Peter Blum Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Peter Blum Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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John Zurier “On the Back of a Mirror”
Over the last four decades, John Zurier has reflected on transient themes of nature and landscape in his ethereal atmospheric paintings. Through dedicated exploration of the intimate dialogue between color...More »
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Luisa Rabbia “Inferno”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Luisa Rabbia entitled Inferno. This is Rabbia’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and will be presented at 176 Grand...More »
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Sonja Sekula “Works from 1942 - 1963”
Sonja Sekula was born in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1918 and moved to New York in 1936. Joining the burgeoning 1940s–50s artistic community of New York, Sekula mingled with expatriate Surrealists in André...More »
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Paul Fägerskiöld “January 1, 2100”
The stars as fixed points in the sky viewed from specific locations and days offer a point of departure for artist Paul Fägerskiöld in his series Starry Night. At first shadowy and enigmatic, the paintings...More »
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Kamrooz Aram “Elusive Ornament”
Elusive Ornament brings together a group of new paintings, collages, and sculptural works that continue Kamrooz Aram’s exploration of the relationship between painting and ornament, and his renegotiation...More »
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Rebecca Ward “infinite plane”
Rebecca Ward presents painting’s multifaceted relationships with object, craft, and dimensionality through deconstructed and sewn canvases. In the exhibition’s new series of polychromatic horizontal paintings,...More »
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Esther Kläs “Come again”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition by Esther Kläs of new sculptures, works on paper, and installations entitled, Come again. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. With...More »
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Chris Marker “100”
Peter Blum Gallery presents Chris Marker: 100, a survey across seven decades of the artist’s career through almost 250 photographs, film stills, and prints coinciding with the centenary of his birth. A...More »
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John Zurier “The Future of Ice”
John Zurier’s practice over the past twenty years has resulted in nearly monochromatic, atmospheric paintings and works on paper. Evoking his impressions of ephemeral phenomena including the relationship...More »
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“Field of Vision” Exhibition
Field of Vision brings together a group of five artists who are acutely sensitive to formal play in creating their own distinct painterly languages. Emphasizing the continued malleable nature of painting...More »
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Helmut Federle “Basics on Composition”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of Helmut Federle entitled, Basics on Composition at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Helmut Federle...More »
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Luisa Rabbia “From Mitosis to Rainbow”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Luisa Rabbia entitled, From Mitosis to Rainbow at 176 Grand Street, New York. Luisa Rabbia blends the distinctions made between the human and the...More »
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Erik Lindman “Fal/Parsi”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Erik Lindman entitled, Fal/Parsi. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Since the beginning of his artistic practice,...More »
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Nicholas Galanin “Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of work by visual artist Nicholas Galanin entitled, Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition...More »
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Su-Mei Tse “In the (very) beginning”
Peter Blum Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Su-Mei Tse entitled, In the (very) beginning at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s fifth solo show with the gallery, and first...More »
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John Zurier “North from Here”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by John Zurier entitled, North from Here, at 176 Grand Street, New York. The title of the exhibition, North from Here, is shared by a series...More »
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“20/20” Exhibition
Curated by Vlad Smolkin Peter Blum Gallery presents 20/20, a group exhibition that brings together individual works by 12 artists working in painting and video, spanning from 1969-2019. In a...More »
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Paul Fägerskiöld “Flatlands”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Paul Fägerskiöld entitled Flatlands at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Flatlands takes...More »
