Artists Space - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Artists Space. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Shala Miller & Malcolm Peacock Exhibition
Artists Space presents new works by interdisciplinary artists Shala Miller (b. 1993) and Malcolm Peacock (b. 1994). As part of their first New York institutional exhibition, Miller’s and Peacock’s commissions...More »
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Yasunao Tone “Region of Paramedia”
Artists Space presents Region of Paramedia, the first retrospective dedicated to the work of Japanese American conceptual artist, composer, and theorist Yasunao Tone, whose deep investigation of the potential...More »
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Renee Gladman “Narratives of Magnitude”
Artists Space presents the first New York solo exhibition of the poet, novelist, and visual artist Renee Gladman. Beginning in 2006, Gladman’s extended cross-genre experimentation has compelled her to...More »
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Lyndon Barrois Jr. “Mirage Collar”
Artists Space presents Pittsburgh-based artist Lyndon Barrois Jr.’s first New York institutional solo exhibition Mirage Collar, an interconnected suite of drawings, paintings, installations, and sculptural...More »
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Milford Graves “Fundamental Frequency”
Artists Space, in collaboration with Mark Christman and Ars Nova Workshop, present Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency, a multiform retrospective exhibition and event series dedicated to the life and...More »
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Ei Arakawa “Performance People Rehab”
For his first North American institutional solo exhibition, Ei Arakawa locates two specific nodes of exploration, the erection throughout New York City of ad-hoc outdoor dining corrals as a means of maintaining...More »
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New Red Order “Feel at Home Here”
Artists Space presents an exhibition by New Red Order (NRO), a public secret society of rotating membership, including core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys. Collaborating with...More »
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Tiffany Sia “Slippery When Wet”
Artists Space presents Tiffany Sia’s first institutional exhibition, on view in bifurcated forms in our 11 Cortlandt Alley space and online, to allow for greater access to the geographically-dispersed...More »
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“ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992-1999” Exhibition
Artists Space presents the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of ART CLUB2000. Spanning their entire career, from 1992 until their planned dissolution in 2000, the exhibition includes restagings...More »
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“She Who Is: Adrienne Kennedy and the Drama of Difference” Exhibition
Artists Space, in collaboration with acclaimed theater critic Hilton Als, presents a series of live performances, readings, film screenings, and an accompanying archival exhibition that celebrates the...More »
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Jana Euler “Unform”
Artists Space presents an exhibition by Jana Euler. As its title suggests, Euler’s new works extend many of the artist’s painterly investigations of the dynamic interrelations of sentient forms and their...More »
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Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura and Duane Linklater Exhibition
Artists Space will open at 11 Cortlandt Alley with an exhibition of new work by Danica Barboza, Jason Hirata, Yuki Kimura, and Duane Linklater. [Image: Yuki Kimura “Wardrobe Extensions Version 4” Installation...More »
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Jack Smith “Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis”
This exhibition is dedicated to our co-founder and friend Irving Sandler. His unwavering commitment to art and artists is a legacy that will continue to guide our work. Artists Space presents an exhibition...More »
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” Whitney Museum of American Art - Independent Study Program Studio Exhibition”
Since its inception in 1968, the Whitney Independent Study Program has evolved from a small experimental project challenging established thinking about pedagogy and art to become a world-renowned model...More »
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Miyoko Ito “Heart of Hearts”
Heart of Hearts comprises a selection of enigmatic abstract paintings by Miyoko Ito (1918–1983), whose work has remained largely unexamined and overlooked outside of Chicago. Not intended as a decisive...More »
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“Coop Fund” Exhibition
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, and John Neff present newly-commissioned and existing artworks that destabilize conventional approaches to education, economics, and...More »
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“Unholding” Exhibition
Artists of Indigenous heritage have, for many decades in New York City, developed their practices in self-initiated contexts while endeavoring to extend the reach and visibility of their work to broader...More »
