Participant Inc. - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Participant Inc.. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Nash Glynn “The Future is Fiction”
Nash Glynn is a transdisciplinary artist and metaphor maker. They use their body as a medium to illustrate various personifications of historical categories such as Nature, Female, and Human. Using self-portraiture...More »
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“Journeys with the initiated” Exhibition
On view at e-flux and Participant Inc Curated by Yesomi Umolu Between 1978 and 1980, queer German novelist, poet, and self-taught ethnographer Hubert Fichte traveled to New York to engage with...More »
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“A new job to unwork” Exhibition
Goldman Club (Emanuel Alborg and Aliza Shvarts), Tehching Hsieh, Devin Kenny, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Wes Larios, Fred Lonidier, Dylan Mira, Karin Schneider, Kandis Williams of Cassandra Press Curated...More »
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Tuesday Smillie “Reflecting Light into The Unshadow”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Tuesday Smillie, Reflecting Light into The Unshadow. The exhibition includes a selection of banners, textile collages, as well as recent prints and works on paper that posit imagination...More »
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Lyle Ashton Harris: “AKA Daddy”
PARTICIPANT INC presents AKA Daddy, an installation/performance by Lyle Ashton Harris. Lyle Ashton Harris returns to performance for the first time in over a decade with AKA Daddy, a new experimental...More »
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Narcissister “Studies for Participatory Sculptures”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Narcissister, Studies for Participatory Sculptures, a solo exhibition of sculpture and collage. Known for working with the live body, Narcissister has created over two hundred...More »
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Jayne County “Paranoia Paradise”
I think that my art serves as a way of putting out the fuse before it becomes a ballistic bomb of some sort. Some people are at odds with the world and they become serial killers, and others become artists. –Jayne...More »
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G.B. Jones and Paul P. “Born Yesterday”
Born Yesterday is a project by G.B. two artists have collaborated intermittently, combined image banks. This exhibition collects these collages with a selection of new drawings by Jones alongside works...More »
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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz “Everybody Talks About The Weather… We Don’t”
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz present their first US solo exhibition Everybody talks about the weather… We don’t. It includes a major new moving image work — Telepathic Improvisation — and two new sculptures. With...More »
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Baseera Khan “iamuslima”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Baseera Khan, iamuslima, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. Works produced for iamuslima deal with historical identity – traditional representations and their mis-...More »
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Matt Keegan “Generation”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Generation, a solo exhibition by Matt Keegan. Generation brings together new sculpture and video that continues the Keegan’s investigation of language and its role in culture....More »
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Eve Fowler “with it which it as it if it is to be”
Eve Fowler has been working with text by Gertrude Stein to create an ongoing body of work that takes many forms. This exhibition is comprised of a neon sculpture and a new black and white 16mm film titled...More »
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Ellen Cantor “Lovely Girl’s Emotions”
Participant presents paintings and sculptures which pre-date and lay groundwork for the concerns that permeate the bodies of work in drawing and video for which Cantor became best known. The subjects that...More »
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“THINGS: a queer legacy of graphic art and play” Exhibition
THINGS is an exhibition of objects made by artists best known for their work in journalism and media. Drafted during moments of leisure and distributed largely through social means, the paintings, drawings...More »
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Marja Samsom “Miss Behave”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Marja Samsom, Miss Behave, a set of performances and a book launch activating a scripted environment including props, set, photographs, and films. Samsom began casting herself...More »
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Itziar Barrio “THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE”
PARTICIPANT INC presents THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE, the next iteration of a multi-year, multi-venue project conceived by Itziar Barrio. Inspired by social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s controversial 1961...More »
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“I Can Because You Do” Parsons Fine Arts 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2016-05-06 - 2016-05-14
Parsons the New School for Design presents I Can Because You Do, the 2016 Parsons Fine Arts MFA Thesis Show curated by Alhena Katsof. The exhibition features new work by Julius John Alam, Eleana Antonaki,...More »
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Justin Vivian Bond “My Model / My Self”
My friend Billy’s father once said you could measure the depth of a person’s tragedy by the amount of distance between how they see themselves and how they’re seen by others. As an American and as a transperson,...More »
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Peter Hendrick “Convocation”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Peter Hendrick, Convocation, a 5-channel sound and video installation that presents the output of a computer program devised by the artist to translate prominent religious texts...More »
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Martin Gustavsson “El Mirage”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Martin Gustavsson, El Mirage, an exhibition of new paintings explicitly produced to be utilized by Stanley Love Performance Group, in residency for the duration of the exhibition....More »