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David Rabinowitch “Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of works on paper by David Rabinowitch entitled Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s seventh solo show...More »
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Esther Kläs “Second Future”
Peter Blum Gallery presents Second Future, the fourth solo exhibition of Esther Kläs. An aluminum bowl with an aluminum stick. A resin sculpture, a bronze bar. Grey and blue woven wool. ...More »
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Joyce J. Scott “What Next and Why Not”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of sculptural works by Joyce J. Scott entitled What Next and Why Not at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. This...More »
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“Excavation” Exhibition
Peter Blum Gallery presents Excavation, featuring works by: Zahoor ul Akhlaq, N. Dash, Josephine Halvorson, Corin Hewitt, Erik Lindman, and Stanley Rosen. Zahoor ul Akhlaq (1941–1999, Lahore, Pakistan)...More »
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Daniel Rich “Never Forever”
Peter Blum Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Daniel Rich entitled Never Forever. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. The paintings in Never Forever offer points of...More »
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Luisa Rabbia “Death&Birth”
Peter Blum presents an exhibition of new works by Luisa Rabbia entitled Death&Birth at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. Luisa Rabbia’s practice...More »
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Alex Katz “Three Paintings”
Peter Blum Gallery presents the exhibition Three Paintings by Alex Katz. Alex Katz’s cool, representational, and reductive style has set him apart as one of the most influential painters working in...More »
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John Zurier “Stars Without Distance”
Peter Blum presents an exhibition of new paintings by John Zurier titled Stars Without Distance. This will be the first show in the new downtown location at 176 Grand Street, New York. John Zurier’s...More »
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Sonja Sekula “A Survey”
Peter Blum presents the gallery’s first exhibition of works by the Swiss artist Sonja Sekula (1918–1963) titled A Survey. While many of her male counterparts gained wide notoriety during their lifetime,...More »
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“NO EXIT” Exhibition
Peter Blum presents NO EXIT. What we seldom talk about in art is the desperation informing much of it, not because the artists are good at disguising it, but because we seem to not want to see what...More »
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Miles Coolidge “Coal Seam redux”
Peter Blum presents Coal Seam redux, the first solo exhibition of Miles Coolidge at Peter Blum Gallery. Coal Seam redux consists of two recent bodies of photographic works that are concerned with how...More »
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Esther Kläs “BET WEEN”
Peter Blum presents BET WEEN, the third solo exhibition of Esther Kläs. BET WEEN is a selection from a 12-piece series, made in Buenos Aires in 2013, of large-scale monotype, print, and colored pencil...More »
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Paul Fägerskiöld “OBAFGKM”
Peter Blum presents an exhibition of new paintings by Paul Fägerskiöld. OBAFGKM is the first exhibition of the artist’s work at Peter Blum Gallery. The title of the exhibition, OBAFGKM (also known...More »
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“Exalted Position” Exhibition
Peter Blum presents a three-person exhibition of new works by Graham Durward, Irina Rozovsky, and Roger White. The paintings and photographs in this exhibition depict objects and scenes from everyday...More »
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David Reed New “Paintings”
Peter Blum presents an exhibition New Paintings by David Reed. This is Reed’s first solo exhibition in New York since 2007. “As the viewer looks at the painting, they are compelled to glance rapidly...More »
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Robert Zandvliet “Shades”
Peter Blum presents Shades, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Dutch artist Robert Zandvliet. In the past, Zandvliet has continuously worked in periods where he investigates a specific subject,...More »
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto “Katsura”
Peter Blum announces an exhibition of the acclaimed Katsura Villa photographs by Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012). Katsura is the first exhibition of the artist’s work at Peter Blum Gallery, on view at...More »
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Nathaniel Dorsky “Film Stills”
“Every shot is the narrative and the narrative is every shot.” from “Devotional Cinema” by Nathaniel Dorsky Peter Blum presents an exhibition of photographic works by Nathaniel Dorsky. Film Stills...More »
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Enoc Perez “One World Trade Center”
Peter Blum announces an exhibition of new paintings by Enoc Perez entitled One World Trade Center. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In his newest series titled One...More »
