
DrawNow! DibujoAhora!
December 10, 2020
ViewOctober 7, 2020 – January 17, 2021
Featuring drawings made by an international group of artists since early 2020, 100 Drawings from Now provides a snapshot of artistic production during a period of profound global unrest that has resulted from the ongoing health and economic crises, as well as a surge of activism in response to systemic racism, social injustice, and police brutality in the United States. Together, the works in the exhibition spotlight the urgency, intimacy, and universality of drawing during moments of upheaval and isolation.
In Torkwase Dyson’s words, “I’m drawing now because I need to….I feel a chorus in my space of solitude and I’m making because of it.” 100 Drawings from Now amplifies this chorus, showing the myriad ways that drawing can act as a vital connective force, a respite, a demonstration of pain or anger in the face of injustice, and an essential expression of one’s humanity.
100 Drawings from Now is organized by Claire Gilman, Chief Curator, Rosario Güiraldes, Assistant Curator, and Laura Hoptman, Executive Director, with Isabella Kapur, Curatorial Assistant.
b. 1978, Beirut, Lebanon
Lives and works in Lebanon and the Netherlands
b. 1977, Jerusalem, Israel
Lives and works in New York, NY
Michael Armitage (b. 1984, Nairobi, Kenya) lives and works in Nairobi and London. He received his BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2007) and has a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London (2010). Selected solo exhibitions include: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (2021); Royal Academy, London (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020); Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2020); Projects 110, Studio Museum in collaboration with MoMA, New York City (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2019); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2019); South London Gallery, UK (2017); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco (2016); and Royal Academy Schools Studios, London (2010). Selected group exhibitions include Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (2021); British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery (2021); Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2021); Drawing Room, London (2021); The Warehouse, Dallas (2020); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020); 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (2018); Prospect.4, New Orleans (2017); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2017); HOME, Manchester (2016); Yuan Art Museum, Beijing (2015); 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); Palazzo Capris, Turin (2015); South London Gallery (2014); and Drawing Room, London (2013).
b. 1982, Oxford, UK
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Rina Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India in 1963, and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Polymer Engineering at Case Western University 1993. Banerjee’s break from science and entry into the Arts was initiated by joining the Yale School of Art and graduating in 1995. Although, Banerjee’s education at Yale was largely shaped by her post-colonial identity and academic coursework at Yale University this valuable foundation was integral to informing her studio practice.
Banerjee’s work has been exhibited internationally, including but not limited to New York, NY where she currently lives and works. Her exhibitions have spanned 13 biennials, including the 57th Venice Biennial, Kochi Biennial, Cairo Biennial and Yokohama Biennial. Her current gallery representation include Nathalie Obadia Galerie in Paris Brussel, OTA fine Art in Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore as well as Hosfelt Gallery and LA Louver in San Fransisco and Los Angeles. The artist’s work is also included in a number of private and public collections such as the Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, San Jose museum of art, California; Kiran Nada Museum of Art, New Delhi; and the Brooklyn Museum, NYC.
b. 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
Lives and works in London, UK, and Brooklyn, NY
b. 1974, Athens, Greece
Lives and works in Newark, NJ
b. 1988, Rabat, Morocco
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1973 Madison, WI
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1976, St. Louis, MO
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1997, Park Ridge, NJ
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1969, London, UK
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1960, Padua, Italy
Lives and works in New York, NY, and Milan, Italy
b. 1973, Hong Kong
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
b. 1952, Naples, Italy
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1943, Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in Sauve, France
b. 1948, Long Beach, NY
Lives and works in Sauve, France
Timothy Curtis (b. 1982) is a self-taught artist from Philadelphia, who lives and works in New York City. Since establishing a focused studio practice in 2015, Curtis realized his first solo exhibition in November 2017 at Kaikai Kiki’s Hidari Zingaro gallery in Tokyo, Japan, curated by Takashi Murakami. His work was debuted publicly in the U.S. at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the group exhibition Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull) by the artist Stephen Powers (2015-1016). In 2018, Curtis’ work was included in Beyond the Streets, curated by Roger Gastman, a follow-up to Los Angeles MoCA's successful Art in the Streets exhibition. Curtis has also led a prison-wide mural program, creating large-scale projects throughout the prison campus, and leading a team of inmates, many of whom were serving life sentences and now practicing art for the first time.
Jesse Darling (b. 1981, Oxford, United Kingdom) attended Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and Slade School of Fine Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Gravity Road, Kunsteverein Freiburg (2020); Crevé, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille (2019); and The Ballad of Saint Jerome, Art Now at Tate Britain, London (2018). Darling’s works have featured in numerous group exhibitions such as Crip Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); 100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York City (2020); Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019); May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Give Up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Tallinn (2018); Occasional Geometries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017); and Bread and Roses, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2016). Darling has authored texts for publications including Art After the Internet (Cornerhouse Books, 2014); Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2015); Documents of Contemporary Art: Translation (Whitechapel Press, 2020); as well as written for Frieze, Artforum, Granta, and The New Inquiry. Their chapbook VIRGINS was published by Monitor Books in 2022.
