La MaMa La Galleria - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for La MaMa La Galleria. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Betsy Damon “Passages Rites And Rituals”
Curated by Monika Fabijanska Passages: Rites and Rituals is the first exhibition of Betsy Damon’s radical performance practice (1976-86). It features the documentation of eight public performances,...More »
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“Downtown 2021” Exhibition
Presented by La MaMa Galleria Curated by Sam Gordon DOWNTOWN 2021 takes its name from the film Downtown 81, which portrayed a day in the New York City of 1981 in all its glory. Forty years later, the...More »
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Mark Tambella “a body of painting”
La MaMa Galleria presents a body of painting, a collection of new oil portraits by Mark Tambella. A body of painting seeks to capture the energy and movement of sitters at rest. Through mark-making, color,...More »
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Ruby Rumié “Divine Breath NYC”
In Divine Breath NYC, Ruby Rumié, with her 100 individual ceremonies, thrives toward helping abused women overcome their pain and get on with their lives. This project explores the pain shared by women...More »
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Shanna Maurizi and Corinne Spencer Exhibition
La MaMa Galleria presents Shanna Maurizi and Corinne Spencer for its final exhibition of Spring 2019, curated by Elise Gardella. By their variant investigations, the artists invoke the vastness of the...More »
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Hannah Barrett & Marissa Bluestone “Critters”
La MaMa Galleria presents Critters—a two-person exhibition by Marissa Bluestone and Hannah Barrett, organized by Adriana Farmiga. Critters have cultivated idiosyncrasies and subcultures in order to live...More »
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Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. & María José “I’ve got a lot of things to face this month”
La MaMa Galleria present, for its opening show of Spring 2019, I’ve got a lot of things to face this month, featuring photographic works by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and María José that consider the daily...More »
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Michelle Marchesseault & Julia Shirar Exhibition
La MaMa Galleria present, for its final exhibition of 2018, the paintings of Michelle Marchesseault and Julia Shirar, curated by Elise Gardella. Experiencing their paintings together generates an energetic...More »
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“Cell Count” Exhibition
Curated by Kyle Croft and Asher Mones Co-presented by Visual AIDS In the last ten years, HIV-specific criminal statutes have been used in over 300 prosecutions in the United States, resulting in prison...More »
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“Universal Language” Exhibition
By Matt Colagiuri Universal Language is the first comprehensive exhibition of sculptural photography work by Matt Colagiuri. Colagiuri’s work presents photographic images mounted on backgrounds of varying...More »
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“Hair Paintings and Other Stories” Exhibition
By Jarrett Key Co-presented by The Bellwether & Codify Art Key grew up in rural Alabama to their grandmother singing, “your hair is your strength.” Hair Paintings and Other Stories re-imagines...More »
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Ari Tabei “PIPORNOT’s Superorganism”
Installation work, photos, paintings and video created by aricoco (Ari Tabei) Interactive Performance by aricoco and Julia Benedict PIPORNOT’s Superorganism features installation work, photos, paintings...More »
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C. Finley “Same Bed, Different Dreams”
La MaMa Galleria presents Same Bed, Different Dreams, an exhibition of new paintings by New York and Rome-based artist C. Finley. The exhibition features a cycle of large scale paintings in dialogue with...More »
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Ingo Swann “A Remote View”
La MaMa Galleria presents Ingo Swann: A Remote View, a one-man exhibition of paintings and collages by Ingo Swann. An acclaimed psi-researcher and author, Swann participated in over a hundred academic...More »
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Leonard Rosenfeld “Pattern of War”
La MaMa Galleria presents Pattern of War, a series of paintings done at the end of Leonard Rosenfeld’s 50-year long career. They demonstrate a highly accomplished painter whose style remained both narrative...More »
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Brad Greenwood “Star Maps”
La MaMa Galleria presents Star Maps, an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Brad Greenwood. This is the artist’s second solo show at La MaMa Galleria. Greenwood’s work has long explored...More »
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“Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980” Exhibition
Party Out Of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980 focuses on the intersection of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis and nightlife from the 1980s to the present. Since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, nightlife...More »
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Oana Maria Cajal “Posters For Unwritten Plays”
La MaMa Galleria presents “POSTERS FOR UNWRITTEN PLAYS,” Oana Maria Cajal’s first solo exhibition in New York. The kaleidoscopic presentation of multimedia happenings is dedicated to the great and always...More »
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“Nobles & Savages” Exhibition
La MaMa Galleria in partnership with RARE Gallery presents Nobles & Savages, a group exhibition featuring works by three artists represented by RARE: Johnston Foster, Dionisios Fragias, and Eamon...More »
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“Ephemera as Evidence” Exhibition
Visual AIDS presents Ephemera as Evidence an exhibition curated by Josh Lubin-Levy and Ricardo Montez which brings together visual art, performance, and pedagogical projects that evidence past lives and...More »
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“NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-06-01 - 2013-06-30
NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS looks back at the history of Visual AIDS and contemporary AIDS politics to create a glimpse into a quarter century of art, AIDS and activism. Curators Kris Nuzzi and Sur...More »
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Federico Restrepo “Free Falling”
La MaMa Galleria presents Federico Restrepo’s solo exhibition, Free Falling, composed of sculpture, painting, sound design, shadow screens and dance, Restrepo arouses a series of actions and reactions...More »
