Visiting art galleries & museums is an essential part of the work I do, but it's also work that's fully self-monitored, so years ago I decided to track my own gallery-hopping through the years so that later I can look back at how certain gallery neighborhoods ebbed & flowed, or how I might have come across an artist's work earlier than I'd imagined, or how a certain gallery closed without my noticing. It's a simple, straightforward list, but over 5 years it's taken on certain defining characteristics: I rarely list a day when I only visit museums, I almost never individuate the title or the names of artists in a group show, and the list is updated the same day (or the day after) that I actually see the art, while the memory is still fresh & I have the .pdfs of various press releases & checklists on my phone.
At first I didn't know what I'd ever do with such a list, other than break off every 4-5 years to start a new one. Then it occurred to me that cutting and pasting it under the topical heading of Gallery Hopping creates a space for that topic to apply more broadly. I don't exclude anything from the list, even if it has absolutely no resonance with me whatsoever, because what I'm tracking isn't what I respond to -- it's what I saw. I feel less conflicted letting go of an unimpressive viewing experience if I know that somewhere, someplace, in the future, I can point to my Gallery Log and say, "Well, at least I saw it."
I'm going to paste these in one year at a time, because I don't think the format allows me to incorporate the whole thing into a single blog post. What follows is my complete list of galleries & museums visited in 2017:
Sat-Sun, January 7-8 Los Angeles
Honor Fraser - Koki Tanaka
Vielmetter - Karl Haendel
Cherry & Martin - T. Kelly Mason, group
Blum & Poe - Sam Durant
Luis De Jesus - Antonia Wright
Von Lintel - Mark Seliger
Zevitas - Taravat Talepasand
E. Cella - Jeffrey Vallance
D. Rosenstein - Gisela Colon
Kohn - Bruce Conner
HW&S - Arp, Miro, Schwitters
MoCA - Doug Aitken
Fowler Museum - Belkis Ayon
Fri, January 13 Downtown
New Museum - Pipilotti Rist
Lehmann Maupin - Kader Attia
Sat, January 14 Chelsea
Lennon Weinberg - Mark Sheinkman
Cheim & Read - Tal R, Louise Bourgeois
Marlborough - Andrew Kuo, Davina Semo
Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Anthony Caro
Kent - group
Senior & Shopmaker - Polly Apfelbaum
Lisson - Roy Colmer
Boesky - William O’Brien
Fredericks & Freiser - John Wesley
L. Howard - Dubuffet & Poons
Lelong - Samuel Levi Jones
Alexander Gray - Sergei Eisenstein
Cohan - Michelle Grabner
Ryan Lee - Martine Gutierrez
Metro - Visual AIDS
Rosen - Michael Angel Cardenas
Shainman - Titus Kaphar
Kreps - Fredrik Vaerslev,
PPOW - Portia Munson
Pace - James Siena
Hauser & Wirth - Rita Ackermann, Philip Guston
Sun, January 15 Lower East Side
Pierogi - Jim Torok
R. Uffner - Roger White
Participant - Matt Keegan
McKenzie - Laura Sharp Wilson
S. Preston - Jenny Purlin
D. Lewis - Viola Yesiltac
M. Abreu -
Alden - Jenny Holzer
K. Schuss -
Company - Paul Kopkau
Room East - Hollis Frampton
J. Cohan - Byron Kim
N. Karg - Carl D’alvia
47 Canal - Ho King Man, Cici Wu, Wang Xu
D. Eller - group (w/ Jane Freilicher)
CANADA - Elizabeth Murray, Marcus Jahmal
On Stellar Rays - Kate Gilmore, Karen Heagle
Sat, January 28 Downtown
Howl! - Jonny Detiger
Grey Art Gallery - Inventing Downtown
Sperone - Emil Lukas, Katherine Bradford
Lehmann Maupin -Kader Attia
