Tanya Bonakdar Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Shilpa Gupta Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Shilpa Gupta’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition includes a new sound installation, along with sculptural objects and drawings addressing her continued...More »
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“Concerning Nature” Exhibition
“How should we regard nature? Until recently, the question was decisively answered by the practices of industrial society. Under the enchantment of the Enlightenment story of progress from darkness to...More »
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Math Bass “Roses are Red”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Math Bass: Roses are Red. Math Bass’s dynamic practice includes sculpture, painting and architectural interventions, often setting the...More »
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Kelly Akashi “Infinite Body”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Kelly Akashi: Infinite Body, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Exploring the biological memory of the body through the language of geology, Infinite...More »
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Uta Barth Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents its twelfth solo exhibition of work by Uta Barth. In celebration of both past and present, this exhibition is in two parts. The ground floor gallery space features the New...More »
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Susan Philipsz “Separated Strings”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery present Susan Philipsz’s Separated Strings. Over the past 20 years Susan Philipsz has been exploring the psychological and sculptural potential of sound. The artist’s immersive...More »
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Lisa Williamson “A Landscape and a Hum”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents A Landscape and a Hum, a solo exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper by Lisa Williamson, on view from October 27 through December 17, 2022. This is the artist’s...More »
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Lisa Oppenheim “Spolia”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Spolia, an exhibition of new work by Lisa Oppenheim. This is the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery. Spolia, the Latin word for “spoils,” refers to architectural...More »
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Sabine Hornig “This Is No Time”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents This Is No Time, Sabine Hornig’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery in New York. Sabine Hornig’s sculptures, photographs and installations explore concepts of space,...More »
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“Fruiting Bodies” Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Fruiting Bodies, a group exhibition curated by Sam Rauch. You are what you eat is an aphorism so often repeated, the power of its proposition hides in plain sight. Nevertheless,...More »
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Sandra Cinto “Melody To The Stars”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Melody to the Stars, Sandra Cinto’s ninth exhibition with the gallery. Since the early 1990s, Sandra Cinto has explored the potential of drawing to create intricate images...More »
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Tomás Saraceno Exhibition
Informed by the worlds of art, architecture, natural sciences and engineering, Tomas Saraceno’s floating sculptures, community projects and interactive installations propose new, sustainable ways of inhabiting...More »
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Sherrill Roland “Hindsight Bias”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Hindsight Bias, Sherrill Roland’s first exhibition with the gallery. Sherrill Roland’s interdisciplinary practice deals with concepts of innocence, identity, and community,...More »
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Jónsi “Obsidian”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Obsidian, Jónsi’s second presentation with the gallery and debut solo exhibition in New York. After lying dormant for nearly eight hundred years, the recent eruption...More »
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Wong Ping “The Great Tantalizer”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery present Wong Ping’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, The Great Tantalizer. For this exhibition, Wong Ping casts himself as the curator of a didactic exhibition recreating...More »
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“IRL” Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents IRL, a second chapter in its ongoing series of IRL exhibitions featuring important new work by gallery artists. An acronym for “In Real Life”, the term IRL has taken on...More »
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Kelly Akashi “Mood Organ”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Kelly Akashi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Mood Organ. In this exhibition of all new work, Akashi challenges the ideological underpinnings of Western structures...More »
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“Songs in the Dark” Exhibition
In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times. —Bertolt Brecht This quote from Bertolt Brecht served as the theme for poet Carolyn Forché’s seminal...More »
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Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg “One Last Trip to the Underworld”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents One Last Trip to the Underworld, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s first exhibition with the gallery. Spanning both of the gallery’s floors, this much anticipated show...More »
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Sarah Sze Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a solo exhibition with artist Sarah Sze at the gallery’s New York location. This will be the artist’s third solo show with the gallery and her first exhibition in New York...More »