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“Social Surfaces” Exhibition
A Fundraising Exhibition to Support Our Relocation to 80 White Street in 2018 Yuji Agematsu, Richard Aldrich, Harold Ancart, Ed Atkins, Darren Bader, Barbara Bloom, Glenn Branca, Kerstin Brätsch, Cecily...More »
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“Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno” Exhibition
On the evening of the June 21st summer solstice, Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno—the first major U.S. exhibition about the American poet, artist, activist and muse John Giorno—will open simultaneously across...More »
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Laura Cottingham “The Anita Pallenberg Story”
If one considers telling a story, it is always a question of how to determine the difference between what is meaningful and what is trivial. Sometimes, after all, what at first appears meaningful we later...More »
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“Decolonize This Place” Exhibition
Recent years have seen a sharp resurgence of social movements, within which artists and cultural workers are playing leading roles. Decolonization, not only of the mind, but of land, institutions and social...More »
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“Pride Goes Before a Fall Beware of a Holy Whore” Exhibition
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 film Beware of a Holy Whore charts a cast of characters as they gather on set at a coastal hotel on the Mediterranean and spiral variously into social and psychological...More »
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Lukas Duwenhögger “Undoolay”
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Cameron Rowland “91020000”
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the...More »
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“Union Gaucha Productions” Exhibition
Artists Space presents the first comprehensive survey of Union Gaucha Productions, structured in three parts at Artists Space Books & Talks: a street level installation of film and video based works;...More »
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Tom of Finland “The Pleasure of Play”
Artists Space presents the first comprehensive survey on the work of Tom of Finland, including more than 140 drawings, rarely seen gouaches from the 1940s, over 600 pages of collages, as well as his early...More »
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No Total “No Total Weekend”
For the last two years, No Total has been meeting, at Artists Space Books & Talks and elsewhere, to read, write, and discuss. Up until now, we have been meeting as a closed group. We’d like to open...More »
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Hito Steyerl “Duty Free Art”
Artists Space presents the first New York survey exhibition on the work of the German filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl, which focuses on the artist’s production from 2004 onwards. Over this period Steyerl’s...More »
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Laura Poitras “9/11 Trilogy”
Coinciding with the worldwide release of Laura Poitras’ widely anticipated and critically acclaimed documentary CITIZENFOUR, Artists Space presents an exhibition dedicated to the filmmaker’s 9/11 Trilogy,...More »
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“Welcome To My World” Exhibition
The exhibition Welcome To My World presents artworks and a book produced with students in Artists Space’s education program, Expanded Art Ideas, based at two New York City schools: PS140 Nathan Straus...More »
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“Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism” Exhibition
The term “Capitalist Realism” was coined some fifty years ago by German artists Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter when organizing an exhibition of their work in a vacated butcher’s...More »
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“Semiotext(e): The Return of Schizo-Culture” Exhibition
In 1978 the periodical Semiotext(e) published an issue under the title “Schizo-Culture.” The journal’s pages fused the radical writing of key figures of post-1968 French philosophy with the chaotic creativity...More »
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“The Issues of Our Time (3): Less Time, More Issues” Exhibition
This third edition of the project The Issues of Our Time follows two previous iterations at castillo/corrales, a co-operatively run non-profit art space in Paris. In the context of Artists Space Books...More »
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Sam Pulitzer “A Colony for Them”
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“Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-11-24 - 2014-02-23
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault is an exhibition of works selected and extended from the collection of Julie Ault. As a founding member of the artists’ collaborative Group Material...More »
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Richard Hollis Exhibition
British graphic designer Richard Hollis (born London, 1934) is a seminal figure in postwar design and communication. Working principally as a general graphic and book designer, yet also authoring influential...More »
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Aaron Flint Jamison Exhibition
