NYAB Events - The Kitchen

The Kitchen - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for The Kitchen. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Sadie Barnette “The New Eagle Creek Saloon”
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- 2022-01-18 - 2022-03-06
The Kitchen, in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem, presents Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon, the first East Coast institutional presentation of the artist’s installation reimagining...More »
“In Support” Exhibition
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- 2021-11-18 - 2022-03-12
The Kitchen presents In Support, a group exhibition that examines how support operates as an offering, practice, and position within and beyond institutional contexts. Featuring new commissions by Fia...More »
Alan Ruiz “Container and Contained”
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- 2021-06-17 - 2021-07-24
The Kitchen presents Container and Contained, the first institutional exhibition in New York City by artist Alan Ruiz. Ruiz’s practice considers the way the built environment engenders social hierarchies...More »
“Always, Already, Haunting, ‘disss-co,’ Haunt” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-05-24 - 2019-06-15
From May 24 to June 15, the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program will present its annual spring exhibition at The Kitchen. This year’s exhibition, Always, Already, Haunting, “disss-co,”...More »
Lex Brown “Animal Static”
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- Media: Drawing - Video installation - Media Arts - Performance Art
- 2019-01-18 - 2019-02-23
As we race toward a horizon – on which a climate eclipse, a fully automated future, and identity null point appear to lie – will we find that horizon to be round and ever-receding, like the ever-receding...More »
“Omnipresence” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2018-05-24 - 2018-06-16
Omnipresence explores the means by which authority is represented, understood, installed, and desired. In a moment enraptured by the caricatured return to power of right-wing populism and symptomatic erup-...More »
Charles Atlas “the past is here, the futures are coming”
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- Media: Video installation
- 2018-03-28 - 2018-05-12
Organized by Katy Dammers and Tim Griffin, Charles Atlas: the past is here, the futures are coming features two new video installations. His piece 2003 combines video portraits of New York City-based artists...More »
Meriem Bennani “Siham and Hafida”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2017-09-13 - 2017-10-21
Historically, chikha performers in Morocco have provided entertainment for important celebrations and, as significant, spread lyrics of resistance during the era of French colonization. Yet tensions have...More »
“Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2017-06-21 - 2017-07-29
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...More »
“That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to go on” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2017-05-23 - 2017-06-10
The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program presents That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to go on:, curated by the ISP’s 2016–17 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows: Magdalyn...More »
Aki Sasamoto “Yield Point”
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2017-04-06 - 2017-05-13
After an encounter with a tensile testing machine—which measures the state of matter as it turns plastic, with elements traveling back and forth to produce resonance—Aki Sasamoto started to construct an...More »
Martin Beck “Last Night”
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- Media: Film
- 2017-03-22 - 2017-03-25
Last Night is based on the 118 songs played by New York musical host David Mancuso on June 2, 1984, at one of the last parties of the 99 Prince Street location of his seminal New York dance party, the...More »
Cory Arcangel and Olia Lialina “Asymmetrical Response”
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- Media: Installation
- 2017-01-11 - 2017-02-18
In military parlance, the terms asymmetrical and symmetrical are employed to refer to political provocations and diplomatic démarches, escalation and tension, and power dynamics of the highest order. Not...More »
Xaviera Simmons “CODED”
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2016-06-22 - 2016-07-29
The Kitchen presents CODED, an exhibition of works by Xaviera Simmons featuring new and recent photographic, audio, video, text-based sculptural work and ultimately a movement-based performance. Her dynamic,...More »
Ed Atkins “Performance Capture”
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- Media: Installation
- 2016-04-13 - 2016-05-14
Under the equivocal rubric “Performance Capture,” Ed Atkins presents an expansive new work explicitly concerned with how contemporary technologies of representation mediate our lives – to say nothing of...More »
“From Minimalism into Algorithm” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2016-01-08 - 2016-04-02
Taking place in The Kitchen theater and gallery spaces throughout the 2015–2016 season, “From Minimalism into Algorithm” sets contemporary and historical painting, sculpture, performance, and musical composition...More »
Sam Falls “September Spring”
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2015-09-10 - 2015-10-10
I lock in with Jamie everyday and spin, for a minute or an hour, sometimes most of the night, I hold him and he holds me. The main distinction I see between life and death is the way time moves and its...More »
“S/N” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2015-05-22 - 2015-06-13
S/N explores the complex dynamics of sound, in particular its tendency to exceed, disrupt, or evade attempts at its capture. S/N, an abbreviation for signal-to-noise ratio, refers to the balance between...More »
“Off Pink” Parsons Fine Arts 2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2015-05-08 - 2015-05-16
