Pioneer Works - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Pioneer Works. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Jenson Leonard “Workflow”
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[0]- Media: Installation
- 2023-07-07 - 2023-09-10
Workflow, the first institutional solo exhibition of artist Jenson Leonard, centers on a titular film that explores the velocity and momentum of Blackness as it relates to the philosophical concept of...More »
“Seedlings and Offsprings” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2023-07-07 - 2023-09-10
Seedlings and Offsprings brings together a selection of artist-in-residence alumni Xin Liu’s recent and ongoing projects. Comprising sculptures, video, virtual reality, and an outdoor installation, the...More »
Aura Rosenberg “What Is Psychedelic”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2023-03-17 - 2023-06-11
What Is Psychedelic, co-presented by Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works, marks the first institutional survey of New York-born artist Aura Rosenberg. This two-venue exhibition traces the artist’s trajectory...More »
Charles Atlas “The Mathematics of Consciousness”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-20
Charles Atlas: The Mathematics of Consciousness centers on a newly commissioned multimedia installation that takes inspiration from the seminal film and video artist’s ongoing interests in science and...More »
Moses Sumney “technoechophenomena”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2021-09-02 - 2021-09-26
“We’ve learned to speak, dance, and feel from the depositories of our screens. From social media self-documentation to advertising’s algorithmic automation, in the midst of the echo, what do we teach our...More »
Coby Kennedy “Kalief Browder: The Box”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-07-18 - 2021-09-19
In 2010, Kalief Browder was arrested for a robbery he insists he did not commit. The seventeen-year-old teenager was subsequently imprisoned without trial for over three years at the Robert N. Davoren...More »
Alex Harsley “The First Light From Darkness”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2021-06-05 - 2021-08-22
Alex Harsley has cast New York City’s unique medley of characters and neighborhoods as the subject of his work, throughout a career that has spanned nearly seven decades. Harsley first purchased a 35mm...More »
Bosco Sodi “Perfect Bodies”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2020-10-11 - 2020-12-20
Sited on a once teeming commercial concrete parking lot two blocks south of Pioneer Works, Perfect Bodies speaks to, in artist Bosco Sodi’s words, “silence, contemplation and the passing of time—the small...More »
Motoharu Jonouchi and Keiichi Tanaami “More Than Cinema”
[0] [0]- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2020-03-06 - 2020-04-19
More Than Cinema will present four film works by Motoharu Jonouchi (b. 1935 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) and Keiichi Tanaami (b. 1936 in Tokyo, Japan), two seminal figures whose practices contributed...More »
Jaimie Warren “The Miracle”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2020-02-21 - 2020-04-12
For the artist’s first institutional solo show in New York, Jaimie Warren’s THE MIRACLE features daily activations and culminates in an over-the-top, collaborative musical production. Resembling a high...More »
Katherine Finkelstein and Ryan Foerster “In Progress”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2019-10-12 - 2019-10-27
Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York and Pioneer Works have partnered to bring three photographers from the Baxter Street community to process black and white photography in the darkroom at Pioneer...More »
“Altered After” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2019-07-10 - 2019-08-18
‘Altered After’ provides critical ‘love infused’ AIDS narrative Pioneering art and activist organization Visual AIDS will exhibit groundbreaking HIV/AIDS related artworks by 15 international artists...More »
Sally Saul “Blue Hills, Yellow Tree”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Ceramics
- 2019-05-10 - 2019-07-07
Curated by Vivian Chui Blue Hills, Yellow Tree brings together over three decades of works by Sally Saul, whose practice has become known for endearing and often humorous representations of humans,...More »
Atelier Van Lieshout “The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2019-03-01 - 2019-04-14
Pioneer Works presents the largest-scale exhibition of work by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) in the United States. The centerpiece of The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth is Blast Furnace (2013),...More »
“Refiguring Binaries” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2019-02-22 - 2019-04-21
Curators Kelani Nichole In recent years, the contours of a new contemporary art movement have begun to emerge, forged in reaction to the ideologies of Silicon Valley, the platforming and globalization...More »
Maria Antelman “In Disassembler”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-12-06 - 2019-02-10
