Bortolami - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Bortolami. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Cecily Brown & Jutta Koether “Good Luck Spot”
Bortolami presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Cecily Brown and Jutta Koether. The exhibition acts as both a meeting place and an opportunity for exchange between two artists who intrepidly...More »
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Duane Linklater “dressing”
Bortolami Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Duane Linklater, opening November 10th in the Upstairs. The exhibition centers on a new installation of five large scale paintings, while including...More »
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Rebecca Morris “#31”
“If there is one takeaway from the past twenty-one years of Morris’s paintings […] it is that the frame and the surface can hardly contain the marks and strategies devised by the artist and her skillful...More »
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Eric Wesley “Swizzle Twiddle Fiddle Sticks”
The Upstairs at 39 WalkerMore »
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Joe Ray “Inside Out”
As an artist working across sculpture, painting, photography, and performance, Joe Ray resists easy categorization. Ray, like many artists in Southern California, began producing cast resin sculptures...More »
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Tom Burr Exhibition
Bortolami presents Tom Burr, the artist’s seventh exhibition at the gallery. The eponymous exhibition features new work and is accompanied by an exhibition text by Blake Oetting. Once more Burr has assumed...More »
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“Some Landscapes” Exhibition
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“Junkyard of Dreams” Exhibition
Bortolami Gallery presents its first exhibition of 2023 at 39 Walker Street, featuring five artists: Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Duane Linklater, Virginia Overton, Kathleen Ryan, and Christopher Williams. The...More »
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Cynthia Talmadge “Goodbye To All This: Alan Smithee Off Broadway”
“We find the narcissist in a reflective mood.” — stage directions penciled into a draft of act III, scene 1 of Alan Smithee’s Goodbye to All This Bortolami presents Goodbye to All This: Alan Smithee...More »
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Fernanda Laguna “Welcome to my show in New York!!!!!!”
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Barbara Kasten “Shift”
Bortolami presents SHIFT, Barbara Kasten’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Featuring five bodies of work, the show connects her little-known sculptures from the 1970s to her most recent output. Each...More »
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Mary Obering “Works from 1972 to 2003”
Surveying Mary Obering’s prolific output from 1972 to 2003, this exhibition focuses on the artist’s singular approach to Minimalism and geometric abstraction. The exhibition stretches across both floors...More »
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Marina Rheingantz “Suor”
Bortolami Gallery presents Suor, our second solo exhibition with the São Paolo-based artist Marina Rheingantz. Rheingantz paints in a liminal space between abstraction and representation, each canvas a...More »
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Burle Marx and Santídio Pereira Exhibition
Bortolami presents a two-person exhibition with works by Roberto Burle Marx and Santídio Pereira, organized by Ricardo Kugelmas, founder of auroras, São Paulo, in The Upstairs. Though the two Brazilian...More »
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Renée Green “Excerpts A.1”
Bortolami Gallery presents Renée Green’s second exhibition with the gallery, bringing together a series of paintings and gouaches produced between 1985 and 1987. Presented for the first time, these richly...More »
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Ivan Morley “Hyperion”
Bortolami Gallery presents Hyperion, Ivan Morley’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Morley’s distinct, vivid compositions are sewn in embroidery thread with watercolor on canvas or painted on glass...More »
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Deborah Remington “Five Decades”
Bortolami Gallery presents a solo show by Deborah Remington (b.1930, d. 2010) featuring paintings and drawings from each of five decades of her practice. It is the most comprehensive exhibition to date...More »
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“Transmutations” Exhibition
Bortolami Gallery presents Transmutations, a group show focused on works which serve as conduits for material transformation and multivalent possibility. The show is titled after a series by Jules Gimbrone,...More »
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“Springweather and people” Exhibition
Bortolami Gallery presents Springweather and people, a group exhibition including ten artists whose work highlight different approaches in assemblage. Cross generational in approach, and underscoring...More »
