Postmasters Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Postmasters Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Machine Violence” Exhibition
Postmasters 5.0 is a moving target - our next exhibition will occupy a spectacular ground floor space on Bond Street in downtown Manhattan. Machine Violence is a show for this moment, a visually stunning...More »
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Aneta Bartos “Monotropa Terrain”
location: 12 Wooster Street, Soho, NYC Aneta Bartos’ Monotropa Terrain is a two-fold exploration of the deeper and darker nature of the human mind and the functioning of its memory. Monotropa Terrain...More »
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BarabasiLAB “BIG DATA (Networking the Artworld)”
We are pleased to present a groundbreaking exhibition of BarabasiLAB led by Albert-László Barabási on networks and data as new realism. BIG DATA (networking the artworld) focuses specifically on the...More »
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Olive Allen “Welcome to the Metaverse”
Postmasters Gallery presents the first ever solo show of NFT art pioneer Olive Allen. Titled “Welcome to the Metaverse” and occupying all 4500 square feet of the gallery space, the exhibition spans sculpture,...More »
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LoVid “Hold on”
Postmasters presents its first solo exhibition with LoVid. Titled “Hold On,” the show will present a series of digital tapestries and NFTs. Both are spatial and time-based compositions that translate...More »
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Serkan Ozkaya “ni4ni”
Postmasters Gallery and Serkan Ozkaya invite you to witness a natural phenomenon in an unnatural setting. “Ozkaya loves tumbling into the rabbit holes his work can open up and pulling others along...More »
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Chando Ao “My I”
Postmasters presents its first exhibition with Chando Ao, a Chinese multimedia artist who splits his time between New York and Shanghai. The exhibition with its deceptively simple title “My I’ (inspired...More »
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“FUEL UP” Exhibition
URL: November 1 - November 30 PostmastersBLOCKCHAIN FUEL UP: Postmasters Gallery is thrilled to announce Gas Station, a three-day NFT exhibition / event series in conjunction with NFT.NYC. The entire...More »
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Serena Stevens “Clover & 4th”
Postmasters presents Clover & 4th, the second solo exhibition of Serena Stevens’s new large scale paintings. Stevens’s paintings could easily be geo-tagged. Both interiors and exteriors depict the...More »
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Alessandro Giannì “Due to the Image”
Titled Due to the Image, the exhibition consists of the first series of paintings made by Alessandro Giannì in collaboration with his custom-made artificial intelligence program named Vasari (after Giorgio...More »
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Shamus Clisset “AlphaAF”
FakeShamus rides again! Our intrepid multi-dimensional polygon-incarnate hero has returned from the frontiers of self-mockery and aggro-simulation. He is the Slam Dunk mascot for the chaotic new age,...More »
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“Non-Fungible Bodies: modified, adorned, digitized” Exhibition
curated by Danielle Paterson Postmasters Gallery presents the first spearhead innovative physical NFT exhibition of its kind, Non-Fungible Bodies: modified, adorned, digitized curated by Danielle Paterson...More »
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“Transfiguration: leaving reality behind” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2021-06-26 - 2021-08-14
a group show featuring works in all media from paintings to NFTs OLIVE ALLEN ANETA BARTOS SARA BIRNS JOSÉ CARLOS CASADO SHAMUS CLISSET KENNY DUNKAN ALESSANDRO GIANNÌ KATARZYNA KOZYRA LOVID KRISTIN...More »
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Kenny Dunkan “Affinities Are Miracles”
Postmasters presents the first US solo exhibition of Paris-based artist Kenny Dunkan. His work was previously shown at PostmastersROMA. Titled Affinities are Miracles, the exhibition fills the entire...More »
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Marta Kucsora “Super Natural”
Postmasters Gallery presents a solo exhibition of paintings by Hungarian artist Marta Kucsora. “Super Natural” will be Kucsora’s first exhibition in New York and in the US. Presenting ten monumental works...More »
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“EcoSpirits” Exhibition
Postmasters presents EcoSpirits - an exhibition of art in all media that exist in the cross-section of environmental concerns and nature-infused spirituality, marking the uneasy threesome of man, nature,...More »
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Cate Giordano “Rex”
Postmasters presents Cate Giordano’s solo exhibition REX, marking the artist’s first show with Postmasters Gallery. REX is a multimedia installation loosely based on Henry VIII of England and his arranged...More »
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Nicola Verlato “The Merging: beyond the end”
Postmasters presents The Merging: beyond the end, Nicola Verlato’s (b. Verona, Italy, 1965) first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show stems from the supposition that we have entered a new phase...More »
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Steve Mumford “Drawings from America’s Front Lines”
Postmasters presents a wide selection of drawings by Steve Mumford depicting the Covid-19 crisis in NYC, the Black Lives Matter protests in NYC and Portland, Oregon, and campaign rallies for Donald Trump...More »
