Murray Guy - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Murray Guy. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Moyra Davey “7 Albums”
A kind of stubbornness made me read Funeral Rites in its entirety. I both hate and love the book, and in a puerile fashion drew up ‘good’ and ‘bad’ columns to keep track of my thoughts. I’d also been...More »
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Matthew Higgs “Lost For Words”
Murray Guy announce Lost For Words, Matthew Higgs’ sixth exhibition with the gallery. Higgs has developed the exhibition in collaboration with Rita Ackermann, Yevgeniya Baras, Brian Belott, Robert Bordo,...More »
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Barbara Probst Exhibition
For her latest exhibition at Murray Guy, Barbara Probst presents three contemplative works that further develop the method she uses to make her multi-part Exposures. Probst sets up multiple cameras...More »
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Kota Ezawa “Thirteen Stolen Works of Art and a Videotape”
In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole thirteen irreplaceable works of art. Twenty-five years...More »
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Peggy Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery “Two Serious Ladies”
Over the years Peggy Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery’s individual practices have concerned similar inquiries into feminism, experimental filmmaking, genre, and cultural identity. Analogous to the two protagonists...More »
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“The Secret Life” Exhibition
Caught in a tangle between scientific truth and our own spiritual longing, is a secret life which is undeniable and relentless. We are pleased to present a cross-generational group exhibition, inspired...More »
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Leidy Churchman “The Meal of the Lion”
Violence and struggle are at the heart of Henri Rousseau’s The Meal of the Lion, a painting central to a new body of work by Leidy Churchman. Rousseau’s imagined landscape, lush with gargantuan flowers...More »
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Alejandro Cesarco “Loyalties and Betrayals”
Loyalties and Betrayals flirts with the possibilities of memory as both the object and instrument of our desires. The exhibition puts in relation ideas of personal narrative, surface and silence, style...More »
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Lucy Skaer “Sticks & Stones”
“It was all so nearly alike it must be different and it is different, it is natural that if everything is used and there is a continuous present and a beginning again and again if it is all so alike it...More »
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Ann Lislegaard “Oracles, Owls… Some Animals Never Sleep”
Murray Guy present Ann Lislegaard’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Inspired by distinct elements within the seminal science fiction novels Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick...More »
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Rosalind Nashashibi “Lovely Young People, (Beautiful Supple Bodies)”
Made with the Scottish Ballet in their Glasgow studio, the film features the Company dancers in private rehearsal. As the camera scans the mirror-lined walls, revealed are the manners and movements of...More »
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“Infinite Tuning” Exhibition
The title of the exhibition is that of a work by Matthew Buckingham – a recording of an orchestra alternately warming up and tuning. The anticipation that these looping sounds of preparation generate...More »
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Patricia Esquivias “111-119 Generalísimo/Castellana”
For her third solo exhibition at Murray Guy, Patricia Esquivias presents 111-119 Generalísimo/Castellana, a video and installation that navigates through a series of tenuous coincidences surrounding a...More »
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Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Gordon Matta-Clark Exhibition
Murray Guy presents an exhibition of three distinct bodies of work that use photography as a tool for the investigation of urban change, historical representation, and social experience. Matthew Buckingham’s...More »
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Alejandro Cesarco “Marguerite Duras’s India Song”
Marguerite Duras’s India Song is a video installation with sculptural elements and a commissioned short text by Argentine writer Daniel Link. The project continues Duras’s own transpositions from novel...More »
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Moyra Davey “Ornament and Reproach”
For her third solo show with Murray Guy, Moyra Davey presents a new iteration of a recent exhibition at Presentation House in Vancouver, organized in collaboration with John Goodwin. It was by chance...More »
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“Someone Like Me” Exhibition
Towards the middle of her recent book, The Story of My Accident is Ours (2013), Rachel Levitsky introduces a character who bears an uncanny resemblance to the author, “I often wonder what was it that drove...More »
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Barbara Probst Exhibition
Murray Guy presents our fifth solo exhibition with Barbara Probst. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist. In a presentation of works ranging from 2011 to 2013, Probst continues to...More »
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Rosalind Nashashibi “Carlo’s Vision”
Murray Guy presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Rosalind Nashashibi. Rosalind Nashashibi works with film, sculpture, print and photography. Her films combine close observation of everyday...More »
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Francis Cape “Utopian Benches”
Murray Guy presents Utopian Benches, a new project by Francis Cape. Seventeen benches are gathered in the middle of the room. Cape has built these sculptures as a way of thinking—and talking—about communalism...More »
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“Screens” Exhibition
Murray Guy presents the exhibition “Screens”, Continuing the gallery’s long engagement with film and video, this exhibition takes up the changing conditions by which moving images are conceived and...More »
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Sergei Tcherepnin "Ear Tone Box"
