Explore/Archive
January 16–March 21, 2020
Naima Green
Pur·suit is a 54-card poker deck by artist Naima Green that features portraits of queer womxn, trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people.
November 7–December 21, 2019
Christopher Udemezue
Duppy reflects Udemezue’s complex longings and projections of nostalgia toward his and his mother’s homeland, Jamaica.
May 3–June 2, 2018
Manuel Molina Martagon
EL RECREO will turn Recess into a home base for restaurant workers, with diverse programming addressing current issues faced by the food service.
September 8–October 28, 2017
Maayan Strauss
The Service Room is a project that will create a unique environment and framework for the communal exchange of services.
September 1–October 29, 2016
Canaries
Canaries will address the two primary components of their practice—collective care and self-care—through programs and documentary activities
February 15–April 26, 2013
Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth
Ikonen and Hjorth will create costumes, settings, and performance programs for senior residents of New York
March 22–April 11, 2012
Me and Everyone That is With Me
Alex Casso, Graham Hamilton, and Dan Herschlein
Artists collaborate with the Education Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art on classes for students from the Regent Family Residence.
November 8–December 11, 2011
Leila Hekmat
Hekmat will fuse the therapist’s office, researcher center, and performance set.
September 27–December 1, 2011
Park McArthur and Yve Laris Cohen
Laris Cohen and McArthur will use Recess as a space to work on individual and collaborative projects concerning the politics of inclusion.
October 28–December 11, 2010
The Brown Bear: Neither Particular, Nor General
A.K. Burns and Katherine Hubbard
Burns and Hubbard will adapt Recess into a working installation that will intentionally conflate the hair and art salon.