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Serena Stevens “Iowa Dream”
Stevens paints intimate spaces and nondescript objects of everyday life: her studio, her bedroom, her garden, a shower curtain, a desk, a stack of suitcases, a disheveled bed taken over by a cat. Vacillating...More »
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Joseph Beuys and Serkan Özkaya “Left is Right, Down is Up”
“If someone has an empty brain—and because of this is vexed by insanity, and is delirious—take the whole grains of wheat and cook them in water. Place these cooked grains around his whole head, tying a...More »
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Ruben Natal-San Miguel “Women R Beautiful”
Postmasters Gallery presents a large scale solo exhibition of photographs by Ruben Natal-San Miguel. Fifty years after Gary Winogrand’s iconic–and problematic–series “Women Are Beautiful,” the white...More »
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“Vicious Frames” Exhibition
VICIOUS FRAMES curated by Lauren Powell features NY-based multimedia artists Claudia Bitran, Lauren Carly Shaw, and Gracelee Lawrence. The works in this exhibition take a deep dive into media addiction:...More »
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David Diao “Studios and Sales”
David Diao’s Studios and Sales, an exhibition of one new and one old work, is an exquisitely resonant snapshot of an artist’s practice spanning over 50-plus years. It comprises a series of 25 paintings...More »
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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy “Cleaner”
“I hope I’m not getting sick.” Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present CLEANER, a solo exhibition by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. A video work of cinematic scale, CLEANER traces the creative awakening...More »
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Canyon Castator “Infidel”
Ballad Of The Conspiracy Theorist You learned it in school from the back of the class, About what was dug up from the rubble and ash, Bout the camps, the candles, the chambers, the flash, So long...More »
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Diana Cooper “Sightings”
Whenever we open our eyes, we see. But we don’t always observe. Observation is a form of attentiveness, a way of focusing on objects and parsing out their permutations, in or out of the present context....More »
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William Powhida “Complicities”
Postmasters Gallery presents Complicities, William Powhida’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in nearly five years (and almost a decade since the Brooklyn Rail published “How the New Museum Committed...More »
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Bernard Kirschenbaum “Self Portrait”
In September 2018, to inaugurate our representation of the Estate of Bernard Kirschenbaum, Postmasters staged the exhibition of his early works. Bookending our 2018-19 season, we are pleased to announce...More »
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“PRIDE” Exhibition
Postmasters Gallery presents PRIDE, a large-scale exhibition marking the #Stonewall50 anniversary through art and artists from the LGBTQ+ community. Curated together by Ruben Natal-San Miguel and Magda...More »
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“YveYANG Gallery Presents” Exhibition
YveYANG at Postmasters presents a group exhibition of four artists in its front gallery. We create art with tech, promiscuous tech-spawning art. Technology that is accessible, learnable, observable, trackable,...More »
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Katarzyna Kozyra “Bipeds And Quadrupeds”
“I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.” Jane Goodall Postmasters presents a solo exhibition of the prominent Polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra. As early as...More »
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Joe Amrhein “Fallibility of Perception”
“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.” George Orwell Postmasters presents a solo exhibition of Joe Amrhein, his largest show in the US since 2003. Since the...More »
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Pussykrew “the bliss of metamorphing collapse”
Postmasters presents its first exhibition with Pussykrew, a nomadic duo of Polish new media artists Ewelina Alexandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas, currently in residence at NEW Inc./New Museum. The centerpiece...More »
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Rafaël Rozendaal “Don’t do too much”
i don’t really work with materials… i don’t code, i don’t print, i don’t weave, i don’t paint, i don’t draw…..like most people, i’m glued to my screen. it feels like i never work, it feels more like waiting....More »
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Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw “an idea of god, or a toothbrush”
For their second solo exhibition with Postmasters Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw present a contradictory show of the tragic and the mundane, of logic that breaks down into absurdity. Dada artist Tristan...More »
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Ana Benaroya and Tina Lugo “NSFW”
Postmasters is very aroused to announce NSFW, a two person exhibition of sexually explosive and explicit paintings by ANA BENAROYA and TINA LUGO. Fearless, uninhibited, and in charge, both artists...More »
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Alex Mcleod “Glamour Modeling”
