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Stephen Prina

Stephen Prina

1954

WA-00003229

Mixed MediaConceptual Art

Representation

None documented

1

Institutional Exhibitions

85

Works in Collection

233

Assets Indexed

4

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

100%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ1682539

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Tabula Rasa

Paula Cooper Gallery

2024

Field Verification (3 fields)

2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (4)

Spruth-Magershttps://spruethmagers.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Petzelhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/stephen-prina
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Maureen-Paleyhttps://www.maureenpaley.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4739
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

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.

Source: Spruth Magers · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Conceptual Art

Medium

Mixed Media

Related Artists

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Canonical record

Artworks (85)

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

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

Push Comes to Love

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

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

O 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: 60 1/2 × 62" (153.7 × 157.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Kelly (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

C 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: 59 1/2 × 50 3/4" (151.1 × 128.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

Rauschenberg (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

Rauschenberg 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: 75 × 110 3/4" (190.5 × 281.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Newman (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

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

Malevich 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: 34 1/4 × 34 3/8" (87 × 87.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

Rodchenko 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: 33 1/2 × 33 1/2" (85.1 × 85.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Malevich (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

Label (2) 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

Rodchenko (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

Strzeminski 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: 26 1/2 × 17 1/4" (67.3 × 43.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Strzeminski (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

Newman 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: 85 1/2 × 37 5/8" (217.2 × 95.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

O 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: 60 3/4 × 62" (154.3 × 157.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

Kelly 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: 27 × 27" (68.6 × 68.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (1)

85 published of 170 catalogued · 14 with image

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85 publishedof 170 catalogued14 img

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Images

63 assets

Artsy artist portrait

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Artsy artwork: Push Comes to Love: Vivid Rose (1999)

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Artsy artwork: Mailing List: ArtPace, San Antonio (2000)

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Artsy artwork: Untitled Version II (1987-1988)

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Artsy artwork: English for Foreigners Redux (2018)

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Artsy artwork: Haberdashery (2002)

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Artsy artist portrait

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Bookplate of the Lakeside Press Library (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Relationships

30

Peers & Context27

Sarah Charlesworthco-exhibited Sam Durantco-exhibited Douglas Hueblerco-exhibited Sara VanDerBeekco-exhibitedLiu Shiyuanco-exhibitedLuciano Pernaco-exhibited

Movements1

Collections2

Paula Cooper Gallery Maureen Paley

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Paula Cooper Gallery

Represented by

Maureen Paley

Current

Network

Related Artists

Sarah Charlesworth

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Douglas Huebler

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Sara VanDerBeek

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Tabula Rasa