11R - Tim Davy
CRG - Channing Hansen
Sat, February 11 Chelsea
Gagosian - Katherine Grosse
Shainman - Yoan Capote
Frederiks & Friese - David Humphrey
Rosen - Elliott Hundley, Martha Friedman
Marlborough - Mike Bouchet
Pace - Adrian Ghenie
D. Nolan - Julia Fish
Albertz - Kay Kurt
Lelong - Jaume Plans
T. Erben - group
S. Inglett - Robyn O’Neill
F. McCaffrey - Richard Nonas
Greene Naftali - group
Sun, February 12 LES
Klaus von Nichtssagend - Tamara Gonzales
Invisible Exports - Anne Doran
S. Subal - Brian O’Doherty
Calicoon - group
Sat, February 18 Los Angeles
Anat Ebgi - Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Cherry & Martin - group
China Art Objects -
Luis De Jesus -
Roberts & Tilton - Egan Frantz, Michael Dopp
Vielmetter - Sadie Benning
Von Linter - Mark Seliger
Shoshana Wayne - Rachel Lachowitz
Grimes - Allan Sekula
1301PE - Petra Cortright
Prez Dellavelarde - group
Marc Foxx - Guido van der Werve
Regen Projects - Theater Gates
Various Small Fires - The Harrisons
R. Telles - Jim Isermann
Truth Magers - Llyn Foulkes
356 S. Mission - Brian Sharp, Trisha Baga
Ghebaly - Hans Bellmer, Kathleen Ryan
Night - Claire Tabouret, Phil Davis
Sun, February 19 Los Angeles
California African. American Museum - HankWillisThomas, Genevieve Gaignard
HW&S - Jason Rhoades
Hammer - Jimmie Durham, Jean Dubuffet, Nicolas Party, Liz Larner
Sat, February 25 Chelsea
Cheim & Read - Ron Gorchov
Pace - Tara Donovan
Marks - Michael Majerus, Vija Celmins
Metro - Andre Butzer
Boesky - Pier Paolo Calzolari
Wolkowitz - Shoe Nishino
Luhring - Steve Wolfe, Wilys de Castro
Bortolami - Nicolas Guagnini
Shainman - Richard Mosse
T. Rollins - Agus Suwage
Zwirner - John McCracken, Al Taylor, Alice Neel
J. Lombard - Carmen Neely
Kaufmann Repeto - Simone Fattal
Kreps - Roe Etheridge
Y. Richardson - Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Sikkema - Vik Muniz
M. Rosenfeld - group
Lehmann Maupin - Kim Guiline
Cunningham - Mia Westerland Roosen, Robert Feintuch
Sun, February 26 LES
Sargent’s Daughters - Jennifer Rubell
J. Vogt - Monika Bravo
JTT - Bonnie Lucas
Sat, March 11 Chelsea
Mitchel-Innes - Monica Bonvicini
Alex Gray - Luis Camnitzer
J. Cohan - Yinka Shonibare
524W25 group
Green Naftali - Paul Chan
Pace - Julian Schnabel
Lisson - Pedro Reyes, Haroon Mirza
Fredericks & Freiser - Lamar Peterson
UNIX - group
M. Boone - Allan McCollum
Gagosian - Albert Oehlen
303 - Sue Williams
P. Cooper - Julian Lethbridge
T. Bonakdar - Uta Barth
Gladstone - Wangechi Mutu
Hauser & Wirth - Jack Whitten
Sun, March 12 LES
Project 57 - Assume Vivid Astro Focus
David Lewis - Mary Beth Edelson
N. Karg - Jessica Craig-Martin
47 Canal - John Finneran
GBE - Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys
Canada - Bella Fowler, Joanna Malinowska
D. Eller - Alyson Shotz
Sat, March 18 Marais
Templon - Ivan Navarro, Julian Schnabel
Xippas - group
T. Ropac - Richard Deacon, David Salle, Robert Mapplethorpe
Crousel - Tarek Atoui
M. Goodman - William Kentridge
Praz Delavalade - Nathan Mabry
GB Agency - Mac Adams
Sun, March 19 LES
Participant Inc - Baseera Khan
Pierogi - Elliott Green
Klaus von Nichtssagend - Allyson Vieira, Graham Anderson
Y Gallery - Tamara Kostianovsky
J. Cohan - Scott Olson
J. Vogt - Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)
On Stellar Rays - Tommy Hartung
CRG - Tomory Dodge
11R - group, Caetano de Almeida
bitforms - Quayola
Fri, April 14 LES
Pierogi - Dawn Clements