Postmasters presents Glamour Modeling - our first solo exhibition with Toronto-based new media artist ALEX MCLEOD. Born in 1984, McLeod is an artist concerned with simulation and the transition of matter....More »
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Bernard Kirschenbaum Exhibition
Inaugurating the fall season, Postmasters presents a solo exhibition of Bernard Kirschenbaum, spanning both galleries on Franklin Street. The works date from the years 1966 to 1981, and comprise monumental...More »
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“Screenscapes” Exhibition
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. –Dwight D. Eisenhower so...More »
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Monica Cook & Ye Qin Zhu “Accumulations”
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. –Aristotle Postmasters presents Accumulations, an exhibition of sculptural works by Monica Cook and Ye Qin Zhu. The two artists share a proclivity to employ...More »
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Kensuke Koike “Dear Friend…”
Postmasters presents Dear Friend… , our first exhibition with Kensuke Koike (b. 1980, Nagoya, Japan), who is currently based in Venice. Koike is best known for his “Single Image Processing,” an ongoing...More »
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David Herbert “Quarantine the Past”
Postmasters presents Quarantine the Past, an exhibition of three new sculptures and a series of drawings by David Herbert. The artist, who is best known for his fantastically-scaled, imaginative sculptures,...More »
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Emilio Bianchic “ooh la la”
Uruguayan artist Emilio Bianchic returns to Postmasters for his solo exhibition ooh la la. Working with artificial nails, video, and performance, Bianchic unpacks the manufacturing of identity in domestic,...More »
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Jillian Mayer “Post Posture”
Postmasters presents Jillian Mayer’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Post Posture. There is a variation of Rudolph Zallinger’s iconic “March of Progress” illustration that depicts the same progression...More »
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Perry Hoberman “Suspensions”
Postmasters presents Suspensions, a new mixed reality installation by Perry Hoberman. For his seventh solo show with the gallery, Hoberman draws upon his time spent in the Desert Heights neighborhood of...More »
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Canyon Castator “Pissing Match”
“Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.” –Edmond de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals Postmasters will begin the new year with Canyon Castator’s debut solo show,...More »
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Serkan Ozkaya “We Will Wait”
“…an innately intriguing experience.”—Brian Boucher, artnet “In the post-Duchamp, post-truth age, [a great story] may be the only aim to which art can aspire.”—Marc Mewshaw, The New York Times ...More »
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Ab[Screenwear] “Get a room”
For the first time in its thirty-three year history, Postmasters will present an exhibition of contemporary garments from Ab[Screenwear], founded and designed by Olya Petrova Jackson. “The body is our...More »
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Aneta Bartos “Family Portrait”
Postmasters presents Family Portrait, Aneta Bartos’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The fifteen works in the show are a selection from Bartos’s current project, Family Portrait, exploring the...More »
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Rafaël Rozendaal “Anti Social”
Postmasters presents Anti Social, Rafaël Rozendaal’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Stretched like paintings, six new large-scale weavings comprise the show. Each derives from ‘Abstract Browsing,’...More »
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“ALT-FACTS” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints - Installation - Video installation
- 2017-06-17 - 2017-07-29
It’s not always possible to sort out fact from fiction, but to believe that everything is a lie is to know nothing. —Jill Lepore, “The World That Trump and Ailes Built,” The New Yorker Alternative...More »
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“Saved By The Web?” Exhibition
Postmasters presents Saved by the web?, an exhibition of Hasan Elahi, Lin Ke, and Eva and Franco Mattes, all artists whose work is a result of an engagement with the internet. Please note the question...More »
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Mark Dorf “Transposition”
Postmasters Gallery presents Transposition, Mark Dorf’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Transposition translates complex systems of material exchange into discrete photographs and photographic...More »
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung “In G.O.D. We Trust”
We are bringing Obama back! Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung’s 2009 series In G.O.D. We Trust will be shown in its entirety for the first time. G.O.D., in this case, stands for Global Obama Devotion. The series...More »
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“CON-Figuration” Exhibition
We put the Con into configuration. Criminally intense, disturbingly dense, amplified, distorted, unreal, uncomfortable, weird, and sexy. Art for this deformed time. Paintings by CANYON CASTATOR...More »
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David Diao “HongKong Boyhood”
Postmasters Gallery presents “HongKong Boyhood,” an exhibition of paintings by DAVID DIAO, his first show of new works since his comprehensive career retrospective at the Ullens Contemporary Arts Center...More »
