Argentina
- Kültur BüroKBB is a non-profit based in Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Since 2004 KBB has been promoting and producing contemporary cultural projects. Our Büro manages cultural activities such as curatorial exhibitions for museums or cultural centers, site-specific art projects for the public space, concerts, seminars, video art and large scale productions.
Australia
- doingbird
- Perimeter BooksPerimeter Books is a small bookstore, art space and publisher based in Melbourne, Australia. Perimeter stocks a curated selection of local and international small press, art, photography, architecture and design publications, and exhibits contemporary artists and designers with an interest in the printed form. Perimeter also publishes small run artist books under its Perimeter Editions imprint. For the NY Art Book Fair, Perimeter will be representing independent Australian contemporary art, photography and small press publishers, including: M.33, Emblem, Utopian Slumps, Erm Books, Perimeter Editions, Serps Zine, Dawn Press, Smalltime Books, This Is The Same Ocean and Discipline.
Austria
- springerin
Canada
- 88Books88Books is a Vancouver-based independent press specialized in artists' books and zines by emerging and lesser-known artists from China. Committed to representing new voices, 88Books provides flexibility and freedom of expression to the participating artists and aims to foster the production of artists' books, a relatively new concept in China. Each book is conceived and created uniquely by the Chinese artist but produced in our Vancouver studio. Currently our creators are mostly photo-based artists and photographers.
- Art MetropoleArt Metropole is an internationally renowned artist-run centre that promotes conceptually based art. We foster a network of artist-initiated publishing in any media, especially those formats pre-disposed to circulation. AM specializes in the contextualization and dissemination of artists' books and multiples with an emphasis on innovative formats and emergent technologies.
- ArtspeakArtspeak is a non-profit artist run centre established in 1986. Artspeak presents contemporary practices, innovative publications, bookworks, editions, talks and events that encourage a dialogue between visual art and writing.
- Bad DayBad Day is an arts and culture quarterly that focuses on direct dialogue with today's international artists. Disregarding boundaries between film, video, visual art, music, high & low, Bad Day showcases some of the commonalities we all share in our routines, perspectives and working practice.
- Bywater Bros. EditionsBywater Bros. Editions is an independent publisher producing artists' books and editions
- C Magazine
- Contemporary Art GalleryEstablished in 1971, the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver is a non-profit public art gallery dedicated to the exhibition, education and documentation of contemporary visual art. It aspires to generate significant audiences through the initiation and promotion of an innovative and diverse international program of exhibitions, publications, learning and outreach projects.
- Emily Carr University Press / Charles H. Scott Gallery / Publication Studio VancouverThe Charles H. Scott Gallery and Emily Carr University Press publishes artist's books, monographs, selected writing and music projects. Publication Studio Vancouver prints books on demand to produce experimental publications with artists and writers. PSV is part of a network of studios in other cities (see www.publicationstudio.biz).
- Fantasy CampFantasy Camp is a Canadian independent publisher of artists’ books based in Toronto. Dedicated to producing handmade, archival quality editions that serve as art objects as well as publications dedicated to contemporary illustration.
- FillipFillip is a Vancouver-based publishing organization formed in 2004 to expand spaces for critical discussions on contemporary art. Through a magazine and publications programme, Fillip provides platforms for examining the relationship between art and society. Fillip will also be showcasing books by New Documents, a Vancouver and Los Angeles-based publishing organization.
- Or GalleryThe Or Gallery (Vancouver/Berlin) is an artist-run centre committed to exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature. Since its inception in 1983 the gallery has acted as a space for research, proposition making, conceptual experimentation and documentation.
- Presentation House GalleryPresentation House Gallery, Vancouver, is Canada's leading non-profit public gallery devoted to the exhibition of photography, film and video. Bywater Bros. Editions is an independent publisher producing artists’ books and editions. Together, they publish an ongoing series of artist-edited publications titled Lynn Valley. The series was launched in September 2006 with an inaugural issue designed by Richard Prince.
- Project Space
- Publication Studio Vancouver
- Sternthal BooksSternthal Books is an art group and book publishing company devoted to spreading ideas through visual culture. We believe that art provides all people with the power to express ourselves, transform our surroundings, and make the world a better place. Our mission is to help artists conceive, produce, and distribute publications, as well as to produce books where philosophical issues are broached with images.
France
- Études BooksÉtudes Books is an independant publisher focusing on contemporary photography, based in Paris and New York City, founded in 2012. Études Books curates and publishes books, especially a collection of photographers' monographs entitled Blue books. Études Books is part of Études studio, a collective working in the fields of fashion, publishing and art.
- onestar press / Three Star Booksonestar press - strictly unedited by the publisher - is dedicated to the production of books, movies, and multiples by artists. Three Star Books are artworks, handmade, highly finished, and luxuriously produced with materials that are globally sourced.
Germany
- ABC Artists' Books CooperativeABC Artists' Books Cooperative is an international distribution network created by and for artists that make print-on-demand artists' books. Our aim is to help artists deliver their self-published books to the people interested in them.
- Archive Books / Archive JournalFounded in 2007 by Chiara Figone, Archive Books is a publishing house committed to the development of a range of activities that explore contemporary cultural production. With its publications, Archive works to present art publications as a method of bringing art practices into the public discussion. It aims to produce and distribute printed materials, creating and maintaining a dialogue between cultural research and social sphere.
- Chronic Freedom BooksThe chronic freedom series of five books represent a single and partisan work made for outlaw marijuana producers in So. Humboldt and No. Mendocino Counties, CA. The books are assembled with traces and entire histories/materials from back-to-the-land and prohibition-resistance worlds and their national media representations (late 1960s to 2010).
- Errant Bodies PressErrant Bodies is an independent press and project space located in Berlin. Since 1995, the press has supported diverse discourses and artistic projects in the fields of sonic and spatial practices, auditory culture and performativity, experimental writing and critical thought.
- Michalis PichlerIf a book paraphrases one explicit historical or contemporary predecessor in title, style and/or content, this technique is what I would call a "greatest hit."
- Sternberg PressSternberg Press grew out of the small publishing house known as Lukas & Sternberg, founded in 1999 by Caroline Schneider. Dedicated to an expanded notion of writing on art, Sternberg Press has created a formidable platform in which practitioners from the fields of art and culture (architecture, design, film, politics, literature and philosophy) can engage in a critical discourse. Each book is a special object celebrating creative publishing at its best. Through both commissioned and translated works, Sternberg Press seeks out the blind spots within contemporary discourse and offers a timely response to the related debates.
