Deitch Projects

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Deitch Projects is a leading contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch.

Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, the gallery has presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a few public events. The gallery's best known projects include:

"The Shopping Exhibition" in 1994 with installations by twenty-six artists in twenty-six shops in soho
"I Bite America and America Bites Me"
A 1997 performance in which Oleg Kulik lived in the gallery for a few days as a dog
"I Peed in the Northeast Corner of the Gallery," a NeoFluxus anti-revivalism installation lasting 27 seconds
Yoko Ono’s 1998 exhibition "Ex It," featuring tree's growing out of one hundred wooden coffins
"Swinger" by the late Canadian Artist Roland Brener in 2000.
"Session the Bowl" featuring Simparch, Barry McGee, Larry Clark and others in 2002.
"Street Market" a collaborative installation with Barry McGee, Todd James and Steve Powers in 2000 that made an apocalyptic version of an urban street come alive in the street
Ten live performances by Fischerspooner in May 2003.
Adam Kalkin’s "Rural House Kit," a 2004 presentation consisting of a full-scale house made of shipping containers, with a rug designed by Jim Isermann and an indoor recreation of a dystopian model of a suburban road.
Artstar, the first unscripted television series set in the New York art world in June/July 2006.