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Monica Cook “Milk”
Postmasters Gallery presents an exhibition of new video Milk Tooth and sculpture The Receiver by Monica Cook. This will be the artist’s third show with Postmasters. The fantastical world of Milk builds...More »
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Wolfgang Staehle “Ludlow Street”
Postmasters Gallery presents Ludlow Street, the fifth exhibition of Wolfgang Staehle with the gallery since 2001. Staehle is best known for his fixed-position recordings (or live transmissions) of locations...More »
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Evan Schwartz “Best Man”
Postmasters Gallery presents Best Man (2012-2016) - a photographic series by Evan Schwartz. This will be his first exhibition with the gallery. This is the study of male bonding. I was born in a female...More »
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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy “BROKER”
There are proven ways to help make you more successful as a marketer or a politician. Influencing others isn’t luck or magic – it’s science. Postmasters Gallery presents BROKER, a solo exhibition by...More »
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Molly Crabapple “Annotated Muses”
Postmasters Gallery presents Annotated Muses by Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer. This will be Crabapple’s first exhibition in three years. The show will consist of 11 paintings: portraits of...More »
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Nidaa Badwan “100 Days of Solitude”
Postmasters Gallery presents Nidaa Badwan: 100 Days of Solitude. Showing in the US for the first time. Palestinian artist Nidaa Badwan’s photographs are from Gaza but not of Gaza. For close to...More »
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“Grayscale” Exhibition
Gallery 1 Bernard Kirschenbaum, Anton Perich, Gallery 2 Diana Cooper, Torkwase Dyson, Alexandra Gorczynski, Hugh Hayden, Austin Lee, William Powhida Is sex more intense while blindfolded? Does...More »
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Steve Mumford “Recent Paintings”
In his latest paintings Steve Mumford continues to elaborate on his long-time involvement with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, following and yet subverting the 19th century model of a history painter....More »
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Serkan Özkaya “An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in New York”
Through the Looking Wall 4 cameras + 4 projectors + 4 walls = 1 show This is a simple show, as simple as it gets. Transgressing the boundaries of architecture Serkan Özkaya will install four...More »
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Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw “Behold! I teach you the Overman!”
Postmasters presents Behold! I teach you the Overman! by Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw. This will be the artists’ first solo exhibition with the gallery. Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw take “the experience...More »
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Zach Gage “Glaciers”
Postmasters Gallery presents Glaciers, the first solo exhibition by the American artist Zach Gage, developed from his series of human-query works (2009-16). Zach Gage (b.1985) is a conceptual artist,...More »
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Sally Smart “The Choreography of Cutting”
Postmasters Gallery presents The Choreography of Cutting, an exhibition by Australian artist Sally Smart developed from her series The Pedagogical Puppet Projects (2012-16). The exhibition will be the...More »
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“this one is smaller than this one” Exhibition
Postmasters presents an exhibition of small sculptures and big ideas. The works in the show - made from porcelain (both sculpted and 3D printed), ceramics or bronze, as well as less traditional materials...More »
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Giovanni Garcia-Fenech “New Paintings”
Giovanni Garcia-Fenech’s first solo exhibition at Postmasters features a selection of the artist’s most recent revealing self-portraits, the unflinching focus on himself leavened with a healthy dose of...More »
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Kristin Lucas and Joe McKay “Away From Keyboard”
Postmasters presents an exhibition of new works by Kristin Lucas and Joe McKay that playfully redirect the user experience away from everyday prescriptive movements. Lucas investigates the uncanny...More »
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Austin Lee “Nothing Personal”
Postmasters presents its second solo exhibition with Austin Lee. Paintings, wall paintings and sculptures will be on view in both of our gallery spaces. “Everything should be exploration. I keep exploring...More »
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Federico Solmi “The Brotherhood”
Postmasters presents The Brotherhood - an exhibition of animated video-paintings by Federico Solmi. This will be his second exhibition with the gallery. Known for his hand-drawn, 3D animated, color-saturated,...More »
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Mark Dorf “Emergence”
Postmasters presents the first solo exhibition of Mark Dorf’s series Emergence. Shot in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado while working with ecologists at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Dorf employs...More »
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Hugh Hayden and Zach Heinzerling “The Glorious Twelfth”