Greece
- OMMU DistributionOMMU is a bookstore showcasing magazines, books, and artists’ publications specializing on art & design. We publish our own artist books and limited editions and we also stock a range of rare and historic publications, posters, music, furniture and anything else that stands out. OMMU Headquarters is located in a newly renovated space from the fifties in uptown Athens, Greece. The space serves as an interdisciplinary open house for creative professionals and anyone else interested in getting the latest word in international magazines, monographs, exhibition catalogues, pulp novels, vinyls and artworks across media – from illustrations to ceramics. Now and then we also hold launches, readings, talks & shows in a live cutting-edge cross-section of contemporary culture. A second bookshop is located at The Breeder gallery downtown.
Ireland
- REDFOXPRESSREDFOXPRESS is run by Francis Van Maele in the West of Ireland since 2000. In his silkscreen studio he prints limited hand printed editions. He makes also his own artist's and publishes since 2007 a very successful collection of visual poetry and fluxus named "C'est mon dada".
Italy
- cura. magazine and booksCura is a curatorial project founded in 2009 in Rome that revolves around the production of a quarterly magazine (cura.magazine), a publishing house (cura.books) - both with a worldwide distribution - and an exhibition space, through which it investigates contemporary artistic production and promotes the most current developments in the emerging practice, thanks to the collaboration with international artists and curators, the production of artists books, limited editions, exhibition projects and curatorial consulting.
- KaleidoscopeAt the core of a platform that includes an exhibition space and an independent publishing house, KALEIDOSCOPE is an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture founded in 2009 in Milan. Distributed worldwide on a seasonal basis, it has gained widespread recognition as a trusted and timely guide to the present (but also to the past and possible futures) with an interdisciplinary and unconventional approach.
- MousseMousse is an independent publishing project. Established in 2006, Mousse magazine is an international bimonthly issue about contemporary art. Mousse Publishing makes books, catalogues, and zines working together with artists, critics, curators, art institutions and initiatives.
Japan
- Gallery 360ºSince it’s opening in 1982, Gallery 360º has dealt with Contemporary Art. The gallery has two functions. One is to introduce activities of the gallery artists and the other is to publish limited editions, multiples, posters and artists’ books.
- Presspop, Inc.Established in 1990 in Tokyo, Japan. Presspop is an alternative DIY company publishing art books and comics and making art toys by artists worldwide, and distributing overseas art magazines and books to Japan.
- ZINE'S MATEZINE'S MATE was established in 2009 by UTRECHT & PAPERBACK MAGAZINE for the purpose of organising THE TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR. ZINE’S MATE is also an organization which acts as a catalyst and facilitator for artist projects and events.
Korea, South
- ANTIC-HAMAntic-Ham (Kim Hye Mee) was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1974, studied 'Play Writing and photography. Since 2004 she makes artist books with photographs, collage, drawings and writing. She lives in Seoul and in Achill Island, Ireland and makes book collaborations with Francis Van Maele.
Mexico
- ANALEs una publicación impresa hecha por, para y sobre homosexuales alrededor del mundo. Con un diseño único, esta revista muestra cualquier tipo de expresión cultural, erótica o de interés general para aquellos hombres que no inhiben su gusto por otros hombres. Aquí se ofrece una selección magnífica, principalmente mexicana, de fotografía, arte, literatura, moda, estilos de vida y entrevistas con personajes sobresalientes de una subcultura dispuesta a conquistar el mundo. Todo con un punto de vista crítico, propositivo y franco para penetrar el gusto y el interés del lector, al que se le considera siempre presto a su propio ámbito.
- COMBOCOMBO is a mexican poster-zine which was borh in 2011. It’s made with a strong emphasis on the serendipity of the creative process. We have released 6 issues, with the collaboration of more than 40 artists and writers from Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Each issue has a decided-by-chance theme.
Netherlands
- Knust / ExtrapoolEstablished by artists for artists in the 1980s, Knust is Extrapool's famous infamous graphic workshop specialized in stencil (“mimeographâ€) print. Located in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Knust is an essential part of the multi-omniverse of the Extrapool art space, creating an accessible printing and bookmaking workshop where many niches meet, greet, clash & mix.
- OnomatopeeOnomatopee is an institution for reflection and communication. The foundation aims to question the parameters of our (designed) culture through research and presentations.
- Werkplaats TypografieThe Werkplaats Typografie (WT), a part of the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, is a two-year graphic design masters programme founded in 1998 by Karel Martens and Wigger Bierma. The WT is centered on assignments and self-initiated projects with lectures, seminars,
New Zealand
- DDMMYYBased in Auckland, New Zealand, DDMMYY is a new publishing label specialising in limited edition artists' books and multiples.
Norway
- Torpedo PressTorpedo is a non-profit publisher and bookstore devoted to the promotion and production of artists' books, art theory and critical readers in contemporary art. Torpedo is also a space for producing and hosting different events in connection with book launches, concerts and exhibitions in collaboration with artists, curators and institutions.
Poland
- Worst Magazine Ever“IT! The Worst Magazine Ever,” is a self-published art periodical of absurd and grotesque character, founded and run by artist Maryna Tomaszewska. Its contents ranges from short stories, curator’s texts, photo series to illustrations and site-specific projects. Each issue has a different theme and format, and depending on the issue, circulation is between 500 and 2000. The latest issue, GOLD, is a Russian-Polish collaboration. The launch will be held in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Contributors to the magazine are Polish and international artists, critics, journalists. The magazine has been shown at art book fairs in London and Tokyo.
Slovenia
- Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. is independant cultural producer and publisher, operating for the past eleven years in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2004 we launch a new program focused on artist books and editions and recently collaborate with known local and international artist and artist groups as: Sanja Ivekovic, Mladen Stilinovic, OHO, Temporary Services, Jasper Fabricious. Artist book program is focused on education, presentation and new production of artist books and artst editions.
Switzerland
- a/b Booksa/b Books was founded in 2010 by Swiss artist Alexander Buhler as the imprint under which he self-publishes artist's books in limited editions. a/b Books also presents and collaborates on publications by other artists.
- Edition Patrick FreyEdition Patrick Frey works in close collaboration with authors, mainly Swiss but from other countries as well. Its mission is to provide young artists in particular with a platform for their début publication. At present, six to eight books are produced annually, with a focus on photography, art, and studies of everyday and popular culture.
