NYAB Events - Knockdown Center

Knockdown Center - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Knockdown Center. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

James Allister Sprang “Fragment Scape and Jia Sung: Chaos, Whims, Lust”
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2019-11-02 - 2019-12-15
Knockdown Cente presents James Allister Sprang: Fragment Scapes, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York in gallery 1. The exhibition comprises two corresponding bodies of work: a selection of...More »
Jia Sung “Chaos, Whims, Lust”
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- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2019-11-02 - 2019-12-15
Knockdown Center presents Jia Sung: Chaos, Whims, Lust, an exhibition that takes the form of a spatialized book in gallery 2. Comprised of figurative ink and gouache drawings accompanied by verse and...More »
Xandra Ibarra “Forever Sidepiece”
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2019-08-29 - 2019-10-27
This will be the first NYC solo exhibition of Oakland-based artist and performer Xandra Ibarra, who also works under the alias La Chica Boom. The exhibition is rooted in Ibarra’s performance practice,...More »
Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall “Pigeonhole: The Life and Work of Bobby Alam”
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-06-29 - 2019-08-19
Knockdown Center presents Pigeonhole: The Life and Work of Bobby Alam, a new exhibition by Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall. Pigeonhole is a multidisciplinary portrait of Bahauddin “Bobby” Alam, a Bengali...More »
“Soft Territories” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-05-04 - 2019-06-23
Soft Territories is an exhibition that explores themes of movement, migration, and locality that are central to the practice of contemporary textile artists Victoria Manganiello, Sarah Zapata, and Simon...More »
Luba Drozd and William Lamson “A Continuous Stream Of Occurrence”
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-03-01 - 2019-04-28
A Continuous Stream Of Occurrence is an exhibition that brings together the works of Luba Drozd and William Lamson to explore how time manifests in natural and physical phenomena. The artists will create...More »
Morgan Blair “FiftyTwo Ft”
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2019-03-01 - 2019-06-16
Knockdown Center presents a new large-scale work by artist Morgan Blair as a part of our FiftyTwo Ft. series of long-term wall-based artworks. Blair’s painting process begins online, where she collects...More »
“Morir Soñando” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2018-06-22 - 2018-08-19
Artists Penn Eastburn, Valery Estabrook, Hein Koh, Joiri Minaya, Kristianne Molina, Onel Naar, Esther Ruiz, Cristina Tufiño, and Woolpunk engage with softness and vulnerability in their work addressing...More »
Nicholas O’Brien “Treatment: The Plan For Rain”
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- Media: Installation - Digital - Media Arts
- 2018-05-06 - 2018-06-17
Treatment: The Plan for Rain is a project by Nicholas O’Brien that rethinks the NYC Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) stormwater collection program by focusing on soil biodiversity, transparency,...More »
Chloë Bass “The Book of Everyday Instruction”
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-04-21 - 2018-06-17
Organized by Alexis Wilkinson (Knockdown Center’s Director Exhibitions and Live Art), Chloë Bass: The Book of Everyday Instruction features works that I’ve made from 2015 - 2018, from all eight chapters...More »
“Material Witness Witness Material” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2018-03-03 - 2018-04-15
Knockdown Center present MATERIAL WITNESS WITNESS MATERIAL, a group exhibition. The exhibition brings together the work of Amber Atiya, Amy Khoshbin, Esteban Jefferson, DonChristian Jones, SomBlackGuy,...More »
Isaac Pool “40 Volume”
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2018-01-13 - 2018-02-25
Knockdown Center presents 40 Volume, Isaac Pool’s first solo exhibition in New York, an installation and sitcom-length play starring three sock-encrusted vases and a head of fennel. In 40 Volume‘s performances,...More »
“Wall < Enter” Interactive Art Installation
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- Media: Installation
- 2017-10-05 - 2017-10-26
“Wall < Enter,” is an interactive immersive art installation produced by diverse New York City youth and families in collaboration with the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services Arts and Literacy Program,...More »
Azikiwe Mohammed “Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime”
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2017-09-09 - 2017-10-29
Opening this Friday at Knockdown Center, artist Azikiwe Mohammed stages a performative installation of his fictional thrift store, Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime. New Davonhaime – a location conceived...More »
Lourdes Correa-Carlo “Intended Trajectories”