organized by Paulina Bebecka On the occasion of the Glorious Twelfth, aka the first day of grouse hunting season in the United Kingdom, Postmasters Gallery presents a culinary installation of Hugh Hayden...More »
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Emilio Bianchic “Nailture”
curated by Kerry Doran The lauded notion that the internet is a democratic medium available for all to use, to have a voice, be seen, and create work, is debunked in Astra Taylor’s book The People’s...More »
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“Women Crush Wednesday #WCW” Exhibition
“Women Crush Wednesday trends On Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr. “#WCW” stands for “Women Crush Wednesday,” which is when users share pictures of ladies that they find attractive or admire.” (internet) We...More »
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Eddo Stern “Vietnam Romance”
Postmasters Gallery presents a monumental installation of Eddo Stern’s video game. Vietnam Romance, recreates and interrogates the fictionalized history of the Vietnam War and its culturally commodified...More »
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Ada Karczmarczyk “Way to Conversion videos 2009-2014”
Postmasters presents a group of music videos by Polish artist Ada Karczmarczyk, a romantic dreamer, an ardent Catholic and a pop star. Ada Karczmarczyk, born in 1985 post-Communist, heavily religious...More »
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Luke Murphy “Loser Every Time”
Postmasters presents a group of new work by Luke Murphy. The paintings in Loser Every Time are the products of the artist playing simple childhood games by himself on a screen. Since playing against...More »
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Adam Cvijanovic “The Fall”
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent...More »
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Holly Zausner “Unsettled Matter”
Postmasters presents a new film and a group of photographs by Holly Zausner. This will be her second exhibition with the gallery. In the opening scene of Unsettled Matter, Holly Zausner’s 10 ½ minute...More »
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Ernesto Klar “Invisible Disparities, 2011-2014”
Postmasters presents Invisible Disparities, a multi-faceted project of Venezuelan artist Ernesto Klar. Truly epic in its scope, Invisible Disparities proposes an experimental montage of cultural history,...More »
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Rafaël Rozendaal “Haiku”
all i want to do is sit on a beach and write haiku once again staring at a screen sun rises sun sets repeat Postmasters presents a show of haiku wall paintings by Rafaël Rozendaal, Haiku2014...More »
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Ryder Ripps Exhibition
Ryder Ripps’ first solo exhibition, titled Ho, will open on January 24th at Postmasters Gallery in New York. The show will feature large scale oil paintings, portraits once removed, derived from the Instagram...More »
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Katarzyna Kozyra “Looking for Jesus”
Katarzyna Kozyra is a well known Polish artist whose often provocative multimedia works concentrate on the subject of identity and gender. Her new film Looking for Jesus (2012-…) will be her fourth exhibition...More »
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Chris Verene “Home Movies”
The new exhibition of Chris Verene, his second at Postmasters, will consist of a group of photographs and a series of projected short videos, all depicting his family and other families in the small city...More »
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“PORTRAIT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY” Exhibition
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. John Singer Sargent When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to...More »
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Anton Perich “Electric Paintings 1978 - 2014”
Before digital there was analog. Before inkjet printing there was Anton Perich. Before reality tv there was Anton Perich. No, Wade Guyton did not “invent a new paint brush,” Anton Perich did in...More »
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Daria Irincheeva “Circadian Rhythm”
Daria Irincheeva was born in 1987 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) growing up in a post-Soviet Russia, a state of socio-economic dysfunction, instability, and disillusionment. She takes reflections on these...More »
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Shamus Clisset “Space God/Magic Guy”
Postmasters Gallery announces its first exhibition with New York-based artist Shamus Clisset. The show presents a group of large-scale, 3D rendered images—an alternative reality of totems and tableaux....More »
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“This Is What Sculpture Looks Like” Exhibition
Sculpture has suffered negation in the discourse and the marketplace. For Rosalind Krauss it was both not-architecture [“what was on or in front of a building that was not the building,”] and not-landscape...More »
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Eva and Franco Mattes “By Everyone, For No One, Everyday”
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John Powers “+time”
For the month of May, sculptor John Powers will use Postmasters Gallery as a studio, and combine his strategies of temporary public work and permanent studio work. Beginning with raw material, an entire...More »
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William Powhida “Overculture”