- I Never ReadI Never Read, Independent Art Book Fair Basel was launched last June in Basel during the Art Basel week. The Fair aims at offering a platform for all kinds of arts publications and gathering international publishers and book lovers.
- NievesNieves is an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2001, Nieves' focus is on publishing Artist Books and Zines.
Taiwan
- Lovely DazeLovely Daze is a contemporary art journal founded by Charwei Tsai in 2005 and is published twice a year in limited editions. Past contributors range from Yoko Ono, Vito Acconci, AA Bronson to artists who have never been published previously. In addition to the publication, Lovely Daze produces performances working with artists such as Hisham Bharoocha Japanther, Lizzi Bougatsos and New Humans.
United Kingdom
- AfterallAfterall focuses on contemporary art and its relation to a wider artistic, theoretical and social context. Afterall journal includes in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays on art history and critical theory, and is published alongside the Critical Readers, Exhibition Histories and One Work series.
- Book WorksEstablished in 1984, with the mission to disseminate visual art practice to as wide and diverse an audience as possible, Book Works is a contemporary visual arts publisher, based in London. In addition to our main activity of book publishing, we also produce text-based works, installations, multiples, videos and new media projects.
- Friezefrieze magazine was set up in 1991 and is the leading magazine of contemporary art and culture. frieze is published eight times a year and includes essays, reviews and columns by today's most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators.
- Little JoeMagazine about queers and cinema, mostly.
- MACKMack is a publisher of fine photography and art books.
- RidinghouseRidinghouse is an imprint committed to publishing primary documents, art historical research, first monographs, anthologies of interviews and critical writings. Established in 1995, the organisation has been rapidly expanding since 2004 and currently produces 8-10 books a year.
- Sims ReedRare book dealer specializing in major illustrated books of the twentieth century, livres d’artistes, and contemporary books, editions and prints.
United States
- CrimethInc. Ex-workers' CollectiveCrimethInc. is an internationally active anticapitalist publishing group specializing in the controversial and outré.
Alaska
- Hol Art BooksHol Art Books is an independent press dedicated to publishing and promoting exceptional writing on visual art as a means of engaging readers with art objects and art spaces in the real world. We publish classic works of art criticism and history; artist texts and biographies; and the best of contemporary writing, including fiction, non-fiction and works in translation.
Arizona
- 1301PE1301PE and Brain Multiples were founded in 1991 by Brian D. Butler. 1301PE (originally 1301) works with a wide group of cutting edge contemporary artists. Brain Multiples publishes affordable editions using a basic philosophy: "Ideas best expressed in multiple form." In the past eighteen years 1301PE and Brain Multiples have worked with an impressive group of international artists. Fiona Banner, AA Bronson, Angela Bulloch, Meg Cranston, Jack Goldstein, Jorge Pardo, Diana Thater, Paul McCarthy, Martin Kippenberger, Jason Rhoades, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Mike Kelley...
- 2nd Cannons PublicationsA publishing project by Los Angeles-based artist Brian Kennon. 2nd Cannons Publications produces artists’ books and editions. Beginning November 2011, 2nd Cannons will run a year-long project space / bookshop in the back room of the gallery ltd Los Angeles.
- 2nd Floor Projects
- Adam VillacinAdam Villacin creates zines that explore various aesthetics ranging from his sub-cultural interests to mythological archetypes. Villacin's interest in illustration developed from reading comic books and reflect a formal engagement with the last 50 years of its history. The encyclopedic quality of his zines stem from a sophisticated understanding of the subjects combined with an absurdist sense of humor.
- AMMO BooksAMMO Books publishes exciting, one-of-a-kind, visually charged arts and pop culture books for its dedicated, design-savvy audience. AMMO’s evolving list for adults and kids is known for its amazing design, thoughtful writing, and exquisite printing.
- AntenaAntena is a language justice and language experimentation collaborative founded by two writers, artists, literary translators,bookmakers and activist interpreters. We view aesthetic practice as part and parcel of language justice work. Antena explores how critical views on language can help us to reimagine and rearticulate the worlds we inhabit.
- ArcanaSince 1984, ARCANA: BOOKS ON THE ARTS has been one of the world’s premier visual arts bookstores. We specialize in an idiosyncratically curated selection of material on Photography, Contemporary Art, Fashion, Design, Architecture, Cinema and Music. For the Fair we have brought a selection of artists’ books and rare ephemera, primarily from the 60s and 70s.
- Art CataloguesArt Catalogues at LACMA specializes in museum exhibition catalogues and books on the subject of 20th and 21st century art, both new and out of print.
- Awesome VistasAwesome Vistas is primarily a maker of art editions, usually making small pressings of vinyl with beautifully printed covers, some of which come with signed prints. A-V is also involved with book editions and social gatherings, all of the above with an emphasis on growing and connecting groups of people positively.
- Benjamin LordBenjamin Lord is an artist based in Los Angeles, whose work explores imaginary worlds and their relationship to reality. He makes sculptures, drawings, and photographs, which often take the form of books and portfolios. At his table he'll be showing two editioned portfolios of stereoscopic photographs, and two book editions.
- billy ocallaghanBy tinkering with an illustrated book during my first year of SFSU’s MFA program, I found my form, redirecting my focus to self-published, full (photographic) color zines as final output for my project-based practice. Over the three year program, I made the templates for three double-sided zines, using humor and craft to report on my investigations around extinction (birds of America 2010 supplement/redacted), queer and sexual politics (the gods sure are queer/perv (local, organic)), and plants (owed to plants).
- Book MarcBook Marc offers a curated selection of fine art and photobooks: current, rare, and out of print. Exclusive editions and limited BOOK MARC products are also available.
- Book StandBOOK STAND is an online art book shop based in Los Angeles specializing in unique art books, photo books, films and vintage publications. Inspired by the quirky personal libraries of imaginative individuals, our carefully edited catalogue is organized by ever-changing offbeat categories. One dollar from every purchase goes towards supporting The Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Helping to promote greater awareness of the library's valuable resources, The Library Foundation of Los Angeles supports and enriches the capabilities, resources, and services of the Los Angeles Public Library.
- Brown GriffinBest-known for the annual “Afterzine” arts and culture journal, Brown Griffin is an independent publisher of printed editions, art prints and paper ephemera operated by Hamish Robertson from Los Angeles, California.