Murray Guy presents its first solo exhibition with Sergei Tcherepnin. Trained as a composer, Sergei Tcherepnin (b. 1981) works at the intersections of sound, sculpture, and theatre. Connecting computers...More »
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"MLMH" Exhibition
It starts with wanting things, though I'm not sure why these things. Images and objects include: dots, telephone, grey, tangerines, ashtray, pear, how little I know, bench, table, chair, stool, banana,...More »
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Zoe Leonard Exhibition
Murray Guy presents first exhibition with Zoe Leonard. Leonard’s first solo show in a New York gallery in nearly ten years, the exhibition could be said to begin with a series of questions: “What is...More »
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"From An Object's Point Of View" Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2012-05-11 - 2012-06-30
Reclining, ambulating, balancing, reflecting, approaching and withdrawing, this exhibition brings together a group of objects that might propose the question: what is it like to be a thing? The extraordinary...More »
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Lucy Skaer "Harlequin Is As Harlequin Does"
Murray Guy presents our first solo exhibition with Lucy Skaer, Harlequin Is As Harlequin Does, comprising new sculptures and silkscreened photographs. In the Italian Commedia dell’Arte, the Harlequin...More »
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Dan Graham and Corey McCorkle Exhibition
Murray Guy presents an exhibition with Dan Graham and Corey McCorkle, bringing together works that take up the design and architecture of gardens. Ranging from the folly-filled leisure grounds of an eighteenth...More »
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Ann Lislegaard "Time Machine"
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Barbara Probst Exhibition
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"A form is simply something which allows something else to be transported from one site to another" Exhibition
Murray Guy presents an exhibition comprising works and performances by Leonor Antunes, Gregg Bordowitz, Joachim Koester, Ulrike Müller, Hannah Rickards, John Smith, Sergei Tcherepenin, and Emily Wardill....More »
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"Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic" Exhibition
Murray Guy presents "Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic," curated by Moyra Davey and Zoe Leonard. Exploring various intersections between photography and writing, the exhibition is presented alongside...More »
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Matthew Buckingham "Likeness"
Murray Guy presents the sixth solo exhibition with Matthew Buckingham (b. 1963 Nevada, Iowa), comprising two new film installations that examine the nature of portraiture. Successful portraits deliberately...More »
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An-My Lê Exhibition
Murray Guy presents the third solo exhibition with An-My Lê, featuring a series of exceptional new photographs from the artist!s recent travels with the American armed forces. Amongst the always polarizing...More »
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Patricia Esquivias Exhibition
Murray Guy presents the second solo exhibition with Patricia Esquivias. This show will feature the premiere of two video installations, Folklore III and Natures at the Hand. Patricia Esquivias is a...More »
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Beat Streuli "NYC 91/09"
Murray Guy presents our fourth solo exhibition with Beat Streuli. This show will include photographs and video shot through the urban spaces of New York City, pairing works from two moments of economic...More »
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"Vertically Integrated Manufacturing" Exhibition
Murray Guy is very pleased to present the exhibition “Vertically Integrated Manufacturing,” including works by Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Fia Backström, Bernd & Hilla Becher, DAS INSTITUT, Dexter...More »
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Moyra Davey Exhibition
Murray Guy presents the first exhibition with Moyra Davey, which will also be her first solo exhibition in New York since 2003. This show will include a survey of works spanning nearly twenty years of...More »
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Alejandro Cesarco "Two Films"
The two films by Alejandro Cesarco continue Cesarco’s investigation of the narrative and affective possibilities of conceptual art; both films are re-enactments or translations which push the resonant...More »
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"A Sensed Perturbation" Exhibition
The works in this show are gestures that strive for attentiveness to affects, situations, atmosphere; finding forms amidst a sense of uncertainty. In particular, these works evoke the practice of close...More »
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Francis Cape "Home Front"
This exhibition will comprise new sculptures and photographs expanding on a project that Cape developed for Prospect 1 New Orleans, which related the destruction and rebuilding of New Orleans to the Utility...More »
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Barbara Probst Exhibition
Probst works within a structure redolent of conceptual art—she simultaneously exposes multiple photographs of the same scene with a radio-controlled shutter release—but using the techniques of studio photography....More »
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Kota Ezawa "Multiplex"
"Multiplex" will feature two new animations by Kota Ezawa that draw from, respectively, the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, and a YouTube video showing an infamous 2004 brawl at an NBA basketball game....More »
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Matthew Buckingham "Will Someone Please Explain it to me, I've Just Become a Radical"
The student demonstration against the Dow Chemical Company at the University of Wisconsin Madison on October 18, 1967, marked turning points in both the anti-Vietnam war movement and in law enforcement's...More »
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An-My Lê "Events Ashore"
Shot in coastal waters and regions from Iraq to Antarctica, An-My Lê's latest series of photographs examine intersecting themes of scientific exploration, military power, environmental crises, fantasies...More »