Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970-Now

September 16-December 13, 2015

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16, 6-8 pm

Public Works: Artists' Interventions 1970s–Now examines strategies of public practice by women artists from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition features works by Amy Balkin, Tania Bruguera, Candy Chang, Minerva Cuevas, Agnes Denes, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Karen Finley, Coco Fusco, the Guerrilla Girls, Sharon Hayes, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jenny Holzer, Emily Jacir, Suzanne Lacy, Marie Lorenz, Susan O’Malley, Adrian Piper, Laurie Jo Reynolds|Tamms Year Ten, Favianna Rodriguez, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Stephanie Syjuco, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Public Works presents audio, documentation, ephemera, photography, prints, and video from a number of important historic and contemporary projects that explore the inherent politics and social conditions of creating art in public space. A number of public programs, including new commissions featuring performances by Constance Hockaday and Jenifer K. Wofford produced in collaboration with Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), will accompany the exhibition, in addition to a full color catalogue.

Public Works is curated by Christian L. Frock, independent curator and writer, and Tanya Zimbardo, Assistant Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA. The exhibition is supported in part by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

Caption: Bonnie Ora Sherk, Sitting Still I, 1970. Courtesy of the artist.