a series of fourteen photographs are shown in two rows. Along the right wall, eight photographs in two rows are visible from this angle. In both series, the photographs on the top row are cool-toned and darker, and the photographs on the bottom row are much brighter and warm-toned. ] -
Cover of Common Ruin, Win McCarthy, 2023. [Scanned image of a white page featuring a geometric drawing of a building divided into squares. Some of the squares are colored in charcoal and others are lightly filled in with pencil. Light smudges of black charcoal appear across the page. In the upper-center of the page, text reads: "Win McCarthy / Common Ruin".] -
Abasement #70. Performance documentation, July 1st, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Portrait view of solo performer, next to a small suitcase opening to show light bulbs and several small wires. The wall behind performer shows the lights from and the shadow of a disco ball. The performer has thick red lipstick and an eyeball on top of their head amidst long blonde hair.] -
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.] -
New Economy. Installation view, Artists Space, 2007. [An installation view with a deconstructed skateboard on a pedestal in the foreground with two suitcases in the background and a two dimensional depiction of a stereo system along with other small wall works.] -
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keyon gaskin with Moya Michael & Zinzi Minott. Performance documentation, December 16, 2022, Artists Space. Photo: Destiny Mata. [Color photograph of a figure dressed in white, laying face down across two ledges of a raised desk.] -
[Black type text the reads, "The Defaced Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Ortron"] -
Flipside: Symposium. Program view, Artists Space, 2005. [A circle of people sitting in chairs in discussion. Facing towards them are additional rows of chairs filled with an audience. To the left of the audience, there is a white plinth with a glass top housing several porcelin objects on a red fabric. On the wall behind the circle of speakers, there is a plaid composition featuring red, green, and peach colors.] -
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Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs featuring faces are overlayed on a pink background. Other cut-outs contain hand-written text that reads "Abasement 67" and lists the performers and date of the concert. Thin white lines are scribbled over the composition.] -
Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978. Installation view, Artists Space, 2013. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A book shelf displays paper documents containing black and white images. Above, smaller documents, and a similar paper displayed in a white frame.] -
Abasement #64. Performance documentation, August 7, 2023, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Color photo of a large gathering of audience members seated and standing in a dimly lit performance space. The venue is illuminated by white spotted lights from a discoball out of view and soft, pink projections.] -
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.] -
David Armstrong: Portraits. Installation view, March 10 – May 23, 2026, Artists Space. Photo: Carter Seddon [Thirty nine photographic prints of varying sizes, orientations, and framing are hung collage-style on a large gray wall. ] -
Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Filip Wolak. [A color image of three framed works against a white wall. The drawings are done on black paper and depict abstract compositions made up of white, and colorful shapes, lines and strokes.] -
Jeff Preiss, still from STOP, 2012. 16mm film transferred to digital video. [Close-up photo of a person with red hair, leaning against a wall while looking away from the camera.] -
Photography and the City attendance sheets. Courtesy Harvard University Archives. [College-ruled paper with numerous tallies in different colors and orientations] -
Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo (1975–1979). Installation view, Artists Space, 2011. Photo: Daniel Pérez. [A Samsung television monitor displaying Benjamin Buchloh, in a black sweater and thin rectangular glasses, being interviewed.] -
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[A dirty, gray tile floor with small wisps of hair scattered across it.] -
Speaker Music: drape over another. Performance & Album Launch documentation, December 13, 2019, Artists Space. Photo © 2019 Paula Court. [A crowd of people fill a dimly lit red room, some sitting and some standing. Abstract images are projected on the space’s walls.] -
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.] -
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. Installation view, Artists Space, 2024. Photo: Carter Seddon. [Color image of a darkened gallery installation with multiple projectors and a golden egg sculpture in the left back corner. In the left foreground, a pinhole projector wrapped in foam and secured with red string sits on a pedestal. On the wall to the left, an image of a golden ornamental hoop and pin, along with four small pink and green strawberries, is projected. In the center back, a pinhole project inside a rectangular plaid plastic travel bag with straps sits atop a pedestal. It projects an image of a green square with a crenellated metal opening onto the back wall. To the right, a projector inside a plywood box sits atop a pedestal. On the wall to the right, an image of an image of a red pearlescent ball, with a small white pearlescant ball attached on top, is projected.] -
Salad Days 2. Installation view, Artists Space, 2006. Photo: Bill Ocrutt. [A slide projector sits in a dimly lit corner of a gallery space. The device projects an image of rocks and other debris onto a poster hung on the wall, which lists various statistics related to The Letchworth Village, a residential commuinty in Rockland County, New York. A second poster hangs on a wall to the left of the slide projector. A stack of papers rests on a small support below the poster.]