R. Uffner - Leonhard Hurzimeier
Mitchell Algus - Steve Keister
J. Fuentes - Amalia Ulman
Callicoon - Lee Reivas
D. Eller - group (w/ R. De Forest, M. Gross)
S. Preston - Robert Breer
47 Canal - group (SP Mangold, J. Hopf, J. Mundt)
Lehmann Maupin - Teresita Fernandez
On Stellar Rays - Rochelle Feinstein
Sat. April 15 Chelsea
C. Tierney - Joe Fig
J. Liner - group (w/ Jason Middlebrook)
Kasmin - Max Ernst
J. Liner - Emilio Perez, Leonardo Drew
Lelong - Jane Hammond
J. Cohan - group
B. Wolkowitz - Jimmy Nelson
Metro - group, Olaf Breuning
Luhring - Johannes Jahrs
Geisberg - Trish Tillman
De Buck - group
PPOW - Betty Tompkins
Kreps - Kevin Jerome Everson
Lehmann - Erwin Wurm
Sikkema - William Cordova, Leslie Hewitt
Sun, April 23 LES
K. von Nichtssagend -
K. Schuss - Chip Hughes
J. Vogt - group show
JTT - Marlon Mullen
11R - Jackie Saccoccio
1969 - Roy Dowell
Sat. May 6 Chelsea
Petzel - Walead Beshty
Koening & Clinton - Peter Dreher
Lombard - Richard Ighby & Marilou Lemmens
Zwirner - Raymond Petition, Felix Gonzalez-Torres
T. Rollins - Pinaree Sanpitak
Garth Brennan - Allan d’Arcangelo
Shainman - Becky Suss, Gehard Demetz
M. Rosenfeld - William T. Williams
Gladstone - Michael Williams
303 - Rodney Graham
Gagosian - Anselm Kiefer, Robert Therrien
P. Cooper - David Novros
Bonakdar - Martin Boyce
Ameringer - Patrick Wilson, Rod Penner
M. Marks - Ellsworth Kelly, Ray Johnson
DC Moore - Whitfield Lovell
M. Boone - Judith Barry
Lisson - Susan Hiller
Luhring - Lygia Clark
B. Wolkowitz - Jim Campbell
Pace - Leo Villareal
Sun, May 14 LES
Chapter NY - Mira Nancy
Bureau - Patricia Treib
Totah - Helen Pashgian, Brian Willis
Essex Street - Jef Geys
N. Karg - Jim Drain
GBE - Verne Dawson
Cohan - Amy Feldman
M. Abreu - Rochelle Goldberg, Rey Akdogan
K. Schuss - Alice Mackler
D. Lewis - Barbara Bloom
Invisible Exports - Stephen Irwin
D. Eller - David Korty
CRG - Ori Gersht
CANADA - Johanna Jackson & Sahar Khoury, Jess Fuller
11R - Mariah Robertson, Miko & Thayer
Sun, June 4 LES
M. Abreu - Pieter Schoolwerth
Invisible Exports - group (w/ C. Opie, B. Kim, H. Wilke, R. Athey)
K. Von Nichtssagend - Sam Contis
Perrotin - Ivan Argote
J. Fuentes - Noam Rappaport
Callicoon - group
Tue-Sat, June 6-10 Madrid
Museo Esteban Vicente, Segovia - Carlos Leon
Palacio de Velazquez - Franz Erhard Walther
Palacio de Cristal _ Rosa Brun
E. Benitez - Gintaras Didziapetris
H. Erhardt - Fernando Garcia
Travesia Cuatro - Milena Muzquiz
J. de Aizpuru - Alberto Garcia-Alix
Centro Centro - Teresa Margolles
Museo Reina Sofia - Picasso, Lee Lozano
Museo del Prado - Hispanic Society
La Caja Negra- Lake Verea
Museo ICO — Gabriele Basilico
NoguerasBlanchard - group
Espacio Minimo - Manu Arregui
M. Cervera - Michael Berryhill
H. de Alvera - Jose Pedro Croft
M. Perez de Albeniz - group
Sun-Tue, June 18-20 Los Angeles
Hammer Museum - Marisa Merz, Judith Hopf, Andrea Bowers, Jeanne Oleson, Oliver Payne & Keiichi Tanaami
Vielmetter - Edgard Arceneaux, Samuel Levi Jones
Roberts Tilton - Evan Trine, group
Zevitas - Nicole Cherubini
E. Cella - ‘Vernacular Environments’
Anat Ebgi - An Te Liu, Nicholas Pilato
L. De Jesus - Michael Kindred Knight, Sean Gannon
Kordansky - Mai-Thu Perret,
LA Louver - Frederick Hammersly
Thu, June 29 Chelsea
Gagosian - Carsten Holler
J. Cohan - group (w/ D. Altmejd, Merner Larsen)
Metro - group
S. Inglett - George Herms, Myranda Gillies
Shainman - group (w/ Pia Joe)
Lennon Weinberg - group