- Christopher RussellChristopher Russell produced the “destroy–to–enjoy” literary art zine Bedwetter. He has published numerous books including, Sniper, a novel length artist book, with the help of a Printed Matter Awards for Artists award. He was the subject of a recent Hammer Projects solo exhibition and is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
- Colpa PressColpa Press produces work that examines the print form in the age of digital media. Its publications, cards, and limited edition prints investigate the relationship between printmaking and concept, with production decisions motivated by this dialogue. In March of 2012 they opened Epicola, a repurposed newstand on Market Street in San Francisco selling artists’ books, prints and zines.
- Critical MakingCritical Making is a handmade publication by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work - making - can supplement and extend critical reflection. It's also an appeal to DIY makers to be critically engaged with culture, history and society. Contributors to the ten volume project include Mitch Altman, Julian Bleecker, Albert Borgmann, Anne Burdick, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Carl DiSalvo, Alex Galloway, Reed Ghazala, Natalie Jeremijenko, Golan Levin, Liz Losh, Geert Lovink, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Monochrom, Mark Pauline, Alison Powell, Fiona Raby, Matt Ratto, Scott Snibbe, and Ken Wark.
- Dale WittigDale Wittig has been publishing Artist Books under his own and various fictitious names for the last quarter of a century. These works often deal with sex and politics and the politics of sex. He has worked with various artist groups, primarily with Cheap Art and the Small Free Inn.
- Darin Klein & FriendsDarin Klein & Friends present Box of Books, Vol. VI. A hand-picked selection of all-new artists create small books for the latest volume, using the same fold-out technique and with widely differing content. Advertising, memory, love, language, identity, the archive, sex and more are explored through texts and images in this dynamic and affordable boxed set of twenty-three individual publications. Edition of 150, individually signed and numbered.
- Deadbeat ClubDeadbeat Club is a publisher, and distributer of small books, publications, and other ephemera run by Clint Woodside.
- Deth P. SunWe’re a small group of friends who have known each other for a very long time who enjoy making zines and products and sharing tables at various zine fests.
- Dominica Publishing
- Drippy Bone BooksDrippy Bone Books is an underground assembly line for art books, comics, music, and zines published by artists Kristy Foom, Mario Zoots, and Keenan Marshall Keller. Based in Amsterdam, Denver and Los Angeles respectively, the trio match their distinct tastes with a disparate international audiences, working together to create unique small-run publications, music releases and art multiples.
- DUM DUM ZineDUM DUM publishes experimental lit and art that embraces hybrid, transmedia forms. In the past, we’ve featured text message interviews, sonic literature, how-to stories, video poetry, and even serialized radio plays. Based out of Los Angeles, DUM DUM is also a collective of people all over the country who collaborate on generating new, experimental work. Each issue completely changes format based on the kind of stuff we receive or commission. You’ll find 17×22 broadsides on newsprint (Issue 1), an audio zine on CD (Issue 2), and a BOX for Issue 3: PUNKS & Scholars, which we just successfully funded through Kickstarter and will be debuting at LA Art Book Fair.
- East of Borneo
- Evah Fan and Brendan MonroeArtists from Oakland, hanging out in LA for the weekend. Stop by and say hi.
- Eve Fowler
- The Family
- Les Figues PressLes Figues Press is an independent, nonprofit publisher of poetry, prose, visual art, conceptual writing, and translation. Based in Los Angeles, our mission is to create aesthetic conversations between readers, writers, and artists. Les Figues Press publishes five-seven books a year and favors projects that push boundaries of genre, form, and general acceptability. Founded in 1978, LACE supports artists who innovate, explore, and risk. We move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. Internationally recognized as a pioneer among art institutions, we have presented the work of over 5,000 artists, which has provided the impetus for dialogue about contemporary arts and culture for over 30 years.
- Foggy Notion BooksFoggy Notion Books is an independent publisher based in New York and Los Angeles. Founded by in 2010 by Kristine McKenna, Lorraine Wild and Donna Wingate Foggy Notion specializes in art, photography and literature.
- FunchickenZines, unlovable limited edition prints and books, handmade wackiness.
- GagosianGagosian is an international gallery concentrating on modern and contemporary art. Exhibition spaces are located in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Rome, Geneva, and Hong Kong.
- Golden Spike Press
- GottlundThe Gottlund book house is an independent publishing project based in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Dedicated to producing artist books and limited edition multiples, our books follow a lineage while being innovative and forward thinking. Producing editions in house and by hand, we strive to have books communicate with utmost clarity the vision of their source.
- Gravity and TrajectoryGravity and Trajectory is an opportunity for artists and curators to explore the specifics of showing work within the book format, the page that is the gallery wall.
- Hamburger EyesHamburger Eyes began as a small xeroxed zine, turned into a magazine, and has now evolved into a publisher. With a headquarters fully equipped for producing zines, magazines, and books, they are able to produce seemingly hundreds of titles a year. Their secret facility also houses a professional darkroom for printing editions of silver gelatin black and white prints and full color chromegenic prints.
- The Hammer
- The Ice PlantThe Ice Plant is a publisher of fine, illustrated books and other printed matter. We collaborate closely with artists on all aspects of the book-making process, from concept, to design, to tangible object. Specializing in small print run artists' books, we also produce the popular 5 Year Diary (in conjunction with Shopsin's General Store).
- IKO IKO
- Insane Dialectical PosseA West-coast network of anti-authoritarian Marxists and Anarchists in Los Angeles, the Bay area, and Portland. We infiltrate, partake, and spread the fact that dialectics can break bricks.
- Itch Dance Journalitch is an evolving art project in the form of a journal that aspires to serve the community of dancers and other artists of the Los Angeles area and beyond. Practice participation in the developing LA dance culture: insert your thoughts, your body, your voice. help itch grow should you be enhanced by it...
- JIMMY the zine
- Journal of Aesthetics and ProtestThe journal is a weirdo thinktank.
- Justin Jorgensen / COP DAD MagazineJustin Jorgensen’s “COP DAD” is a non-fiction “magazine of the exceptional personal" experience.” Other published works by this LA-based artist include “PARTY MONSTER,” a document of Jorgensen’s 2009 Midwestern farmhouse installation, and “Obscene Interiors: Hardcore Amateur Decor,” an exploration of online male personal ad photos, with foreword by Todd Oldham.
