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New York, NY 10011
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Metro Pictures was founded in 1980 by Janelle Reiring, formerly of Leo Castelli Gallery, and Helene Winer, formerly of Artists Space, at 169 Mercer Street in New York. The gallery’s inaugural exhibitions featured artists such as Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Richard Prince, and Walter Robinson – artists who would later be identified by critics and historians as Pictures artists. Many of them were prominently included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2009 exhibition "The Pictures Generation.” In 1982 the gallery presented the first New York exhibition of Mike Kelley soon followed by shows of John Miller, Jim Shaw, and Gary Simmons – artists who would elaborate ideas proposed by the California conceptual artists with whom they had studied at CalArts. In 1983 the gallery relocated to 150 Greene Street. During this period, René Daniëls and Martin Kippenberger had their first exhibitions outside of Europe at the gallery. Metro Pictures moved to its present location in Chelsea in 1997 and in 2016 1100 Architects renovated the gallery with an award-winning new design. Newer generations of artists have continued to expand the gallery, including Andreas Slominski, Olaf Breuning, André Butzer, Isaac Julien, David Maljkovic, Paulina Olowska, Trevor Paglen, Catherine Sullivan, Sara VanDerBeek, Tris Vonna-Michell, B. Wurtz, Alexandre Singh, Camille Henrot, Nina Beier, Oliver Laric, Judith Hopf, and Cui Jie. In 2020 the gallery announced representation of Latifa Echakhch and the Gretchen Bender Estate.
Artists Represented:
Nina Beier
Gretchen Bender
Olaf Breuning
André Butzer
Cui Jie
René Daniëls
Latifa Echakhch
Camille Henrot
Judith Hopf
Isaac Julien
Oliver Laric
Louise Lawler
Robert Longo
David Maljkovic
John Miller
Paulina Olowska
Trevor Paglen
Jim Shaw
Cindy Sherman
Gary Simmons
Alexandre Singh
Andres Slominski
Catherine Sullivan
Sara VanDerBeek
Tris Vonna-Michell
B. Wurtz
Works Available By:
Bas Jan Ader
Mike Kelley
Martin Kippenberger
Sterling Ruby

 

 
Courtesy of Metro Pictures.


 
Online Programming

Camille Henrot

Paintings

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

Metro Pictures and Kamel Mennour are delighted to present the paintings of Camille Henrot for the first time in this special two-part online exhibition. An artist known for her diverse output, this presentation features seven new works from three ongoing series.

Olaf Breuning

Out of Balance

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

This selection of colorful new woodcut landscapes and carved stone sculptures by Olaf Breuning draws on the natural world to consider the pressing environmental concerns we face today.

Cui Jie, René Daniëls, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, David Maljkovic, John Miller, Trevor Paglen, Jim Shaw, Gary Simmons, Sara VanDerBeek, B. Wurtz

Shelter in Place

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

Organized by Metro Pictures's Ryan Muller, this online exhibition explores how artists have envisioned new possibilities for architecture.

Nina Beier, Jack Goldstein, Camille Henrot, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Oliver Laric, John Miller, Paulina Olowska, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman

Dog Days

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

This exhibition brings together a selection of works that draw on man’s best friend for inspiration.

Oliver Laric, Louise Lawler, Sara VanDerBeek

"'Armageddon'"

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

At the end of the world aliens blow up the White House ("Independence Day"); a meteor crashes into Paris against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame’s famous gargoyles ("Armageddon"); and we see Big Ben and St. Paul’s in a central London left abandoned by zombie apocalypse ("28 Days Later"). Why does the world so often end in scenes like these in movies? When anything comes to an end we tend to look back at its past; when it’s the world that’s ending civilization is that something. Hollywood uses grand monuments—obvious, nationalistic symbols of identification in these examples—but more humble cultural productions can connect, and orient, us to the vast welter that is human history. In less troubled times we collect and preserve the parts that make up the sum of civilization. No doubt many of those parts and the collections that contain them have problematic histories. When faced with global catastrophe the drive to invest our attention to the sum as well as its parts, whether critically or admiringly, is perhaps greater than usual. This online exhibition indulges that drive by bringing together artworks by three artists—Oliver Laric, Louise Lawler, and Sara VanDerBeek—who have worked with various collections to incorporate historical sculpture into their own artworks. –Alexander Ferrando Director, Metro Pictures

 
Past Exhibitions

Gary Simmons

Screaming into the Ether

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

March 26, 2020 - September 19, 2020
"Gary Simmons: Screaming into the Ether" was scheduled to open at the gallery on Thursday, March 26. In light of the current circumstances facing New York, the exhibition will now be available exclusively online in our very first online viewing room. Simmons's latest work expands the artist’s decades-long examination into the propagation of racial stereotypes through American media and its devastating effects on how people of color perceive themselves and are perceived by others. The twenty new paintings on view reconsider his signature “erasure” technique and the racist cartoon characters Simmons first appropriated in his renowned chalkboard drawings from the early 1990s.

John Miller

The Collapse of Neoliberalism

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

January 30, 2020 - March 14, 2020
John Miller has been exploring notions of identity, economics, and social class throughout his forty-year practice. His latest exhibition at Metro Pictures concerns, among other things, a sense of everyday malaise and life's petty annoyances. Mannequins are an iconic theme in this show, and Miller characterizes them as simple anthropomorphized clothing racks that can nonetheless prompt unnerving degrees of identification. His current photographs, installations, and videos insert these figures into familiar, even normalizing, scenarios that underscore their function as objects of desire onto which we, as both spectators and consumers, project a miasma of fleeting trends and fashions.

Robert Longo

Fugitive Images

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

November 14, 2019 - January 18, 2020
The eight monumental, hyperreal charcoal drawings in the exhibition continue Robert Longo's "Destroyer Cycle," a series that focuses on the indelible imagery generated by the current politics of power, greed, aggression, and inhumanity. The title Fugitive Images refers to the transitory appearance and displacement of impactful media images from across the globe. Longo believes it is morally imperative to secure their permanence.

Alexandre Singh

A Gentle Horror

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

October 11, 2019 - November 9, 2019

Sara VanDerBeek

Women & Museums

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

September 5, 2019 - October 5, 2019

Alifi

Judith Hopf

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

September 5, 2019 - October 5, 2019

Robert Longo

Amerika

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

April 25, 2019 - April 25, 2019

Isaac Julien

Lessons of the Hour–Frederick Douglass

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

March 8, 2019 - April 13, 2019

Jim Shaw

The Family Romance

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

February 26, 2019 - April 13, 2019

Life to come: Organized by Asad Raza

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

January 17, 2019 - February 16, 2019

Paulina Olowska

Belavia

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

November 15, 2018 - December 21, 2018

Nina Beier

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

October 26, 2018 - December 21, 2018

B. Wurtz

Domestic Space

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

September 6, 2018 - October 20, 2018

Catherine Sullivan

The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training)

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

September 6, 2018 - October 20, 2018

Condo New York: LambdaLambdaLambda presents Hanne Lippard & Nora Turato

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

June 29, 2018 - August 3, 2018

Evidence: Organized by Josh Kline

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

June 7, 2018 - July 27, 2018

Camille Henrot

Born, Never Asked

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

May 1, 2018 - June 9, 2018

Andreas Slominski

ANDREAS SLOMINSKYYY

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

April 26, 2018 - May 26, 2018

Robert Longo

Them and Us

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

March 6, 2018 - April 14, 2018

Oliver Laric

Year of the Dog

519 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

March 3, 2018 - April 14, 2018