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Constanza Schaffner, Koichi Sato and Nicolás Guagnini Exhibition
Constanza Schaffner (b. 1989 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in New York. She studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and moved to New York City in 2013 to pursue a PHD in the...More »
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Patrick Angus Exhibition
Bortolami Gallery presents an exhibition of historical works by Patrick Angus (1953-1992), an artist known for his strikingly intimate portraits of men and honest depictions of the gay experience in 1980s...More »
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Tom Burr “Hélio-centricities (New York)”
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Anna Ostoya “Motions”
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Renée Green “Excerpts”
Bortolami Gallery presents its first exhibition with Renée Green. Since the late 1980s, Green has explored the concept of color in myriad ways. Spanning the artist’s three decades of working with color’s...More »
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Rebecca Morris Exhibition
Bortolami presents Rebecca Morris’ first exhibition with the gallery, a diverse group of new paintings made within the past year. Based in Los Angeles, Morris has spent the past two decades of her distinguished...More »
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Caitlin Keogh “Knots Knot Knots”
“…it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties.” -Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble Bortolami presents Knots Knot...More »
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Robert Bordo “crackup (crackdown)”
Bortolami presents crackup (crackdown), an exhibition of new paintings by Robert Bordo and his first solo show at the gallery. Each of Bordo’s new crackup paintings depict a rupture, but the subject...More »
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“sotto voce” Exhibition
Organized by Robert Bordo Bortolami Viewing Room Bortolami presents sotto voce, a group exhibition organized by Robert Bordo in the viewing room, concurrent with his first solo show of new work at...More »
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Mary Obering “Window Series, 1973”
Bortolami presents Mary Obering’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Window Series, 1973. Obering’s five monumental paintings that comprise this exhibition are on display for the first time since...More »
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Juan Antonio Olivares “Naufragios”
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Nicolás Guagnini “Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina”
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Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François “The Song of the Araponga”
Bortolami presents a two-person exhibition with Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François. Former partners and collaborators, their new and recent works create a poetic exchange between the two artists....More »
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Barbara Kasten “CONSTRUCTS 1981 - 1982”
Bortolami presents Barbara Kasten’s Polaroids from the early 1980s. Kasten has been photographing objects for forty years, capturing them in a way that simultaneously redefines the space they occupy...More »
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Katinka Bock “Gibellina drive”
Condo New York 2019 Bortolami hosts Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris More »
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Virginia Overton “Água Viva”
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Lesley Vance Exhibition
Bortolami presents Lesley Vance’s first exhibition with the gallery, a series of nine new paintings. In Vance’s recent work, bands of monochrome paint overlap with long, calligraphic streaks of indeterminate...More »
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Aki Sasamoto “Past in a future tense”
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Lena Henke “Germanic Artifacts”
Bortolami presents Germanic Artifacts, Lena Henke’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In the belly of the gallery there is an over-sized Germanic boar with stout legs. The animal has been meticulously...More »
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Brook Hsu “pond-love”
i wear a pond, a jacket, moss jacket wrap me in those places between the buildings i’m fingering the crack in the pavement - Brook Hsu, 2019 Bortolami presents pond-love, a solo presentation of new...More »
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Morgan Fisher “6 x 6 x 6 x 2”
6 x 6 x 6 x 2 is a painting in multiple parts on two facing walls. The origin of the work was my visual- izing two panels separated by a space with the edges on either side of the space jagged, like saw...More »
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Anna Ostoya Exhibition
