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Stephen Prina

1954

Mixed MediaConceptual Art

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Paula Cooper Gallery

2024

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Stephen Prina works across installation, performance, sculpture, and painting, applying a deconstructive, often parodic attention to the institutional apparatus of display, cataloguing, labeling, and framing that mediates how art reaches its audience. His projects treat exhibition-making itself as material, as in a traveling performance for the 2008 Whitney Biennial built from appropriated public testimonials.

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Artworks (85)

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A Lick and a Promise: Poster

2025 · Chromogenic print

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the Museum in Progress project TransAct: Transnational Activities in the Cultural Field

2000 · Lithograph, offset printed

sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 13/16" (47 x 63 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Push Comes to Love

1999 · CD

cover: 4 7/8 × 5 5/8" (12.4 × 14.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Top Thirteen Singles from Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart for the Week Ending September 11, 1993

1993 · Enamel on aluminum, acrylic, electronic hardware and carillon

Museum of Modern Art

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Label (1) from Untitled/"The history of modern painting, to label it with a phrase, has been the struggle against the catalogue"--Barnett Newman/(Monochrome Painting, 1988-1989)

1991 · Ink wash on rag, barrier paper, and cardboard

Frame: 5 3/4 × 8 1/2" (14.6 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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P from Untitled/"The history of modern painting, to label it with a phrase, has been the struggle against the catalogue"--Barnett Newman/(Monochrome Painting, 1988-1989)

1991 · Ink wash on rag, barrier paper, and cardboard

Frame: 57 × 31 3/4" (144.8 × 80.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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N from Untitled/"The history of modern painting, to label it with a phrase, has been the struggle against the catalogue"--Barnett Newman/(Monochrome Painting, 1988-1989)

1991 · Ink wash on rag, barrier paper, and cardboard

Frame: 61 3/4 × 45 3/4" (156.8 × 116.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Fontana (print) from Untitled/"The history of modern painting, to label it with a phrase, has been the struggle against the catalogue"--Barnett Newman/(Monochrome Painting, 1988-1989)

1991 · Ink wash on rag, barrier paper, and cardboard

Frame: 25 5/8 × 33" (65.1 × 83.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Paula Cooper Gallery

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Maureen Paley

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Group Exhibition Tabula Rasa

2024