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Microscope Gallery - Past Events

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

Shigeru Izumi “Entrusted: New York Paintings, 1959-1962”
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- Media: Painting
- 2024-02-08 - 2024-03-09
Microscope presents a solo exhibition of never-before-seen New York paintings by Shigeru Izumi (1922-1995), the Japanese artist and co-founder of the Demokrato Artists Association (Demokrato Bijutsu Kyokai,...More »
Sarah Halpern “The Whole Story”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2023-09-07 - 2023-10-14
Microscope presents “The Whole Story,” the third solo exhibition at the gallery by New York-based artist Sarah Halpern. In her new series of mixed-media sculptures and works on paper, Halpern excavates...More »
Faith Holland “Death Drive”
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- Media: Sculpture - Video installation
- 2023-05-18 - 2023-06-23
Microscope presents “Death Drive,” the first solo exhibit at the gallery of works by New York-based artist Faith Holland, featuring new sculptures, videos, and digital prints, including several employing...More »
Ayanna Dozier “This Country Makes it Hard to Fuck”
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- Media: Photography - Film
- 2023-02-02 - 2023-03-11
Microscope is very pleased to welcome Ayanna Dozier back to the gallery for her first solo exhibition titled “This Country Makes it Hard to Fuck.” In new and recent works in celluloid film and film...More »
Jonas Mekas “A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2022-12-08 - 2023-01-21
A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread I am for art which we do for each other, as friends.” — Jonas Mekas Microscope presents “A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage,...More »
Marni Kotak & Ajax Kotak Bell “Seriously Kidding Around”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2022-09-08 - 2022-10-15
Microscope Gallery presents Seriously Kidding Around, a performance / installation and exhibition of individual and collaborative works in video, painting, photography, and mixed-media by artist Marni...More »
Zach Nader “You are a light machine”
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- Media: Installation
- 2022-04-21 - 2022-05-28
Microscope Gallery presents You are a light machine, the fifth solo exhibition at the gallery by Zach Nader following his 2020 virtual exhibition “something familiar,” which was also featured on The Armory...More »
Tenzin Phuntsog “Pure Land”
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Performance Art
- 2022-03-03 - 2022-04-09
Microscope presents Pure Land, the first solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Tenzin Phuntsog in New York. Phuntsog’s works in moving image, installation, photography and performance have previously...More »
Crystal Z Campbell “Notes from Black Wall Street: Upon a Century”
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- Media: Painting
- 2021-10-28 - 2021-12-04
Microscope presents Notes from Black Wall Street: Upon a Century, the first solo exhibition at the gallery of works by Crystal Z Campbell, an Oklahoma-based artist whose practice includes painting, collage,...More »
Jeanne Liotta “The World is a Picture of the World”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2021-09-09 - 2021-10-16
“… I am thinking about any persons’ desire to see the invisible, the marginal, the infinitesimal, and the distant, the dimensional field of all our lives. And finally, where does the imagination meet the...More »
Ezra Wube “Darkness”
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2021-06-24 - 2021-07-31
Microscope presents “Darkness,” the first solo exhibition at the gallery of works by Ezra Wube, a Brooklyn-based, Ethiopian-born artist who frequently addresses notions of home, memory, pluralism, and...More »
Rachel Rosheger “Gone Before You Get There”
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- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2021-05-01 - 2021-06-12
Microscope Gallery presents Gone Before You Get There, the first solo exhibition of New York-based artist Rachel Rosheger. The exhibition also inaugurates our new location for the gallery on West 29th...More »
Yasue Maetake “Transmutations”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2021-01-29 - 2021-03-14
Microscope Gallery presents Transmutations, a solo exhibition of new works in sculpture by New York-based Japanese artist Yasue Maetake. In eleven small to medium-sized works, Maetake combines materials...More »
Kurt Schwerdtfeger “Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (Reflecting Color-Light-Play)”
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- Media: Installation
- 2020-01-31 - 2020-03-08
Microscope presents an exhibition focused on German artist Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s “Reflektorische Farblichtspiele” (Reflecting Color-Light-Play), which was first presented in 1922 at the home of Vasily Kandinsky...More »
Le’Andra LeSeur “Maybe rainbows do exist at night”
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-12-13 - 2020-01-20
Maybe rainbows do exist at night is the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Le’Andra LeSeur. The Bronx-born artist works primarily with moving image, installation, photography, and performance to address...More »
Marni Kotak “Dancing in the Oval Office”
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
- 2019-10-18 - 2019-12-01
Microscope presents “Dancing in the Oval Office”, Marni Kotak’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring works in performance, installation, video and painting made in response to the 2016 election...More »
Rachel Phillips “He Said What?”