Bortolami presents an exhibition of new and recent works by Anna Ostoya. A book launch will accompany the exhibition, celebrating the release of The Polish Rider; a collaboration of the artist with poet...More »
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Daniel Buren “Tondi, situated works”
Bortolami presents Daniel Buren’s Tondi, a series of situated works composed of steel, multi-colored acrylic, mirror, and white 8.7 cm stripes. The Tondi were initially exhibited at Le Centquatre-Paris...More »
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“CONDO New York 2018” Exhibition
Bortolami will host Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, for Condo New York 2018. Corbett vs. Dempsey will be presenting new works by Rebecca Morris, and a historical work by Edward Flood. In her “Manifesto...More »
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Ben Schumacher “The China Chalet Group”
The China Chalet Group is Ben Schumacher’s third solo exhibition with Bortolami. For the exhibition, Schumacher has replicated the interior of China Chalet, a Chinese banquet hall turned after-hours...More »
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Marina Rheingantz “Varzea”
Bortolami present Varzea, the first solo exhibition in New York of São Paulo- based artist Marina Rheingantz. Rheingantz is a landscape painter but picks apart and unravels topology into its loosest...More »
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Al Freeman “More Comparisons”
In collaboration with 56 HENRY, Bortolami presents More Comparisons, a solo exhibition by Al Freeman and follow-up to her 2017 book, Comparisons. Comprising a set of fifty-one unique collages. Each...More »
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Richard Aldrich “Enter the Mirror”
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Claudio Parmiggiani Exhibition
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“Galocher” Exhibition
Verb: galocher 1. (France, colloquial) to French kiss, make out (kiss (a person) while inserting one’s tongue into his or her mouth). 1 Robert Bordo (b. 1949 in Montreal, Canada. Lives and works in...More »
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Barbara Kasten “Parti Pris”
Bortolami presents PARTI PRIS, Barbara Kasten’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Endlessly experimental and now in her eighth decade, Kasten will show three recent bodies of work: an extension...More »
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Tom Burr and Andrea Zittel “concrete realities”
Bortolami presents concrete realities, a two-person exhibition by Tom Burr and Andrea Zittel. Since the 1990s, Burr and Zittel have trained their attention on the built environment, addressing questions...More »
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Daniel Buren “To Align: works in situ 2017”
Bortolami is pleased to present Daniel Buren’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, and the first in its new Tribeca location. For this show, Buren will completely transform the space, using both colored...More »
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“University of Disasters” Exhibition
Curated by Matthew Grumbach “There is no end. Some may take this assertion as a source of endless hope; others may take it as a source of endless despair. Both would be on the wrong path.” – Franco...More »
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Nicolás Guagnini “Bibelots”
Bortolami presents Bibelots, Nicolás Guagnini’s second exhibition at the gallery. For this show of paintings, the artist has developed a new body of work continuing his investigation into the material,...More »
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Ivan Morley Exhibition
Bortolami presents Ivan Morley’s second exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will present a group of new works alongside a selection of earlier paintings, providing a holistic context for the Los...More »
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Michel François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis, Virginia Overton and Morgan Fisher Exhibition
Bortolami presents a presentation of works from Michel François’ Instant Gratification series, ceramic wall sculptures by Liz Larner, drawings by Tony Lewis, and a Virginia Overton sculpture. In a separate...More »
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Caitlin Keogh “Loose Ankles”
Bortolami presents Loose Ankles, Caitlin Keogh’s first exhibition at the gallery. In her new paintings and drawings she depicts, dissects, and disseminates the performative construction of self. Keogh...More »
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“I Beam U Channel” Exhibition
Groundbreaking ceremonies are a lot like burials. Contractors, developers, and mourners alike gather at the edge of a shallow depression in the ground and ambivalently toss soil. What this cyclical filiation...More »
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Robert Bordo and Sam Anderson with Michel Auder Exhibition
