Greene Naftali Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Greene Naftali Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Helen Marten “Evidence of Theatre”
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Ull Hohn “No Great Mysteries”
Greene Naftali | 8th Floor This solo exhibition of works by the late German artist ULL HOHN is his first in the U.S. in over ten years. No Great Mysteries presents a selection of paintings made between...More »
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Tom Burr, John Knight, Brandon Ndife and Diamond Stingily Exhibition
Ground Fl This cross-generational group of artists use conceptual strategies to quietly subversive ends, making found materials and imagery speak to broader forces in American life. Departing from...More »
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Bernadette Corporation Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents an exhibition of new work by BERNADETTE CORPORATION. Known for traversing film, literature, fashion, and art, in a mode precluding stable or individualized identity, the collective...More »
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Gedi Sibony “I Was Like Wait”
The objects circulate in long, drawn-out orbits over short distances. I set up a large amount of situations that don’t amount to anything. So I leave these like the opposite of traps, trying to create...More »
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Josef Strau “Ulysses”
Greene Naftali presents an exhibition of new work by Josef Strau, his sixth solo presentation with the gallery. Josef Strau lives and works in Berlin and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstverein...More »
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Justin Caguiat “Carnival”
Ground Floor Greene Naftali presents its first solo exhibition by Justin Caguiat (b. 1989, Tokyo, lives and works between New York and Oakland, California). Carnival shares its title with one of Caguiat’s...More »
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“Turn Of The Screw” Exhibition
8th Floor In conjunction with Making Myths, von Hellermann has curated a focused exhibition of new paintings by artist friends Rita Ackermann, Joe Bradley, and Josh Smith. A new large-scale painting...More »
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Sophie von Hellermann
8th Floor Greene Naftali presents its sixth solo exhibition with Sophie von Hellermann, featuring a series of works on paper drawn from literary themes and Greek mythology. This new suite of watercolors...More »
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Jonathan Lasker “Born Yesterday: Drawing in Painting, 1987-2020”
Ground Floor Greene Naftali presents Jonathan Lasker’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. Accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalog, this focused survey traces the artist’s innovative use of line...More »
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“No Place Like Home” Exhibition
8th Floor No Place Like Home brings together seminal works made by Greene Naftali artists around the time of the gallery’s founding in the 1990s. As pandemic-era restrictions continue to lift, New...More »
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Aria Dean “Show Your Work Little Temple”
8th Floor In her upcoming solo exhibition, her first with Greene Naftali, Aria Dean extends her “fixation on the subject and its borders” into new formal territory. Show Your Work Little Temple will...More »
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Monika Baer “loose change”
Since her student days at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the late 1980s, when painting’s possibilities seemed all but foreclosed, Monika Baer has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to the medium’s renewal,...More »
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Jana Euler “The Traveling Legends of the Morecorns”
8th Floor Jana Euler (b. 1982 in Friedberg, Germany) lives and works in Frankfurt and Brussels. Recent solo exhibitions include Artists Space, New York (2020); Galerie Neu, Berlin (2019); dépendance,...More »
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Cory Arcangel “Century 21”
Cory Arcangel hacks into the systems and software that define our networked lives, introducing glitches and misfires that reveal the perils of technological dependence. His debut solo exhibition at Greene...More »
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“From Disco to Disco” Exhibition
8th Floor Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual—it is a celebration. — Grace Jones The past year has upended day-to-day existence and put the rhythms and...More »
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Michael Fullerton “Victoria’s Secret Diary”
8th Floor Greene Naftali presents Victoria’s Secret Diary, the gallery’s third solo exhibition with Scottish artist Michael Fullerton. Fullerton uses the genre of portraiture to reveal painting’s complicity...More »
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Giangiacomo Rossetti “Le Fantasie”
8th Floor At once intimate and universal, idyllic and doom-riddled, Giangiacomo Rossetti’s painting dances between empiricism and fantasy. In careful brushstrokes, Rossetti introduces our present moment’s...More »
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Paul Chan “Drawings for Word Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein”
Ground Floor In 1920, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) abandoned his life and career at the University of Cambridge to teach poor children in rural Austria. During this period, he published...More »
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Gedi Sibony “The Terrace Theater”
8TH FLOOR Since the early 2000s, Gedi Sibony has used the discarded byproducts of industrial production as the basis for exploring the interplay between viewer, objects, and space. For his sixth show...More »
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Walter Price “Pearl Lines”
Ground Floor Greene Naftali presents Pearl Lines, Walter Price’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view in the ground floor gallery space and includes recent paintings...More »
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“Overwrite” Exhibition
Greene Naftali | Ground Floor In our age of automation and digitization, a seemingly infinite number of objects and data points inform daily life. Meanwhile, human capacity for interpretation, retention,...More »
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Rachel Harrison “Drawings”
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Mathieu Malouf “The Fairy Godmother”
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Aria Dean, Helen Marten, Kelley Walker, Olga Balema and Raque Ford Exhibition