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- Media: Painting
- 2019-09-06 - 2019-10-13
Microscope presents its 2019-2020 season with “He Said What?”, the first solo exhibition at the gallery of paintings by Bushwick-based artist Rachel Phillips. “He Said What?” features a selection of...More »
“Scrapbook (or, Why Can’t We Live Together)” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2019-07-12 - 2019-08-19
Microscope presents the group exhibition “Scrapbook (or, Why Can’t We Live Together)” featuring New York-based artists known for their work in live performance mediums including expanded cinema, sound,...More »
Peggy Ahwesh “Cleave”
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- Media: Video installation
- 2019-05-17 - 2019-06-24
Microscope presents CLEAVE, the third solo exhibition at the gallery by Peggy Ahwesh featuring new multi-screen moving image works by the New York-based artist. As suggested by the exhibition’s title,...More »
Zach Nader “psychic pictures”
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- Media: Sculpture - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2019-04-05 - 2019-05-12
Microscope presents “psychic pictures” the 3rd solo exhibition at the gallery by Zach Nader. In new mixed media works, sculptures, and video, Nader addresses the psychology of advertising, stripping print...More »
Ben Coonley “Winter Games”
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-02-15 - 2019-03-31
Microscope presents Ben Coonley’s second solo exhibition at the gallery Winter Games, a title that in addition to the overt Olympics reference also alludes to the passage of time, transformation and the...More »
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Lisa Gwilliam & Ray Sweeten (DataSpaceTime) ” \n”
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2019-01-04 - 2019-02-10
Microscope presents \n, a solo exhibition by the collaborative duo Lisa Gwilliam & Ray Sweeten (DataSpaceTime) debuting new computer drawings, video and infinitely generating moving image works created...More »
Matt Town “PORTRAITS”
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- Media: Painting
- 2018-10-26 - 2018-12-02
Microscope Gallery presents PORTRAITS, the second solo exhibition at the gallery of works by Los Angeles-based artist Matt Town. In new paintings, video, and 35mm slide installation works — inspired...More »
Allison Somers “Phototropism”
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2018-09-14 - 2018-10-21
Microscope Gallery presents Phototropism, the fourth solo exhibition of works by Allison Somers at the gallery, featuring new works relating to the artist’s long-term interest in and intimate observations...More »
Katherine Bauer “Cinematic Death Moon Return: Impact Phase”
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- Media: Film
- 2018-07-20 - 2018-08-26
Microscope Gallery presents “Cinematic Death Moon Return: Impact Phase”, the 3rd solo exhibition of works by Katherine Bauer at the gallery. The exhibition is the final phase of Bauer’s three-part...More »
Mikey Foster Estes “Private Rainbows”
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- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2018-06-08 - 2018-07-08
Microscope presents Private Rainbows, a solo exhibition of works by Brooklyn-based artist Mikey Foster Estes. The exhibition centers around the rainbow both as a personal, fleeting optical phenomenon and...More »
Kevin Reuning “Eigenpictures”
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- Media: Video installation
- 2018-04-27 - 2018-06-03
Microscope presents Eigenpictures, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Kevin Reuning – a Brooklyn-based artist working at the intersection of the real and the virtual, the handmade and the computer-generated...More »
Bradley Eros “All that is solid melts into eros”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2018-03-16 - 2018-04-22
Microscope presents All that is solid melts into eros, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Bradley Eros. In this exhibition devoted to ephemerality – a concept the artist has been radically engaging...More »
Jeanne Liotta “Break The Sky”
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- Media: Video installation
- 2018-01-19 - 2018-02-25
I press the air under my wings and fly. / Why should glass or crystal detain me / When I break the sky and ride infinity! – Giordano Bruno Microscope presents Break The Sky, the first solo exhibition...More »
Blinn & Lambert “New Grey Planet”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2017-12-15 - 2018-01-14
Microscope presents “New Grey Planet”, the first solo exhibition of works by Blinn & Lambert, a pseudonym of Brooklyn-based artists Nicholas Steindorf and Kyle Williams. The two artists who met in...More »
Anita Thacher “Anteroom”
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- Media: Video installation