Parsons the New School for Design presents Off Pink, the 2015 Parsons Fine Arts MFA Thesis Show curated by Tina Kukielski. The exhibition features new work by American Artist, Minhee Bae, Daniel Cerrejón,...More »
Maria Chavez Echibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-04-28 - 2015-05-02
Building on her continuing focus on chance and accident, Maria Chavez’s new site-specific installation Sound Bleed @ The Kitchen was developed around the sound leaking from The Kitchen’s ground floor performance...More »
Anicka Yi “You Can Call Me F”
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-03-05 - 2015-04-11
For You Can Call Me F, The Kitchen’s gallery will function as a forensic site in which the artist aligns society’s growing paranoia around contagion and hygiene (both public and private) with the enduring...More »
“No entrance, no exit” Exhibition
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2015-01-13 - 2015-02-21
Artists Anna K.E., Alina Tenser, and Viola Yeşiltaç have personal relationships with performance, which possesses varying degrees of presence within—and relevance to—their respective practices. The works...More »
Klaus Lutz Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Video installation
- 2014-10-30 - 2014-12-20
As the first look by a US institution at this under-recognized, Swiss-born artist and filmmaker’s oeuvre, this show will feature a selection of Klaus Lutz’s 16mm film loops, as well as some of his meticulous...More »
Danh Vō and Xiu Xiu “Metal”
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2014-09-27 - 2014-10-18
Conceptual artist Danh Vō collaborates with Xiu Xiu (Jamie Stewart, Shayna Dunkelman, and Ches Smith) for this gallery exhibition conceived as a stage for their work’s own production. Vō travels with two...More »
“The Rehearsal” Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation - Performance Art
- 2014-06-25 - 2014-08-01
Forty years ago, director Jules Dassin made a film about the escalating popular uprisings against the military junta that had ruled Greece since 1967. Then in exile with his wife, Greek actress Melina...More »
“Common Spaces” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-05-23 - 2014-06-14
Common Spaces considers the status of public space today. At a time when public space is increasingly subject to control by private interests and authoritarian forms of state power, discourses about “the...More »
“Before” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2014-04-26 - 2014-05-03
Before is the 2014 Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis Show, curated by Niels Van Tomme. The exhibition features new works in a wide variety of media and artistic approaches by Hala Alhomoud, David Connolly,...More »
Gerard & Kelly “Timelining”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2014-03-14 - 2014-04-19
Gerard & Kelly’s Timelining features new projects installed in both the upstairs and downstairs spaces of The Kitchen. Through a series of sculptures, site-specific interventions, and a performance...More »
Luke Stettner “this single monument”
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-01-23 - 2014-03-01
Last thing I knew there were five indications of a pause — first was the one that came before all the others after that came the one I remember the least but was the most sudden and unexpected following...More »
Boru O’Brien O’Connell “Draft, Capture”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2014-01-23 - 2014-03-01
The iconic work of industrial designer and illustrator John Vassos is a starting point for Boru O’Brien O’Connell’s first New York solo exhibition, in which desks, cameras, microphones, and tile floors...More »
Olivier Mosset “Exposition de groupe”
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- Media: Painting - Film - Performance Art
- 2013-10-31 - 2013-12-20
Olivier Mosset presents what he terms a “group” show, underscoring how the legibility of any artwork is possible only in the context of a larger, living collectivity. Featuring paintings, a projection...More »
Gretchen Bender “Tracking the Thrill”
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- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2013-08-27 - 2013-10-05
Among the most prescient yet overlooked figures of her generation, Gretchen Bender (1951-2004) anticipated our current state of image saturation, using scaffolds of screens, hypnotic repetitions of appropriated...More »
“Maintenance Required” Exhibition
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- 2013-05-30 - 2013-06-22
Maintenance is crucial for the continuation of our physical infrastructure, our society, and our lives. The often repetitive and mundane work of maintenance sustains people, objects, and institutions,...More »
“The Intelligence of Things 2013 Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-05-18 - 2013-05-25
The Intelligence of Things features twenty artists representing a wide range of artistic interests, media, and methods. For a growing number of contemporary artists and thinkers, the ontology of objects...More »
Chantal Akerman "Maniac Shadows"
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- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2013-04-12 - 2013-05-11
Playing on entwined relationships of presence and absence, the legendary Belgian filmmaker’s latest installation features video shot at her residences in different countries. During the exhibition’s opening...More »
Jacob Kassay "Untitled (disambiguation)"
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- Media: Installation - Other
- 2013-01-09 - 2013-02-16
In this exhibition of new wall-based works, Jacob Kassay engages the specific spatial properties of The Kitchen gallery and building, seeking to affect and augment one’s experience of the room by attending...More »
Radiohole "Inflatable Frankenstein"
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2013-01-05 - 2013-01-19
One of New York’s most tenacious and beloved theatrical ensembles explores the cultural legend of Frankenstein, everyone’s metaphor for nearly everything. Source material includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,...More »
Matt Keegan & Eileen Quinlan "Y? O! G... A."