- KCHUNGKchung is a Los Angeles-based community radio station broadcasting out of Chinatown. Kchung broadcasts five nights a week on 1630 AM and online at Kchungradio.org. We used to say that Kchung was really underground because it was in a basement. But really it's radio, so it's mostly in the air.
- KickstarterKickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of ambitious, innovative, and imaginative projects that are brought to life through the direct support of others.
- LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)Founded in 1978, LACE supports artists who innovate, explore, and risk. We move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. Internationally recognized as a pioneer among art institutions, we have presented the work of over 5,000 artists, which has provided the impetus for dialogue about contemporary arts and culture for over 30 years.
- LACMA
- LAND AND SEALAND AND SEA is a small press/record label/labor of love based in Oakland, California. LAND AND SEA began during the final breaths of 2009 with the purpose of releasing monographs and records by artists we find vital and interesting. Along with books and records, LAND AND SEA has organized releases and gatherings in many places, from D.I.Y. zine shops to major art institutions.
- Last Gasp
- Laurence McGilvery
- LEADAPRON
- Leisure LaborLeisure Labor is an umbrella that hovers between the creation of form and distribution of information. We sit in the cross section of what are the acts of necessity and what are the frivolous acts of rebellion against routine. There is a passion for productivity, investigation, and an overarching theme of connectivity throughout work and life. At least that is what we strive for. Est. 2012.
- The Library Store
- Little Paper PlanesEstablished in 2004, Little Paper Planes assists emerging artists in their careers through prints, publishing, curatorial and licensing projects. LPP's intentions are to facilitate dialogues and awareness around Contemporary art between both the artists and public alike. The mission is to provide the connections, engagement and momentum of collecting art ephemera in all areas.
- Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban DesignThe Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design fosters and documents discourse about architecture, design, and the city through various media, including books, pamphlets, newsletters, online articles and artist portfolios. The Forum provides a framework for design professionals and the general public to explore, evaluate, and impact the development of architecture in Los Angeles.
- Louis M. SchmidtLouis M Schmidt is an artist, zinemaker, and one half of a new artist book publishing project called Gravity and Trajectory. Schmidt currently resides in San Diego, where he’s finishing graduate school at UCSD. He recently curated a small group show at Park Life in San Francisco and held solo solo exhibitions at The Periscope Project and Agitprop in San Diego. Several new zine projects are forthcoming.
- MOCA STORE
- modlitbooks
- Native StrategiesNetive Strategies is a network of performance art makers, producers, and critical thinkers who seek to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’ performance art community. We are engaged in a five year study (2011-2016) of LA performance modalities through the creation of 10 differently themed performance series and 10 uniquely designed journals, resulting in a book.
- Needles & PensNeedles & Pens is an emporium of zines, independent press, artist books, handmade goods and an art gallery. Based in San Francisco’s Mission District since 2003.
- Never PressNever Press is an independent publishing house based out of Los Angeles, CA. It was formed by friends with hopes to create project based art books that feed their curiosity. If you have a curious project or a curious question, please go ahead and email us.
- Night Gallery
- Ooga BoogaOoga Booga is a shop in Los Angeles specializing in independently-produced artist books, music, design, artwork, and clothing. Since 2004 we have hosted many events, launches, concerts, and projects in our space such as the Reading Room at the Swiss Institute NYC, Nieves library exhibition, and Secondary Market with Art Since the Summer of '69. In 2009 we also created an online database of art book printers as a free resource to independent publishers, which you can access here: print-resources.tumblr.com
- Oso Press
- OtherwildOTHERWILD, a hybrid retail store + graphic design studio in LA run by Rachel Berks + Marisa Suarez-Orozco, is dedicated to design in its many facets. Otherwild is a synthesis, merging the fine and applied arts. Our retail space offers a curated selection of goods made with care by individual artists, designers + ma
- Paper Chase
- Park Life
- Pop-Hop Books & PrintPop-Hop Books & Print is a bookstore and printmaking studio located in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, with the goal of offering a selection of goods and schedule of programming to provide the community with the opportunity for inspiration and participation in equal measure.
- Public Fiction
- The Public School
- RAM Publications U.S.A.RAM Publications and Dist. is a publishing and distribution company specializing in architecture, furniture, design, graphics, contemporary art and theory, popular culture, photography, poetry and literature, limited edition and CD-ROMS from Europe, U.S. and Japan.
- RE/Search PublicationsV. Vale launched SEARCH & DESTROY punk-zine (1977) with $100 from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore. Punk provided a launching pad for Vale’s cultural-anthropological explorations, including industrial music, the writings of J.G. Ballard and William Burroughs, feminism, pranksterism, studies of The Body, plus “incredibly strange” filmmaking and music in RE/Search
- SCB ART BOOK COLLECTIONSCB Distributors' Art Book Collection is a hand-picked selection of our top visual arts titles from 25 independent publishers, incorporating Fine Art, Lowbrow, Urban, Illustration, Design, Music, Photography, and more.
- Seite
- Shawn WhisenantShawn Whisenant is a Bay Area based artist who spends most of his time lurking in the streets of SF, camera in hand, capturing the harsh reality that our empires of shit predispose us to. Since the mid 1990s, Shawn's work has endured the urban elements, making a home atop the complex array of surfaces that comprise the city's make-up. His highly recognizable style encompasses an impressive body of hand-made art books, paintings and photography.
- sigliosiglio is an independent press in Los Angeles publishing uncommon books that live at the intersection of art and literature. We produce trade and limited editions, artist multiples, and small collections of ephemera.
- Signify, Sanctify, BelieveThe Library of Sacred Technologies (LoST) is an ephemeral cabinet of mystical wonders and the experimental publishing platform of Signify, Sanctify, Believe. The LoST collection consists of dozens of found and newly-created publications, and features works of playful semi-secular religious invention by artists, performers, and writers from Los Angeles.
- SPASPA, a sister to creative studio Commonwealth Projects, is a new project space that releases limited edition short-run publications by emerging artists. Featured publications include collaborations with Jerry Hsu, Eric Yancker, and Giovanni Duca. SPA also exists as an ever-evolving physical space and online presence that curates and hosts artists’ projects.
- Starrfucker Magazine
- Sumi Ink Club
- Sundown SchoolhouseSundown Schoolhouse is an itinerant occasional environment founded at Fritz Haeg’s Los Angeles geodesic dome as the series of Sundown Salon gatherings he hosted there were concluding in 2006. “The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive” (Evil Twin, 2009) presents accounts of the original events, community and topics that would become the foundation of the Schoolhouse -- from cooking and dancing to urban wildlife and gerdens.