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Su-Mei Tse “one thousand and one dreams behind us …”
Peter Blum is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by Su-Mei Tse entitled one thousand and one dreams behind us… . In the exhibition, Su-Mei Tse presents recent work created during her current...More »
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John Zurier “West of the Future”
Peter Blum presents an exhibition of paintings by John Zurier entitled West of the Future at 20 West 57th Street, New York. John Zurier’s new works, created in 2014 and 2015, are heavily influenced...More »
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Luisa Rabbia “Drawing”
Luisa Rabbia comes from Turin, Italy, where she studied in the atmosphere of the Arte Povera movement. In her work, she explores the internal lives of individuals in relation to others and their environment....More »
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Joseph Montgomery “Doll Index”
Doll Index is a new body of work representing Joseph Montgomery’s continuing exploration of the shim - a tapered wedge of material typically used to fill gaps or spaces between objects to influence their...More »
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Chris Marker “Koreans”
Chris Marker was one of the last journalists who had the unique opportunity to travel and explore North Korea freely in 1957. The result of these travels was a group of 51 photographs entitled Koreans....More »
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“Traces” Exhibition
For the exhibition, John Beech (born 1964 in England) will feature a new group of dumpster drawings. Beech is interested in fusing the visual vocabulary of abstraction with ordinary objects, which are...More »
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Esther Kläs “Palomar”
This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In Palomar, Esther Kläs continues to examine the dynamic between materiality and presence in sculpture. These latest works are rounded...More »
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Daniel Rich “Systematic Anarchy”
Daniel Rich’s new body of work continues to examine how the reproduction and proliferation of images shape our perception of physical structures and the ideologies that they embody. By translating found...More »
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Helmut Federle “The Ferner Paintings”
Helmut Federle’s latest body of work, The Ferner Paintings, created in 2012 and 2013 all represent one form: the circle. The paintings, each measuring 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches (50 x 40 cm), are executed...More »
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Alex Katz “Small Paintings 1987-2013”
[Image: Alex Katz “Homage to Monet 5” (2009) oil on board]More »
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“Portfolios from Peter Blum Edition” Exhibition
This exhibition will be held with Summer hours: are Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm.More »
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John Zurier “A spring a thousand years ago”
On view are new monochromatic paintings created in 2012 and 2013, influenced in part by Zurier’s travels in Iceland. The title of the exhibition comes from a poem by the Icelandic poet Stefán Hörður Grímsson....More »
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Rosy Keyser "Medusa Pie Country"
Peter Blum presents the inaugural exhibition at 20 West 57th Street with new paintings by Rosy Keyser. It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail;...More »
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Luisa Rabbia "Coming and Going"
Peter Blum presents Coming and Going, an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings by Luisa Rabbia. This will be her first solo exhibition with Peter Blum Gallery. Coming and Going is organized around...More »
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"Heat Waves" Exhibition
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"4 Films: Adrian Paci, Luisa Rabbia, SUPERFLEX, Su-Mei Tse" Exhibition
Peter Blum Gallery presents 4 Films. The group exhibition will highlight recent films by Adrian Paci, Luisa Rabbia, SUPERFLEX and Su-Mei Tse. Adrian Paci explores the intricacies of non-verbal communication...More »
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SUPERFLEX "Bankrupt Banks"
Peter Blum presents the exhibition SUPERFLEX: Bankrupt Banks. Bankrupt Banks is a new series that continues SUPERFLEX’s exploration of the many facets that have led to the international financial crisis....More »
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Jason Fox "Eating Symbols"
Peter Blum presents the exhibition Jason Fox: Eating Symbols. This will be Jason Fox’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. For this exhibition, Jason Fox will present paintings, drawings, and...More »
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Esther Kläs "Nobody Home"
Peter Blum presents the exhibition Esther Kläs: Nobody Home. This will be Esther Kläs’ first exhibition with the gallery. For her first solo show in New York, the German born artist will exhibit a...More »
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Rosy Keyser "Promethean Dub"