8th Floor This exhibition brings together a group of artists who attempt to locate sculpture within social space, questioning the medium’s overall resilience and receptivity. Weaving together diffuse...More »
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Peter Halley “Heterotopia II”
Ground Floor Through a range of media – painting, architectural installation, digital prints, and critical writing – Peter Halley’s work has illuminated the structures of social space and communication...More »
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Konrad Lueg Exhibition
8th Floor Focusing on the period between 1966-68, the exhibition includes paintings, prints, and sculpture by the artist Konrad Lueg (1939-1996), later known as gallery owner Konrad Fischer. Lueg’s...More »
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Paul Chan “The Bather’s Dilemma”
The Bather’s Dilemma presents the “Bathers,” a series of pneumatic sculptural and moving-image works constructed of nylon fabric and powered by industrial fans, alongside painted “towel works,” and preparatory...More »
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William Leavitt “Sign Language”
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Alex Israel “As It Lays 2”
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Gang Zhao Exhibition
GROUND FLOOR Greene Naftali now represents contemporary Chinese painter Gang Zhao. The son of Chinese Manchu intellectuals, trained in Europe and the United States, Zhao’s stylistically diverse body...More »
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“Techniques of the Observer” Exhibition
Ground Floor Visual culture is currently undergoing a major historical rupture: for the first time, mechanical imagery no longer follows a humanist model, mimicking the neural and physiological design...More »
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Nicolas Ceccaldi “The Stroke of Midnight”
8th Floor The Stroke of Midnight is an exhibition where classical, baroque and gothic inspired elements converge around a sound installation in the center of the gallery. On a keyboard, color-coded...More »
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Trisha Baga “Mollusca & The Pelvic Floor”
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“Now and Forever, Part III” Exhibition
ground floor and 8th floor Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery present the exhibition Painting: Now and Forever, Part III. This spirited survey, installed across the galleries’ Chelsea...More »
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Dan Graham “A New Look at TV and a Funhouse”
Ground Floor Over the past fifty years, Dan Graham has continually reexamined the intersections of architecture and popular culture. Graham’s new installation, TV Producer as Conceptual Artist (2018),...More »
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Tony Cokes “On Non-Visibility”
Curated by Sohrab Mohebbi Greene Naftali, 8th Floor Since the early 1980s Tony Cokes has developed a precise visual and discursive style marked by videos that feature animated text, found images,...More »
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“Walking Point” Exhibition
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Richard Hawkins “Hotel Suicide”
8th Floor In the mid- and late-aughts, Los Angeles-based artist Richard Hawkins created a series of paintings that combined several themes of his oeuvre—the male physique, desire both sated and unfulfilled,...More »
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Mathieu Malouf “Toxic Masculinity Fallout Shelter”
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Jacqueline Humphries Exhibition
For over three decades, Jacqueline Humphries has reacted to predictions of painting’s obsolescence, employing both traditional and contemporary methods to position the medium’s historical binaries—such...More »
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“Thinking of readymades belong to everyone®” Exhibition
Organized in collaboration with Jan Mot, Brussels, and Claire Burrus, Paris More »
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Paul Chan “Rhi Anima”
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Katja Novitskova “Approximation (Storm Time)”
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Katharina Wulff “It was just this moment”
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Richard Hawkins “Norogachi: Ceramics After Artaud”
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Günther Förg “Works On Paper: 1976 - 2008”
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Mieko Meguro “Couch Potato With Dan”
Front Gallery, 8th Floor.More »
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“The Tale That All But Shapes Itself” Exhibition
Curated By Scott Cameron Weaver 8th FloorMore »
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Chung Sang-Hwa Exhibition
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William Leavitt “Telemetry”
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Daan van Golden Exhibition
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Haegue Yang “Quasi-Pagan Minimal”
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Tony Conrad “Undone”
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Helen Marten “Eucalyptus, Let Us In”
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Monika Baer “On Hold”
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John Knight Exhibition
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Mayo Thompson Exhibition
In the 8th floor gallery space. More »
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Michael Krebber Exhibition
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Trisha Baga “Orlando”
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Paul Sharits “Dream Displacement”
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Michael Smith “Excuse Me!?!…I’m looking for the Fountain of Youth”
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“Group Show”
When people in the art world meet in the street or at social gatherings they typically inquire after shows the other might have seen since their last encounter. It is mostly a routine exercise, like talking...More »
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Jacqueline Humphries Exhibition
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“Works on Paper” Exhibition
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Lutz Bacher “For the People of New York City”
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Günther Förg Exhibition
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Joachim Koester “Body Electric”
Known for his research-based projects that confound documentary with fiction, Koester investigates a broad range of subjects including psycho-geographical sites, occult phenomena, and the bodily movements...More »
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Allen Ruppersberg Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces its second solo exhibition of new and recent work by Los Angeles based artist Allen Ruppersberg. As a pioneer of West Coast conceptualism, Ruppersberg has mined the fields...More »