b. 1994, Puerto Rico
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1965, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
b. 1982, Auckland, New Zealand
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
b. 1958, Bronx, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1981, New York, NY
Lives and works in Kingston, NY
b. 1973, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Harlem and Newburgh, NY
Torkwase Dyson (born Chicago) received a BA from Tougaloo College in 1996, BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 and MFA from Yale School of Art in 2003. Working in multiple mediums, Dyson describes herself as a painter whose forms address the continuity of ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. She merges ideas such as site and built environments, nature and culture under the rubric of environmentalism. Fascinated with transformations, ambiguities and environmental changes that place these subjects in relationship to each other, her work revolves around investigating our connections to imagination, materiality, geography and belonging
b. 1972, London, UK
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1987, Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1978, Guangzhou, China
Lives and works in Beijing, China
b. 1947, Bronx, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1986, Columbia, MD
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1974, Memphis, TN
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1975, Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1967, New Haven, CT
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1948, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil
b. 1984, Mendoza, Argentina
Lives and works in Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Aires, Argentina
b. 1966, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1976, New York, NY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
b. 1966, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
He Xiangyu (b. 1986, Kuandian County, China) lives and works in Beijing and Berlin. From the Cola Project (2009–2011), the Lemon Project (2014–2019) to the ongoing Palate Project (2012–), He Xiangyu’s conceptual practice manifests in multi-year projects that span sculpture, drawing, installation, video, feature-length documentary, and publication. Emerging as part of a generation of artists who have experienced the post-socialist state of China, He’s work looks to shift the perception of cultural signifiers through an examination and manipulation of a diversity of materials. Divergent in aesthetic and forms, He’s projects aim to investigate personal, social, and political themes, addressing the institutionalized status of contemporary art, the archeological aspect of the everyday and various post-human conditions. He Xiangyu lives and works in Beijing and Berlin. He’s recent solo exhibitions include: Soft Dilemma, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City (2021); Hard Palate, White Space Beijing (2020); Who Are Interested in Us, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo (2019); Evidence, White Cube, London, (2018); and New Directions: He Xiangyu, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015).
b. 1978, Paris, France
Lives and works in Paris, France, and New York, NY
b. 1947, Bremerton, WA
Lives and works in Reinbeck, NY
b. 1981, Atlanta, GA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1951, Boston, MA
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1990, Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1963, Long Beach, CA
Lives and works in Greenfield, MA
b. 1977, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1982, Moscow, Russia
Lives and works in New York, NY
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, United States) lives and works in Berlin. She has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Whitney Museum, New York City (2018); Art Institute of Chicago (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); De Appel, Amsterdam (2017); Rubin Museum of Art, New York City (2017); 9th Berlin Biennale (2016); 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016); SoundLive Tokyo (2015, 2013); MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2015) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2013), among others. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Tate, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.. Kim is the recipient of a MIT Media Lab Fellowship, a TED Senior Fellowship, and has presented at numerous conferences and symposia.
b. 1981, Lansing, MI
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
Enzo Camacho
b. 1987, Dallas, TX, USA
Lives and works in New York City, NY, and Manila, Philippines
Amy Lien
b. 1987, Dallas, TX, USA
Lives and works in New York City, NY, and Manila, Philippines
b. 1953, Loíza, Puerto Rico
Lives and works in Loíza, Puerto Rico
b. 1984, Taipei, Taiwan
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1946, Karachi, Undivided India
Lives and works in Mumbai, India
b. 1976, San Salvador, El Salvador
Lives and works in New York, NY
Helen Marten (b. 1985, Macclesfield, UK) lives and works in London. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Greene Naftali, New York City (2021, 2016); Serpentine Gallery, London (2016); Fridericianum, Kassel (2014); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2013); Kunsthalle Zürich (2012); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012). Her work is in the collections of the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Tate, London, among others.
b. 1977, Groton Naval Base, Groton, CT
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1986, Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1980, Palo Alto, CA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1943, Berk-sur-Mer, France
Lives and works in Malakoff, France
b. 1955, New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1983, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1971, Austria
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1982, Nassau, Bahamas
Lives and works in Germantown, MD, and Nassau, Bahamas
b. 1977, Governador Valadares, Brazil
Lives and works throughout the world
b. 1991, Latisana, Italy
Lives and works in London, UK
b. 1977, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in New York, NY
Deeply rooted in a conceptual framework, Tony Oursler conjures multimedia and immersive experiences which combine traditional art making tools with new technologies. Oursler draws inspiration from wide ranging pop cultural phenomena including telecommunications, narrative evolution, conspiracy, social media, facial recognition, mysticism and environmental concerns. His works often take the form of a “palimpsest,” layering possible futures with the recent past while focusing on present day issues. As a pioneer of video art in early 1970s California and New York, Oursler developed a unique fusion of poetic free-association, stream of consciousness, dramaturgy and radical formal experimentation, employing painting, animation, montage and live action. From performative and lo-fi beginnings to his high tech environments of today, he holds an enduring fascination with the overlapping worlds of popular and subcultural activities and belief systems. Today, Oursler believes art can be “practiced by all and is a unifying transformative force.”
