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Craigie Horsfield

Artist

WA-00031907

PhotographyContemporaryPhotography

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WikidataQ3002078

MoMA

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/23402
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Craigie Horsfield combines photography, film, and large-scale installation to examine how images constitute collective memory and ethical encounter. Since the 1970s, he has treated the documentary photograph not as evidence but as a site demanding sustained attention, often layering photographs with text, sound, and architectural intervention. His immersive installations resist the conventional separation between artwork and viewer, instead proposing photography as a practice of responsibility and temporal entanglement.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago

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Contemporary

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Photography

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (18)

WattsOS

El Hierro Conversation

2002 · Four-channel video installation, color, sound

Overall: 288 × 275 in. (731.5 × 698.5 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Bankside Power Station, London. December 1994

2000 · Photograph, black and white, gelatin silver print, on paper

unconfirmed: 591 x 492 mm

Tate

E. Horsfield. Well Street, East London. August 1987

1995 · Photograph on paper

image: 1754 x 2535 mm

Tate

E. Horsfield, Well Street, East London, March 1986

1992 · Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper on aluminium

image: 2132 x 1319 mm

Tate

Cage, Bronowicka, Krakow, April 1979

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 139.4 × 140 cm (54 15/16 × 55 1/8 in.); Frame: 153 × 153.7 × 3.8 cm (60 1/4 × 60 9/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hackney Road, East London, December 1983

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 136.8 × 136.8 cm (53 7/8 × 53 7/8 in.); Frame: 150.5 × 150.5 × 1.6 cm (59 5/16 × 59 5/16 × 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Klub Pod Jaszcurami, Rynek Glowny, Krakow, May 1974

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 141.3 × 139.7 cm (55 11/16 × 55 in.); Frame: 153 × 153.7 × 3.8 cm (60 1/4 × 60 9/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Balben Path, East London, November 1988

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 138.4 × 138.7 cm (54 1/2 × 54 5/8 in.); Frame: 153 × 153 × 2 cm (60 1/4 × 60 1/4 × 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Crouch Hall Road, North London, July 1970

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 137.8 × 137.2 cm (54 5/16 × 54 1/16 in.); Frame: 151.7 × 166.4 × 3.2 cm (59 3/4 × 65 9/16 × 1 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Craigie Horsfield, Highgate, North London, July 1970

1989 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 139.7 × 140.6 cm (55 × 55 3/8 in.); Frame: 153.7 × 154.6 × 2 cm (60 9/16 × 60 7/8 × 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

E. Horsfield, Well Street, East London, May 1987

1989 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 137.2 × 188.3 cm (54 1/16 × 74 3/16 in.); Frame: 149.2 × 200.7 × 1.3 cm (58 3/4 × 79 1/16 × 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

E. Horsfield, Well Street, East London, May 1983

1989 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 153 × 140.6 cm (60 1/4 × 55 3/8 in.); Frame: 165.1 × 152.4 × 2.5 cm (65 × 60 × 1 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Susan Smith, Ashbride Road, East London, May 1971

1989 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 136.5 × 137.8 cm (53 3/4 × 54 5/16 in.); Frame: 151.8 × 166.4 × 3.2 cm (59 13/16 × 65 9/16 × 1 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

E. Horsfield, Well Street, East London, November 1975

1989 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 154.3 × 141.3 cm (60 3/4 × 55 11/16 in.); Frame: 165.7 × 153.4 × 2.9 cm (65 1/4 × 60 7/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Kino Wisla, ul. Gazowa, Krakow, January 1979

1988 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 149.2 × 137.1 cm (58 3/4 × 54 in.); Frame: 160.3 × 149.2 × 1.3 cm (63 1/8 × 58 3/4 × 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Andrzej Klimowski, Crouch Hall Rd., North London, Oct. 1969

1988 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 166 × 140.3 cm (65 3/8 × 55 1/4 in.); Frame: 178.1 × 152.4 × 6 cm (70 1/8 × 60 × 2 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Magda and Leszek Mierzwa, ul. Nawojki, Krakow, July 1984

1984 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 146.4 × 137.2 cm (57 11/16 × 54 1/16 in.); Frame: 160.3 × 151.4 × 2 cm (63 1/8 × 59 5/8 × 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Pl. Powstancow Slaskich, Pódgorze

1979 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1988

58 3/4 × 58 3/4" (149.2 × 149.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

18 published of 19 catalogued · 16 with image

Art Institute Chicago
13 published13 img
Tate
3 published3 img
MoMA
1 publishedof 2 catalogued
Whitney
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 1 sources

Bankside Power Station, London. December 1994
2000 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
E. Horsfield. Well Street, East London. August 1987
1995 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
E. Horsfield, Well Street, East London, March 1986
1992 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Movements2

Contemporary Photography

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Tate Whitney Museum of American Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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