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Gedi Sibony Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces its fourth solo exhibition with Gedi Sibony, his first in its new ground-floor space. Continuing to recruit objects of disuse, Sibony presents a new body of work comprised mostly...More »
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Harun Farocki “Parallel”
For over 40 years, Farocki mined the fields of film and digital images, drawing out their impact on the history of cinema and on our social and political consciousness. His characteristic film essays have...More »
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Dan Graham “Design For Showing Rock Videos”
Greene Naftali presents a solo exhibition of new and historical work by Dan Graham. This is the gallery’s first show with the artist and the inaugural exhibition in its ground floor space, which was designed...More »
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Ida Ekblad Exhibition
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Candy Jernigan Exhibition
The exhibition at Greene Naftali focuses on the work Jernigan produced in the East Village during the late-1980s. After working as a set and costume designer in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Jernigan moved...More »
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Michael Fullerton Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents an exhibition by Scottish artist Michael Fullerton. This will be his second solo show at the gallery and his first solo presentation in New York since 2006. Meaning, Inc. expands...More »
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Sophie von Hellermann Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents its fourth solo exhibition of new work by Sophie von Hellermann. Novel Ways presents a new body of work in which the artist appropriates linguistic idioms and renders them literal....More »
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Konrad Lueg Exhbiition
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“Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream. The exhibition takes its title from Joan Didions 1966 essay about double-indemnity in the San Bernadino Valley, the last stop for all those...More »
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“Freak Out” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-06-27 - 2013-08-09
Greene Naftali Gallery presents Freak Out. This dynamic exhibition of 34 artists offers an expansive view of contemporary practices: from sculptures whose abject aesthetic challenges commodity, to sleek...More »
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Gedi Sibony Exhibition
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William Leavitt "Space Junk"
Greene Naftali presents Space Junk, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist William Leavitt. This will be the artists first solo show in New York since 1981, and follows a major retrospective...More »
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Gianni Colombo Exhibition
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Trisha Baga "The Biggest Circle"
Greene Naftali presents The Biggest Circle, an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Trisha Baga. This will be the artists first solo show at the gallery. This exhibition coincides with Bagas...More »
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Richard Hawkins Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Richard Hawkins. This will be the artist’s third show at the gallery and follows his participation in the Whitney Biennial 2012. The exhibition...More »
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Gelitin "The Fall Show"
Greene Naftali presents The Fall Show by Gelitin, the Austrian collectives second solo exhibition at the gallery following Blind Sculpture in 2010. Known for performances, large-scale public works,...More »
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"Josef Strau + Side Show" Exhibition
Josef Strau Exercises ab initio... In the period before the exhibition the artist withdrew from human or social conditions and situations. As if thrown from an airplane over the desert and experiencing...More »
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Rachel Harrison Exhibition
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Jacqueline Humphries Exhibition
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Haegue Yang Exhibition
Greene Naftali is pleased to present the gallerys first solo exhibition by Haegue Yang. The ambitious multimedia installation explores the dissolution of distinctions between territories - mystical, economic,...More »
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Guenther Foerg Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Guenther Foerg, marking the first gallery presentation of the artists work in New York in over a decade. This exhibition, comprised of twelve...More »
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Paul Sharits Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents a solo exhibition of works by Paul Sharits (1943-1993), the artists second at the gallery. Widely recognized as a structural filmmaker and contributor to the invention of the flicker...More »
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Michael Krebber "C-A-N-V-A-S, Uhutrust, Jerry Magoo and guardian.co.uk Painting"
Michael Krebber arrived at his temporary studio, housed in the same building as Greene Naftali Gallery, several weeks before the opening of the present exhibition, with the content of several blogs printed...More »
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Ida Ekblad Exhibition
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"Hasta Manana" Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents Hasta Manana, a group exhibition featuring works by Trisha Baga, Helen Marten, Ei Arakawa (with Das Institut, and with Silke Otto-Knapp respectively), Scott Lyall, and Ken Okiishi,...More »
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Amelie Von Wulffen Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents its third exhibition of new work by the German artist Amelie von Wulffen. In this new exhibition the artist has pushed her angst and Romanticism to an extreme while at the same...More »
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John Knight Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces an exhibition of new work by the Los Angeles-based artist John Knight, his first solo exhibition in New York following his legendary shows at Colin de Lands American Fine Arts,...More »
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"Entertainment" Exhibition
