MOMA PS1 - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for MOMA PS1. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Standing On The Corner: Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers” Exhibition
For their first durational museum presentation, the avant-garde musical ensemble Standing on the Corner (American, est. 2016), led by Gio Escobar, will create a sonic, multimedia installation that brings...More »
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Malikah Exhibition
MoMA PS1 debuts an intergenerational storytelling project with Malikah, a global feminist grassroots collective committed to building safety and power through healing justice, self-defense, and financial...More »
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Daniel Lind-Ramos “El Viejo Griot — Una historia de todos nosotros”
Daniel Lind-Ramos (b. 1953, Loíza, Puerto Rico) uses found and gifted objects of personal, communal, and regional significance—such as everyday tools, objects of adornment, and debris salvaged from the...More »
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Iiu Susiraja “A style called a dead fish”
For the last 15 years, Iiu Susiraja (b. 1975, Turku, Finland) has taken photographs of herself in domestic settings, most often in her home in Turku, Finland. MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition...More »
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Onyeka Igwe “A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver)”
Through cinema and installation, Onyeka Igwe’s (b. 1986, London) multidisciplinary practice examines little-known historic events by collecting and combining documentary sources including government records,...More »
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Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton “Q’iwanakaxa/Q’iwsanakaxa Utjxiwa”
MoMA PS1 presents a newly commissioned work made collaboratively by siblings Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, b. 1985, Inland Empire, CA) and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton (b. 1983, San Diego)...More »
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Frieda Toranzo Jaeger “Autonomous Drive”
Through her dynamic and modular paintings, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger proposes a futurity of queer freedom, connection to nature, and the creation of new spaces of joy and pleasure. Marking Toranzo Jaeger’s...More »
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Umar Rashid “Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6”
Through his multidisciplinary practice—including paintings, drawings, textiles, and a new multimedia sculpture being created for this exhibition—Umar Rashid draws on both history and fantasy to create...More »
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“Queensbridge Photo Collective: Still, Like Air I’ll Rise” Exhibition
The Queensbridge Photo Collective activates Homeroom with Still, Like Air I’ll Rise, which takes its name from Maya Angelou’s poem reflecting on hope and perseverance in the face of racial and class-based...More »
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“Life Between Buildings” Exhibition
Inspired by the history of community gardens in New York City, Life Between Buildings explores how artists have engaged the city’s interstitial spaces—“vacant” lots, sidewalk cracks, traffic islands, and...More »
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Deana Lawson Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents Deana Lawson, the first museum survey dedicated to the work of the celebrated photographer, on view from April 14 through September 5, 2022. For more than 15 years, Deana Lawson (b. 1979,...More »
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“(Never) As I Was: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2020–21” Exhibition
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition will be on view at MoMA PS1. Part of an ongoing collaboration between the Studio Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and PS1, (Never) as...More »
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“Greater New York” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2021-10-07 - 2022-04-18
Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area, returns for its fifth edition. Delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this iteration offers...More »
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Gregg Bordowitz “I Wanna Be Well”
Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well is a personal and singular record of an artist who has been living with HIV for more than half of his adult life. Born in Brooklyn in 1964 and raised mostly in Queens,...More »
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Niki de Saint Phalle Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents the first New York museum exhibition of the work of visionary feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle (American and French, 1930‒2002). Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life will feature...More »
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“This Longing Vessel: Artist-in-Residence 2019–20” Exhibition
MoMA PS1, 2nd Floor The Studio Museum in Harlem’s annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition will open at MoMA PS1, moving this presentation outside the Studio Museum’s walls for the second time as part...More »
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“Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” Exhibition
As its first exhibition upon reopening to the public, MoMA PS1 will present a major exhibition exploring the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and...More »
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“Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991–2011” Exhibition
American-led military engagement in Iraq over the last 30 years has had an indelible impact on contemporary culture and the work of artists around the world. This large-scale group exhibition examines...More »
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“The NY Art Book Fair”
Printed Matter presents the fourteenth annual NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. The NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the leading international gathering for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating the full...More »
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Julie Becker “I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent”
I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent is the first museum survey exhibition devoted to the work of Julie Becker (American, 1972–2016). Inspired by the psychological, cinematic, and physical geographies...More »
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Devin Kenny “rootkits rootwork”