Bortolami presents an exhibition by Robert Bordo and Sam Anderson with Michel Auder. The exhibition explores the contingencies that transpire when three artists present discrete works of painting, sculpture,...More »
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Anna Ostoya “Slaying”
Art making is like the act of slaying – an archaic activity, quite brutal when taken seriously. Facing reality can feel as brutal as a beheading. Bortolami presents Slaying, Anna Ostoya’s third exhibition...More »
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Ann Veronica Janssens Exhibition
Bortolami presents a solo exhibition of Ann Veronica Janssens, coinciding with her show at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. Using light as her primary material, Janssens manipulates negative...More »
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Tom Burr “Circa”
Bortolami Gallery presents Circa, an exhibition of Tom Burr presenting both works from the 1990s and new works. Tom Burr’s work interrogates intimacy and what lies at the intersection of public and...More »
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Ivan Morley Exhibition
Bortolami presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Ivan Morley. Morley has created and recreated the same paintings for over a decade. By repeating the themes and images, he builds works of...More »
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Will Benedict “A Bone in the Cheese”
Bortolami presents A Bone in the Cheese, our first solo exhibition with Will Benedict. The exhibition centers around a new video by Benedict entitled The Bed That Eats; a portrait of an unmade bed singing...More »
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Jutta Koether “Fortune”
Bortolami presents Fortune, Jutta Koether’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, coinciding with a reprint of the artist’s 1987 novella f. This exhibition presents a new series of paintings that both...More »
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Barbara Kasten “SET MOTION”
Bortolami presents SET MOTION, its first solo exhibition with Barbara Kasten. A restlessly inventive and experimental artist, Kasten began making art in the 1970s, engaging with Bauhaus pedagogy, Constructivism,...More »
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“The Radiants” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-02-28 - 2015-03-28
Curated by UNITED BROTHERS and Jacob King. Bortolami and Green Tea Gallery present The Radiants, an exhibition organized by UNITED BROTHERS and Jacob King. Coinciding with the fourth anniversary of...More »
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Jason Galbut “Twist”
Presented by Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club Bortolami presents the exhibition Twist, comprising three recent paintings by Jason Galbut. Galbut’s works are structured around the coexistence of various...More »
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Ben Schumacher Exhibition
Bortolami presents the second solo exhibition with Ben Schumacher. Schumacher will transform the gallery into a staging ground for a submission to the New York City Farm Tower architectural competition,...More »
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Nicolas Guagnini Exhibition
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Claudio Parmiggiani Exhibition
Bortolami announces a solo exhibition with the eminent and iconoclastic Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani. His first exhibition in the United States since 1986, this show brings together new and historical...More »
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Eric Wesley “Daily Progress Status Reports”
An artist who often thematizes various rubrics of success and failure, Eric Wesley’s newest works are large trompe-l’œil paintings that depict “Daily Progress Status Reports.” Each DPS is a blank form...More »
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Scott King “Totem Motif”
Bortolami presents Totem Motif, an exhibition of recent work by Scott King which originated this past May at Between Bridges, Berlin, and will be recreated at Bortolami. The first variant of the exhibition...More »
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“Chatbots, Tongues, Denial, & Various Other Abstractions” Exhibition
Vision has always been unreliable. Whether true or false, could a photograph or a painting ever show us more than the outward appearance of things? But today visual form seems more vexed than ever....More »
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Thilo Heinzmann Exhibition
Bortolami presents an exhibition of new work by Thilo Heinzmann, the artist’s third solo show at the gallery. Heinzmann’s work displays an impressive variety of formal and material means, while also forcefully...More »
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“First Lines, Like First Dates, or the First Bite of Dessert, Can Be Deceptive” Exhibition
Bortolami presents a three-person exhibition entitled First lines, like first dates, or the first bite of dessert, can be deceptive, organized by Christine Messineo. The title of this exhibition is taken...More »