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Sophie Von Hellermann Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces the third solo exhibition of new work by Sophie von Hellermann. Known for her whimsical paintings on unprimed canvas, their lithe quality seemingly indebted to the thinness of...More »
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"Filmschoenheit" Exhibition
"As due to our profession all involved in the show are dealing with beauty and the core theme of the actual project is film, we chose the tentative title Filmschoenheit. The title must not to be pronounced...More »
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Gedi Sibony Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents a second solo exhibition by New York artist Gedi Sibony. In this exhibition, Sibony dramatically heightens the spatial engagement long implicit in his works finely-tuned staging....More »
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Katharina Wulff Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces an exhibition of new works by Berlin-born, Marrakech-based painter Katharina Wulff. This will be the artist's second solo show in New York. Wulff has been exhibiting in Europe...More »
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"The Pursuer" Exhibition
Greene Naftali Gallery presents a group exhibition, The Pursuer which includes painting, sculpture, video and work on paper spanning a generation from the 80s with Paul Sharits and Candy Jernigan to...More »
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Bjarne Melgaard Exhibition
YOU WANNA BE A WHITE MANS BLACK BITCH? TWO MINUTES LATER A REPLY COMES: YES; tote bags; duct tape; flat-screen TV; white, pink, and black marble sculptures; Men Without Love; Old Holland oil paint tubes;...More »
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Joachim Koester "From the Secret Garden of Sleep"
Greene Naftali presents an exhibition of new works by the Danish artist Joachim Koester. This is the artist's fourth solo show at Greene Naftali and includes new film installations, photographs, and...More »
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Allen Ruppersberg Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces an exhibition of new works by Allen Ruppersberg. This is the artist's first show at Greene Naftali and follows his recent solo exhibition, You and Me or The Art of Give and Take,...More »
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Gelitin "Blind Sculpture"
Gelitin will build a big sculpture. At the opening they will be working all evening on the sculpture. The following 10 days they will be working on the sculpture in the afternoons, early evenings. The...More »
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Richard Hawkins Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces an exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Richard Hawkins. This will be the artist’s second show at the gallery and follows Of Two Minds, Simultaneously, a recent mid-career survey...More »
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Paul Chan "Sade for Sades sake"
Greene Naftali presents its second solo exhibition by Paul Chan. Sade for Sade's sake consists of the complete ensemble of works made during the past two years and largely inspired by the writings and...More »
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Bernadette Corporation "The Complete Poem"
Greene Naftali presents a solo exhibition by Bernadette Corporation. Since 2000, moving on from its origins/early incarnations in the 90s New York DIY fashion scene, this collective has made sculpture,...More »
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Guyton\Walker Exhibition
Guyton\Walker, functioning as an autonomous artist, treats the individual artistic styles of Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker as any other image to be incorporated, interfered with, and appropriated. This...More »
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Michaela Meise Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents the second New York solo exhibition by Michaela Meise, following her recent exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe. Meise is part of a younger generation of German artists...More »
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Jacqueline Humphries Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents an exhibition by New York abstract painter Jacqueline Humphries. This is the artist's sixth show at Greene Naftali and follows her recent presentation in Prospect.1 New Orleans....More »
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Paul Sharits Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents a solo exhibition of works by Paul Sharits (1943-1993). Widely known for his structural films, Sharits pioneered the use of multiple projectors, infinite film loops, experimental...More »
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Guy de Cointet Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces an exhibition of drawings by Guy de Cointet. This will be the first solo presentation of the artist's work in New York since his untimely death in 1983. Born in Paris in 1934,...More »
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"Works on Paper & Ricci Albenda" Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents a group exhibition of works on paper by a selection of the gallery's artists and a special presentation by the artist Ricci Albenda. The artists in the show each have a direct engagement...More »
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Michael Krebber Exhibition
Greene Naftali announces Michael Krebber's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Since the late-eighties, Krebber has slowly gained recognition for his casual and penetrating artistic gestures. Always...More »
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"Painting: Now and Forever, Part II" Exhibition
Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery announce the exhibition Painting: Now and Forever, Part II. The exhibition is organized on the tenth anniversary of the show Painting: Now and Forever,...More »
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"Payday" Exhibition
Greene Naftali Gallery presents the group exhibition, Payday. Titled after the 1972 film starring Rip Torn as a morally bankrupt country musician, this exhibition brings together artists who share an irreverent...More »
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Gedi Sibony Exhibition
Greene Naftali presents a solo exhibition of New York artist Gedi Sibony. Sibony utilizes a vocabulary of doors, curtains, carpet remnants, pipes, plastic, cardboard and foamcore--the basic supplies of...More »
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Daan van Goldman Exhibition
In the early 60's van Golden developed a painting style based on appropriation. He began by using motifs derived from quotidian objects, such as decorative paper and fabrics, and subsequently turned to...More »