Artists Space presents the first US solo exhibition by Aaron Flint Jamison. Aaron Flint Jamison (born 1979, Montana) has made recent solo exhibitions at Cubitt, London (2013); Centre d’édition contemporaine,...More »
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“Pride Goes Before a Fall Beware of a Holy Whore” an exhibition in two acts
Then there’s the story of Wee Willy, the gangster. Goofy wants to be a children’s nurse so he borrows some clothes from his Aunt Anna, a red-and-white checked calico dress and a big hat. And he tries...More »
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“Documenting Cadere: 1972 - 1978” Exhibition
I think the American attitude is all about power. “We have dollars, we have atomic bombs, we have the power, so shut your mouth, we are right.” I am not in an economically powerful situation. I am not...More »
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Zilia Sánchez Exhibition
Artists Space presents the first US survey exhibition by Puerto Rico based artist Zilia Sánchez, spanning a period from the early 1950s to the present day. Born in Cuba in 1928, studying at the Escuela...More »
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"Frozen Lakes" Exhibition
In his essay accompanying the 1977 exhibition Pictures at Artists Space, and in a subsequent text published by October in 1979, the art historian Douglas Crimp introduced the work of a generation of artists,...More »
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"Looking Back / The 7th White Columns Annual" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Other - Video installation
- 2013-01-10 - 2013-02-23
Looking Back is the seventh installment of the White Columns Annual. The exhibition is now an annual fixture on White Columns’ calendar. Each year, an individual or a collaborative team (e.g. an artist,...More »
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Bernadette Corporation "2000 Wasted Years"
2000 Wasted Years is the first retrospective by Bernadette Corporation. The exhibition recasts the works authored by the group since their inception in the early ‘90s. The origins of Bernadette Corporation...More »
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"Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo's Mexicali Rose" Exhibition
Artists Space presents a survey of work from Mexicali Rose, a community media center and gallery in the Mexican border city Mexicali. A nexus for cultural and personal exchange between artists, journalists,...More »
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DUOX "DUOX4Larkin"
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"Identity" Exhibition
The danger is that it’s just talk. Then again, the danger is that it’s not. I believe you can speak things into existence. - Jay-Z, Decoded, 2010 “Identity” is an exhibition that charts the emergence...More »
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Christopher D'Arcangelo "Anarchism Without Adjectives"
When I state that I am an anarchist, I must also state that I am not an anarchist, to be in keeping with the (....) idea of anarchism. Long live anarchism. - Christopher D’Arcangelo Between 1975...More »
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Hilary Lloyd Exhibition
Artists Space presents the first solo exhibition in the United States by British artist Hilary Lloyd. The exhibition will feature new work developed by Lloyd in direct relation to the architecture of Artists...More »
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Mark Morrisroe "From This Moment On"
"Marl Morrisroe: From This Moment On" will be the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of works by photographer and filmmaker Mark Morrisroe (1959 - 1989), providing an insight into the...More »
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Sean Snyder Exhibition
Artists Space presents the first institutional exhibition by US artist Sean Snyder (*1972 Virginia Beach living in Berlin, Kiev and Tokyo), encompassing the breadth of his practice over the past decade. During...More »
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Danh Vo "Autoerotic Asphyxiation"
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Charlotte Posenenske Exhibition
As part of Posenenske’s first institutional one person exhibition in the US, every second weekend a different New York based artist will be invited to change the structure of Charlotte Posenenske’s Square...More »
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Duncan Campbell "Make It New John"
Make It New John (2009) tells the story of the legendary DeLorean car, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast-based car plant who built it. Campbell's film deftly contrasts the DeLorean...More »
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"Rip It Up and Start Again" Exhibition
Rip It Up and Start Again was conceived by Stefan Kalmár as a dual exhibition—his last for Kunstverein München (Rip It Up) and as one of his incoming exhibitions (Start Again) for Artists Space, which...More »
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"Summer Knowledge" Video Program
Summer Knowledge is a series of one-person screenings presenting a multi -generational select ion of artists working in the moving image. In keeping with the project of Beard and Halter’s Brooklyn venue...More »