Devin Kenny raises timely questions about the shape of racial politics and community in contemporary America, interrogating the interconnected dynamics of gentrification, displacement, and diaspora. For...More »
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“MOOD: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018-19” Exhibition
As part of a multi-year partnership between The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1, the Studio Museum’s annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition, MOOD. MOOD is the inaugural exhibition...More »
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Zheng Guogu “Visionary Transformation”
Since the early 1990s, Zheng Guogu (Chinese, b. 1970) has harnessed a variety of media to consider the impact of globalization and digital technologies on contemporary Chinese life and tradition. Ranging...More »
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Simone Fattal “Works and Days”
MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Simone Fattal (Lebanese and American, b.1942). The retrospective brings together over 200 works created over the last...More »
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“Redaction: A Project by Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts” Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents the first public installation of The Redaction, a collaboration between visual artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar (b.1976, Kalamazoo, MI) and memoirist, poet and attorney Reginald Dwayne...More »
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Gina Beavers “The Life I Deserve”
MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of New York-based painter Gina Beavers (American, b. 1974), who transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly...More »
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“Karrabing Film Collective” Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of the Karrabing Film Collective, an indigenous media group based in Australia’s Northern Territories that uses filmmaking and installation...More »
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Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds “Surviving Active Shooter Custer”
Artist, activist, and educator Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (American, b. 1954) is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations, and these identities have informed his work for more than thirty years....More »
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Elena López Riera “Those Who Desire”
The films of Elena López Riera (b. 1982, Orihuela, Spain) intermingle observational documentary, essayistic work, and filmic portraiture to form poetic representations of individuals and settings that...More »
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Nancy Spero “Paper Mirror”
MoMA PS1 presents a major survey of the work of artist and activist Nancy Spero (American, 1926–2009). A celebrated figure in the cultural life of New York City, Spero produced a radical body of work that...More »
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Bruce Nauman “Disappearing Acts”
Bruce Nauman has spent half a century inventing forms to convey both the moral hazards and the thrill of being alive. Employing a tremendous range of materials and working methods, he reveals how mutable...More »
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“The NY Art Book Fair”
Printed Matter presents the thirteenth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 21-23, 2018, at MoMA PS1. The NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the leading international gathering for the distribution of artists’...More »
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Elle Pérez “Diablo”
47 Canal presents the opening of the first solo museum exhibition of Bronx-based artist Elle Pérez presented by MoMA PS1. Pérez’s photographs distill moments of intimacy and emotional exchange: a bloody...More »
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Fernando Palma Rodríguez “In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People”
MoMA PS1 will present the first US solo museum exhibition of artist Fernando Palma Rodríguez (Mexican, b. 1957). Since the early 1990s, Palma Rodríguez has combined his training as an artist and mechanical...More »
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“Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan” Exhibition
Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan brings together a selection of performance works by two Chinese artists of different generations that address the relationship between the body and the land. Since the 1980s,...More »
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Julia Phillips “Failure Detection”
MoMA PS1 will present the first solo museum exhibition of New York-based artist Julia Phillips (German and American, b. 1985), featuring six newly commissioned major works alongside existing sculptures....More »
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“Spring Performance Festival”
On April 15, MoMA PS1 will present an all-day celebration of New York City’s performance scene featuring more than 35 artists, alongside the opening of a slate of new exhibitions including Julia Phillips:...More »
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“Projects 108: Gauri Gill” Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents the US premiere of photographer Gauri Gill’s (Indian, born 1970) most recent body of work, Acts of Appearance. Working closely with members of an Adivasi community in Jawhar district,...More »
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Maria Lassnig “New York Films 1970–1980”
MoMA PS1 presents the world premiere of a series of experimental films the artist Maria Lassnig made in New York City in the 1970s. This presentation focuses on a selection of newly discovered and restored...More »
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Naeem Mohaiemen “There Is No Last Man”
In his films, installations, and essays, Naeem Mohaiemen (b. London, 1969) researches memories of leftist political utopias, and the contemporary legacies of decolonization. Bringing together two distinct...More »
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Carolee Schneemann “Kinetic Painting”
MoMA PS1 will present the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Carolee Schneemann (American, b. 1939) in the United States, bringing together over 300 works spanning her prolific six-decade...More »
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Cathy Wilkes Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents the first monographic exhibition of Cathy Wilkes (Irish, b. 1966) in New York. The largest exhibition of the artist’s work to date, Cathy Wilkes features approximately 50 works from public...More »