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Michel François Exhibition
Bortolami presents the fifth solo exhibition at the gallery of Michel François. Employing a wide range of materials—plaster, molten bronze, aluminum, cast glass, neon light, plants, photography, video...More »
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“A Chromatic Loss” Exhibition
The exhibition, titled A Chromatic Loss, examines the poetics and politics of the body, technology and the shape of time in the binaries of black and white. The exhibition’s restrictive palette allows...More »
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Richard Aldrich “Forget Your Dreams, All You Need Is Love”
The structure for Aldrich’s upcoming show is that of two distinct parts. The first, opening November 8th, will be on view for a week and a half, after which a second show will open on November 19th and...More »
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Richard Aldrich “A Day in the Life”
The structure for Aldrich’s upcoming show is that of two distinct parts. The first, opening November 8th, will be on view for a week and a half, after which a second show will open on November 19th and...More »
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Tom Burr “Dressage: Dangling Between Discipline And Debauchery”
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Morgan Fisher “Interior Color Beauty”
Bortolami Gallery presents “Interior Color Beauty,” an exhibition of new paintings by Morgan Fisher and his second one-person exhibition at the gallery. The 25 paintings are enlarged facsimiles of paint...More »
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Piotr Janas “Minotaurs”
Bortolami Gallery presents Minotaurs, an exhibition of new works by Warsaw-based artist Piotr Janas. Janas’ large-scale paintings straddle the line between the beautiful and the grotesque. The latest...More »
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Anna Ostoya and Barbara Leoniak “Disclosures”
Bortolami presents the exhibition Disclosures, featuring new works by Anna Ostoya and Barbara Leoniak. As the centerpieces of her second show at the gallery, Ostoya presents four paintings and a text piece....More »
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"Vertical Club" Exhibition
Bortolami Gallery presents the exhibition VERTICAL CLUB, curated by artist Will Benedict. The exhibition will include works by Thomas Bayrle, Wolfgang Breuer, Tom Burr, Clegg&Guttman, Tom Humphreys,...More »
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Ben Schumacher "DS + R and the bar at the Orangerie"
Bortolami presents Ben Schumacher’s first solo show at the gallery. Titled D S + R and the bar at the Orangerie, the show will include a collaboration and exchange with New York based architecture firm...More »
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Daniel Buren "ELECTRICITY PAPER VINYL... Works in Situ & Situated Works from 1968 TO 2012"
Bortolami Gallery presents its third solo exhibition by Daniel Buren. Bortolami Gallery will feature Plexiglas and fabric situated works and a room of new fiber optics. Daniel Buren realized these situated...More »
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"now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern" Exhibition
Bortolami Gallery announces now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern, a group exhibition curated by artist Tom Burr. This exhibition...More »
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Barbara Kasten & Justin Beal "Constructs, Abrasions, Melons and Cucumbers"
Bortolami Gallery presents Constructs, Abrasions, Melons and Cucumbers, an exhibition of works by Barbara Kasten and Justin Beal. The exhibition aims to underline the artists’ contrasting ways of...More »
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Jutta Koether "The Fifth Season"
Bortolami Gallery presents Jutta Koether's first exhibition with the gallery. The Fifth Season will include seven large-scale paintings and one small-scale painting. Integral to the exhibition is a second...More »
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Tom Burr "Deep wood drive"
Bortolami Gallery presents Tom Burr's second exhibition with the gallery, deep wood drive. In deep wood drive Burr continues his visual exploration of the physical and psychological dimension of objects,...More »
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Eric Wesley "2 new works"
Bortolami gallery presents Eric Wesley's third solo show at the gallery. The first work, "The Improbability of Intentionally Creating Shock", is comprised of four individually presented elements constituting...More »
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Jonathan Meese "Hot Earl Green Sausage Tea Barbie (First Flash)"
Bortolami presents Jonathan Meese's third exhibition at the gallery, conceived as a continuation of his current Total Self-Portrait show at GEM (Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in The Hague, Netherlands. The...More »
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Richard Aldrich "Once I was..."