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“Living In A Lightbulb” Exhibition
Curated by Jenny Jaskey and Mia Locks It’s like living in a light bulb, with the leaves Like filaments and the sky a shell of thing, transparent glass Enclosing the late heaven of a summer day, a...More »
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Dana Powell “Burner”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Dana Powell’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Titled Burner, this exhibition presents the delights, tragedies, and minor mysteries of the everyday. Powell’s small...More »
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Mark Manders “Writing Yellow”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Mark Manders: Writing Yellow. For the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Manders presents a variety of sculptural works that continue his “self portrait as...More »
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Laura Lima “I hope this finds you well.”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents the first gallery exhibition in the United States of Brazilian artist Laura Lima. Titled, I hope this finds you well., this will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with...More »
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Charles Long “Paradigm Lost”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents paradigm lost, an immersive installation by Charles Long. On view in the downstairs gallery, the exhibition brings together a body of work that the artist created over the...More »
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Hannah Starkey Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a major exhibition of new photography by Hannah Starkey. On view in the gallery’s second floor exhibition spaces. For more than 20 years, Starkey has dedicated her practice...More »
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Tomás Saraceno “Solar Rhythms”
“While enterprises to colonize other planets are put in place, this very same interface between us and the Sun and the atmosphere, continues to be compromised: carbon emissions fill the air, invisible...More »
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Liu Shiyuan “Isolated Above, Connected Down”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Isolated Above, Connected Down, a solo exhibition by Liu Shiyuan. This is the Chinese new media artist’s first major solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition...More »
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Carla Klein Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Carla Klein, opening Saturday, January 6th and on view through Thursday, February 15th. Klein’s seventh solo show with the gallery presents...More »
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Dirk Stewen “Transition”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Dirk Stewen: Transition. Known for creating unique works that draw on a multiplicity of art-making techniques including photography, drawing, assemblage, painting, collage,...More »
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Phil Collins Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a new exhibition by British artist Phil Collins. The artist’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery, the exhibition brings together two recent projects that traverse...More »
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Olafur Eliasson Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents its ninth solo exhibition with world-renowned artist Olafur Eliasson, The listening dimension, on view March 23 through April 22, 2017. Over the past two decades, Eliasson...More »
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Uta Barth Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents the newest exhibition by MacArthur Fellow Uta Barth. Her tenth exhibition with the gallery will consist of two distinct yet related projects: “In the Light and Shadow of...More »
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Ernesto Neto “The Serpent’s Energy Gave Birth To Humanity”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents The Serpent’s Energy Gave Birth To Humanity, a solo exhibition of new works by internationally acclaimed artist Ernesto Neto. For his first gallery exhibition in New York...More »
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Slavs And Tatars “Afteur Pasteur”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents its first exhibition with artist collective Slavs and Tatars. Featuring a new body of work, Afteur Pasteur challenges our understanding of the self through the unlikely...More »
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Mark Manders Exhibition
Under a table you have the possibility to test your own absence. The realization that life is taking its course, even without you, is an intense human experience; it shows the finiteness of personality....More »
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Sarah Sze Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of new installation and sculptural works by Sarah Sze. The exhibition will be the artist’s first major gallery show in the United States since representing...More »
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Rivane Neuenschwander “The fever, the sewing box, and a ghost.”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Rivane Neuenschwander. For the artist’s second presentation with the gallery, Neuenschwander explores the theme of childhood memory through...More »
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Tomás Saraceno Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of new large-scale installation, sculptures and works on paper by Tomás Saraceno. For this fifth solo show with the gallery, Saraceno will further develop...More »
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Analia Saban “Backyard”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents the second solo exhibition of new works by Analia Saban. Presenting works on both floors of the gallery, Saban invites us into the metaphorical space of the backyard, in...More »
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Susan Philipsz “Part File Score”