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Maureen Gallace “Clear Day”
The first survey of paintings by American artist Maureen Gallace, Clear Day features nearly 70 works spanning the artist’s career. For more than 25 years, Maureen Gallace (b. 1960) has painted genre...More »
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“Past Skin” Exhibition
In today’s technological environment, we can style, extend, and broadcast ourselves at will, projecting into digital realms that in turn shape us. The six artists in Past Skin take up science historian...More »
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Ian Cheng “EMISSARIES”
MoMA PS1 presents Ian Cheng’s (b. 1984) first US museum solo presentation, featuring the artist’s complete Emissary trilogy (2015–17), a series of live simulation works created using a video game engine....More »
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“A Bit of Matter: The MoMA PS1 Archives, 1976-2000” Exhibition
From MoMA PS1’s inaugural 1976 exhibition Rooms to the merger with The Museum of Modern Art in 2000, this exhibition brings together hundreds of objects drawn from the MoMA PS1 Archives, including artist’s...More »
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Tomáš Rafa “New Nationalisms”
Extending the tradition of vérité filmmaking, Tomáš Rafa offers a visceral glimpse into a range of political and social conflicts, including the plight of Syrian refugees, clashes between ethnic majorities...More »
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Mark Leckey “Containers and Their Drivers”
MoMA PS1 presents the first comprehensive U.S. survey of the pioneering British artist Mark Leckey and the largest exhibition of his work to date. Since coming to prominence in the late 1990s, Mark Leckey’s...More »
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“Projects 105: Cinthia Marcelle” Exhibition
Projects 105 presents Education by Stone (2016), a new site-specific installation by Cinthia Marcelle (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1974) and the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. Marcelle is known...More »
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Sascha Braunig “Shivers”
With more than twenty works made over the last five years, Shivers showcases Braunig’s unique approach to the studio portrait. Beginning with meticulously rendered paintings of fantastical sculptural constructions,...More »
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“FORTY” Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents FORTY, an exhibition celebrating the institution’s fortieth anniversary, organized by PS1’s founder, Alanna Heiss. The exhibition presents work by a group of artists who were critical...More »
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Vito Acconci “WHERE WE ARE NOW (WHO ARE WE ANYWAY?), 1976”
As one of the exhibitions celebrating the institution’s 40th anniversary, MoMA PS1 presents a survey of early works by Vito Acconci, whose projects exemplify the energy and innovation of the decade that...More »
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Deng Tai “Shadow”
Deng Tai: Shadow is the first U.S. solo exhibition of the work of late Chinese artist Deng Tai (1987-2012). While living in Beijing, Deng casually enlisted friends to shoot several series of haunting photographs...More »
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Meriem Bennani “FLY”
MoMA PS1 will present the first solo museum exhibition of New York-based artist Meriem Bennani (b.1988, Rabat). Part documentary travelogue, part soap opera, and part juicy gossip session, FLY is a new...More »
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Papo Colo Exhibition
Lobby MoMA PS1 revisits the seminal performance work of Puerto Rican artist Papo Colo, a pioneering figure in New York’s art scene since the 1970s. From May 22 through August 29, 2016, documentation...More »
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“Projects 103: Thea Djordjadze” Exhibition
Projects 103, the first exhibition in the forty-five year history of the Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series to take place a MoMA PS1, presents a site-specific sculpture by the Berlin-based, Georgian artist...More »
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Rodney McMillian “Landscape Paintings”
MoMA PS1 presents Rodney McMillian: Landscape Paintings, an exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian (b. 1969, Columbia, South Carolina). The exhibition is comprised of a suite...More »
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Cao Fei Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents the first museum solo show in the United States of Beijing-based artist Cao Fei. One of the most innovative young artists to have emerged from China, Cao Fei creates multimedia projects...More »
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Lionel Maunz Exhibition
Lionel Maunz creates dystopian sculptures from rugged, brutal materials like cast iron, concrete and steel. Working principally with figurative forms, Maunz has described his vision of the body as a “fulminating,...More »
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“Greater New York”Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-10-11 - 2016-03-07
MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of its landmark exhibition series, begun as a collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art in 2000. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased...More »
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“NY Art Book Fair”
Printed Matter presents the tenth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 18 to 20, 2015, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 17. Free...More »
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Titus Kaphar “Selections from Asphalt and Chalk”
The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) V, XV, and XVI represent a compelling new phase of Kaphar’s Jerome Project, which investigates racial injustice through the vagaries of the justice and penal systems...More »
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Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys “Fine Arts”
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys show fifteen steel sculptures, eighty-five watercolors, and a few videos. These artists make tragic, comic, and silent portraits of the human condition. They are drawn...More »
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IM Heung-soon “Reincarnation”
IM Heung-soon’s work explores the ongoing process of modernization and globalization in Korea as seen through the eyes of older generations whose lives have spanned these momentous shifts. Where the artist’s...More »
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Math Bass “Off the Clock”
Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass (b. 1981, New York) is interested in ambiguous images that produce multiple ways of seeing a single composition. The most famous examples of these kinds of pictures include...More »
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Halil Altindere “Wonderland”
Since the mid-1990s, Halil Altindere (Turkish, b. 1971) has emerged as one of the most prominent contemporary artists in Turkey with a multifaceted practice that ranges from video, sculpture, photography,...More »
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Simon Denny “The Innovator’s Dilemma”
MoMA PS1 presents the first significant U.S. museum solo show of Berlin-based artist Simon Denny (b. 1982, Auckland, New Zealand). The Innovator’s Dilemma adopts the architectural typology of the industry...More »
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Andrew Thomas Huang “Björk’s Stonemilker”
On the occasion of Björk at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1 presents Stonemilker in the VW Dome, Björk’s first foray into the world of Virtual Reality. In a continuation of Björk’s pioneering use...More »
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Anne Imhof “DEAL”
Working across a variety of media, Anne Imhof (German, b. 1978) evokes the power structures, secret codes, and unspoken rules that underlie daily human interaction. Her most recent project tackles the...More »
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Wael Shawky “Cabaret Crusades”
For his first solo exhibition at a major American museum, Wael Shawky presents his epic video trilogy that recounts the history of The Crusades from an Arab perspective. Inspired by The Crusades Through...More »
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“Zero Tolerance” Exhibition
Over the past two decades, some national and international governments have garnered attention for imposing draconian laws that restrict the rights of citizens under the guise of improving quality of life....More »
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“The Little Things Could Be Dearer” Exhibition
In an age when digital communication technologies are changing the ways we relate to one another, we frequently encounter emotion in abbreviated forms and express it at a virtual remove. Social media networks...More »
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Samara Golden “The Flat Side of the Knife”
Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden (American, b. 1973) creates immersive installations that explore what she calls the sixth dimension, where a multitude of pasts, presents, and futures exist concurrently....More »
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Bob and Roberta Smith “Art Amnesty”
Bob and Roberta Smith are issuing a call to Artists. Pack it in. Bob and Roberta Smith are delighted to offer an Amnesty for your Bad Art. Turn in your brushes and video cameras. Hand in your chisels and...More »
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Francesco Vezzoli “Teatro Romano”
Drawing on extensive research about the use of color in antiquity, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971) has collaborated with a team of archaeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to...More »
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“Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair”
Printed Matter, Inc. presents the ninth annual NY Art Book Fair. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s leading event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals,...More »
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GCC “Achievements in Retrospective”
Consisting of a “delegation” of nine artists, the GCC makes reference to the English abbreviation of the Gulf Cooperation Council, an economic and political consortium of Arabian Gulf nations. Founded...More »
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“Taster’s Choice” Exhibition
From 1967 to 1968, Richard Serra made a drawing that enumerated 84 verbs, among other parts of speech, to describe ways to create sculpture. His drawing, Verb List, makes explicit the actions that were...More »
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James Ferraro “100%”
Musician James Ferraro presents new works composed for specific sites within the infrastructure of MoMA PS1. For Ferraro, hotel lounge playlists, elevator music, and ringtones have become psychological...More »
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Gavin Kenyon “Reliquary Void”
For his first museum solo exhibition, Gavin Kenyon presents his largest sculpture to date and debuts a new series of textile-based works. Created specifically for MoMA PS1’s Duplex Gallery, Kenyon’s new...More »
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Christoph Schlingensief Exhibition
Throughout his life, Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) transgressed artistic, material and institutional boundaries in his oeuvre, which spans film, theater, opera, performance and installation. The...More »
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Korakrit Arunanondchai Exhibition
Bangkok-raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai engages a myriad of subjects such as history, authenticity, self-representation, and tourism through the lens of a cultural transplant. His work seeks to find...More »
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Maria Lassnig Exhibition
Maria Lassnig (Austrian, b. 1919) is one of the most important contemporary painters and can be seen as a pioneer in many areas of art today. Emphatically refusing to make “pictures,” she has long focused...More »
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Mike Kelley Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents Mike Kelley, the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to-date and the first comprehensive survey since 1993. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley...More »
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NY Art Book Fair
Printed Matter, Inc. presents the eighth annual NY Art Book Fair. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s leading event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals,...More »
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“Image Employment” Exhibition
Image Employment presents recent moving image works that investigate various modes of contemporary production. The selected works illustrate differing approaches to the subject, from observational films...More »
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“EXPO 1: New York” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-05-12 - 2013-09-02
EXPO 1: New York, an exploration of ecological challenges in the context of the economic and socio-political instability of the early 21st century opens at MoMA PS1, The Museum of Modern Art, and Rockaway...More »