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2017-06-10 - 2017-07-16
For her solo exhibition at Knockdown Center, Lourdes Correa-Carlo has produced seven new works in dialogue with urban embodiment and the visual politics of city space. Through sculpture, drawing, photography,...More »
“Formal Complaint” Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2017-04-15 - 2017-05-28
Craft, scrap, and architectural minimalism coincide in Formal Complaint. Featuring work by Aria Dean, Female Background, Christopher Hanrahan, Mario Navarro, and Megan Pahmier, the exhibition returns handiwork...More »
Carl E. Hazlewood “TRAVELER”
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- Media: Installation
- 2017-04-15 - 2017-07-09
Fifty Two Ft is a series of long-term wall-based commissions in our East Corridor. TRAVELER references the way viewers must physically move in order to grasp such a large work. It also alludes to Hazlewood’s...More »
Hanne Tierney “Baby, Said Alice B. Toklas”
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2017-04-15 - 2017-05-28
Knockdown Center present Baby, Said Alice B. Toklas, a self-performing object theater produced by artist Hanne Tierney. Installed across the expanse of Knockdown Center’s Annex, a series of vignettes come...More »
“Unseen Hand” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2017-03-04 - 2017-04-09
UNSEEN HAND is a group exhibition that brings together fifteen artists who employ various mediums and processes to question technology and expand upon its conventional definition. The artists exhibited...More »
“Nasty Women” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2017-01-12 - 2017-01-15
Knockdown Center is pleased to announce NASTY WOMEN, a group exhibition that serves to demonstrate solidarity among artists who identify with being a Nasty Woman in the face of recent and ongoing threats...More »
“The Internet Yami-Ichi”
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- Media: Graphics - Painting - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Product - Film - Digital - Performance Art
- 2016-11-06 - 2016-11-06
The Internet Yami-Ichi (Internet Black Market) is a flea market which deals “Internet-ish” things, face-to-face, in actual space. Both flea markets and the Internet are fanatical and chaotic mixes of the...More »
Sabine Meier “Portrait of a Man (Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov)”
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- Media: Photography
- 2016-10-28 - 2016-12-18
A new exhibition by French photographer Sabine Meier, Portrait of a Man (Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov) is a five year project that constitutes a mental portrait of the protagonist of Dostoyevsky’s novel...More »
Loren Britton and Kerry Downey “Read My Lips”
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2016-10-28 - 2016-12-18
Read My Lips brings together recent paintings and sculpture made by Loren Britton and video and prints by Kerry Downey. Although working in different media, both artists tangle with representing marginalized...More »
Anna Mikhailovskaia & John Schacht Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture
- 2016-04-28 - 2016-06-12
Knockdown Center presents sculptural work by Anna Mikhailovskaia alongside works on paper by John Schacht. The pairing starts an unlikely dialogue where shared sensibilities and visual energies become...More »
Alison O’Daniel “Room Tone”
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- Media: Installation
- 2016-03-26 - 2016-05-08
Art in General presents Room Tone by Alison O’Daniel as part of its New Commissions program, which centers on developing and exhibiting new and challenging work by artists at a pivotal point in their practice....More »
“Surface Matters” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2015-09-24 - 2015-10-17
Curated by Holly Shen and Samantha Katz Surface Matters is an exhibition of recent works employing common construction and building materials, as well as salvaged or found objects to create pieces that...More »
“Internet Yami-Ichi”
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- Media: Installation - Other - Digital - Media Arts
- 2015-09-12 - 2015-09-12
Knockdown Center presents the U.S. debut of Internet Yami-Ichi (Internet black market), where artists, creators, and makers will come together to sell and trade Internet-related items in a flea market...More »
“First Person View” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2015-08-15 - 2015-09-12
First Person View is an art show for drones. As drones become popular as a tool for photography and cinematography among civilians, the human relationship to the drone’s perspective is increasingly a subject...More »
“Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst” Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Media Arts
- 2015-07-05 - 2015-07-26
Clocktower presents the second annual group exhibition Anxious Spaces: Installation as Catalyst, featuring a collection of artists whose work incorporates dynamic and time-based elements, ranging from...More »