The Museum That
Never Existed
For fifty years he photographed and composited museums showing his work — walls, crowds, openings that never happened. One hundred and fifty-nine of the 1,087 works in this archive are flagged as composites. Six exhibitions were real. This building is the one that exists.
Black on paper, red as printer's mark.
Plates, rules, marginalia.
Motion: print-like. Type does the work.
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Browse All 1,087 Works →Thirty years of studio invention: from early museum composites (1990s) through gallery installations (2000s) to recent work. Each work reflects how the archive concept—exhibitions that never existed—evolved from personal documentation into artistic practice.
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Targets 1 ↳ 5 related works
Warplane ↳ 2 related works
with Face Recurring motifs continue into the present—still making, still in Cleveland ↳ 3 related works
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- 1970s — Studio begins, early experiments
- 1990s — Guernica series takes shape (232 works)
- 2000s — Gallery installations emerge
- Composites — 159 imagined exhibitions, flagged
- Guernica Series — 232 works exploring museum concepts
- Register of Loss — 500–1,000 lost works