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Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt

Artist

WA-00033829

Representation

None documented

1

Institutional Exhibitions

64

Works in Collection

131

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Bookworks

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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About

Why this artist matters now

Henry Flynt is an American conceptual artist and theorist whose practice since the 1960s spans performance, notation, and text-based work. He investigates the ideological foundations of Western art and music systems through deliberate acts of aesthetic and institutional critique, challenging conventional distinctions between art and non-art. His work operates across multiple registers, treating conceptual intervention and philosophical critique as material practices.

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Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (64)

Concert 4/26/82 and Lecture 4/30/82

1982 · three cassettes

Museum of Modern Art

Ephemera from Henry Flynt Concert, White Columns, New York, April 26, 1982

1982 · Cut-and-pasted chromogenic color print on chromogenic color print

sheet: 10 3/16 × 7 15/16" (25.8 × 20.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Scores for Solos from Concert on April 26, 1982

1982 · Envelope with ballpoint pen, containing photocopies

Museum of Modern Art

Fragments & Reconstructions from a Destroyed Oeuvre, 1959–1963

Fragments & Reconstructions from a Destroyed Oeuvre, 1959–1963

1982 · Cut-and-taped photocopy on envelope, containing booklet, photocopied

overall (.a): 12 × 8 15/16 × 5/16" (30.5 × 22.7 × 0.8 cm); (.b, closed): 11 × 8 9/16 × 1/4" (27.9 × 21.7 × 0.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Poster for Henry Flynt & Nova' Billy Concert, 80 Wooster St., New York, January 27, 1975

Poster for Henry Flynt & Nova' Billy Concert, 80 Wooster St., New York, January 27, 1975

1975 · Offset lithograph

sheet: 14 × 19 15/16" (35.5 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Two Visual Compositions

Two Visual Compositions

1970 · Ballpoint pen on paper (recto and verso)

sheet: 11 × 8 1/2" (27.9 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Multiplex Organization, Demonstration to Be Held before It Is Called, and Boundary Condition

Multiplex Organization, Demonstration to Be Held before It Is Called, and Boundary Condition

1968 · Photocopy

sheet: 11 × 8 1/2" (28 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

??/The Know-Nothings

??/The Know-Nothings

1968 · Typewriting and presstype on paper

sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16" (27.8 × 21.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Exhibit of a Working Model of a Perception-Dissociator: (Invitation), Statement of Objectives, and To the Director

Exhibit of a Working Model of a Perception-Dissociator: (Invitation), Statement of Objectives, and To the Director

1968 · Three cut-and-taped photocopies in envelope

10 1/16 × 9" (25.5 × 22.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Organization Compositions

1968 · Photocopy on paper and typewriting and presstype on paper

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Museum of Modern Art

Down with Art

1968 · Offset lithograph

page (each): 4 1/8 x 10 13/16" (10.5 x 27.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture from No (First series)

Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture from No (First series)

1967 · Letterpress

sheet: 28 x 19 5/8" (71.1 x 49.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Innperseqs-Diagram

Innperseqs-Diagram

1966 · Colored pencil, ballpoint pen, and typewriting on paper

sheet: 10 15/16 x 8 7/16" (27.8 x 21.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Seven Appendices from Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

Seven Appendices from Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

1965 · Double-sided offset

sheet (unfolded): 16 15/16 x 33 15/16" (43 x 86.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mechanical for Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

1965 · Cut-and-pasted photostats and typewriting on paper on photostat with transparentized paper with felt-tip pen and pencil, mounted on board

sheet: 21 x 20" (53.3 x 50.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mechanical for Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

1965 · Cut-and-pasted photostats and typewriting on paper on photostat with ballpoint pen, mounted on board

sheet: 20 1/4 x 20" (51.4 x 50.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mechanical for Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture: Appendix 2

1965 · Cut-and-pasted photostats and typewriting on paper on photostat, mounted on board

sheet: 26 1/2 x 22" (67.3 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

1965 · Double-sided offset

sheet: 16 15/16 x 16 15/16" (43 x 43 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture

1965 · Two folded offsets, plastic sheet, styrofoam, and rubber band

6 x 9 1/2 x 1 3/8" (15.2 x 24.2 x 3.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Action Against Cultural Imperialism, outside Judson Hall, NYC, September, 1964

Museum of Modern Art

Exercise Awareness-States: Photocopy of recent typescript of Version "a"

Exercise Awareness-States: Photocopy of recent typescript of Version "a"

1964 · Photocopy on seven sheets

sheet (each): 10 7/8 x 8 7/16" (27.6 x 21.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Exercise Awareness-States: Reconstruction made during period above version was lost

Exercise Awareness-States: Reconstruction made during period above version was lost

1964 · Pencil on notebook paper (recto and verso)

sheet: 10 15/16 x 8 7/16" (27.8 x 21.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Action Against Cultural Imperialism

1964 · (CONFIRM)

7 7/8 x 9 7/16" (20 x 24 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fight Musical Decoration of Fascism!

1964 · Offset lithograph

sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16" (27.8 × 21.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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64 published of 128 catalogued · 82 with image

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Images

Artsy artwork: Down With Art! (contributions by Henry Flynt, Terry Riley, Bob Morris, Walter de Maria, Diana Wakowski, Cornelius Cardew and Ben Vautier) (1968)

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Artsy artwork: Down With Art (1968)

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Museum of Modern Art

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Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Bookworks

New York · 1977