- 2017-10-27 - 2017-12-03
Microscope presents Anteroom, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Anita Thacher, who died on September 8th as preparations were underway for the show. While the focus of the previous exhibit...More »
Cate Giordano “After the fire is gone”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2017-09-15 - 2017-10-22
I shoot films, make sculptures, and perform in various states of cross dress. My work conveys a grotesque Americana, one influenced by faded icons, soap-opera folklore, and daily banalities. – Cate...More »
“Recognition By Components: RISD Sculpture MFA, Class of 2017” Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2017-08-04 - 2017-08-20
RECOGNITION BY COMPONENTS starts with a simple idea: of disparate parts making up, but also subverting, a greater whole. In this exhibition, the five artists of RISD’s Sculpture MFA 2017 graduating class...More »
“Face Shifts” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation - Digital
- 2017-06-23 - 2017-07-30
Microscope Gallery presents Face Shifts, a group exhibition of works including video, kinetic painting, analog photography, installation and mixed media by Theodore Darst, Nick Doyle, Rina Dweck, Ja’tovia...More »
Marni Kotak “Treehouse”
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- Media: Video installation - Performance Art
- 2017-05-12 - 2017-06-18
Peggy Ahwesh “Kissing Point”
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- Media: Video installation - Media Arts
- 2014-11-22 - 2015-01-04
With new multiple screen video installations – one featuring footage from the West Bank, Palestinian Territories, another using appropriated news reports – along with a series of unique objects in the...More »
Allison Somers “Enfolding”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-10-10 - 2014-11-17
“Slide Slide Slide” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other - Other
- 2014-09-05 - 2014-10-06
The exhibit assumes as its inspirational starting point the works and words of Italian artist Bruno Munari who in the early 1950s was actively and extensively realizing the new possibilities of the slide...More »
Marni Kotak “MAD MEDS”
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2014-07-18 - 2014-08-25
Anita Thacher “Detours”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-01-17 - 2014-02-24
The New York-based artist is most widely known for her work with film, video, light installation and public art, having first gained attention with her early film works – including “Back Track”, a 1969...More »
“Thresholds” Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2013-11-19 - 2013-12-01
Both works in Thresholds utilize original videos recorded by the artists that have been deconstructed into as many as 25,000 animated gifs and then reassembled across a grid of phasing pivot points to...More »
Amos Poe "Robots"
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-02-15 - 2013-03-18
ROBOTS marks Poe’s painting debut and is also the first time the artist – whose early film works were most recently featured at “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989” at the New Museum – has exhibited...More »
Allison Somers "Ellipsis"
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- Media: Photography - Prints - Video installation
- 2012-11-16 - 2012-12-17
Concerned with the constant awareness of the past that each of us brings into our present lives, Somers’ engages image as totem to history and memory in three new videos recorded in Cyprus and Tuscany...More »
Joel Schlemowitz "Light Objects"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2012-09-15 - 2012-10-07
The Brooklyn artist - whose short poetic films screen at a range of venues including Anthology Film Archives, MoMA and The Whitney Museum - provides celluloid film an existence beyond the projection room...More »
Emma Bee Bernstein "Exquisite Fucking Boredom"
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- Media: Photography
- 2012-05-24 - 2012-07-02
With intimate as well as often staged photographs of the artist and her close friends, Bernstein – who committed suicide in Venice, Italy at the age of 23 – transforms the spontaneous, on-the-spot Polaroid...More »
Raul Vincent Enriquez "Primp"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2012-04-22 - 2012-05-20
In PRIMP, Enriquez links the private habits and routines of grooming both to the social aspects of portraiture and to the complex rituals displayed in the ancient Mexican manuscript the Codex Borgia. Working...More »
Peggy Ahwesh "Inside Circle"
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-03-18 - 2012-04-16
The inspiration for the exhibit is a series of personal voice mail messages left over a 10-year period by Ahwesh’s long-time friend and collaborator Natalka Voslakov, who died this December. For INSIDE...More »