Pace - Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo
Cheim & Read - Chantal Joffe
G. Adams - Robert Arneson & William T. Wiley
E. Thorp - group (w/ Mike Olin)
Albertz Benda - Del Kathryn Barton
P. Kasmin - Roxy Paine, Mark Ryden
S. Kelly - group
Wed-Fri September 21-22 Berlin
Berlinisches Galerie - Monica Bonvicini, Christine Streuli, Amie Siegal, collection
Konig - Monica Bonvicini, Norbert Basky
Schutte - Gordon Matta-Clark
Buchmann - Martin Disler
Carlier I Gebauer - Tarik Kiswanson, Helene Delprat
Barbara Thumm - group
Haus der Kulturen der Welt - Art Without Death
Deutsche Bank - Roberto Burle-Marx
Hetzler - Richard Prince
Mehdi Chouakri - Giulio Paolini, Saadane Afif
Contemporary Fine Arts - Tal R
Buchholz - Moyra Davey, Sam Lewitt
P. Haverkampf - Marcel Eichner, Katherine Bradford
Weiss Berlin - Ed Clark
Capitan Petzel - Amy Sillman
n.b.k. - Harun Farocki
Wed, September 28 Chelsea
Ameringer Yohe - Franklin Evans
PPOW - Aurel Schmidt
Julie Saul - Tanya Marcuse
Allan Stone - John Graham
Kaufmann - Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
Sikkema-Jenkins - Kara Walker
Kreps - Cheyney Thompson
Lehmann Maupin - Mary Corse
Mitchell-Innes - Amanda Ross-Ho
B. Wolkowitz - Stephen Willat
Gladstone - Walter Swennen
Lelong - Lin Tianmiao
G. Adams - Joan Brown, George Schneeman
Alex Gray - Polly Apfelbaum
Greene Naftali - Peter Halley, Allen Ruppersberg
Boesky - Sanford Biggers, Diana al-Hadid
Metro - Trevor Paglen
Cohan - group
Bravin Lee - Charles Ritchie
Pace - Maya Lin, Lucas Samaras
FLAG - Ashley Bickerton
Lisson - Leon Polk Smith
S. Inglett - Beverly Semmes
Mary Boone - Peter Saul
Cheim & Read - Louise Fishman
T. Rollins - Tiffany Chung
Garth Greenan - Rosalyn Drexler
Zwirner- Chris Ofili
Lombard - Mounir Fatmi
Saturday October 21 Chelsea
Lisson - Stanley Whitney
M. Rosenfeld - Barbara Chase-Riboud
Zwirner - Ad Reinhardtt, Ruth Asawa
Shainman - Andres Serrano
P. Cooper - Douglas Huebler
303 - Eva Rothschild
H&W - Arte Povera
Lehmann Maupin - Gilbert & George
DC Moore - Joyce Kozloff
Ameringer - Michael Reafsnyder
Y. Richardson - Anthony Hernandez
Carolina Kitsch - Louise Bourgeois
Sikkema - group
M. Marks - Robert Adams
Geisberg - Carolyn Case
DeBuck - Robert Lazzarini
Marlborough - Keith Mayerson, Gary Panter
Lennon - Robert Berlind
Ryan Lee -Emma Amos
Morgan Lehman - Tim Bavington
Morgan Metz - Duke Riley
J. Cohan - Lee Mullican
Kasmin - Robert Motherwell
Casey Kaplan - Jordan Casteel
Wednesday-Friday, November 8-10 Los Angeles
MoCA - Ana Maria Maiolino, Adrian Villar-Rojas
ICA-LA - Martin Ramirez
REDCAT - Leon Ferrari
Mistake Room - Eduardo Sarabia
356 S. Mission - Ruth Root
Maccarone - David Lamelas, Sarah Charlesworth
Japanese American Nat’l Museum - group
Hammer - Radical Women
Fowler - Bahia, Fran Siegel
Autry Museum - La Raza
LACE - Juan Downey
LA><Art - video group
Sunday - Saturday, December 3-9 Miami
Institute of Contemporary Art - The Everywhere Studio
Pinta - Coleccion Mercantil
Bass Museum - Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ugo Rondinone, Mike Rottenberg
Cuban Museum - group (w/ Bedia, Azaceta, etc)
PAMM - Hew Locke, John Dinkley, Dara Friedman
Sunday, December 10 LES
Rachel Uffner - Maryam Hoseini
Pierogi - group
Brennan & Griffin - Arthur Ou
Derek Eller - Michelle Segre
S. Preston - group (w/ Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Beau Dick)
CANADA - Matt Conners
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