Martine Syms

United States

Works

Contacts for the work of Martine Syms

Martine Syms

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Solo exhibitions

Collection in Focus

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
26 Jun 2026 – 23 May 2027
Knot Eye

Sadie Coles HQ, London (GB)
17 Sep 2026 – 7 Nov 2026
Soliloquy

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (US)
20 Mar 2026 – 28 Jun 2026
Dominica Publishing, a temporary boutique

Sprüth Magers, Berlin (DE)
2 May 2026 – 3 May 2026
Total

Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (F)
16 Oct 2024 – 9 Feb 2025
Present Goo

Sadie Coles HQ, London (GB)
14 Sep 2023 – 4 Nov 2023
Ugly Plymouths

Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR)
9 May 2023 – 17 Sep 2023
Loser Back Home

SPRÜTH MAGERS LA, Los Angeles (US)
2 Jun 2023 – 26 Aug 2023
Neural Swamp

The Future Fields Commission

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
14 May 2022 – 9 Jul 2023
She Mad Season One

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
2 Jul 2022 – 12 Feb 2023
She Mad: Season One

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
12 Nov 2021 – 19 Jan 2022
New Media Series

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis (US)
7 Aug 2020 – 15 Nov 2020
Ugly Plymouths

Sadie Coles HQ, London (GB)
6 Oct 2020 – 31 Oct 2020
Boon

Wiener Secession, Wien (AT)
12 Apr 2019 – 16 Jun 2019
An Evening with Queen White

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
14 Jul 2018 – 2 Dec 2018
Grand Calme

Sadie Coles HQ, London (GB)
6 Sep 2018 – 20 Oct 2018
MARTINE SYMS

Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)
14 Jun 2018 – 9 Sep 2018
Projects 106: Martine Syms

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
27 May 2017 – 16 Jul 2017
Fact & Trouble

ICA Inst Contemporary Arts, London (GB)
20 Apr 2016 – 19 Jun 2016

Group

Seriously

curated by Nana Bahlmann, featuring over a hundred conceptual photographs,

SPRÜTH MAGERS, London (GB)
21 Nov 2025 – 31 Jan 2026

with Bas Jan Ader, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Massimo Bartolini, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Helen Chadwick, Robert Cumming, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Braco Dimitrijevic …
This is a shot.

Works from the Serralves Collection

Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)
15 May 2025 – 9 Nov 2025

with Doug Aitken, Patricia Almeida, Mark Bradford, Marlon de Azambuja, Rashid Johnson, William Kentridge, Renato Leotta, Anna Maria Maiolino, Nalini Malani, Susana Mendes Silva, Jean-Luc Moulene, Hito Steyerl
For Real For Real

daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
16 May 2025 – 27 Jul 2025

with John Akomfrah, Mel Chin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kahlil Joseph, Alix Lambert, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Carrie Mae Weems
Digital Diaries

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
11 Apr 2024 – 6 Apr 2025

with Sophie Calle, Rindon Johnson, Kristin Lucas, Sarah Lucas, Ken Okiishi, Frances Stark, Wolfgang Tillmans, TROMARAMA, Hannah Wilke
Channeling

Neuerwerbungen + weitere Werke aus der Sammlung

MMK Museum, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
22 Sep 2023 – 11 Feb 2024

with Eric Baudelaire, Lothar Baumgarten, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Sky Hopinka, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Isaac Julien, Mike Mandel, Cady Noland, Beat Streuli, Sturtevant (Elaine) …
WORLD CLASSROOM

Contemporary Art through School Subjects

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
19 Apr 2023 – 24 Sep 2023

with Johanna Billing, Luke Ching, Manon de Boer, Sam Falls, Fischli & Weiss, Shilpa Gupta, Naoya Hatakeyama, Aziz Hazara, Susan Hiller, Yee I-Lann, Christian Jankowski, Tomoko Maezawa …
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK)
23 Jun 2023 – 23 Jul 2023

with Hans-Peter Feldmann, General Idea, Irena Haiduk , Koo Jeong-A, Maja Malou Lyse, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen)
Signals

How Video Transformed the World

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
5 Mar 2023 – 8 Jul 2023

with John Akomfrah, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Tony Cokes, Emily Jacir, Amar Kanwar, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Sara VanDerBeek, Ming Wong
Future Shock

