Exit Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Exit Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"Collective / Performative" Exhibition
Exit Art presents Collective / Performative:, an exhibition and event series focusing on performance practices that require the participation of an audience. The exhibition will include new works by eight...More »
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"Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art" Closing Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2012-03-23 - 2012-05-19
Exit Art presents its final exhibition EVERY EXIT IS AN ENTRANCE: 30 YEARS OF EXIT ART. Founded in 1982 by Executive Director Jeanette Ingberman and Artistic Director Papo Colo, Exit Art has grown from...More »
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"Exit! with a Bang!" Final Gala and Auction
Exit Art will be hosting a final gala and auction honoring Co-Founders, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo. This year’s Gala features Master of Ceremonies Martha Wilson as Barbara Bush; Illusionist JB Benn;...More »
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Rico Gaston "Three Trips Around the Block"
"Three Trips Around the Block" is a 15-year retrospective of Gatson’s sculpture, painting, video, drawings, and installations, including several new pieces created for the exhibition. The title of the...More »
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"New Money: Business Models for a Sustainable Future" Exhibition
The gallery is pleased to announce "NEW MONEY: Business Models for a Sustainable Future," a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics). This exhibition of videos, photographs, and socially conscious...More »
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"Contemporary Slavery" Exhibition
"Contemporary Slavery," a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) and the second annual ECOAESTHETIC exhibition, investigates various forms of contemporary slavery—from human trafficking and the...More »
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"Geometric Days" Exhibition
"Geometric Days" is an exhibition of new paintings by eight artists whose deployment of geometry exposes organizational structures from microscopic, political, and spiritual dimensions. Geometry, abstraction...More »
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"FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill" Exhibition
Exit Art announces "Fracking: Art and Activism Against the Drill." Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a means of gas extraction that accesses gas trapped more than a mile below the earth’s surface. This...More »
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"GRAPHIC RADICALS: 30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated" Exhibition
"Graphic Radicals" is a 30th anniversary retrospective of World War 3 Illustrated, an independently published political comic magazine founded in 1980 by artists Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper. Comprised...More »
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"Alternative Histories: A History of New York City Alternative Art Spaces Since the 1960s" Exhibition
"Alternative Histories" is a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications,...More »
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Rafael Sanchez "Can't Keep Running Away / Bad Brains Re-enactment / Habibi Abid / Performace for Those Loved / Diamond Sea (Part Two)"
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body...More »
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Rafael Sanchez "Speak Boldly / What Goes up Must Come Down / Kandinsky's Painted on Both Sides / Being and Nothingness / Milk Bath"
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body...More »
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Rafael Sanchez " Dill Pickle / Making up for Lost Time / Rock Me"
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body...More »
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Raphael Sanchez "Daniel Givens Day"
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body...More »
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Rafael Sanchez "Swimming in the Creek"
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body...More »
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Rafael Sanchez "NTU the Stage (Part Two)"
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body...More »
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Rafael Sanchez "The Limit as the Body Approaches Zero" Performance Art Program
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work. Sanchez’s performances often...More »
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"ECOAESTHETIC" Exhibition
ECOAESTHETIC, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), is the first exhibition of SEA to be mounted in Exit Art’s main gallery.In keeping with SEA’s mission to present artworks that address...More »
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"CONSUME" Exhibition
"Consume," a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), is a multimedia group exhibition and event series that investigates the world's systems of food production, distribution, consumption and...More »
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"Global/National: The Order of Chaos" Exhibition
The exhibition investigates how local artists from a variety of backgrounds are placed in relation to the rest of the world. Seen through a global lens, this exhibition explores the multiple cultures that...More »
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"New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World" Exhibition
New Mirrors surveys the state of current painting through the work of seven New York-based artists. In particular, this exhibition positions painting as a way of thinking about perception in the age of...More »
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"Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology" Exhibition
"Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology," the sixth exhibition of the SEA (Social Envrionmental Aesthetics) program, is a survey of the Waterpod's five-month voyage around the boroughs of New York. It includes...More »
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Anya Liftig "Performance in Crisis, No. 3"
In "Amor Y Problemas," the audience is asked to pour white glue over the artist's naked body. After the glue has dried, the viewers peel off the layers of adhesive "skin."More »
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Regina José Galindo Exhibition
The second exhibition in Exit Art’s SOLO series and the first in the "Performance in Crisis" program – is a ten-year survey of performance and installation work by the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo....More »
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"America for Sale" Exhibition
A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics), America for Sale is an exhibition of photography, sculpture, video, and installation that addresses America’s spiraling national debt, struggling global...More »
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"The End of Oil" Exhibition
A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics), "The End of Oil" is an exhibition of photography, prints, videos, installations and new media that addresses human dependence on oil and other fossil...More »
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"Négritude: Brazilian Film" Series
The Brazil section of the exhibition "Négritude" is created around a program of documentary films and videos. Films are able to capture the face of reality as it is being lived, and Afro-Brazilian expressions...More »
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"Négritude" Exhibition
'Négritude,' an experimental multi-disciplinary exhibition at Exit Art, explores the visionary 20th century political and artistic movement of the same name — coined by the Martinican poet, playwright,...More »
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"Vertical Gardens" Exhibition
A project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) , Vertical Gardens is an exhibition of architectural models, renderings, drawings, photographs and ephemera that depict or imagine a vertical farm, urban...More »
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"Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)" Exhibition
The second exhibition of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator Program, presents work by artists who are using bio- and media- technologies to investigate questions of life and death. Representative of a relatively...More »
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"The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality" Exhibition
In "The Labyrinth Wall," 50 artists will respond to the turbulent times in which we live, the complex— and often confusing— financial, military, and cultural crises in America. Exit Art will be reconfigured...More »
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"Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now" Exhibition
Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, "Signs of Change" features hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest,...More »
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"The House is Small But the Welcome is Big: Photographs by African Women and Children Affected by AIDS" Exhibition
Over the past two years an unlikely group of amateur photographers has documented the life and death struggle of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Eighteen children from Maputo, Mozambique, orphaned by AIDS, and 15...More »
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"Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition" Exhibition
Long after the cassette tape has become an obsolete relic of a clumsier analog era, the essence of the mixtape lives on through CDs and MP3 playlists. "Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition" pays...More »
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"It’s Not Easy" Exhibition
"It’s Not Easy" is an exhibition inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green.” As new buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations...More »
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"Everybody's a VIP: The Summer Mixtape Fundraiser" Event
"Everybody's a VIP," a fundraising party for the exhibition "Summer Mixtape Volume One," will feature a night of dance-able music spanning hip-hop, electronica, old school, orchestral beats, and down beat....More »
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Charles Juhasz-Alvarado "Complicated Stories: Sculptures and Written Testimonies, 1998-2008"
Charles Juhasz-Alvarado "Complicated Stories" presents the artist’s past and present bodies of works as an ongoing dialogue on social consciousness and cultural identity. Charles Juhasz-Alvarado’s elaborate...More »
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"2008 Expose Benefit Auction" Preview Exhibition
Featuring works from over 130 artists, the 2008 Expose Benefit Auction on May 1st allows Exit Art to continue presenting the work of emerging artists of all backgrounds and to provide innovative multi-disciplinary...More »
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Brainwaves: Common Senses
BRAINWAVE: Common Senses responds to current advancements in neurological research by visualizing and investigating the brain’s capacity for sense perception, memory, emotion and logic. The artists in...More »