In Disassembler, Maria Antelman presents eight installation works across three floors of the Pioneer Works building. Antelman creates collage-like videos that pull from a well of sources, including scenarios...More »
John Lucas and Claudia Rankine “Stamped”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2018-07-20 - 2018-08-26
In Stamped, filmmaker and photographer John Lucas and writer Claudia Rankine have collaboratively captured photographs of dyed blonde hair, as seen on the heads of strangers and acquaintances. These images—zoomed...More »
Matthew Morrocco “Orchid RGB”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2018-07-20 - 2018-08-26
Matthew Morrocco’s exhibition Orchid: RGB is, at its heart, about photography itself. To take a picture, two things need to exist: light, which is seen with the naked eye as an image of colors, and secondly,...More »
Gerard & Kelly “CLOCKWORK”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-05-31 - 2018-07-01
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK extends the artists’ inquiry of memory and modernist architecture in their ongoing project Modern Living, and marks the New York premiere of the film Schindler/Glass as well...More »
Maia Cruz Palileo “Meandering Curves of a Creek”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-05-17 - 2018-07-08
Meandering Curves of a Creek is Maia Cruz Palileo’s first solo institutional exhibition, comprised of a selection of recent paintings and drawings that continue the artist’s ongoing exploration of her...More »
“Demian DinéYazhi’ and R.I.S.E. (Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment)” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration
- 2018-05-17 - 2018-07-08
“Death and grieving for Indigenous Peoples is like a war zone—a space unlike any other far removed from the ‘stars and stripes.’ We are expected to die without news headlines or revolution, and in this...More »
“1-54 New York” Art Fair
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2018-05-04 - 2018-05-06
1-54 New York returns for its fourth edition at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn. In this fourth edition, 1-54 will present 21 international exhibitors, the artworks of over 60 artists from Africa and its diaspora,...More »
Shuta Hasunuma “Compositions”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2018-02-23 - 2018-04-08
2nd & 3rd floor galleries Shuta Hasunuma’s Compositions features a selection of new works created both in Japan and during Hasunuma’s Pioneer Works residency in winter 2017. The exhibition is the...More »
Anthony McCall “Solid Light Works”
[0] [1]- Media: Installation
- 2018-01-12 - 2018-03-11
Solid Light Works: Anthony McCall exhibition marks the artist’s first institutional exhibition in New York and first time that his vertical installations will be shown alongside their horizontal variants....More »
“White Man On A Pedestal: Kenya (Robinson) and Doreen Garner” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2017-11-10 - 2017-12-17
White Man On A Pedestal (WMOAP) is a two-person exhibition by Doreen Garner and Kenya (Robinson). WMOAP questions a prevailing western history that uses white-male-heteronormativity as its persistent model. ...More »
Jo Broughton and Sarah Sudhoff “After you’re done”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2017-09-22 - 2017-11-12
After you’re done, comprising works by Sarah Sudhoff and Jo Broughton, is an exhibition curated by Macushla Robinson and Andrea Klabanova which peeks behind-the-scenes at the sets, props, and devices of...More »
“Grand Ole Opera Stewart & Stewart” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2017-06-09 - 2017-07-30
Pioneer Works presents Grand Ole Opera, a large-scale installation by Tennessee-born artists Willie Stewart and Brent Stewart. Raised by a strong matriarchy, Willie was born into a motorcycle club where...More »
“WORK, E.S.P. TV” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2017-02-10 - 2017-03-26
Pioneer Works presents WORK, E.S.P. TV’s first institutional solo exhibition in the United States. Directed by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan, E.S.P. TV is best known for their live television tapings...More »
“Alternative Art School Fair”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2016-11-19 - 2016-11-20
Pioneer Works presents the first Alternative Art School Fair featuring a showcase of 50 experimental art schools from around the world that map a growing landscape of innovative educational models. Pioneer...More »
Ed Rosenbaum “Golden Years”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2016-10-09 - 2016-11-13
Curated by: Tod Lippy In 1977, Ed Rosenbaum, a 17-year-old born and raised in Brooklyn, decided to bring along a Pentax manual camera he’d been given by his brother-in-law to rock-and-roll concerts...More »
“The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2016-09-09 - 2016-10-23
No-one has ever lived in the past. No-one will ever live in the future. The present is the form of all life. (The computer Alpha 60 in Alphaville, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1965.) Pioneer Works presents...More »