For her fourth solo exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Susan Philipsz presents her acclaimed work, Part File Score, an immersive 24-channel sound installation accompanied by a series of large-scale...More »
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Peggy Preheim “Archipelago”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Peggy Preheim’s twelfth solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Archipelago, this group of works presents the delicate drawings for which Preheim is best known in concert...More »
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Thomas Scheibitz “Studio Imaginaire”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents the gallery’s eighth solo exhibition with Thomas Scheibitz. Entitled Studio Imaginaire, the exhibition presents new painting, relief and sculpture by the artist that invite...More »
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Charles Long “Up Land”
Up Land is a series of new bronze sculptures and pastel drawings comprising Charles Long’s tenth solo exhibition at the gallery. Over the past two decades, Long’s practical ideas have found myriad sources...More »
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Agnieszka Kurant Exhibition
Born in Lotz, Poland and now based in New York, Agnieszka Kurant has developed an exciting body of interdisciplinary work that explores the ways in which the immaterial and imaginary - such as fictions,...More »
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“The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s” Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery celebrates 20 years.More »
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Meschac Gaba Exhibition
The gallery presents its exhibition with Meschac Gaba, the artist’s first one-person gallery presentation in the United States. Living between the Netherlands and Benin, his birthplace in West Africa,...More »
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Jeffrey Vallance “Enamel Paintings: Idols & Villains”, “Islomania: Key West”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents two separate bodies of work by Jeffrey Vallance, Enamel Paintings: Idols & Villains and Islomania: Key West. Jeffrey Vallance’s works turn a critical and humorous...More »
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Carla Klein Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a new series of dynamic paintings by Dutch artist Carla Klein. For her sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, Klein continues her exploration of the relationship between...More »
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“Eight, Eighteen” Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of video work titled Eight, Eighteen by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler. Eight revolves around a young girl and a house on a rainy night. In uninterrupted...More »
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Michael Wilkinson Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents new work by Michael Wilkinson as the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Furthering his experiments with collage as a formal and conceptual tool, Wilkinson’s...More »
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“Between the Lines” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2014-01-09 - 2014-02-08
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents between the lines, a group exhibition of language- and text-based works by gallery artists. Exploring the complexity of language and its manifestations in and as art, this...More »
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Sandra Cinto Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents new drawings, paintings and sculptures by Sandra Cinto. For the artist’s sixth solo presentation at the gallery, Cinto will transform both exhibition spaces into immersive...More »
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Phil Collins Exhibition
What with the rolling of the oceans and the darkening of the skies What with the irrationality of your passions and the seething hatreds of everyday life What with this system so effortlessly born...More »
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“Ambient” Exhibition
An origin story for ambient music is found in the liner notes for Brian Eno’s 1975 Discreet Music, in which he tells the anecdote of happening on the idea when a recent accident left him bedridden. After...More »
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Hannah Starkey Exhibition
As the artist’s third solo show with the gallery, this exhibition will feature eight exceptional large-scale photographs from Starkey’s latest body of work. Quietly contemplative yet intensely evocative,...More »
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Martin Boyce Exhibition
Entitled It's Over and Over, Martin Boyce's third solo exhibition at the gallery will transform the ground floor exhibition space into an immersive, dream-like environment of shapes and forms that are...More »
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Mark Dion "Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a major upcoming exhibition of works on paper and new sculpture by Mark Dion. Since the early 1990s, Dion has developed a remarkably dynamic and influential investigation...More »
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Dirk Stewen "Carpets and Couplets"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Carpets and Couplets, an exhibition of new work by Dirk Stewen. For his third solo show with the gallery, Stewen focuses on mirroring and doubling, using kaleidoscopic ornamental...More »
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Sabine Hornig "Transparent Things"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Transparent Things, the fourth solo exhibition of new work by Berlin-based artist Sabine Hornig, consisting of three related sculptures and new photographs on paper. The...More »
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Olafur Eliasson "Volcanoes and Shelters"
Born in Denmark in 1967 to Danish and Icelandic parents, and currently living and working in Berlin and Copenhagen, Olafur Eliasson has built an international reputation as one of the most influential...More »