Lisson Gallery NY, New York (US)
31 Jan 2023 – 4 Mar 2023

with Cory Arcangel, Tony Conrad, Mike Kelley, Josh Kline, Tony Oursler, Trevor Shimizu, Marnie Weber
Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age

Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
2 Oct 2021 – 16 Jan 2022

with Mohamed Bourouissa, Simon Denny, CAO Fei, Roger Hiorns, Oliver Laric, Liz Magic Laser, Katja Novitskova, Sondra Perry, Josephine Pryde, Nick Relph, Hito Steyerl, Guan Xiao
SAMMLUNG

MMK Tower, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
22 Aug 2020 – 7 Nov 2021

with Horst Ademeit, Sammy Baloji, Eric Baudelaire, Isa Genzken, Anne Imhof, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Marcel Odenbach, Thomas Ruff, Sturtevant (Elaine), Jeff Wall
The Body Electric

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US)
6 Sep 2019 – 26 Jan 2020

with Laurie Anderson, Ed Atkins, Trisha Baga, Sadie Benning, Dara Birnbaum, Zach Blas, Peter Campus, Petra Cortright, Andrea Crespo, Zackary Drucker, Rhys Ernst, Valie Export …
Time is Running Out of Time

Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today

ART + PRACTICE, Los Angeles (US)
2 Feb 2019 – 14 Sep 2019

with Cauleen Smith
Celebration of Our Enemies

Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
9 Jun 2019 – 8 Sep 2019

with Tony Cokes, Klara Liden, Sondra Perry, Christopher Williams
The Body Electric

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
30 Mar 2019 – 21 Jul 2019

with Laurie Anderson, Ed Atkins, Trisha Baga, Sadie Benning, Dara Birnbaum, Peter Campus, Petra Cortright, Andrea Crespo, Zackary Drucker, Rhys Ernst, Valie Export, Simone Forti …
VIDEONALE.17: REFRACTED REALITIES

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (DE)
21 Feb 2019 – 14 Apr 2019

with Eric Baudelaire, Andreas Bunte, Marianna Christofides, Saara Ekstroem, Johan Grimonprez, Laura Huertas Millan, SU Hui-yu, Sohrab Hura, Deimantas Narkevicius, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Stefan Panhans, Laure Prouvost …
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today

UMMA Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (US)
15 Dec 2018 – 7 Apr 2019

with Judith Barry, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Trevor Paglen, Cindy Sherman
12th Gwangju Biennale 2018

Imagined Borders

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
7 Sep 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Francis Alys, Halil Altindere, Leonor Antunes, Alexander Apostol, Kader Attia, Lara Baladi, Yto Barrada, Louidgi Beltrame, Zach Blas, Alex Buldakov, Tiffany Chung, Paolo Cirio …
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
7 Feb 2018 – 20 May 2018

with Judith Barry, Dara Birnbaum, Harun Farocki, Camille Henrot, Lynn Hershman, Josh Kline, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Jon Rafman, Thomas Ruff, Hito Steyerl …
What does one do with such a clairvoyant image?

Gallery 44 Photography, Toronto (CA)
5 May 2017 – 3 Jun 2017

with Dana Claxton, Kapwani Kiwanga
The Love Object (organized by Tom Brewer)

Team Gallery, New York (US)
12 Jan 2017 – 18 Feb 2017

with Brice Dellsperger, Christian Jankowski, Hanna Lidén, Sam Samore, Heji Shin
Los Angeles - A Fiction

Astrup Fearnley MoMa, Oslo (NO)
23 Sep 2016 – 29 Jan 2017

with John Baldessari, John Divola, Catherine Opie, Ed Ruscha, Ryan Trecartin
Public, Private, Secret

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
23 Jun 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Merry Alpern, Zach Blas, Natalie Bookchin, Nancy Burson, Sophie Calle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Kurt Caviezel, Larry Clark, Phil Collins, Kate Cooper, Tiane Doan na Champassak …
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

