Printed Matter’s
NY Art Book Fair
April 25–28, 2024
548 W. 22nd St
This year’s NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) returns to 548 W. 22nd St, just around the corner from Printed Matter’s Chelsea bookstore.
NYABF is the leading international event for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating contemporary artists’ publishing and the medium’s rich history. NYABF 2024 will feature hundreds of publishers from around the world, including the work of artists and collectives, small presses, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, distributors, and more. As part of this year’s event, we look forward to partnering with neighboring organizations and galleries to present a full calendar of lively discussions, performances, book launches, and special projects that highlight interdisciplinary publishing practices.
Printed Matter's Sunday Zine Fair at The Brooklyn Museum
Sunday, November 19
11AM–6PM
The Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238
The Sunday Zine Fair as well as the exhibition, Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, are free and open to the public. No advanced registration is required.
ABOUT
Printed Matter is pleased to present Sunday Zine Fair, a special day-long event held on occasion of the Brooklyn Museum’s expansive survey exhibition on artists’ zines Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines. The Fair will convene more than 60 invited exhibitors in the museum’s pavilion and adjoining gallery space, with an emphasis on self-publishing artists and collectives, archives and libraries, and rare & out of print dealers.
Against the backdrop of the historical show, the Sunday Zine Fair will celebrate the origins of zines and honor the many important contributors to its diverse legacy, a number of whom are represented within the exhibition. A new generation of publishers working today will also present a range of styles and perspectives on the medium. In tandem with this Fair, Printed Matter will also launch a new website inviting participating artists and publishers to share sources of inspiration in their practice, creating an explorable index of influence and artistic lineage.
VISITOR INFORMATION
The nearest Subway station is the accessible Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum 2/3. This subway station is ADA accessible. The closest Bus stops are: B41 and B69 at Grand Army Plaza, and the B45 at St. Johns Place and Washington Ave.
EXHIBITORS
@nd Aaron Krach
3 Dot Zine
8-Ball Community
ABC No Rio
Allied Productions, Inc./Le Petit Versailles
Anartist
Ares Maia
Art Against Displacement (AAD)
Aventures Ltd. Press
Bathtime for Sailors
Boo-Hooray
Brain Washing from Phone Towers
Calipso Press
CRAM books
Dizzy Books
Emily Larned
Endless Editions
Évita Yumul
F Magazine
Fournier Fine & Rare
Fugitive Materials
GenderFail
Gold Rain
Heather Benjamin
Heinzfeller Nileisist / Snow Gallery
Ho Tam (Hotam Press)
Interference Archive
Irrelevant Press
Jennifer Chai Shear
junshuziKhari
Johnson-Ricks
Khepri Press
Little Mountain Press
Maggie Lee
Matarile Ediciones
Mega Press/Panayiotis Terzis
Miniature Garden
mooreartpress209
mundus press
My Comrade
Nan Collymore
Neta Bomani
Never Sit
Nichole Shinn
Nick Sethi / DAKOTA
nico fontana
NOAH LYON
Papertown Nuzzy
Passenger Pigeon Press
Pat McCarthy
Paul John
Paul Soulellis
Pegacorn Press//Caroline Kern
Press Press
Printed Matter, Inc.
RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR
Raw Meat
Shadow Comms
Temporary Services / Half Letter Press
Three Fifty Collective
Tom Hosier + Allan Greenier
Unity Press
Water With Water
https://www.printedmatter.org
https://www.pmabf.org
An Incomplete History of Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs on view at Hauser & Wirth 542 W 22nd St, NYC October 13–29, 2022
Coinciding with the return of the NY Art Book Fair this October, Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street presents the exhibition ‘An Incomplete History of Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs’. Organized by Printed Matter and Darling Green in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth Publishers, the first-of-its-kind presentation will be on view directly next door to this year’s fair (13 – 16 October). As a key piece of the project, a series of newly conducted interviews and conversations with current and past exhibitors will shed light on the individual experiences that make up the collective history and life of the fair.
Founded in 2006 by then Printed Matter Director AA Bronson, the NY Art Book Fair was initiated as a new platform for artists, publishers and artists’ book enthusiasts, not only for the distribution of publications but as a space for community building and the circulation of ideas. With the addition of a second fair in Los Angeles in 2013, the event grew in scale to include hundreds of additional exhibitors from across the globe, with audience numbers in the tens of thousands. Now returning to the location of the original New York event, this year’s fair provides an opportunity to reflect on the evolution and impact of Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs.
‘An Incomplete History of Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs’ will assemble a chorus of personal anecdotes, conversations, documentation, print materials and ephemera to give a layered narrative account of the NY and LA Art Book Fairs since their founding. The project brings together many voices to consider the Art Book Fairs as a site of dialogue, exchange and collaboration, while also exploring their role within the landscape of experimental art and artists’ book publishing. With materials drawn from the Printed Matter archives and gathered through an open call for submissions, the presentation will unfold as a non-linear survey and composite oral history of the ever-evolving event.