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Michelangelo Frammartino “Alberi”
Once upon a time trees in the south Italian countryside used to come alive and move from the forest into the village to celebrate the yearly fusion of man and earth. Immersing visitors in the sound and...More »
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Cyprien Gaillard "The Crystal World"
Cyprien Gaillard's (b. 1980, Paris) work navigates geographical sites and psychological states, addressing the relationship between architecture and nature, and evolution and erosion. Using a variety of...More »
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Jeff Elrod “Nobody Sees Like Us”
Jeff Elrod (American, b. 1966) creates abstract paintings using basic computer software as a starting point for his artistic process. He began painting abstractions of video game imagery in the early 1990s...More »
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Ed Atkins Exhibition
Known for his high-definition videos that defy narrative conventions, Ed Atkins (British, b. 1982) works with filmic and text-based forms that are in technological transition. The artist considers HD technology...More »
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CONFETTISYSTEM “100 Arrangements”
The artist-design firm CONFETTISYSTEM works in a multivalent environment that resists simple categorization by discipline. The firm creates set designs, objects, and interactive installations for a range...More »
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Metahaven "Islands in the Cloud"
Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 2007 as a design and research studio, Metahaven has come to define a new methodology in graphic design. The studio’s speculative practice privileges the...More »
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Huma Bhabha "Unnatural Histories"
Huma Bhabha (American, b. Karachi, Pakistan, 1962) is known for her engagement with the human figure and for her use of found materials, working primarily in sculpture. Often tending towards the grotesque,...More »
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt "Tender Love Among the Junk"
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s mixed-media constructions, collages, and installations are marked by a trashy opulence concocted from household items and dollar stores. Mimicking Byzantine decoration with cellophane,...More »
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Ferhat Özgür "I Can Sing"
Özgür‘s video I Can Sing (2008), depicts an Anatolian woman in a headscarf, standing before a backdrop of contemporary Ankara featuring minarets alongside the ever-expanding sprawl of urban development....More »
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"New Pictures of Common Objects" Exhinition
Artists today have a very different relationship to mass consumption and images than artists who first engaged with these topics in the 1960s. Recent technology has created a vast archive of images that...More »
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"Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980" Exhibit
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 chronicles the vital legacy of the African American artistic community in Los Angeles, examining a pioneering group of black artists whose work, connections,...More »
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Matt Connors "Impressionism"
Like many younger painters working with abstraction, Matt Connors (American, b. 1973) engages freely with the histories of his medium without depending upon them. His canvases absorb influences from a...More »
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NY Art Book Fair
Printed Matter presents the seventh annual NY Art Book Fair. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and...More »
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"Young Architects Program" Exhibition
HWKN (Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner, New York) is the winner of this year’s annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 13th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA...More »
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Esther Kläs "Better Energy"
MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Esther Kläs (German, b. 1981), featuring sculptures, monoprints and paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist. Working with a range of processes and materials,...More »
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Rey Akdogan, Edgardo Aragón, Ilja Karilampi, and Caitlin Keogh "Solo Projects"
— Rey Akdogan: off set Assembling works from industrial materials like lighting gels, common packaging plastics, Mylar, and other commercial-grade films, New York-based artist Rey Akdogan is interested...More »
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Lara Favaretto "Just Knocked Out"
The playful, celebratory visual language of Lara Favaretto’s art can be misleading. Despite her work’s evident humor, a tragic undercurrent runs throughout her practice. Numerous pieces are subjected to...More »
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Max Brand "No Solid Footing"
Max Brand (German, b. 1982) paints with a wide variety of media including sidewalk chalk, crayon, pencil, marker, spray paint, ballpoint pen, chlorine bleach, and oil and acrylic paints. His chaotic lines,...More »
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"Kraftwerk - Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8"
In conjunction with Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at The Museum of Modern Art, an eight-channel video and sound installation especially developed for the exhibition is now on display in the...More »
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Darren Bader "Images"
This is a show of sculptures. It also hopes to create new homes for animals in shelters. And to raise funds to help protect wild animal species. Over the past decade, the relationships between culture...More »
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Henry Taylor Exhibition
Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor (American, b. 1958) applies his brush both to canvas and to unconventional materials—suitcases, crates, cereal boxes, cigarette packs—offering a refreshing, idiosyncratic...More »
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Surasi Kusolwong Exhibition
Surasi Kusolwong (Thai, b. 1965) makes installations and performances that reference consumer society and the economy. Through his participatory and interactive works the Bangkok-based artist encourages...More »
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Chim↑Pom Exhibition
Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake, the artist collective Chim↑Pom traveled to Soma City, Fukushima where they made friends with local youths—many of whom had lost their homes and loved ones, and...More »