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Doveman and Tom Kalin “My Silent One (In The Sweetness of Time)”
PARTICIPANT INC presents the premiere of My Silent One (In The Sweetness of Time), a collaborative live environment by Tom Kalin and Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), as part of Performa’s 10th Anniversary, Performa...More »
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“Ephemera Office Enterprises: Martin Wong” Exhibition
Organized by Olga DekaloMore »
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A.K. Burns “A Smeary Spot”
PARTICIPANT INC presents A Smeary Spot, a solo exhibition by A.K. Burns consisting of a new 55-minute multi-channel video installation, drawing on speculative fiction, theater, and documentary tactics....More »
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Josef Astor “Displaced Persons”
Josef Astor’s images capture the space between moments, a difficult and penetrating stasis. The portraits selected for Displaced Persons are multifaceted, unnerving, and surreal. Staging and photographing...More »
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Neil Goldberg “One Version of Events”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Neil Goldberg, One Version of Events. Featuring drawings, photographs, and video, the exhibition explores the condition of being embodied, especially the need to eat. Named after...More »
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Joy Episalla “Street View Rear Window”
A still photograph is simply an isolated frame taken out of the infinite cinema. – Hollis Frampton PARTICIPANT INC is pleased to present Joy Episalla, Street View Rear Window, a solo exhibition featuring...More »
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Emily Roysdon “If Only a Wave”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Emily Roysdon, If Only a Wave . The first solo exhibition of Roysdon’s work in New York since 2011, it features new sculpture, photograms, screen prints, neon works, and performance. For...More »
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Greer Lankton “Love Me”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Greer Lankton, LOVE ME, an exhibition organized in cooperation with the Greer Lankton Archives Museum (G.L.A.M.). This is the first major New York solo exhibition of Lankton ...More »
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Chloé Griffin “Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller”
Opening Night: Pictures in the Smoke Wednesday, Oct. 15, 7-9pm Book launch and reception celebrating the opening of a four-day exhibit of original material featured in Chloé Griffin’s Edgewise No...More »
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M. Lamar “Negrogothic, A Manifesto, The Aesthetics”
PARTICIPANT INC opens its thirteenth season with NEGROGOTHIC, A Manifesto, The Aesthetics of M. Lamar. This is the first New York solo exhibition by artist, countertenor, and composer, M. Lamar, and feature...More »
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Zoe Beloff “The Days of the Commune”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Zoe Beloff, The Days of the Commune, an installation based on Beloff’s restaging of Bertolt Brecht’s eponymous play. In the spring of 2012, Beloff brought together a group of...More »
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Michael Lazarus “Part Two”
PARTICIPANT INC presents Part Two, a solo exhibition of twelve paintings by Michael Lazarus, made between 2011–2014. These mixed media panels made of paint, wood, glass, adhesive lettering, and, in some...More »
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Erik Moskowitz + Amanda Trager Exhibition
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Luther Price “The Years Made Flies”
The Years Made Flies is a culmination of Luther Price’s larger than life figurative work made between 1982-1985. With the exception of one large sculptural installation, Eat Fuck Live Shit Want Need -...More »
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Conrad Ventur “Tribute to Mario Montez”
Sundays, November 10, 17, 24, 7pm Sunday, November 10 Jose Rodriquez-Soltero, Lupe, 1966, 16mm, 49.5 minutes Jack Smith, Jungle Island, 1967, 16mm, 15 minutes Andy Warhol, Mario Banana, 1964, 16mm,...More »
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Helen Oliver Adelson (HOA) “The Lunar Landing”
PARTICIPANT INC presents The Lunar Landing, a site-specific installation of wall paintings, incorporating sculptural elements and discreet paintings by Helen Oliver Adelson (HOA). For The Lunar Landing,...More »
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Gordon Stokes Kurtti “Gordon Kurtti Project”
From June 2 – July 14, 2013, PARTICIPANT INC presents the Gordon Kurtti Project, curated by Carl George of Allied Productions. Gordon Stokes Kurtti produced a brief yet concentrated burst of artistic...More »
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Gary Indiana "GRISTLE SPRINGS"
PARTICIPANT INC presents GRISTLE SPRINGS, the first New York solo exhibition of Gary Indiana since Extinction at American Fine Arts, Co. in 2002, featuring works in photography and video. New photographic...More »
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Katrina del Mar "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS"
PARTICIPANT INC presents GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS, a solo exhibition featuring photographs, videos, and hand-made books by New York-based artist Katrina del Mar. Katrina del Mar is perhaps best known for her...More »
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Vaginal Davis "HAG–small, contemporary, haggard"
PARTICIPANT INC welcomes Vaginal Davis back to New York City for her first major solo visual art exhibition, HAG–small, contemporary, haggard. The name HAG in part refers to a subset within the Queercore...More »
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Kembra Pfahler "Fuck Island”
PARTICIPANT INC opens the season with Fuck Island, a major solo exhibition of new work by Kembra Pfahler. “Fuck Island” is a protest anthem, love song, and manifesto written for her band, The Voluptuous...More »
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Rose Kallal "Start Begin Feel Again"
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Sheila Pepe & Diana Puntar "Pepe & Puntar's Lucid Dream Lounge with Special Guests..."