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2012-11-13 - 2012-12-22
The Kitchen presents Y? O! G... A., a new exhibition by artists Matt Keegan and Eileen Quinlan. The exhibition features works made by the artists both collaboratively and individually in a variety of media,...More »
Elad Lassry "Untitled (Presence)"
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- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2012-09-07 - 2012-10-20
To date, Elad Lassry’s practice has revolved around cultural conditions surrounding photography and, more specifically, the question of when the photographic image obtains presence—becoming at once a kind...More »
"Matter Out of Place" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-06-27 - 2012-08-17
Taking its title from anthropologist Mary Douglas’s analyses of how disturbances arise in society’s physical contours and social order, Matter Out of Place presents new works by artists who observe, represent,...More »
"Creative Destruction" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-05-24 - 2012-06-16
“Creative destruction” initially described the periodic crises that cleared the ground for the creation of new wealth. More recently, the term has been interpreted by finance capital as the ability to...More »
"Re(purpose) 2012 Parsons Fine Arts MFA Thesis Show”
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2012-05-11 - 2012-05-17
Parsons The New School for Design presents (RE)PURPOSE presenting the work of 22 artists who address diverse critical and socio-political questions working through a wide-ranging vocabulary of formal languages...More »
Virginia Overton Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2012-03-21 - 2012-05-06
The Kitchen presents a solo exhibition of new works by artist Virginia Overton. In her large-scale sculpture and installations, Overton uses raw building materials as well as common images within the conditions...More »
Simone Leigh "You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been"
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- Media: Sculpture - Video installation
- 2012-01-18 - 2012-03-11
The Kitchen presents the New York premiere of You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been, a solo exhibition by sculptor and video-maker Simone Leigh. The exhibition, curated by Rashida Bumbray, features Leigh’s...More »
Lauren Kelley "Froufrou Conclusions"
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-11-11 - 2012-01-07
Employing a wry wit when commenting on matters of sexuality, race, and meditations on place, Lauren Kelley is a video artist best known for her series of short animated videos that combine clay-mation...More »
Jennie C. Jones "Absorb / Diffuse"
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-09-08 - 2011-10-29
Jennie C. Jones re-contextualizes the material output of sound recording in order to explore how we listen and how sound operates physically and metaphorically. This new show centers on a sound score...More »
Joe Winter "The Stars Below"
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-09-08 - 2011-10-29
In this new series of sculptures Joe Winter juxtaposes conventions of information display against ways of reimagining and representing extended notions of geologic and astronomic time. Winter combines...More »
"The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen's Soho Years, 1971-85" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2011-06-30 - 2011-08-27
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, The Kitchen presents an exhibition revealing the depth of its early history as a home for both experimental performance-based work and exciting new developments...More »
"Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2011-05-20 - 2011-06-11
Taking the term foreclosure as a point of departure, this group exhibition examines processes of exclusion by which certain narratives and forms of subjectivity are privileged over others. Cutting across...More »
"Shame the Devil" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2011-03-17 - 2011-04-30
The genre of comedy, in all its various manifestations in stand-up, theater, literature, television, and movies has long provided rich and valuable inspiration for artists seeking to critique contemporary...More »
Dave Miko and Tom Thayer "New World Pig"
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- Media: Painting - Video installation
- 2011-01-07 - 2011-03-05
This collaborative exhibition features Dave Miko’s enamel on aluminum paintings and Tom Thayer’s stop-motion animation videos. Working separately but in tandem, the artists have juxtaposed the loose,...More »
Cauleen Smith "Remote Viewing"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2011-01-07 - 2011-03-05
California-based filmmaker, screenwriter, and video installation artist, Cauleen Smith is best known for Afro-futurist cinematic works that weave intimate narratives of love, yearning, and the dream-world...More »
Adam Pendleton "Band"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2010-11-03 - 2010-12-23
This solo exhibition presents the U.S. premiere of Adam Pendleton’s new large scale video installation. Pendleton’s BAND is a form and content refashioning of Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy for the Devil,...More »
Alex Hubbard "Death Never Sleeps"
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- Media: Painting - Video installation
- 2010-09-10 - 2010-10-23
In this newly commissioned exhibition, Alex Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states of order and chaos. In Hubbard’s new...More »
Sean Raspet "As If Written In"
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- Media: Graphics - Sculpture
- 2010-09-10 - 2010-10-23
This solo exhibition presents a new body of work by Sean Raspet that continues his exploration of paradox and parody in relationship to late-capitalist image culture. Raspet's multi-layered, hanging banner...More »
"The Absolutely Other" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-06-25 - 2010-08-07
