Between 2007 and 2010, artists Anicka Yi and Josh Kline collaborated with Jon Santos to form Circular File, a brief but consequential art collective that experimented with collaborative video production, improvisation and the sociality of artistic labor. Fifteen years later, Yi and Kline reconvene to initiate ‘Studio Visit,’ a curatorial project that will also be an art installation in its own right.

Featured Artists

American Artist | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Huma Bhabha | Cecily Brown | Nicole Eisenman | Jason Fox | Nikita Gale | Georgia Gardner Gray | Josh Kline | Ella Kruglyanskaya | Carolyn Lazard | Guadalupe Maravilla | Paul McCarthy | New Red Order | Monira Al Qadiri | Farah Al Qasimi | Jesus Hilario-Reyes | Alicia Riccio | Tschabalala Self | Avery Singer | Tavares Strachan | Sung Tieu | Wolfgang Tillmans | Rirkrit Tiravanija | Ambera Wellmann | Anicka Yi

'Studio Visit' will focus on the artist’s studio in the 21st Century, posing questions about how conditions of artistic work are structured, perceived, and valued today. ‘Studio Visit’ foregrounds the studio as material infrastructure and conceptual site. The project centers on the studio not as a private enclave of production, but as part of a larger generative field in which identities are formed, solidarities are tested and economies emerge. Artist studios often flock together in larger buildings and neighborhoods. Community and dialogue—and invitations to visit each other’s studios—often grow out of chance encounters between young artists brought into close proximity by real estate.

Studio Visit also marks a pivotal moment for Performance Space New York, which presents the exhibition as a benefit project supporting its mission and future programming. Since 1980, Performance Space has operated from the East Village as a laboratory for cultural experimentation and artistic dissent.

Across its history, Performance Space has catalyzed the careers of artists working at the intersection of performance, visual art and activism. Today, the organization continues to serve as a springboard for artists who address urgent social conditions and test the boundaries of aesthetic expression, sustaining its legacy as a catalyst for artistic risk and cultural transformation.