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Analia Saban "Gag"
For the artist's first solo exhibition in New York, Analia Saban presents Gag, a series of new works that explore the artist's interest in exposing process and materials of art-making in relation to her...More »
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Susan Philipsz "The Distant Sound"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents The Distant Sound, an exhibition by Susan Philipsz that combines multiple channel sound installation, photography, and film. In these new works, Philipsz builds upon her...More »
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"Maybe it's the light that has to change and not much else" Exhibition
Maybe it's the light that has to change and not much else exhibits work by a group of artists whose practices engage with social spaces and their communal formations. The works included explore the temporal...More »
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Tomas Saraceno Exhibition
Coinciding with the artist's current major commission on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof, the gallery presents an important selection of sculpture and installation by Tomas Saraceno. Carefully installed...More »
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Ernesto Neto Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by Ernesto Neto. A monumental installation of vibrantly colored crocheted netting and bright plastic balls will hang from the ceiling of the downstairs...More »
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Charles Long Exhibition
In his ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, Charles Long continues his investigation of the formal aspects of sculpture, pushing the boundaries in unforeseen directions. Long explores the limitations...More »
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Nicole Wermers Exhibition
Following her debut at the gallery in 2007, Nicole Wermers returns with exciting new sculpture and photography. The legacy of modernism plays a key role in Wermers’s practice as well; in her new sculptures,...More »
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Thomas Scheibitz "A Panoramic View of Basic Events"
For his seventh solo exhibition at the gallery, titled "A Panoramic View of Basic Events," Thomas Scheibitz will present an extraordinary group of new paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages. These...More »
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Mat Collishaw Exhibition
In Gallery 2, Mat Collishaw creates installation and photo-based works that explore the impact of disturbing subject matter presented through formally stunning imagery. New photographs from both Collishaw's...More »
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Jack Strange Exhibition
Jack Strange will exhibit new sculpture, drawing and installations as part of his second solo exhibition at the gallery, entitled "Deep Down." Strange takes everyday objects and re-imagines them in a...More »
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Uta Barth Exhibition
Uta Barth will show a body of work commissioned this year by The Art Institute of Chicago, titled "… and to draw a bright white line with light." In this compelling series, the artist is no longer merely...More »
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Haim Steinbach "Creature"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents its first solo exhibition of work by acclaimed artist Haim Steinbach. Haim Steinbach raises everyday objects to the level of art. He explores the common social ritual...More »
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"Painting Expanded" Exhibition
"Painting Expanded" is a dynamic group exhibition featuring artwork from a new generation of artists whose works share a formal nature that is primarily material-based abstraction. Each piece is rooted...More »
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Gillian Wearing "People"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a major solo exhibition of new work by Gillian Wearing. In a wide ranging vocabulary, Wearing presents an epic survey of activity since her last major solo exhibition in...More »
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"A Gentil Carioca" Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a group exhibition organized by the Rio de Janeiro-based gallery A GENTIL CARIOCA, featuring five artists from this gallery's program. Artists in the show include Ricardo...More »
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Sandra Cinto Exhibition
Sandra Cinto's fifth solo exhibition at the gallery presents new works on canvas which evoke the sea, sky, rain, waves, and clouds to illustrate the cycles of human life and the indomitable hope for transcendence...More »
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Jason Meadows Exhibition
Meadows creates three-dimensional representations of different real and imagined figures inspired by a range of sources: literary, art historical, pop cultural, and even mathematical. In some, Meadows...More »
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Liz Larner Exhibition
Bringing film, two-dimensional images and the structural use of color to bear on sculptural expression, Larner’s work demonstrates an innovative approach to the centrality of form. The artist presents...More »
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Martin Boyce "Winter Palms"
Continuing the artist's ongoing exploration of cycles in visual culture, Boyce makes specific reference to the ghost of Modernism as it haunts the public urban and architectural landscape. Boyce's inanimate...More »
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Hubbard/Birchler Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring the premiere of a new video installation entitled "Méliès." The work explores the residue...More »
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Peggy Preheim "the end (final cut)"
Through intense and intimate renderings of imagery inspired by early found photographs, Preheim explores the passing of time in two dimensions, both historical and mythological. These meticulous and eloquent...More »