Peter Blum presents the exhibition Rosy Keyser: Promethean Dub. This will be Rosy Keyser’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Loosely inspired by the first law of thermodynamics, Promethean Dub...More »
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"Lany" Exhibition
Peter Blum presents the exhibition Lany: Kevin Appel, Andy Cross, Benjamin Degen, James Melinat, Luisa Rabbia, Daniel Rich and Kara Tanaka at Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th Street, New York. Organized...More »
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Chris Marker "Passengers"
Peter Blum presents the exhibition Chris Marker, Passengers. This exhibition, opening on April 2, 2011, will be presented at both Peter Blum Soho (99 Wooster Street) and Peter Blum Chelsea (526 West 29th...More »
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John Beech "The State of Things"
John Beech- The State of Things focuses on new sculpture and works on paper, which examine the fabrication and manipulation of objects to create abstract works. Building sculptures out of a variety of...More »
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Huma Bhabha "Drawings"
At her first solo show in New York, in 2004, Huma Bhabha showed sculptures and photographs that a New York Times critic championed as "not like any recent art I can think of." Her most recent solo show...More »
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Matthew Day Jackson "In Search of"
Peter Blum presents the exhibitions In Search of at the Chelsea gallery. This is Matthew Day Jackson’s second one-person show with the Peter Blum Gallery. At the Chelsea gallery, In Search of is comprised...More »
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John Zurier, Jason Fox, Richard Allen Morris "Paintings"
The exhibition John Zurier, Jason Fox, Richard Allen Morris brings together 3 different painting positions. John Zurier: White Paintings and Night Paintings occupies the two main galleries. The White...More »
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Adrian Paci "Gestures"
In the exhibition Gestures Adrian Paci continues his interest in symbolic and cultural rites. Paci often focuses on brief glimpses of everyday gestures that occur during ritualistic festivities. He renders...More »
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SUPERFLEX "Flooded McDonald's"
SUPERFLEX is a Danish collective, founded in 1993 by Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, and Rasmus Nielsen. The group has gained worldwide recognition for their projects that deal with such issues...More »
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Su-Mei Tse "Words and Memories"
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Rosy Keyser "The Moon Ate Me: New Paintings"
The Moon Ate Me brings together a group of new large-scale paintings as well as four sculptures. These recent works take the mechanics of sonar as a model not only for the artistic process but also as...More »
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Chris Marker "Quelle heure est-elle?"
Chris Marker: “Quelle heure est-elle?” comprises three different photographic series (Koreans, Crush-Art, QUELLE HEURE EST-ELLE?) as well as a grouping of photogravures, film posters, postcards and two...More »
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Richard Allen Morris "Morris Code - works from 1957 to 2007"
Richard Allen Morris: Morris Code is comprised of paintings and objects from the late 1950s up to 2007. Morris often is referred to as a “painter’s painter,” who has throughout his career predominantly...More »
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"Short Circuits" Exhibition
Short Circuits, organized in collaboration with Johann König, Berlin, comprises a group of seven European artists. The artists included present a significant direction of an emerging generation. They share...More »
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William Anastasi "Opposites Are Identical"
pposites are identical brings together works from four decades, with the earliest work dating back to the early 1960s and the latest from the year 2000. One of the first practitioners of Minimal and Conceptual...More »
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Matthew Day Jackson "Terranaut"
In Terranaut Matthew Day Jackson investigates the fundamental themes of death, belief, and transcendence in order to illuminate a sense of lived purgatory. The majority of the works in this show address...More »
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"Some Thing Else" Exhibition
In the group show she organized here last summer, gallery director Simone Subal seemed to predict all the “Unmonumental,” piece-by-piece, “lessness” that cropped up in galleries and museums all this season....More »
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Rudolf de Crignis " Paintings 1992 to 2006" Exhibition
Rudolf de Crignis: Paintings 1992 to 2006 traces Rudolf de Crignis’ development as a painter from the early 1990s to 2006. The first gallery contains 7 works from 1992 to 1994, which already feature de...More »
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Rosy Keyser "Rivers Burn and Run Backward" Exhibition
Rivers Burn and Run Backward comprises a group of paintings and a selection of works on paper. Keyser energizes what she refers to as “neo brut” paintings with, in her case, a blend of rational and emotional...More »