Postmasters presents Overculture an exhibition of new works by William Powhida. The show will include paintings, sculptures, drawings, lists and charts.More »
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Serkan Özkaya and George L. Legendre “One and Three Pasta”
One and Three Pasta deals with two men’s absurd passion for an almost worthless object. Imagine different kinds of pasta as design objects: the distinct shapes of farfalle, fusilli, rigatoni, spaghetti,...More »
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Guy Ben Ner “Soundtrack”
In his most recent video Ben Ner creates an alternative family drama played out to an appropriated audio track from Steven Spielberg’s 2005 “War of the Worlds.” “Soundtrack” has light but also very...More »
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Austin Lee “OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK”
Postmasters presents a show of paintings by Austin Lee, the artist’s first solo exhibition after receiving MFA from Yale University in 2013. The exhibition is titled OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK...More »
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Rafaël Rozendaal “Everything You See Is In The Past”
Art can’t be defined. Try it. It can’t be done. We all kind of know what it is but no one really knows. No one really knows what happiness is either. The moment you know it, you’re not really happy. When...More »
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“Casting a wide net” Exhibition
casting a wide net is a cross-generational exhibition of artists who work in the technology-aware environment we all inhabit. The show brings together legendary artists from the early pioneering days...More »
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Monica Cook “Milk Fruit”
Milk Fruit is Monica Cook’s most complex and ambitious work to date. Offering a complete and intricately-realized cosmology of sacrifice and reciprocity embodied by a parade of delicate, soulful animals...More »
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Steve Mumford “The Snow Leopard”
Known for his drawings from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, Steve Mumford was commissioned by Harper’s Magazine to go to Guantanamo. He made two trips in February and May 2013. Current issue of...More »
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Serkan Ozkaya “Mirage”
Postmasters presents a beta launch of our new Tribeca space. We gutted it, and before building proper galleries, offices, and a showroom, we want to share it in its vast, unbuilt, decrepit glory. Tuesday,...More »
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David Diao "TMI"
DAVID DIAO has been showing with Postmasters since its founding in 1985. He will have the gallery’s final show before the move from Chelsea to new quarters. This will be his eleventh solo with the gallery....More »
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Federico Solmi "Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth"
Postmasters Gallery presents our first exhibition with a NY based Italian artist Federico Solmi. The show will center around his most recent animated video Chinese Democracy and the Last Day on Earth,...More »
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Diana Cooper "My Eye Travels"
Postmasters Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new works by Diana Cooper represented by Postmasters since 1999; her last show at the gallery took place in 2008. Fellow artist Oliver Herring on...More »
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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy "Twenty One Twelve"
Postmasters presents Twenty One Twelve, its sixth exhibition with Jennifer and Kevin McCoy and their 10th year with the gallery. Pioneering new media artists whose works explore both time-based and...More »
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Adam Cvijanovic "Natural History"
Cvijanovic deploys large-scale paintings based on the iconic tableaux of North American wildlife at New York’s American Museum of Natural History originally painted by James Perry Wilson among others under...More »
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"New Yak City: 2 on 2 Invitational All Styles Dance Battle" Performance
ARTyleria's BATTLE AUGUST, 2012 @ POSTMASTERS GALLERY 14 dancers will be invited to battle in teams of 2, representing various street dance styles to the beats of DJ DP One from the Turntable Anihilists...More »
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"BATTLE: Elka Krajewska vs. John Williams" Performance
ARTyleria's BATTLE AUGUST, 2012 @ POSTMASTERS GALLERY The two artists meet on the “battlefield” to compete against each other with their individual performances. Elka’s choice of weapon is her Horizontal...More »
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Holly Zausner "A Small Criminal Enterprise"
For this one-person show Holly Zausner transforms her 16mm film Unseen, made for the Bode-Museum in Germany, into a series of photo based collages. These multi-scale works foreground her ongoing interest...More »
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"Richteriana" Exhibition
Postmasters' new exhibition Richteriana attempts to examine the current canonization of Gerhard Richter, presenting six artists whose works pre-date, update, expand, and subvert “the greatest living artist’s”...More »
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Oasa DuVerney, Julia Kul and Jayson Musson "Through a glass, darkly"
Postmasters presents a three-person exhibition featuring the works of Oasa DuVerney, Julia Kul and Jayson Musson. Each of the at Postmasters selected one artist. Together they create an explosive zeitgeist...More »