"We Are Cinema: 50 Years of Film-Makers' Coop" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2012-02-11 - 2012-03-05
We are Cinema is a month-long exhibit and screening series celebrating 50 years of the Film-Makers’ Co-op in NYC. The exhibit features paintings, drawings, prints, light boxes, and other artworks from...More »
"Dreamful Slumbers" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Video installation
- 2012-01-07 - 2012-02-06
Dreamful Slumbers: Drawings and Video, the first New York solo exhibition of the filmmaker and artist James Fotopoulos, featuring over 80 charcoal drawings made between 2008 to 2011 and new video works....More »
"the optimal value for y DataSpaceTime (Ray Sweeten & Lisa Gwilliam)" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Prints - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-11-12 - 2011-12-12
MICROSCOPE Gallery presents the optimal value for y, the first exhibition by DataSpaceTime, a collaboration between sound & visual artist Ray Sweeten and artist & set designer Lisa Gwilliam. The...More »
Marni Kotak "The Birth of Baby X"
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2011-10-08 - 2011-11-07
For 10 years, Kotak has presented her life experiences as works of art. Influenced by the performances of Hannah Wilke, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, Marina Abramovic, and Carolee Schneemann that test the...More »
"Independence Returns" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2011-09-09 - 2011-10-09
INDEPENDENCE, Microscope Gallery’s inaugural exhibit, returns to kick off our second year with an exciting line up of new works by emerging and internationally recognized artists. All of the artists have...More »
Anton Perich "Current Electric"
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-06-12 - 2011-07-03
The bold and haunting series of acrylic on canvas portraits, nudes and abstract paintings are the result of decades of fine-tuning and experimentation with Perich’s mechanized painting machine, an invention...More »
Su Friedrich "re:working"
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- Media: Photography - Prints - Video installation
- 2011-05-14 - 2011-06-06
Friedrich began as a photographer, and the early black and whites photos in the show reveal a developed eye already exploring the issues of sexual identity, Catholicism, the tensions between documentary...More »
Allison Somers "Black & Blue"
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- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2011-04-16 - 2011-05-08
Somers’ photographic and video works in Black & Blue invoke the power and destructive potential of nature and time, and explore the alchemy behind the artist’s materials and processes. Beneath the...More »
Takahiko Iimura "Between the Frames"
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Video installation
- 2011-03-19 - 2011-04-11
Microscope Gallery presents the first Brooklyn solo exhibition of the film and video pioneer Takahiko Iimura. Between The Frames is a comprehensive exhibition featuring works made from 1975 to the present,...More »
Moira Tierney "ARE WE THERE YET?"
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- Media: Film
- 2011-02-26 - 2011-02-26
Brooklyn based filmmaker Moira Tierney presents “Are We There Yet” a program of her new & recent films shot on mostly on16mm, but also on Super8 and DV. Born in Dublin, Tierney’s works often deal with...More »
"What Tornado" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints
- 2011-02-13 - 2011-02-27
With almost daily forecasts of ice and snow as a backdrop, our group exhibition What Tornado turns to the weather for inspiration. On September 16th of last year, 2 days before our inaugural opening, a...More »
Nick Zedd "Eye Transgress"
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- Media: Painting - Film - Video installation
- 2011-01-08 - 2011-02-07
MICROSCOPE Gallery presents Eye Transgress a comprehensive solo exhibition of 2 decades of works by the legendary underground artist Nick Zedd, a leading figure of the 80s Lower East Side cinematic revolution,...More »
Liz Wendelbo "Opticks Works"
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- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2010-11-19 - 2010-12-13
The French/Norwegian Wendelbo is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily with photography and film and is a member of the analog electronic duo “Xeno & Oaklander.” Opticks features photographic prints,...More »
Gérard Courant "Cinematons"
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- Media: Film
- 2010-10-28 - 2010-11-14
MICROSCOPE Gallery exhibits for the first time in the U.S., and in its entirety, the epic CINEMATONS, a 154-hour, more than 30-year project by French film-maker and cinephile Gérard Courant. An adventure...More »

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