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Jeffrey Gibson "one becomes the other"
In 1941, months before the U.S. entered World War II, the Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition titled Indian Art of the United States. The entire first floor of the exhibition framed the then contemporary...More »
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Justin Vivian Bond "The Fall of the House of Whimsy"
PARTICIPANT INC presents "The Fall of the House of Whimsy", the first solo exhibition of Justin Vivian Bond, including paintings, photographs, and installations incorporating elements of Bond’s former...More »
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Sadie Benning "Transitional Effects"
PARTICIPANT INC presents Transitional Effects, a solo exhibition by Sadie Benning. Recently focused on installations that include drawings, paintings, video, and sound works, Benning’s practice explores...More »
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John Jurayj "Undead"
PARTICIPANT INC presents UNDEAD, a solo exhibition consisting of two recent bodies of work by John Jurayj. Untitled (Family Baggage) is a series of sculptures that addresses emotional loss and public anxiety,...More »
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Hunter Reynolds "Survival AIDS"
PARTICIPANT INC presents Survival AIDS, a major solo exhibition by Hunter Reynolds. Reynolds is a New York artist and activist who has been living with HIV/AIDS since 1984. Survival AIDS spans two decades...More »
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Michael Robinson / Jack Smith "Dirty Looks"
Featuring a special publication with art and writings by Robinson. Program: Jack Smith - No President (1967 - 70) Michael Robinson - And We All Shine On (2006) All Through The Night (2008) These Hammers...More »
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Ulrike Ottinger "Madame X - An Absolute Ruler (1978)"
Screening of Madame X - An Absolute Ruler–the experimental feature by Ulrike Ottinger, with a very special post-discussion by writer and former Ottinger actor, Gary Indiana. With this classified ad printed...More »
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f.p. boué "infinite instant"
PARTICIPANT INC presents the first New York solo exhibition of f.p. boué, "infinite instant". Known for his time-based work, particularly in small gauge film, Boué incorporates the element of time into...More »
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Glen Fogel "With Me… You"
The first NYC solo exhibition of Glen Fogel, "With Me… You," consists of a new five-channel video installation and an ongoing series of large-scale paintings of letters written to the artist.More »
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Rona Yefman "Let it Bleed"
"Let it Bleed" is a chapter from an extensive personal archive, "My Brother and I" (1996-2009). As early as 1996, her younger brother, Gil, was Yefman’s first model and inspiration. She began an intimate...More »
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Cecilia Dougherty "The Fourth Space" with Aleksei R. Steven's "Moving Parts"
"The Fourth Space" by Cecilia Dougherty comprises impressions of place from several angles: a straightforward record of unrehearsed daily life in four specific locations (The Third Space); a low-tech microcosm...More »
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"COLLECTIVE SHOW NYC 2010" Exhibition
PARTICIPANT INC, in conjunction with Silvershed, is pleased to present "COLLECTIVE SHOW NY 2010," an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art collectives. This collaboratively curated "group show...More »
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"Keeping Busy: An Inaccurate Survey of Michel Auder" Exhibition
PARTICIPANT INC, in conjunction with Zach Feuer Gallery and Newman Popiashvili Gallery, presents KEEPING BUSY: AN INACCURATE SURVEY OF MICHEL AUDER, a solo exhibition by pioneering video artist Michel...More »
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"DEAD FLOWERS" Exhibition
PARTICIPANT INC presents DEAD FLOWERS, a group exhibition based on the work of actor/director Timothy Carey, curated by Lia Gangitano for Vox Populi, an artist collective in Philadelphia, where it was...More »
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Alejandro Vidal "When it rains, all shines black"
the first U.S. solo exhibition of Barcelona-based artist Alejandro Vidal. Known for his large-format photographs, videos, and installations that assert a post-cinematic aesthetic of conflict, seen through...More »
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Robin Graubard "The Hold Up"
"The Hold Up" is a solo exhibition spanning over two decades of the artist’s photographic work. Geographically and temporally diverse, the exhibition is comprised of several discrete yet overlapping groups...More »
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Stuart Sherman "Nothing Up My Sleeve"
Nothing Up My Sleeve is based on the work of the widely unknown, remarkable artist Stuart Sherman. Sherman was an early member of both the Charles Ludlam and Richard Foreman theater companies. Over a thirty-year...More »
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Ottonella Mocellin & Nicola Pellegrini "With the Occasional Rainbow Visiting"
"With the Occasional Rainbow Visiting" is a 3 channel video installation (color, sound, 40 minutes, 2008) by Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini. Through this complex video installation, Mocellin...More »
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Thomas Lawson "New World"
These large-scale works feature an array of life-size figures turning their backs to the viewer. Apparently looking into the distance, these figures leave us to confront a hyper-carnivalesque palette,...More »
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Michelle Handelman "Dorian"
DORIAN is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th century novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray: “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” Presented as a non-linear narrative on four screens,...More »
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Laura Parnes "Janie 1978-1982 (a.k.a. Blood and Guts in High School)"
In appropriating Blood and Guts in High School, Parnes pays homage to Acker’s radically inventive use of literary appropriation and intertextuality. As in previous video works (such as Hollywood Inferno...More »
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Ellen Cantor "Within a Budding Grove"
[Image: Ellen Cantor "Death Skull" (2008) 8x11 feet]More »
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"Community of elsewheres" Exhibition