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz "Enough Tiranny Recalled 1972-2009"
During the 1960s, Marc Camille Chaimowicz (born in postwar Paris) was one of the first artists in the UK to merge the realms of performance and installation art. In the early 1970s, Chaimowicz commented...More »
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"The columns held us up" Exhibition
"The columns held us up" is a collaboration with Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, comprised of an informal exhibition and series of events curated by Vasif Kortun and November Paynter....More »
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Georgia Sagri "Vitamin Kids for Trio A"
Artists Space presents Vitamin Kids for Trio A, a one-night event with Georgia Sagri. Sagri, joined by an ensemble of high school hip-hop dancers (Ronald Coleman, Leny Felix, Robert Heyward, Jomal...More »
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Saul Becker, Ilana Halperin and Francesco Simeti Exhibitions
Saul Becker: Nature Preserves Saul Becker has spent the last two years collecting weeds near his home in industrial Brooklyn. From unlikely sites – gas stations, polluted Newtown Creek, corner vacant...More »
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Martha Colburn "Triumph of the Wild"
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Davide Balliano "The Heart of Your Mother for My Dogs"
Artists Space announces a new durational performance by Davide Balliano opening on Tuesday, March 17th with a reception from 6-8pm. The performance will remain on view from 12-6pm daily through Saturday,...More »
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"The Shape & The Blade" Artist Talk
The panel will include Marina Abramovic and Joan Jonas with Balliano acting as moderator. The conversation will address the borders between life, action, performance, and psychosis. No registration is...More »
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"SoHo Night" Program
In 2008, Michael Portnoy and Vita Zaman embarked on a one year research performance into the libidinal economy of the art world. Anticipating the convulsions of the art market, they chose to embrace and...More »
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"Paper" Exhibition
What does the line between reality and fiction look like? Can an exhibition be a life-sized paper model of itself? Whose name didn’t make the press release? And if it sounds good on paper, where is the...More »
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"Matters of Sensation" Exhibition
"Matters of Sensation" is a group exhibition of projects by fourteen architecture studios in the United States, all from a new generation of practitioners. Whereas architects’ use of computers first affected...More »
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"When Time Becomes Form" Performance Series
Amanda Coogan' "Yellow" is a durational performance curated by Marina Abramovic. This "Tableau Vivant" features the artist dressed in a large yellow dress, continuously washing her skirt in a bucket...More »
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"Differences in Attitudes about Performance from the 1970s to Today" Panel Discussion
Panel discussion as part of "When Time Becomes Form" exhibition. More »
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"Salad Days III" Video Screening
This summer, Artists Space continues what has become a biennial tradition with the third installment of Salad Days. Initiated in 2004, this eclectic group exhibition presents ten New York-based artists,...More »
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"Salad Days III" Performance Program
This summer, Artists Space continues what has become a biennial tradition with the third installment of Salad Days. Initiated in 2004, this eclectic group exhibition presents ten New York-based artists,...More »
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"Salad Days III" Exhibition
This summer, Artists Space continues what has become a biennial tradition with the third installment of Salad Days. Initiated in 2004, this eclectic group exhibition presents ten New York-based artists,...More »
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Mathieu Lehanneur and Anthony van den Bossche "Local River"
The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define themselves as ‘a group of culinary adventurers who eat foods produced in a radius of 100 miles around their city’. By doing so they aim to reduce...More »
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Christa Blatchford "See Around"
Brooklyn-based artist Christa Blatchford explores the perceptual and physical conditions of seeing, translating location through personal and sensory reference. By focusing on her subject with an extended...More »
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"When Time Becomes Form: Ana Prvacki and Daniel Mueller Friedrichsen" Panel Discussion
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"When Time Becomes Form" Performance
Artists Space presents the fourth installment of the durational performance series When Time Becomes Form curated by Marina Abramovic, featuring two separate performances occurring simultaneously within...More »
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"The New Normal" Exhibition
The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private...More »