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MARKING TIME: ART

IN THE AGE OF MASS

INCARCERATION
The Museum of Modern Art | PS1

MoMA PS1 will present a major exhibition exploring the work
of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration
to contemporary art and culture, on view from April 5 through
August 23, 2020. Featuring art made by people in prisons
and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state
repression, erasure, and imprisonment, Marking Time: Art in
the Age of Mass Incarceration highlights more than 35 artists,
including American Artist, Tameca Cole, Russell Craig, James
“Yaya” Hough, Jesse Krimes, Mark Loughney, Gilberto Rivera,
and Sable Elyse Smith. Alongside the exhibition, a series of
public programs, education initiatives, and ongoing projects at
MoMA PS1 will explore the social and cultural impact of mass
incarceration.
From various sites of freedom or unfreedom, these artists

Gilberto Rivera, An Institutional Nightmare, 2012. Federal prison uniform, Sable Elyse Smith, Pivot II, 2019. Stainless steel with 2k painted finish. 56 x 56
x 56 in. Courtesy the artist, JTT, New York, and Carlos/Ishikawa, London.
commissary papers, floor wax, prison reports, newspaper, acrylic paint on
canvas. 32.25 x 24.25 inches. Collection Jesse Krimes.
devise strategies for visualizing, mapping, and making physically
present the impact and scale of life under carceral conditions,
underscoring how prisons and the prison industrial complex
have shaped contemporary culture. The exhibition features
work by Carole Alden; American Artist; Mary Enoch Elizabeth
Baxter aka Isis tha Saviour; Sara Bennett; Conor Broderick;
Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick; Daniel McCarthy
Clifford; Tameca Cole; Larry Cook; Russell Craig; Amber Daniel;
Nereida García-Ferraz; Maria Gaspar; Dean Gillispie; GisMo
(Jessica Gispert and Crystal Pearl Molinary); Ronnie Goodman;
Gary Harrell; Brian Hindson; James “Yaya” Hough; Ashley Hunt;
Michael Iovieno; Jesse Krimes; Susan Lee-Chun; William B.
Livingston III; Mark Loughney; Ojore Lutalo; Bob McKay, Donald,
Kit, Charlie, and Lopez; Cedar Mortenson; George Anthony
Morton; Jesse Osmun; Jared Owens; Rowan Renee; Gilberto
Rivera; Billy Sell; James Sepesi; Welmon Sharlhorne; Sable
Elyse Smith; Justin Sterling; Todd (Hyung-Rae) Tarselli; Jerome
Washington; and Aimee Wissman.
Marking Time is organized by guest curator Dr. Nicole R.
Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History at
Rutgers University, and reflects her decade-long dedication
to the research, analysis, and archiving of the visual art and
creative practices of incarcerated artists and art that responds
to mass incarceration.

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