The Present in Drag

Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
4 Jun 2016 – 18 Sep 2016

with Antoni Abad, Halil Altindere, Jacob Appelbaum, Will Benedict, Anne de Vries, Simon Denny, Roe Ethridge, Cecile B. Evans, CAO Fei, Simon Fujiwara, Isa Genzken, Boris Groys …
Working Worlds

Manifesta 11 - The European biennial of contemporary art

Manifesta 11, Zürich (CH)
11 Jun 2016 – 18 Sep 2016

with Trisha Baga, Simon Denny, Harun Farocki, Coco Fusco, Andreas Gursky, Armin Linke, Trevor Paglen, Amalia Pica, Jiri Skala, Alec Soth, Pilvi Takala
Down To Write You This Poem Sat

Oakvillegalleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville (CA)
26 Jun 2016 – 3 Sep 2016

with Hannah Black, Raymond Boisjoly, Sophie Jung, Micah Lexier, Adam Pendleton
Speaking of People

Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art

Studio Museum Harlem, New York (US)
13 Nov 2014 – 8 Mar 2015

with Godfried Donkor, Ellen Gallagher, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Hartt, Leslie Hewitt, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas

Events

Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Santa Monica (US)
26 Feb 2026 – 1 Mar 2026

with David Alekhuogie, Kenneth Anger, Uta Barth, Sandra Brewster, Patty Chang, Julian Charriere, Sandra Cinto, Robert Cumming, Roy DeCarava, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Olafur Eliasson, Christina Fernandez …
Frieze London 2025

Frieze Masters 2025

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
15 Oct 2025 – 19 Oct 2025

with Bogdan Ablozhnyy, Marina Abramovic, Sophia Al-Maria, Helena Almeida, Ivan Argote, John Baldessari, Peter Beard, Hannah Black, Daniel Blaufuks, Soumya Sankar Bose, Constantin Brancusi, Julian Charriere …
Photo Days 2024

A PHOTO ● VIDEO TOUR IN AND AROUND PARIS

Photo Days Paris, Paris (FR)
2 Nov 2024 – 30 Nov 2024

with Mohamad Abdouni , Chantal Ackermann, Juliette Agnel, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tina Barney, Hans Bellmer, Daniel Blaufuks, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Carline Bourdelas, Ellen Carey, Clara Chichin, Dana Cojbuc …
Art Basel Paris

Art Basel Paris, Paris (FR)
16 Oct 2024 – 20 Oct 2024

with Adel Abdessemed, Francis Alys, Ghada Amer, Andrea Buettner, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jacopo Benassi, Irma Blank, Andre Breton …
Whitney Biennial 2019

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
17 May 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, Lucas Blalock, Garrett Bradley, Thirza Cuthand, John Edmonds, Kota Ezawa, Brendan Fernandes, Forensic Architecture, Ellie Ga, Sofia Gallisa Muriente, Todd Gray …
12th Gwangju Biennale

Imagined Borders

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
7 Sep 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Francis Alys, Halil Altindere, Leonor Antunes, Alexander Apostol, Marwa Arsanios, Kader Attia, Lara Baladi, Yto Barrada, Louidgi Beltrame, Zach Blas, Alex Buldakov, Tiffany Chung …
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

114 Artists. 28 Exhibitions

Front International, Cleveland (US)
14 Jul 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

with Erkan Oezgen, Eric Baudelaire, Walead Beshty, Dawoud Bey, Barbara Bloom, Candice Breitz, Gerard Byrne, Willie Doherty, Paul Druecke, Paul Druecke, Harrell Fletcher, Harrell Fletcher …
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2018

Mapping the Invisible - <a href="https://www.yebizo.com/en/" target="_blank">yebizo.com/en/</a>

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
9 Feb 2018 – 25 Feb 2018

with Erkan Oezgen, Ismail Bahri, Maeve Brennan, Sebastian Buerkner, Marina Gioti, Mako Idemitsu, Jonna Kina, Ken Matsubara, Natacha Nisic, Lisa Oppenheim, Makoto Oshiro, James Richards …
Manifesta 11 - The European biennial of contemporary art

What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures

Manifesta 11, Zürich (CH)
11 Jun 2016 – 18 Sep 2016

with Anne Collier, Carles Congost, Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Sarah Pickering, Torbjorn Rodland, August Sander