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P.S.1
Name	P.S.1
Established	1976
Location	Long Island City, Queens, New York
Type	Contemporary art museum

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P.S.1

P.S.1 is a contemporary art institution situated in Long Island City, Queens, that operates within New York City's cultural ecosystem and collaborates with museums, foundations, and universities. It maintains partnerships with organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and works with galleries and biennials including the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Documenta exhibition network and the Armory Show. The institution engages artists, curators, critics, and patrons from circles connected to figures like Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama and Marina Abramović.

History

Founded in 1976 by a collective of artists, curators, and educators influenced by movements around Fluxus, Minimalism, Conceptual art, Abstract Expressionism and the downtown New York scene, the institution emerged amid late 20th-century shifts that included the influence of the Guggenheim SoHo, the emergence of PS1 Contemporary Art Center founders interacting with practitioners from Robert Rauschenberg to Louise Bourgeois. During the 1980s and 1990s it hosted exhibitions that intersected with narratives around Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and curatorial practices associated with figures like Hans Ulrich Obrist, Klaus Biesenbach, Richard Flood and Thelma Golden. In 2000 the site entered a formal affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art while continuing programming that resonated with international initiatives such as Frieze Art Fair, Art Basel, Documenta 11 delegates and collaborations with institutions like the Brooklyn Museum and New Museum.

Housed in a former public school building constructed in the early 20th century, the facility shares architectural lineage with other adaptive reuse projects such as the Tate Modern conversion of the Bankside Power Station and the transformation projects like Dia Beacon and Mass MoCA. The building’s adaptive features recall interventions by architects connected to projects by Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, OMA, Herzog & de Meuron and Diller Scofidio + Renfro while interior galleries accommodate installations comparable to works shown at Centre Pompidou, Serpentine Gallery, Hayward Gallery and Kunsthalle Basel. The complex includes galleries, performance spaces, outdoor courtyards and conservation environments fit for works by Tony Smith, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread.

Exhibitions have featured solo and group shows that placed artists in dialogue with exhibition histories exemplified by retrospectives at the Tate Modern, survey shows at the Guggenheim Bilbao and thematic projects akin to the Whitney Biennial. Programming incorporates site-specific commissions, large-scale installations, multimedia presentations and performance series that connect to practices of Carolee Schneemann, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. The institution has mounted exhibitions that included emerging artists who later participated in the Venice Biennale and established artists represented in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum. It has collaborated with curatorial partners from the Stedelijk Museum, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, MOCA Los Angeles and Hammer Museum.

Educational initiatives link to local schools, community centers and universities including the City University of New York, the School of Visual Arts, the Cooper Union, Columbia University and New York University arts programs. Public programs include lectures, artist talks and workshops featuring critics and theorists such as Hal Foster, Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and T.J. Clark. Partnerships extend to cultural organizations like the Queens Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, Public Theater and Apollo Theater and engage funders and supporters similar to National Endowment for the Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation-supported initiatives.

While oriented toward temporary exhibitions and site-specific commissions, the institution has acquired works and managed collections that enter institutional exchange with museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Museo Reina Sofía, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Moderna Museet. Acquisitions strategies align with collectors, estates and foundations related to artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Eva Hesse, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko and involve deaccession policies informed by standards used at Smithsonian Institution, Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The institution’s governance model comprises a board of trustees, executive leadership and advisory councils that parallel structures at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1 affiliate institutions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Brooklyn Museum and New Museum. Funding sources combine private philanthropy from patrons aligned with collectors and philanthropists similar to Leonard Lauder, Eli Broad, Agnes Gund, corporate support from entities like Bloomberg Philanthropies and public funding through agencies analogous to the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. Institutional partnerships engage with auction houses and marketplaces such as Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips and contemporary art fairs including Frieze and Art Basel for collaborative fundraising and acquisition initiatives.

Category:Art museums and galleries in Queens, New York