- TBW BooksTBW Books is an independent photography book publishing company founded and run by Paul Schiek in Oakland, California. The company publishes book series featuring four artists as well as individual monographs. Artists published in the series include Jim Goldberg, Alec Soth, Marianne Mueller, Todd Hido, as well as others.
- Textfield
- The ThingTHE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Itʼs like a magazine except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published on a useful object. Past contributors to THE THING have included Miranda July, Allora & Calzadilla, Jonathan Lethem, Starlee Kine, Chris Johanson, Clothing Design Collaborative DOO. RI, Matthew Higgs and Martin Creed. Current and Upcoming contributors include James Franco, MacFadden & Thorpe, Dave Eggers, Shannon Ebner and Mike Mills.
- The Wreckless PressThe Wreckless Press is a Bay Area originated zine created by the artist and writer Kelso Riley. Now based out of Downtown Los Angeles, this journalistically influenced contemporary art zine embraces the grimey underbelly of our present day underground. Kelso’s unabashed love of print-making, freight trains and shitty graffiti play an influential role in the manifestation of her publication.
- X-TRAX-TRA is a contemporary art quarterly, published in Los Angeles since 1997. X-TRA is collectively organized by an independent board of artists and writers. Our mission is to provide critical dialogue about contemporary art.
- YES PRESSYes Press founded by Bruce Kalberg and Ewa Wojciak veteran publishers of the early L.A. punk scene magazine No Mag. Featuring artwork by Gary Panter, Raymond Pettibon, Fred Tomaselli, and photographs of countless L.A. underground bands and notables. Small Press publishing continues to be a viable alternative to the publishing giants demographic approach to creative writing, the good stuff is still to be found in collaborations with small press publishers. Kalberg self-published the L.A. punk novel Sub-Hollywood under the name Bruce Caen (2005) in which he chronicled the early underground LA music, art and culture scene he was a part of.
California
- NhdNhd is a multidisciplinary design and screen printing studio located in Washington DC. Nhd will exhibit a collection of artist zines, cards, small and large prints and other ephemera. Our publications and prints are a combination of illustration, photography and typography – all reflecting a visual language that celebrates our passion for art & design and everything in between.
District of Columbia
- J&L BooksJ&L Books is a non-profit Atlanta / New York based publisher of artists’ books.
Georgia
- 5x7
- Edie FakeEdie Fake presents barter-able and buy-able byproducts of love and fury- beautiful prints, gay zines, feminist ephemera, undertakings and underwear. He is currently based in Chicago and can be reached at ediefake@gmail.com
- Half Letter Press / Temporary ServicesHalf Letter Press is a publishing imprint and experimental online store initiated by Temporary Services. We publish and distribute books and other items made by both ourselves and other people and groups. Half Letter Press hopes to build support and expand audiences for people that work creatively in experimental ways.
- Sara Ranchouse PublishingWe aim to provide opportunities for interaction with art in everyday situations, utilizing books and other printed forms that reside comfortably in ordinary and various venues. We sustain our practice and the material world at large by recycling everything from extant texts to paper cut-offs and coffee grounds.
- Soberscove PressSoberscove Press is a Chicago-based press that seeks to make accessible material that is either difficult to access and/or that fills a gap in the literature. Soberscover is also eager to share in book form our enthusiasm about other compelling projects and subjects.
Illinois
- Gary KachadourianI make scale pencil drawings of objects that are then used for Xeroxed and laser printed books and posters. The posters are life-sized reproductions of the objects that are folded and sold at prices according to their size.
- Open Space BaltimoreOpen Space is an artist-run gallery established in Baltimore, MD in 2009. Open Space exhibits the work of artists ranging from local to international, maintains a small library, and hosts a wide variety of programming including lectures, screenings, and an annual Publications and Multiples Fair.
Maryland
- F.A. Bernett Books
- Rick MyersArtist/publisher living and working in Easthampton, MA, originally from Manchester, England. Founded Edition Muta in 2012 to publish works by poets and artists. Solo exhibitions include: Printed Matter, New York (2011); White Columns, New York (2009). Artist’s books include ‘Bite Marks in paper’ with Nieves Books, Zurich. Myers was recently awarded a Printed Matter Award for Artists (2011).
Massachusetts
- Little Brown Mushroom BooksFounded in 2008 by Alec Soth, Little Brown Mushroom has published a number of artist books and zines. Little Brown Mushroom recently launched a series of photographic story books for adults and the first title in this series was done by Australian photographer Trent Parke. "Little Brown Mushroom is a DIY affair that blessedly doesn’t have to define itself or, for that matter, make money. LBM is our lemonade stand. It is mostly an excuse to enjoy the pleasures of making and sharing something cool."
Minnesota
- 'SUP MAGAZINEEstablished in 1998, 'SUP MAGAZINE intimately documents music culture. Each issue is a digest of what's happening in contemporary music from around the world. The casual Q&A interview style invites the reader to participate in the conversation, and the partnership between editorial and art direction lends the magazine its own aesthetic.
- 6 Decades Books6 Decades Books deals in rare artists' books and related material from 1960 to the present.
- Aaron KrachAaron Krach is an artist and writer based in New York City. He travels, takes photographs, gives stuff away, collects memories, and teaches. Previous books include “100 New York Mysteries”, “The Author of this Book Committed Suicide”, and the novel “Half-Life”. He started the web site www.thingstotellyourlover.com.
- Alden Projects
- AnartistAnartist specializes in books on 20th century art, photography, architecture and design with an emphasis on the post 1945 avant-garde including: Artist Books, Conceptual Art, Pop, Minimalism, Fluxus, Performance, Video, Exhibition Catalogs, Journals and Ephemera. Collections wanted. Open by appointment only.
- Andrew RothPPP Editions will launch Out To Lunch, a signed and numbered, limited-edition book by Ari Marcopoulos (8.5 x 11 inches, 368 pages). An index of sorts, Out To Lunch presents Marcopoulos’ earliest and most recent black-and white photographs (we nixed the middle years) in various formats: 256 matte black-and-white images; dozens of high-gloss contact sheets; hundreds of vinyl stickers; eight oversized, glossy pull-out posters, and a 32-page screenplay written together with his son Cairo, all bound together with black binder’s gauze and housed in an illustrated plastic bag. Edition of 350 plus 20 deluxe copies housed in a specially made cardboard box with added silver prints and ephemera. Our project room will also feature a series of newly editioned silkscreens, newsprint posters, loose sticker-sheets and more Marcopoulos for those who just can’t get enough!