Born in 1957 in NY. Tony Oursler graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA, and lives and works in New York, NY, USA.
b. 1984, Philadelphia, PA
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1996, Daegu, South Korea
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1947, Garessio, Italy
Lives and works in Turin, Italy, and Paris, France
b. 1961, Sibiu, Romania
Lives and works in Bucharest, Romania
b. 1988, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1957, Tucson, AZ
Lives and works in New York, NY
Walter Price (b. 1989 Macon, United States) lives and works in New York City. Price served in the U.S. Navy en route to art school. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Camden Art Centre, London (2021); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2020); Greene Naftali, New York City (2020); Aspen Art Museum (2019); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2018); and MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2018). Significant group exhibitions include those at the Whitney Biennial, New York City (2019); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City (2017); and LUMA Foundation, Zürich (2017). His work is in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, among others.
b. 1985, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
b. 1977, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1988, Oklahoma City, OK
Lives and works in Tucson, AZ
b. 1962, Austin, TX
Lives and works in Austin, TX
b. 1962, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
Florencia Rodríguez Giles (b. 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in Buenos Aires. She studied at Escuela nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón and continued her training under the mentorship of artists Nicola Costantino, Diana Aisenberg, and Guillermo Kuitca through the Kuitca-Di Tella Scholarship. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including at the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art hosted by KW Institute for Contemporary Art (2020); Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris (2020); Bienal de Performance, Buenos Aires (2019); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2018); Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); Arcus Studio, Ibaraki (2015); and Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2013).
b. 1989, Miami, FL
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in Tivoli, NY
Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979, Edmonton, Alberta) studied as an apprentice of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Santiago has exhibited internationally at venues such as The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; The New Museum, New York, NY; The Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada; The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; among others. The artist was included in the SITE Santa Fe SITELines.2018 Biennial, Casa Tomada, in Santa Fe, NM and was featured in the 2018 Biennale de Dakar in Dakar, Senegal. His work is in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
b. 1971, Alexandria, Egypt
Lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt
Arlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. A critically-acclaimed twenty-year survey of the artist’s work, All At Once, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2015. Shechet has designed and curated exhibitions including Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection, on view at The Frick Collection, New York (2016–17), and From Here on Now at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2016–17). Her ambitious large-scale public project Full Steam Ahead featured monumental porcelain and mixed media sculptures installed in Madison Square Park, New York (2018–19). Shechet’s first solo show at Pace Gallery, Skirts, opened in New York in February 2020. The monograph Arlene Shechet: Skirts (Pace Publishing, 2020) includes an essay by scholar Rachel Silveri and interviews with the artist by Deborah Solomon and Michaëla Mohrmann. Shechet currently has work on view in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Upcoming projects include exhibitions in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, as well as a historical and contemporary installation that Shechet has designed for the Harvard Art Museums and a permanent sculpture commission for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego.
b. 1955, Detroit, MI
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Amy Sillman (b. 1955) is a painter who has lived and worked in NYC since 1975. She earned her BFA in 1979 at SVA, and her MFA from Bard College in 1995. Sillman’s work is rooted in drawing, the process of improvisation, and to negotiating the terrain between things, e.g. the corporeal and the intellectual, figuration and abstraction, or the intimate scale of the hand versus a larger sense of meaning that unfurls across physical spaces. Her work is held in many private and public collections in the US and Europe, including MoMA, The Whitney, the Brandhorst Museum in Munich, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and The Tate Modern in London. A mid-career traveling survey show "one lump or two," curated by Helen Molesworth, originated at The ICA Boston in 2013 accompanied by a monograph. Her animation After Metamorphoses was created for The Drawing Center, and was on view in the winter/spring of 2017. Last fall Sillman curated the exhibition “The Shape of Shape” for MoMA’s re-opening, accompanied by a 'zine entitled “Shapes” produced for MoMA Magazine. Sillman is represented by Gladstone Gallery in NYC, where her current solo show “Twice Removed” will be on view until November 14th, 2020.
b. 1967, Riverside, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
b. 1957, Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria
Egyptian-Polish-American
Lives and works in Paris, France, and New York, NY
b. 1958, Hong Kong
Lives and works in Hong Kong
Tiravanija is an Argentina born Thai artist who lives between New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai and his work carries strains of this nomadic existence, blending and re-combining different cultural contexts. Rather than insisting on a particular reality or truth, his work creates open-ended contexts for people to grapple with these questions themselves. The strength of Tiravanija’s work lies precisely in its ephemerality and the slippery ways it escapes definition; he takes the material of the every-day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself.
Tiravanija received his BA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1984 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986. From 1985-1986, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has received numerous grants and awards, including the Absolut Art Award 2010, the Silpathorn Award by the Ministry of Culture in Thailand (2017), Hugo Boss Prize (2004), and Lucelia Artist Award by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2003), among others.
Tiravanija lives and works in New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai.
b. 1956, Santa Monica, CA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
b. 1960, London, England
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1938, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Lives and works in New York, NY
b. 1954, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands
b. 1982, Lunenburg, Canada
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
b. 1979, Hong Kong
Lives and works in Hong Kong
b. 1976, Troy, New York
Lives and works in Canaan, NY