Derrick Adams “ON”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2016-06-10 - 2016-07-10
Pioneer Works presents ON, a solo exhibition of new work and performance by Derrick Adams, curated by Pioneer Works Director Gabriel Florenz. Through large-scale, boldly colored mixed media collages, performance,...More »
“1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2016-05-05 - 2016-05-08
A reference to fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, the title of 1:54 establishes the parameters of the fair’s ethos: as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase...More »
Molly Lowe “Redwood”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Film
- 2016-03-11 - 2016-04-24
Pioneer Works presents Redwood, a solo exhibition by Molly Lowe, featuring the artist’s first feature-length film. The exhibition also marks Pioneer Works’ first feature-length film commission as well...More »
Charles Harlan “Flood”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-01-15 - 2016-02-28
Pioneer Works presents Flood, a solo-exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Charles Harlan. Exploring relationships between scale and context, artwork and institution, Harlan will transform everyday industrial...More »
“The Hiroshima Panels” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Performance Art
- 2015-11-13 - 2015-12-20
On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pioneer Works presents a series of exhibitions and programs exploring the discourse between art and trauma. The...More »
Shezad Dawood “It was a time that was a time”
[0] [0]- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2015-09-11 - 2015-11-01
Presented as part of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)’s 2015 Crossing the Line festival. Pioneer Works present “It was a time that was a time”, a solo exhibition by London-based artist...More »
Hyon Gyon “No-Mad Nomad”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-07-10 - 2015-07-17
Shin Gallery presents Hyon Gyon’s exhibition, No-Mad Nomad, currently hung at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY. The artist sends her message through the imaginative use of found material and space. Her larger-than-life...More »
Robyn Renee Hasty “Z”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2015-06-11 - 2015-07-12
Z is an exhibition of unique, glass plate portraits by American photographer Robyn Renee Hasty. For the past year, Hasty has been an artist and teaching resident at Pioneer Works, exploring 19th century...More »
“1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Comes to New York” Art Fair
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-05-15 - 2015-05-17
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, a leading transnational platform dedicated to promoting African and Africa related art practices and projects, will make its New York debut on May 15-17, 2015. The fair...More »
“Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2015-03-14 - 2015-04-26
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation proudly present Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography, a group exhibition featuring ten young American...More »
Lauren Bakst and Yuri Masnyj “Living Room Index and Pool”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2015-03-13 - 2015-04-26
Living Room Index and Pool, an exhibition that takes the form of an encounter between Yuri Masnyj’s sculptures and Lauren Bakst’s performances, will feature an installation of sculptural objects—boards,...More »
Bosco Sodi “The Last Day”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-11-07 - 2014-12-12
Bosco Sodi debuts his largest site-specific work to date, The Last Day, at Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Measuring an impressive 57-feet in length, the monumental silver...More »
Rachel Sussman “The Oldest Living Things in the World”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-09-13 - 2014-11-02
Brooklyn-based contemporary artist and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow Rachel Sussman brings her largest solo exhibition to date of The Oldest Living Things in the World to Pioneer Works: Center for Art and Innovation...More »
Kenan Juska “Daily Operation”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-08-17 - 2014-09-09
Artist and co-founder of the radio program and DJ collective “Chances with Wolves,” Kenan Juska, from March 2005 to November 2008 created sequential collages made from cast- off materials primarily found...More »
“VICE’s 13th Annual Photo Exhibition”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-07-31 - 2014-08-10
VICE and Pioneer Works present an exhibition of pictures from the magazine’s 13th Annual Photo Issue: Trompe-L’Oeil. This year’s edition is a showcase of smoke and mirrors, featuring photographic illusions...More »
Louise Despont “The Six-Sided Force”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2014-06-15 - 2014-06-29
Louise Despont explores drawing as abstract meditation, employing and recasting a vocabulary of elements found within a set of architectural stencils and compasses, onto the pages of antique ledger books....More »
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