- Aperture FoundationAperture is a world-renowned non-profit publisher, magazine and exhibition space dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, founded in 1952. Programs include artists lectures and panel discussions, limited-edition books and photographs, and traveling exhibitions.
- Art in America
- ARTBOOK | D.A.P.ARTBOOK | D.A.P. presents a special installation of the “dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts” publishing project, and a panel discussion featuring editor Bettina Funcke on Sunday, September 30 at 2pm in the Dome. All 100 dOCUMENTA (13) Notebooks will be available in our booth, individually or as a boxed set, alongside related titles and a selection of rare and limited editions from the ARTBOOK | D.A.P. archives.
- Arts and Sciences PROJECTSArts & Sciences PROJECTS is a creative laboratory for emerging and established artists, curators, and other collaborators. We aim to provide a production and dissemination platform through independent publishing, an alternative project space, and temporary installations and performances.
- BibliomancerBibliomancer is a performance conceived for the LA Art Book Fair. The project offers audiences a chance to experience the sacred dimension of books, using bibliomancy (divination using books), book blessings, and dedications. For more information, please visit www.sameerreddy.com or www.transformances.net
- Boo-HoorayBoo-Hooray stages exhibits devoted to the 20th and 21st century counter-culture narrative. We also do a lot of archival work, preserving and organizing underground culture. Crass, Angus MacLise, the Atelier Populaire of the Paris 68 uprising, the Velvet Underground and the Situationist Times are some examples. Ultimately, we hope that Maria Montez will provide socialistic answers for a rented world.
- Booklyn Artists AllianceBooklyn is an artist-run, non-profit organization that publishes, distributes and curates exhibitions of provocative unique and limited edition artist books and works on paper worldwide. Currently showing Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Stephen Dupont, Kiki Smith, David Hammons, Justseeds / IVAW, and prints from Occupy Wall Street and the Zapatistas (EZLN).
- CabinetCabinet is a non-profit arts and culture organization based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to its quarterly magazine, Cabinet publishes books, produces limited and unlimited editions, and organizes exhibitions, symposia, and other events.
- CapriciousCapricious is a magazine, artist book and queer arts zine publisher, as well as a curatorial project dedicated to showcasing emerging photographers. Contributors and subject matter span the globe. And while constant change is a primary Capricious trait, there are also definite common visual threads running throughout its history. Capricious has an affinity for things like animals, androgyny, opposition, reclaimed life, lust, natural as well as urban life, intimacy, revolution and nostalgia. As a vanguard publisher and fine art photography project, Capricious occupies a rare and whimsical space, operating as both a tool for discovering new talent and as an artists’ oasis. www.becapricious.com
- The Center for Urban PedagogyThe Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses design and art to improve civic engagement. CUP projects demystify the urban policy planning issues that impact our communities, so that more individuals can better participate in shaping them.
- CindersCinders is an artist-run gallery in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn that has held over 60 exhibitions, countless performances, and curated group shows internationally since its inception in 2004. We also self publish art zines and have a section in the gallery dedicated to handmade artist books.
- Dia Art FoundationA nonprofit institution founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally renowned for initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving art projects.
- Dieu Donne Press
- Dirty LooksDirty Looks NYC is a monthly platform for queer experimental film and video. A roaming screening series, Dirty looks is a salon of influences, an open platform for inquiry, discussion and debate.
- Domino Books
- e-fluxInitiated in late 2008, e-flux journal is an online publication on art and theory, available in a self-published, print-on-demand format, and through a series of books co-published with Sternberg Press, Berlin. Recent titles in its reader series include Boris Groys, Going Public; What Is Contemporary Art?; and Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art.
- Ed. VarieOnce home to one of the first anarchist bookstores in Manhattan, then followed by nearly a decade acting as gallery and studio to East Village artists, the storefront that Ed. Varie occupies is a seasoned alternative art venue. Ed. Varie is an independently owned and operated non-profit artists' space that hosts a contemporary artists' book shop, gallery shows, creative offices, installations, and programming that includes publication launches, creative meetings, and community based events. Our book stock is focused on recent contemporary artists' publications from New York and around the world.
- Eric Doeringer / Copycat PublicationsEric Doeringer is an artist who creates contemporary re-makes of classic artists’ books by Ed Ruscha, Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, and others.
- Exhibition AEXHIBITION A is a new art site that partners with top contemporary artists to create signed limited editions of work. BOOKSHOP by EXHIBITION A offers rare, often one-of-a-kind signed and inscribed artists’ books. Founded by Half Gallery owner Bill Powers, designer Cynthia Rowley and Laura Martin, Exhibition A was created to foster the next generation of collectors.
- Fulton RyderFulton Ryder is a bookshop, gallery, and publisher. Our emphasis and focus is on the collectible paperback as book form and cultural artifact.
- Gregory R. Miller & Co.Gregory R. Miller & Co. publishes high quality books about contemporary art, architecture, and design. Our catalogue is focused primarily on definitive artist monographs. We regularly work with museums. Our books aim to enhance our understanding of art and to contribute to the broader cultural dialogue of which art is an essential part.
- HasslaHassla is a New York-based publishing house with a focus on artists’ books and catalogues.
- IIIII Columns
- InstigatorInstigator produces zines, editions and objects. Influenced by Dada, Pop and the New York Post, Instigator wants to urge, start, ignite, advocate and goad the viewer to stop, drop and laugh. Operated by Paul Weston.
- j. morrisonBrooklyn-based artist's new screenprints, multiples, and ephemera.
- KARMAKARMA is a bookstore, gallery and publisher specializing in artists’ publications, located in the West Village of New York City. In addition to its own titles, KARMA stocks periodicals, artworks, artists’ editions, rare and out-of-print items and other in-print titles by noted publishers.
- Kingsboro PressThe Kingsboro Press runs out of New York and is helmed by Daniel Wagner, Megan Plunkett, and Jordan Awan. It is raw art, theory, and literature. It is non-thematic and without a scheme, and publishes unique, entirely self-produced objects and journals.