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"Tap Dat Capital!" Exhibition
AN EXHIBITION OF PROPOSALS AND RADICAL IMAGININGS Organized in conjunction with The School of Art at The Cooper Union TAP DAT CAPITAL!, an exhibition co-organized by La MaMa and The School of Art at...More »
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Elise Gardella "Gray Shapeless Monster"
Photographs and drawings examining the fragile limits and violence too often present in intimate partner relationships. Much of Gardella’s work explores the boundaries between fictive and documentary photography....More »
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"Sari Carel / The Museum of Commerce (with Eric Legris)" Exhibition
In this show Sari Carel focusses on fragments of the wild shimmering within the urban environment. An audio piece is built from the songs of three bird species endemic to New York: the Black Rail, an endangered...More »
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Mark Tambella "New Paintings"
Mark Tambella presents a new group of oil paintings seeking to locate the aesthetics of decay as a form of growth. Whether from composed still life of cultivated fruits and vegetables to far less controlled...More »
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"La MaMa partners with the Rema Hort Mann Foundation" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-01-03 - 2013-01-20
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, created in 1995 by friends and family of Rema Hort Mann to honor her joyful and vivacious life after her untimely death from stomach cancer at age 30, has evolved into a...More »
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"From the Edge: Performance Design in the Divided States of America" Exhibition
- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2012-12-06 - 2012-12-16
FROM THE EDGE: PERFORMANCE DESIGN IN THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA is a one-of-a-kind installation of photographs and work processes from 37 politically compelling productions from across the country....More »
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Brad Greenwood "eat the wolf"
Brad Greenwood’s paintings are visual diaries. Greenwood mines memory, dreams and experience, and in the process attempts to balance beauty and disorder, figuration and abstraction. His work explores our...More »
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"La MaMa International" Exhibition
La Galleria kicks off the season with a group exhibition of artists’ paintings from all over the world. In keeping with one of Ellen Stewart’s missions, the exhibition’s goal is to bring artists together...More »
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"Blue Alpha" Exhibition
New York University's 80WSE Gallery, in collaboration with La MaMA-La Galleria, presents BLUE ALPHA, the Thesis exhibition of graduating MA students from Steinhardt’s Department of Art and Art Professions....More »
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"Undetectable" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-05-31 - 2012-06-30
Visual AIDS presents Undetectable, a group exhibition and multi-format program curated by Nathan Lee, together with co-curator Rachel Cook. Undetectable, features works by artists in a variety of media...More »
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Grant Shaffer "Freeze Your Eggs"
Born in 1965 in San Francisco, Grant Shaffer has lived and worked in Manhattan as an artist illustrator for the past 17 years. He illustrates for magazines and newspapers such as The New Yorker, Interview,...More »
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"Space Power Lighting etc" Exhibition
SPACE, POWER, LIGHTING, ETC. is an exhibition of sculpture in the expanded field, organized by La MaMa and The School of Art at The Cooper Union, featuring work by students in Cooper Union’s schools of...More »
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Arch Connelly Exhibition
Arch Connelly, an internationally recognized painter/sculptor, came to prominence in the East Village art scene of the early 1980′s. This exhibition at La Mama Galleria marks the first solo exhibition...More »
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Luba Lukova "Graphic Guts"
La MaMa La Galleria presents Luba Lukova’s exhibition, Graphic Guts. Internationally renowned Lukova is regarded as one of the most distinctive image makers working today. Poignant and unrelenting, her...More »
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Adriana Farmiga “Versus”
La Mama presents Adriana Farmiga’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In Farmiga’s upcoming exhibition “versus.” she will be presenting a group of new works ranging in media, that function in a series...More »
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"MIXploratorium: A Queer Artist Installation and Performance Series" Exhibition
MIXploratorium is presented by MIX NYC QUEER EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL and THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION Queer Arts Collective. Visual Artists: Peter Cramer, Cristy C. Road, Gabriel DeFazio, Avory...More »
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Carlos Lersundy "Homecoming"
La MaMa Galleria presents an exhibition of new paintings by Colombian artist Carlos Lersundy. He has been apart of the La MaMa family since the very beginning, creating art for Ellen Stewart and some of...More »
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"Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words" Exhibition
Mixed Messages features over forty text-based works reflecting reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS across generations. A mix of art, activism, and design, Mixed Messages pairs internationally...More »
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"Mediated Motion" Exhibition
La MaMa Gallery presents Mediated Motion, a dance and media art exhibit which showcases 15 artists from around the world. The diverse works explore how video and new media technologies alter human movement...More »
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"Tracing the Unseen Border" Exhibition
Tracing the Unseen Border is an exhibition curated by Ian Cofre and Omar Lopez-Chahoud that takes a look at the dynamics surrounding the border between Mexico and the United States. Each of the participating...More »
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"Photographic Dysplastic" Exhibition
pho·to·graph·ic [foh-tuh-graf-ik] –adjective 1. of or pertaining to photography. 2. suggestive of a photograph; extremely realistic and detailed: photographic accuracy. 3. remembering, reproducing,...More »
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Virginia Poundstone "Pumping Liquidity into the System."