This group exhibition features New York-based artists who make work with, for, and about strangers. For each video, photograph, installation, and performance, artists cast out lines to remote neighbors...More »
"Undercurrents: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Film - Performance Art
- 2010-05-27 - 2010-06-19
This exhibition considers the concept of ethical cohabitation – how to negotiate our differences within our shared environment. Cohabitation implies power relations in flux; relations that seem at first...More »
Leslie Hewitt "On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance"
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-03-27 - 2010-05-10
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt’s most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site specific installation—that explore her long-standing interest in non-linear...More »
Amy Granat "The Sheltering Sky"
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- Media: Film
- 2010-01-29 - 2010-03-20
New York-based artist Amy Granat draws from the legacy of experimental and abstract filmmaking to create new approaches in 16mm film and video at the limits of personal and narrative cinema. Using Paul...More »
"Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2009-11-13 - 2010-01-16
This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and question the fundamental roots of the medium's...More »
"The Kitchen Block Party: A Neighborhood Street Fair" Party
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- Media: Art Party
- 2009-09-26 - 2009-09-26
Kick off the fall season with a free, family-friendly street festival featuring an afternoon of live performances alongside dozens of artist-led activities and crafts, including face-painting, puppet and...More »
"One Minute More" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2009-09-10 - 2009-10-31
The New York-based artists in this group exhibition create performance-based videos, photographs, and sculptural installations that experiment with various approaches to presenting and documenting durational...More »
"Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-05-22 - 2009-06-13
"Time Out of Joint" brings together artistic practices that employ evocation as a mode of connecting past and present. The act of evoking –- or calling forth past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories...More »
Elodie Pong "After The Empire"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-05-02
Zurich-based video artist Elodie Pong is known for her subtle, analytic works focusing on how human relationships and cultural conventions impact contemporary society. This exhibition features the US premiere...More »
Jamal Cyrus "Winners Have Yet To Be Announced"
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- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-05-02
Houston-based artist Jamal Cyrus' work examines spaces between radical socio-political movements and untold histories. In Winners Have Yet To Be Announced, Cyrus presents a new series of drawings, sculptures,...More »
Sara Greenberger Rafferty "Bananas"
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- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2009-01-09 - 2009-03-07
New York-based artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s works in sculpture, photography, video, and sound form a conceptual vocabulary that comes together in surreal, often bitterly humorous installations. For...More »
Vlatka Horvat "Or Some Other Time"
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2009-01-09 - 2009-03-07
In her videos, photography, performances, and works on paper, New York-based artist Vlatka Horvat has explored absence, memory, and concealment by juxtaposing the component parts of a given system, such...More »
Dexter Sinister "True Mirror Microfiche"
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- Media: Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2008-11-25 - 2008-11-25
Dexter Sinister presents True Mirror Microfiche, an evening of readings and performances in the form of a projected microfiche lecture. A continuation of their recent project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial,...More »
Rodney McMillian Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2008-10-30 - 2008-12-20
Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian is a painter, sculptor, performer, and video maker whose work examines the socio-political dimensions of power associated with cultural, racial, and economic issues....More »
Alix Pearlstein "After The Fall"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2008-09-05 - 2008-10-18
New York artist Alix Pearlstein is best known for her performance-based videos, in which she explores the psychological, emotional, and social underpinnings of human relationships and group dynamics. Analogous...More »
"The Future As Disruption" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2008-06-18 - 2008-08-01
The genre of science fiction, in all its various manifestations in books, television, music, and movies, has long provided a rich and valuable resource for artists who seek to critique contemporary society...More »
"See Something, Say Something: Strategies of Counter-Surveillance" Panel Discussion
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-05-31 - 2008-05-31
In conjunction with the exhibition For Reasons of State, guest curators Angelique Campens, Erica Cooke, and Steven Lam have organized a panel discussion on the impact of governmental and corporate secrecy...More »
"For Reasons of State" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2008-05-16 - 2008-06-07
While the American government guarantees its citizens the freedom of speech and press, the intertwining of corporate and political interests dictates the public’s access to information— controlling the...More »
Mika Tajima "The Double"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-03-14 - 2008-04-26
Glen Fogel "Quarry"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2008-03-14 - 2008-04-26

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