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George Kuchar "Pagan Rhapsodies"
George Kuchar (American, 1942-2011) was among the most prolific and influential American filmmakers of the last half century. His more than two hundred low-budget films, many made with his twin brother,...More »
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Clifford Owens "Anthology"
For his first exhibition at a New York museum, Clifford Owens (American, b. 1971) presents a new project Anthology, which is comprised of photography, video, and live performance. Anthology features...More »
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Rania Stephan Exhibition
Rania Stephan (Lebanese, b. 1960) has been working with film for the last two decades. Stephan's body of work may at first appear perplexingly heterogeneous—ranging from video art to raw documentary—yet...More »
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Frances Stark "My Best Thing"
Frances Stark (American, b. 1967) is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer whose work explores image-making and the written word. Known for her works on paper that often reference the acts of drawing and...More »
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Frances Stark "My Best Thing"
Frances Stark (American, b. 1967) is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer whose work explores image-making and the written word. Known for her works on paper that often reference the acts of drawing and...More »
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"NY Art Book Fair"
Printed Matter presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th....More »
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"September 11" Exhibition
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were among the most pictured disasters in history, yet they remain, a decade later, underrepresented in cultural discourse—particularly within the realm of contemporary...More »
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Jeremy Shaw "Best Minds"
Jeremy Shaw's (Canadian, b. 1977) work explores altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to, or attempt to map, transcendental experience. Adopting strategies from the realms...More »
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Gus Van Sant and James Franco "My Own Private River"
The collaborative film by Gus Van Sant (American, b. 1952) and James Franco (American, b. 1978), My Own Private River, is comprised of unused footage and dailies from Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private...More »
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"Warm Up 2011"
MoMA PS1 presents Warm Up 2011, taking place every Saturday. Now celebrating its 14th year, the museum's highly anticipated outdoor series will continue its tradition of introducing audiences to the best...More »
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Ryan Trecartin "Any Ever"
MoMA PS1 presents Any Ever, the New York premiere of the artist Ryan Trecartin's (b. 1981, Webster, Tex.) 2007-2010 body of work, produced in Miami with collaborator Lizzie Fitch and contributors ranging...More »
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Alejandro Jodorowsky "The Holy Mountain"
MoMA PS1 presents Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 cult film The Holy Mountain in a cinematic setting, played continuously with starting times at noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. during regular museum hours in the...More »
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Nancy Grossman "Heads"
Heads, a solo exhibition that focuses on the artist’s evocative head sculptures. Nancy Grossman has been making art for more than fifty years and is best known for her leather-wrapped sculptures of heads,...More »
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Francis Alÿs "A Story of Deception"
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2011-05-04 - 2011-09-12
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two-part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b....More »
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Laurel Nakadate Exhibition
Laurel Nakadate is known for her works in video, photography, and feature-length film. This is Nakadate's first large-scale museum exhibition and will feature works made in the last ten years in all three...More »
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"Modern Women: Single Channel" Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents Modern Women: Single Channel, a group exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art focusing on the work of eleven women artists in single-channel video. The exhibition,...More »
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"Modern Women: Single Channel" Exhibition
A group exhibition drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Women: Single Channel focuses on the work of eleven women artists in single-channel video from the 1960s to the late 1990s....More »
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Sergej Jensen Exhibition
MoMA PS1 presents Sergej Jensen, the first solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist at a New York museum. Jensen’s poetic artworks provide a fresh approach to minimalist painting. Constructed from...More »
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Saturday Sessions
- Media: Architecture - Film - Video installation - Media Arts - Art Talk
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-06-25
Beginning on January 15, 2011, MoMA PS1 will relaunch its dynamic events series Saturday Sessions. Designed to introduce a wide range of performance, each event welcomes a different host and occurs every...More »
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"The Logic of Association" Exhibition
Since new forms of information theory and systems analysis developed in the 1960s, artists have continually explored their creative potential, often turning the rational assumptions of such disciplines...More »
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Feng Mengbo "Long March: Restart"
MoMA PS1 presents the New York debut of Feng Mengbo’s installation, Long March: Restart (2008), a large-scale interactive video game installation. Recently acquired by MoMA and presented for the first...More »
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Garry Winogrand "Some Animals"
Garry Winogrand was a key figure in American photography, who in the 1960s began to advance a highly personalized visual language that challenged the notion of the photographer as an objective witness....More »
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"The Talent Show" Exhibition
In recent years, television’s reality shows and talent competitions have offered people a conflicted chance at fame, while various kinds of Web-based social media have pioneered new forms of communication...More »