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Mary Kelly Exhibition
Kelly’s project-based work has addressed questions of sexuality, identity and memory for more than four decades. Her large-scale narrative installations, including Post-Partum Document, 1973-79, Interim,...More »
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Monica Cook “Volley”
In her first solo show with Postmasters Monica Cook presents “Volley,” a stop-animation video, and a group of moveable sculptures and photographs. In “Volley” a series of intimate narrative vignettes takes...More »
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“Play Station” Exhibition
Postmasters has the pleasure to present “Play Station”: a collection of 12 game and play related pieces by 12 digital artists from all over the world. We would call them "interactive", except nobody likes...More »
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William Powhida "Derivatives*"
Derivatives are a common instrument in the financial market mainly for the purposes of speculating and hedging, or betting on or insuring against risk. They are a contract between two parties that specifies...More »
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Chris Verene “The Self-Esteem Salon”
opening reception & performance: sunday october 16 6-10pm performance days: monday & tuesday october 17 & 18 11am-7pm closing reception: tuesday october 18 6-9pm New York artist...More »
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Anthony Goicolea "Pathetic Fallacy"
Postmasters presents Pathetic Fallacy, an exhibition of new drawings and photographs by ANTHONY GOICOLEA. This will be the artist's fourth solo show at the gallery. Central to the exhibition is a forty-foot...More »
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"Colorific! We Make An Art Rainbow" Exhibition
Lets not fool ourselves, sometimes great art is acquired because the interior designer needs “something pink.” Last year after the bookshelves in my house gave way, Rocio Fernandez – beloved fixer of...More »
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung "The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages"
In this thangka inspired collage Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei is cast as Hayagriva - a representation of an angry Guan Yin in Chinese Buddhism. He is holding the following weapons with his six...More »
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Sally Smart "Flaubert's Puppets"
Australian artist Sally Smart is known for her large-scale collage installations applied directly to the gallery wall. She works with a range of media, including painted canvas and felt cut-outs, photographic...More »
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Natalie Jeremijenko "xClinic's Farmacy"
Natalie Jeremijenko will turn Postmasters' façade green. She will conduct a clinical trial of xClinic's Farmacy, an urban farm aimed at diversifying food systems and improving environmental health. The...More »
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David Nyzio "Smoke and Mirrors"
It has been too long. Postmasters Gallery is presents “Smoke and Mirrors,” an exhibition of new works by DAVID NYZIO. This will be the artist’s first solo show in New York in twelve years. As always...More »
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Oskar Dawicki “Phantom Pain”
“Phantom Pain” may be a test of how a distinctly Polish fatalism translates outside. Oskar Dawicki is a well-known figure – in his trademark blue brocade jacket – obsessed with the embarrassing, the grotesque,...More »
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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy "Abu Dhabi Is Love Forever"
In August of 2010, the McCoys began a temporary relocation to Abu Dhabi, capitol of the oil rich United Arab Emirates. The projects in this, their fifth, solo show at Postmasters gather their first impressions...More »
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"Eat Me!" Exhibition
During the month of continuous celebrations let’s rejoice in the most important activities of our lives, the consumption of edibles and copulation with a show of works by SEAN BLUECHEL, MONICA COOK, MICHAEL...More »
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"Playlist" Exhibition
A response to “Play”, the Guggenheim’s recent YouTube exhibition and exercise in co-branding, “Playlist” is about how people actually use online video today. It’s a peek at the “favorites” of a select...More »
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"Engineers of Soul" Exhibition
This time it’s personal. For better or worse Tamas Banovich and I are children of Communism having grown up in Hungary and Poland respectively. We have always wanted to organize an exhibition bringing...More »
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Chris Verene "Family"
Chris Verene’s first show at Postmasters will present over forty photographs made during the past twenty-six years. This landmark exhibition of documentary storytelling chronicles a group of closely-knit...More »
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"Defrosted: a life of Walt Disney" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-06-29 - 2010-08-06
Adam Cvijanovic and David Humphrey have assembled a biography of Walt Disney in the form of an exhibition. Disney’s life will be illustrated by significant moments, selected according to the organizers’...More »
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Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG "Reality is Overrated"
Postmasters Gallery presents "Reality is Overrated" by Brooklyn based artists Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG. The exhibition will include several new net-based performances as well as...More »