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Tomas Saraceno "Clouds Cities Connectome"
His visionary project promotes the construction of an alternate means of co-habitation, one that literally rises above contemporary debates often politicized by borderlines and national identity. Saraceno...More »
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Sarah Sze Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents its first solo exhibition of new work by Sarah Sze. Among the most influential and esteemed artists of her generation, Sze has exhibited regularly in numerous major international...More »
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Multiple Pleasures "Functional Objects in Contemporary Art"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a broad and dynamic survey exhibition featuring over 150 specially selected objects and artworks by more than 90 contemporary artists. Each work blurs the boundaries between...More »
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Uta Barth & Ian Kiaer Exhibition
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Susan Philipsz "I See a Darkness"
Originally conceived for the Jarla Partilager exhibition space in Stockholm, "I See a Darkness," by Philipsz was inspired by the tale of two Lucias: the Santa Lucia festival which happens on one of the...More »
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Siobhán Hapaska "The Nose that Lost its Dog"
Featuring monumental sculptures-- some created during her production residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios-- "The Nose that Lost its Dog" continues Hapaska's exploration of mechanical and natural systems...More »
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Olafur Eliasson Exhibition
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's sixth solo show at the gallery continues his exploration of and experimentation with modes of perception and the experience of space and time. Focusing on movement,...More »
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Jeffrey Vallance "Relics and Reliquaries"
For over thirty years Vallance has turned a critical and humorous eye toward his own wide-ranging experience, using his adventures as the basis for his drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance...More »
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Mark Dion "Travels of William Bartram: Reconsidered"
Investigating the visual representation of knowledge and the natural sciences, and concerned with the historical methods of representing and organizing the world, Mark Dion employs pseudo-scientific and...More »
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"Strange Travelers" Exhibition
Curated by Mark Dion. One shudders at the notion of contemporary travel. Images of the dreaded middle seat on a stale and stingy American Airlines flight haunt the imagination. Delays, discomfort, and...More »
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Carla Klein Exhibition
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Rita Lundqvist Exhibition
[Image: Rita Lundqvist "Blue sky (Blå himmel)" (2007) oil on panel 26 x 26 cm. Courtesy the artist and Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm]More »
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"Summer Show" Exhibition
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Hannah Starkey Exhibition
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Hannah Starkey. Comprised of new large and small-scale photographs, Starkey’s second solo show with the gallery continues her investigation...More »
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Phil Collins "when slaves love each other, it's not love"
Collins’ work examines the act of image making itself, eliciting the complex and ambiguous relationship between the camera and its subjects. Basing his practice on a close engagement with place and community,...More »
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Thomas Scheibitz "Missing Link in Delphi"
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Charles Long Exhibition
A distinct break from the most recent work based on bird excrement and the Los Angeles River, Long’s new sculptures are spare, colorful, non-referential structures, assuredly ungrounded, offering a balance...More »
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Dirk Stewen "Paper Eye Collection"
For his second solo show with the gallery Dirk Stewen continues his exploration of form and material, meaning and emotion, creating compositions that resist strict classification as sculpture, installation,...More »
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"Winter Light" Exhibition
[Image: Gillian Wearing "Me As Arbus" (2008) bromide print 60 5/8 x 51 1/4 in.]More »
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Ernesto Neto "...Ai...ai..."
The phenomenal new works that comprise the exhibition build on Neto's recent practice of constructing sculpture from interlocking materials—wood, steel, and acrylic among them—and incorporating these hard...More »
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Mat Collishaw "Deliverance"
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Neal Tait "The Dressmaker Who Lived on the Outskirts "
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Neal Tait's The Dressmaker Who Lived on the Outskirts, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings that comprise the artist's first solo show with the gallery. Diverse...More »
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Tomas Saraceno "Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, Like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider’s Web"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Tomas Saraceno’s Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, Like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider’s Web, an exhibition comprising a large-scale installation and new sculpture....More »
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Susan Philipsz "Here Comes Everybody"
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Here Comes Everybody, Susan Philipsz’s first exhibition with the gallery and the artist’s first solo presentation in New York. Interested in both the psychological and sculptural...More »