Deitch Projects

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Deitch Projects is a 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. It is known as a gallery where many of the most well-known artists of the past decade--Cecily Brown, Inka Essenhigh, Barry McGee, and Kristin Baker to name a few--began their careers. 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 trees growing out of one hundred wooden coffins
  • "State of the Union" by the Brooklyn based Artist Lane Twitchell in 1999.
  • "Swinger" by the late Canadian Artist Roland Brener in 2000.
  • "Diva Fictions," by Kurt Kauper 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.
  • Tedious Limbs featuring Paper Rad, Noah Lyon and members of the Forcefield (art collective) in May 2005.
  • Artstar, the first unscripted television series set in the New York art world in June/July 2006.
  • "Everybody Knew that Canadians were the Best Hockey Players," by Kurt Kauper in 2007.

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