Bortolami presents Richard Aldrich's second solo show at the gallery. 1. In the studio they were made individually, with their own logic and circumstances, but here as they are presented they become...More »
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Thilo Heinzmann "Would You Take The Ball From A Little Baby"
Bortolami Gallery presents the second solo show by Thilo Heinzmann at the gallery. A number of works on display situate pigment powder clearly in the field of perception. Not to render the artist's 'material'...More »
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Aaron Young "Built Tough"
Bortolami presents the second solo show at the gallery of new works by Aaron Young. Entitled BUILT TOUGH, the exhibition includes new sculptures, paintings and silk screens. Initially working from a combination...More »
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Morgan Fisher Exhibition
Bortolami announces an exhibition of Morgan Fisher's new works, photographs and works on paper. The photographs in the show present boxes of still film from the 1950s. They are doubly obsolete: once...More »
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"Addicted to High and Lows" Exhibition
A writer (theorist) or a curator is a kind of artist. They know (unconsciously) what they are looking for. They are drawn to things, and need only to take what they have seen and contextualize it in...More »
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Anna Ostoya "Exposures"
Bortolami Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of works by the Polish artist Anna Ostoya. The show will feature a series of new collages on canvas entitled Exposures that were all made during...More »
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Tom Burr "Black Lab"
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Patrick Hill "Clumsy Hill"
Working primarily in sculpture, Hill has implemented large wood beams as structural footing for cement, glass, metal, marble, fabric, and dye. For the first time, Hill introduces a figurative aspect into...More »
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Avner Ben-Gal "Smackville"
Smackville draws from abstract and visual representations of the effects of opiate drugs: withdrawal, craving and usage. The show seeks to describe the moment of the chemical reaction when the toxic substance...More »
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"Re-Dressing" Exhibition
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Jack Pierson "Go there now and take this with you"
Bortolami presents "Go there now and take this with you," a show of Jack Pierson's folded photographs. While Pierson is best known for his wall sculptures, he has been working as a photographer since...More »
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Eric Wesley "D'Carts Blanche and New Paintings"
Bortolami Gallery presents its second solo show of Eric Wesley, D'Carts Blanche and New Paintings. Wesley's continued concern for systems and methodology, executed in the spirit of hobby and pun, are...More »
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Michel François Exhibition
Bortolami presents the third solo show by Michel François. For this installation François exhibits the third in a series of works called Pavilion Interface. The pavilion is a large cubic glass...More »
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Peter Peri Exhibition
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Daniel Buren "To Cut Out: Situated Works 1969-2009"
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Tom Burr "Sentence"
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Shane Campbell Exhibition
Taking cues from various points in the history of representational art, Campbell focuses intensively on the formal elements of painting. Through the repeated use of motifs or images and by...More »
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Gary Webb "Diamond Standard"
Over the past decade, Webb has created a visual vocabulary that rearticulates cues from the history of sculpture in a voice that is distinctly suggestive, humorous and surprising. Brave choices in palette...More »
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Piero Golia Exhibition
Bortolami Dayan presents a new installation by Piero Golia. What at first appears to be a chaotic series of events is actually a perfectly orchestrated time machine. By exploring various methods of counting...More »
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Richard Aldrich Exhibition
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Aaron Young "Punchline"
"Punchline" is an exhibition of new work by Aaron Young, an installation in which he invites the viewer into a participatory space constructed within the gallery. Creating a tension by the unexplained...More »
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Thomas Helbig "Remote Pulse"
[Image: Thomas Helbig "Ferner Puls" (2008) Mixed media 27.56 x 23.62 in.]More »
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"Project Room: Justin Beal" Exhibition
New works in aluminum, glass, plaster and cotton by Justin Beal take as a point of departure Le Corbusier’s first impressions of New York originally recounted in "When the Cathedrals were White: A Journey...More »
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Thilo Heinzmann Exhibition
[Image: Thilo Heinzmann "o.T. (tin)" (2007) Tin on aluminum 44.09 x 40.55 in.]More »
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Scott King "The Trial Continues"
Scott King's work is blunt, in a subtle way. He takes the visual economy of postmodernist consumerism to a tipping point of aggressive clarity, where it starts cannibalizing itself as a paradoxical form...More »
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Ryan Foerster "Presentation of photographs"
Foerster displays recent photographs of Julie. More »
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Jonathan Meese "Dictatorbaby Mary Poppin's Cats, Dogs and Eggpies. (The Revolutionbaby de Large is Back)"
Bortolami Gallery presents an exhibition of new drawings, paintings and sculptures by German artist Jonathan Meese. In the four years since his last solo New York Show, Meese has discovered that his entire...More »
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Hope Atherton Exhibition
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Michel François Exhibiton
Bortolami presents the second solo show by Michel François at the gallery. For this exhibition, François proposes a formal sculpture show. Set up like a series of architectonic elements that appear to...More »