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"The NY Art Book Fair Report" Exhibition
This exhibition presents a survey of the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair organized by Printed Matter, Inc. and hosted by MoMA PS1. Between November 5 and 7th, all of the exhibition space at MoMA PS1 was...More »
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NY Art Book Fair 2010
Printed Matter, Inc. and The NY Art Book Fair take over all three floors of MoMA PS1, November 5–7, to present 275 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, museums, galleries, and artists from...More »
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"Move!" Exhibition
MOVE! is a new kind of art and fashion event will be debut at MoMA PS1. MOVE! merges the worlds of fashion, dance, visual art, performance art, and theatre to create a new genre of performance-based...More »
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"Greater New York 2010" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-10-18
Greater New York, the third iteration of the quintennial exhibition organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, showcasing some 68 artists and collectives living and working in the metropolitan...More »
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"Greater New York: Rotating Gallery" Exhibition
Functioning as a fast-paced exhibition space, the Rotating Gallery has offered space for additional curatorial voices, namely four New York-based curators who work without a regular physical space. By...More »
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Marina Abramović "Chair for Man and His Spirit"
On the occasion of the upcoming MoMA retrospective Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (opening March 14), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center will reinstall Marina Abramović's Chair for Man and His Spirit....More »
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"On Site 3: Mickalene Thomas"
P.S.1 presents the third installment of the site-specific series On-Site, a new large-scale wall piece by Mickalene Thomas titled Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires (2010). This installation...More »
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"Saturday Sessions: Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Desi Santiago" Performance
Jibade-Khalil Huffman presents Monster Island Czar, an epic poem that takes the form of a slide show. A poet and a photographer, Huffman’s interdisciplinary approach invites notions of chance and indeterminacy...More »
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"Rising Currents" Workshop Open House
"Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront," a major, eight-month initiative that will bring together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure...More »
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"Rising Currents" Workshop Open House
"Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront," a major, eight-month initiative that will bring together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure...More »
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"Saturday Sessions: Wayne Hodge, Daniel Perlin" Performance
Wayne Hodge’s artwork is strongly influenced by early cinema and popular culture. His videos, drawings, and performances have referenced minstrel performers and silent films to engage notions of race,...More »
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"Saturday Sessions: Sahra Motalebi, J. Patrick Walsh 3" Performance
Sahra Motalebi frequently incorporates musical gesture and sensorial environments into her performances. For her 35 minute music performance Such is the Game of Authenticity, she will explore expressionism...More »
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"100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)" Exhibition
This exhibition will gather important happenings, actions, moments, and gestures to outline a history of performance art that is still largely unknown. Organized by P.S.1 and Performa, a non-profit interdisciplinary...More »
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"1969" Exhibition
This will be the first exhibition at P.S.1 of works drawn from virtually all of the collecting areas of The Museum of Modern Art and will fill P.S.1’s second-floor galleries with examples of painting,...More »
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"Between Spaces" Exhibition
Between Spaces is a group exhibition organized by P.S.1’s junior curatorial staff. The exhibition brings together eleven emerging and established artists who remove familiar objects from their traditional...More »
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"P.S.1 Fall Exhibitions Opening" Party
Kick off the season with P.S.1's fall opening celebration. On view: "1969," "100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)," "Between Spaces," and "Robert Bergman: Selected Portraits." Experience the "Afterparty"...More »
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Robert Bergman "Selected Portraits"
"Robert Bergman: Selected Portraits," is an exhibition of twenty-four large-scale color portraits of everyday people the artist photographed on the streets of various American cities from 1985 to 1997....More »
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NY Art Book Fair 2009
Printed Matter, the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists, presents the fourth annual NY Art Book Fair. The Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers,...More »
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Chitra Ganesh "On-site: Her Silhouette Returns"
P.S.1's second incarnation of the "On-site" wall installation series: Her Silhouette Returns (2009), by artist Chitra Ganesh. Ganesh is known for her expansive visual vocabulary that often references Bollywood...More »
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Christian Marclay "2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009"
This fall P.S.1 presents 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, a site-specific floor-based installation of vinyl records by Christian Marclay. Consisting entirely of 12-inch records of every musical genre and...More »
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Michael Joaquin Grey Exhibition
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents a solo presentation by Michael Joaquin Grey, an artist whose work has bridged the boundaries between art, science, media, and the imagination for the last twenty...More »
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Carlos Motta Exhibition
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announces a new exhibition program entitled "On-site." Continuing P.S.1's long standing tradition of commissioning in-situ projects such as the "Vertical Painting" series...More »