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"Mirror, Mirror" Exhibition
The portrait has been a staple of the art going back to the Egyptians and the sculptural bust of Nefertiti. Then 3300 or so years later came Andy and Alice and Chuck and Cindy and Annie. What's next? The...More »
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Guy Ben-Ner "Second Nature"
Can you tell a fable today? Is it not too arrogant to believe you can educate someone? On the other hand, if I believed art could not deliver any kind of lesson or critique of the world, I would stop making...More »
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Steve Mumford Exhibition
Postmasters Gallery announces an exhibition of new paintings by Steve Mumford. This will be Mumford’s fifth exhibition at Postmasters presenting two distinct groups of paintings: large scale heroic...More »
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Omer Fast Exhibition
"I don't deal directly with reality but with representations and stories. The truth basis of what I'm doing is not interesting to me. In an act of storytelling, there is a truth." Omer Fast, as quoted...More »
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"Don't Flee the Art Market" Exhibition
Postmasters Gallery is transforming into an art market to cater to your love of contemporary art and your gift shopping needs. We will feature works, big and small made by very bright young artists. Whatever...More »
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Spencer Finch "The Brain — is wider than the Sky —"
In the three new projects that comprise "The Brain — is wider than the Sky —" Spencer Finch continues to explore the nature of color, light, memory and perception. 366 (Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous...More »
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Anthony Goicolea "Once Removed"
"Once Removed" is the latest in an ongoing series in which Anthony Goicolea uses drawing, photography, and video installation to explore his family history and identity as well as larger themes of tradition,...More »
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“The Thousand and One Nights” Exhibition
“The Thousand and One Nights” brings together photographs, video, and paintings by six contemporary artists from Palestine whose work explores the political dimension of time. It reflects the conditions...More »
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Kenneth Tin Kin Hung “In G.O.D. We Trust"
"In G.O.D. We Trust" presents global and domestic challenges facing the new Obama administration with the savior president cast as different deities (Jesus Christ, Mohammad, Krishna, prophet Abraham, Yoruba...More »
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David Herbert “Nostalgia for Infinity”
David Herbert’s sculptures, video installations, paintings and drawings combine images of pop culture and American history with a fearless use of materials. In earlier works Herbert created his transformed...More »
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Wolfgang Staehle "A Matter of Time"
"A Matter of Time" is comprised of four real time projections of time-lapse photographic sequences and a premier video work of a Yanomami Village in the Brazilian rain forest. A Matter of Time draws...More »
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"The Future is Not What is Used to Be” Exhibition
"the future is not what is used to be” brings together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture. Through drawings, photographs, sculpture, video, and online projects they explore social interaction...More »
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David Diao “I lived there until I was 6…”
David Diao left his home in China under extreme circumstances 59 years ago at the moment of the Communist takeover. The property was confiscated and made into the offices of the Sichuan Daily. By the...More »
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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy "I'll Replace You"
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's multimedia works examine the genres and conventions of filmmaking. They are well known for constructing subjective databases of existing material and making fragmentary miniature...More »
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Katarzyna Kozyra "summertale"
"summertale" is an exhibition of a new video and a series of photographs by Polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra. This will be the artist's third solo exhibition in New York. "summertale," a 20 minutes long,...More »
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Sally Smart "Decoy Nest"
Sally Smart is known for her often monumental scale assemblage installations applied directly to the wall. Decoy Nest - a centerpiece of the show - represents a huge sprawling tree "inhabited" by people,...More »
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"AMERIKA: Back to the Future" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-05-17 - 2008-07-12
Imagine Starship Enterprise re-purposed by future cavemen.American icons transformed. Dark, but not entirely hopeless visions of past and future becoming one. Represented by new works of David Herbert,...More »
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung "Residential Erection"
Postmasters Gallery presents "Residential Erection" - an exhibition of new works by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. Born in Hong Kong and now living in New York Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung creates explosive political...More »