- Little Big ManLittle Big Man is a New York based publishing house specializing in the creation of of unique and strictly controlled editions of artist books and projects. From shorter experimental editions to fully formed publications, Little Big Man is dedicated to exploring the intersection where photography and contemporary art meet.
- Miniature GardenMiniature Garden is a small publishing project that focuses on collaborative artist books, zines, and posters.
- MOMMYMOMMY is an interview format celebration of women artists in the form of a blog launched by artists Chryanne Stathacos and Susan Silas in February, 2012. We present serious and important women artists who have been working for 20 years and focus attention on their work. Our inaugural post was A Letter from Ida Applebroog. To date we have interviewed Linda Montano, Cathy Busby, Betty Tompkins and Barbara Yoshida and we are scheduled to interview Robin Kahn and Vera Frenkel. We will be presenting our books, along with those of Cathy Busby, Linda Montano, Robin Kahn and Vera Frenkel.
- MosslessMossless is an experimental photography magazine. Issue 1, which debuted at Printed Matter in January, will be on sale here as well as 3 new photo books and a selection of semi-gloss posters. Issue 2 will be released at the fair.
- NOAH LYON / RETARD RIOTNOAH LYON is a multi media artist who lives & works in NYC. Artist books have been part of his repertoire for over 20 years. RETARD RIOT is a punk-rock/hip-hop anarcho artist collective that has been using & abusing copy machines since the early 1990's to make zines, music, buttons, and other slow moving objects.
- NOWORKNOWORK publishes anonymous, collaborative projects relating to New York City. We focus on photographic material taken, found and recirculated in public space.
- OSMOS
- Paper MonumentPaper Monument is a print journal of contemporary art published in association with n+1 and designed by Project Projects.
- Pau Wau PublicationsPau Wau Publications is an independent publishing collective dedicated to the production of small run & limited edition publications of contemporary photography. Our handmade process invokes a craft-based tradition that employs modern technology to create publications that we hope engage and inspire a dialogue on form, display and image.
- Paul Anthony Moreno & Charles Francis WelchKNOWSGAY is a loose leaf collaborative publication based on sex, whimsy, dreams, and last minute plans.
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya
- PictureBoxPictureBox is a Grammy-award-winning publishing company based in Brooklyn. Founded by Dan Nadel in 2000, Picturebox has produced over 100 titles with cartoonists, designers, and contemporary artists. Debuting at the LAABF is Ben Jones’ “Men’s Group”.
- PIN-UPMagazine for Architectural Entertainment.
- Primary InformationPrimary Information is a non-profit organization devoted to printing artists’ books, artists’ writings, out-of-print publications and editions that are vital to contemporary dialogues and artistic practice.
- Printed Matter, Inc.Now in it’s thirty-fifth year, Printed Matter, Inc. is the world’s largest organization dedicated to artists’ publications. We offer over 18,000 titles by 6,000 artists, including new and vintage books, periodicals, audio, multiples, ephemera and other primary materials by artists. Our programming includes exhibitions, launches, special events, publishing, and the NY Art Book Fair.
- Project ProjectsProject Projects is a design studio focusing on print, identity, exhibition, and interactive work with clients in art and architecture.
- Sequence PressSequence Press was established in 2010 to nurture potent, yet under-recognized voices in contemporary philosophy and the arts. We aim to stimulate the discussion that our titles command through public lectures and other encounters where artists, thinkers, and ourt readers at large can enter into dialogue beyond their prescribed fields of expertise.
- Susan MillsSusan Mills' books reflect an interest in language that is not written for publication; language that cannot meaningfully be typeset or scanned or reproduced. She is drawn to a tabula rasa quality and to what is found, historically and contemporarily, tucked into the hem.
- Swill ChildrenSwill Children is an umbrella encompassing physical and internet based projects in one place. Positivity, creation, community, loss, destruction and sadness are all addressed within the individual works, be it a hand-made zine, short run vinyl record series, or anonymously submitted book interventions. Swill Children unites these forms and approaches under one heading.
- Ugly Duckling PresseUgly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art and publishing collective producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, essays, and artist's books. The Presse favors emerging, international, and "forgotten" writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects that are difficult to place at other presses.
- US CollectiveBetween and among friends: an assemblage of printed works curated by US.
- Working ClassWorking Class represents a community of local artists in New York. We are a Brooklyn-based, web and print ‘zine showcasing talent from all corners of the art world: writers, photographers, poets, illustrators, street artists, small business owners, and musicians. With New York as our vibrant – and sometimes brutal – backdrop, Working Class taps the pulse of the art world and discusses why we all stick around.
New York
- Ampersand Gallery & Fine BooksAmpersand is a gallery, specialty bookstore & retail archive located in Portland, Oregon. We are collectors, readers & believers in the promotion & preservation of visual culture, both high & low, past & present.
- Container CorpsContainer Corps is a publication design studio, printshop, bindery, and exhibition space that serves as a platform for the creation, distribution, and discussion of new arts publications.
- Division LeapDivision Leap is a gallery in Portland, Oregon, devoted to the past and future of independent publications by artists. We exhibit historical and contemporary material and also publish artists' books and a magazine.
- Monograph BookwerksMonograph Bookwerks is a fine art book and object store in Portland, Oregon, focusing on contemporary art and artists. For the Fair we are presenting a selection of unique and editioned artists’ books and artists’ ephemera, including exhibition documents, posters, and announcements from the New York and Los Angeles gallery scenes of the 60s and 70s.
- Social Malpractice PublishingSocial Malpractice Publishing is an artist-run label founded in 2009 by Sean Joseph Patrick Carney in Portland, OR.
Oregon
- Encyclopedia DestructicaEncyclopedia Destructica is a community-based collaborative endeavor that promotes the work of artists and writers through handmade artists' books and zines. Our books are produced through a series of weekly bookbinding parties that foster a dialogue between contributors and the local community.
- The Institute for Extraterrestrial Sexuality
- Justseeds Artists' CooperativeJustseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a collective of artists with members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico creating print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. We believe in the transformative power of individual expression in concert with collective action.
Pennsylvania
- Ellen ZieglerI source the immaterial through the material. My books include tarpaper, cyanotype, and drawings made with an electrode on a copper table. Arcane materials with their unpredictable outcome allow for accident and serendipity as well as ongoing refinement of technique and expression. Stories: my mother’s love affair with a bullfighter... a collaboration with poet Patti Smith, who helped me mourn the death of my own lover... and more.
- Marquand Books
Washington