Artist Run Initiatives

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Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) are any projects run by visual artists to present their and others' projects. They might approximate a traditional art gallery space in appearance or function, or they may take a markedly different approach, limited only by the artist's understanding of the term. Artist Run Initiatives are an umbrella name for many types of artist generated activity.

Important historical Artist Run Initiatives include The Wrong Gallery (using a disused doorway to display work) in New York City in the 2000s, and City Racing (an old betting shop) in London in the 1990s. Damien Hirst's one-off exhibition Freeze in a London warehouse in the 1990s could also be said to be a temporary, yet important, artist run initiative. Artist run initiatives have used cars, briefcases, and other unusual exhibition venues where traditional spaces were too expensive or limited. Cuckoo is a New Zealand based artist run initiative where its members use other people's spaces to present their program, like a cuckoo bird does by placing its own eggs descreetly into the nests of other birds.


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