New York-based artist Virginia Poundstone’s work investigates our civilization’s control of the natural world. For this show, she has returned to her native Kentucky to investigate the Nada Tunnel, a man-made...More »
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Day Gleeson Exhibition
Day Gleeson has seen the revolution of gentrification take over her neighborhood. Her works point a mirror to the face of this, and for the first time a comprehensive artistic analysis will cover the duration...More »
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Jen Williams and Wilfredo Ortega "Phase Shift"
This collaboration between two local artists results in an exhibit of installation pieces that respond to the changes in both the Bowery’s physical surroundings and its community. Jen Williams- “it’s an...More »
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John Kelly "Schiele~Kelly"
In connection with the Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte performances at Ellen Stewart Theatre, a solo exhibition of Kelly’s newest self-portraits, based on the art and life of Egon Schiele, will be on view in...More »
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"Live/Work: A Painting Show" Exhibition
This is the exhibition of 10 artists whom regard historical vocabularies of painting as a generative means to address the everyday. These artists have been pulled together because of their commitment to...More »
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"La MaMa Puppet Series IV -- Built to Perform" Exhibition
"La MaMa Puppet Series IV -- Built to Perform," the latest in La MaMa's celebrated annual puppet program, , curated by Denise Greber, presents original puppet performance from around the world, exploring...More »
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Garry Hayes "Exploding Books"
Garry Hayes began his artistic career with studies at The American Academy of Art, Chicago, finishing with a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Taking his diploma in hand he headed immediately...More »
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"Culture on Canvas: Burmese Contemporary art" Exhibition
La MaMa Galleria and ArtAsiaNYC presents the largest exhibition of contemporary Burmese art ever shown in the United States or Europe. The work of 15 leading artists from Myanmar will be on display. Capturing...More »
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"To Believe" Exhibition
When faced with impossible questions, the notion of mortality or dire situations, many people turn to unconventional means or practices for answers, respite or foresight. To Believe brings together a...More »
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"Arteon in Motion" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts - Performance Art
- 2010-05-20 - 2010-05-30
This event promotes a spirit of collaboration that brings together established and emerging talents from different parts of the world. ARTEON members from Manila, Athens, Berlin, and many others will also...More »
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David X Young "The Haitian Energy Field And Beyond"
A retrospective of artist David X. Young: founder of the legendary Jazz Loft, Fulbright Scholar to Haiti, and prolific visual artist. For the first time, a collection of works by David X Young, who...More »
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"Movement Schmoovement" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2010-03-25 - 2010-04-18
With a nod to Jill Johnston’s 1971 essay, Movement Schmoovement, which highlighted the tension between movement and stasis, collective power and individuality, the desire to work with others to create...More »
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"Sculpture Storage" Exhibition
- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2010-03-11 - 2010-03-20
SCULPTURE STORAGE is an event-based exhibition that will take place on a temporary platform built at LaMaMa La Galleria. The small stage will be host to a series of performances, screenings, workshops...More »
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"PERFORMATIVE ASPECTS IN ART FROM EASTERN EUROPE WORKS FROM KONTAKT" Exhibition
This exhibition focuses on the historically important decade of the 1970s in Eastern Europe, demonstrating how artists articulate performative gestures on a visual level, in opposition to the dominant,...More »
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"Million Charge" Exhibition
A group exhibition of New York based artists: Christopher Ouellette, Grant Shaffer & Ulrich Fladl Carmona Christopher Ouellette: The works being shown at La MaMa Galleria are a part of a recent...More »
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Justin Bond and Hilton Als “Cold Water”
Singer-songwriter and performance artist Justin Bond and New Yorker theater critic Hilton Als curate “Cold Water” at LaMaMa La Galleria, a unique exhibition of works by artists who are also performers...More »
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"Sejny Chronicles" Experimental Play
The Sejny Chronicles, a story of the multicultural town of Sejny, is a stunning montage of oral histories and legends that are spoken, sung and danced around a baked clay model of the town. Actors approach...More »