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YAP 10th Anniversary Review Exhibition
YAP 10th Anniversary Reviewis a visual chronicle of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art's Young Architects Program, one of the most acclaimed architectural arenas for emerging talent...More »
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Jonathan Horowitz "And/Or"
Jonathan Horowitz "And/Or" is the first solo exhibition of the New York-based artist at a New York museum. Working in video, sculpture, sound installation, and photography, Horowitz critically examines...More »
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Florian Slotawa Exhibition
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the first solo New York exhibition of work by Berlin-based conceptual artist Florian Slotawa. Rather than creating new objects from scratch, Florian Slotawa rearranges...More »
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"International and National Projects Winter 2009: Florian Slotawa" Exhibition
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the first solo New York exhibition of work by Berlin-based conceptual artist Florian Slotawa. Rather than creating new objects from scratch, Florian Slotawa rearranges...More »
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Kenneth Anger Exhibition
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Kenneth Anger, the first major survey of the filmmaker’s body of work at a U.S. museum in over a decade. Making films since 1947, Anger is considered internationally...More »
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Lutz Bacher "My Secret Life"
MY SECRET LIFE, Lutz Bacher’s first museum survey exhibition, spans several decades of the artist’s wide-ranging conceptual practice. Bacher’s career is marked by restrained yet comprehensive interventions...More »
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"Minus Space" Exhibition
As part of the Fall 2008 International and National Projects, P.S.1 has invited Minus Space, a collective based in Brooklyn, New York, to present an exhibition of “reductive art”: art characterized by...More »
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Gino de Dominicis Exhibition
Gino De Dominicis' first major American museum show will focus on his late paintings made from the 1980s until his death in 1998. An Italian artist who shrouded himself in mystery, he exhibited little...More »
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Leandro Erlich "Swimming Pool"
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool will be...More »
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Leandro Erlich "Swimming Pool"
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool will be...More »
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Yael Bartana Exhibition
This will be Yael Bartana’s first in-depth exhibition at a New York museum. Bartana (b. 1970, Afula, Israel) is best known for investigating society and politics, primarily of her native Israel, through...More »
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"NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith" Exhibition
This exhibition brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address ritual in the artistic process, and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. Visual artists have for...More »
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"International and National Projects" Exhibition
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the work of three artists and a collective as part of the Fall 2008 cycle of the International and National Projects program. Featuring new and recent works by a...More »
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Børre Sæthre Exhibition
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Norwegian artist Børre Sæthre’s highly aestheticized immersive environment which unfolds throughout the third floor Archive Galleries. Sæthre’s work engages and...More »
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Michael Pollan "Taking the Plant's Point of View"
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, in collaboration with The Horticultural Society of New York, presents a lecture by the revolutionary food journalist Michael Pollan. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan...More »
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"Warm Up" Music Series
Warm Up is P.S.1's critically acclaimed music series and has become one of the most anticipated summer events. The series is housed within the architectural installation created by the winner of the annual...More »
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Olafur Eliasson Exhibition
Over the past 15 years, Danish-Iceland Olafur Eliasson has experimented with installations based on mechanisms of motion, projection, shadow, and reflection, creating complex optical phenomena using simple,...More »
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"That Was Then...This Is Now" Exhibition
Inspired by the artistic and socio-political climate of the late 1960s, this exhibition brings together an international and intergenerational group of artists working within three iconographic themes:...More »
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"Young Architects Program 2008" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center are proud to announce the winner of the ninth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: WORK Architecture Company from New York. The purpose...More »
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"Arctic Hysteria" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Film - Video installation
- 2008-06-01 - 2008-09-15
Arctic Hysteria will present a selection of mystical and outlandish visions in contemporary Finnish art. This intergenerational exhibition of approximately 20 artists will include a range of media such...More »
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Olafur Eliasson "Take your time"
"Take Your Time" Olafur Eliasson is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose large-scale immersive environments, installations, sculptures, and photographs...More »
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Ryan McGinness "Have You Seen Him?"
For Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Art Radio WPS1.org invited Ryan McGinness to create artwork for a 70-foot elongated skate-ramp and the additional space within the Art Positions container courtyard. P.S.1...More »
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"WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Film - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-02-17 - 2008-05-12
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. Organized...More »