The exhibition project will be followed by a new print publication (Spring, 2023), published by Printed Matter and edited by Darling Green, with design by Garrick Gott and the support of Contributing Editor Lillian Wilkie.
Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair October 13–16, 2022 548 W 22nd St
Noah Lyon will be at table H61 at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair October 13–16, 2022 548 W 22nd St in Chelsea, New York City.
Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair returns to the historic location of the very first Fair! After three years apart, we are grateful to reunite in person and celebrate the history and future of artists’ book publishing together.
Taking place in Chelsea, just around the corner from Printed Matter’s bookstore, the NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the leading international event for the distribution of artists’ books. Exhibitors include a broad range of artists, collectives, publishers, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors. This year’s Fair will feature many of the longstanding exhibitors and programs that have come to define this beloved event, while also offering new ways to discover artists’ books and explore the full breadth of the art publishing community.
Printed Matter / St Marks & 8-Ball Community's 2022 East Village Zine Fair
Printed Matter / St Marks x 8-Ball Community's 2022 East Village Zine Fair
Printed Matter / St Marks x 8-Ball Community's 2022 East Village Zine Fair
We are excited to announce the return of Printed Matter / St Marks x 8-Ball Community’s East Village Zine Fair, scheduled to take place Saturday, June 18, 11am - 6pm, on St Marks Pl between 1st and 2nd Avenues. Like last year, a full schedule of programming will be held throughout the day, including workshops and performances at neighborhood community gardens and a rooftop poetry reading at 38 St Marks Pl.
Last year’s event was a wonderful celebration of independent publishers, zine makers, and East Village DIY culture and history. Join us as we come together once again for this new zine fair tradition on St Marks Pl. Free and open to the public.
Stay tuned for more information about community garden events, musical performances, and three new fundraising editions produced on the occasion of the EVZF in support of 8-Ball Community and Printed Matter / St Marks.
In case of rain, the East Village Zine Fair will take place on Sunday, June 19, 11am-6pm at Free Advice, located on the corner of S 1st and Kent, Brooklyn
East Side Outside Garden — 415 E 11th St
11am-12 pm: Guided Meditation with Gideon Jacobs
12-1 pm: Born to Kill zine launch with Pat McCarthy
1-3 pm: Crown Royal Chess Club with Nathaniel Matthews
2-4 pm: Tarot readings with Micaela Skoknic
First Street Garden — 48 E 1st St
1-3 pm: Art swap with Give & Take, crochet workshop with FUNHOUSE KNITWEAR
4-6 pm: Zine workshop with Zine Fest NYC Zine library available for browsing.
Green Oasis Community Garden — 370 E 8th St
1-4 pm: Summer Solstice indigo dyeing workshop
La Plaza Cultural — E 9th St & Avenue C
1-4 pm: Acoustic music with Mani the son, BOZOBABY, Jacob Tremont, Arak James
4-6 pm: Bring Your Own Body, a performance event curated by Jack Meriwether
Le Petit Versailles — 247 E 2nd St
8 pm: Charles Lum film screening, curated by Jim Hubbard and Todd Verow
Zines from Lum’s collection available for browsing.
2x2 Periodical
Aaron Krach
ABC No Rio
ACOMPI
Allied Productions, Inc. / Le Petit Versailles
bookdummypress (bdp) /dieFirma [PR]
Brain Washing from Phone Towers
Bullet Space
Christopher Currence
Clayton Patterson & Ray Felix
Cold Cube Press
DEATHBYSHEEP
deskarga groupo
Demystification Magazine
Desert Island
DIAGONAL PRESS
Dizzy Magazine
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Endless Editions
F.I.N.E. Editions
First Street Garden
Fugitive Materials
GenderFail
Heather Benjamin
HEINZFELLER
HOMOCATS
Hyperlink Press
Ink Cap Press
Inpatient Press
Interference Archive
Irrelevant Press
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON
Jo Rosenthal
Karma Bookstore
Khepri Press
Killer Dentist Press
Love Injection Fanzine
lucky risograph
Mega Press/Panayiotis Terzis
Miniature Garden
Mundus Press
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
Nathaniel Matthews
NOAH LYON
Other Weapons Distro
P.A.D.
Papertown Nuts! & Company
Parkmart
Passenger Pigeon Press
Pat McCarthy
Quimby’s Bookstore NYC
Random Man Editions
Raw Meat Collective
Red Dust
Research and Destroy New York City
Sap Magazine & Blurring Books
Secret Riso Club
Small Editions
Social Species
Soft City
Sweetie Pea’s
Swiss Institute
the Phalanstery
Tony Tafuro
TQR
TXTbooks
UDLI Editions/Peace on Earth
Ugly Duckling Presse
Uranus Comics
Walter Million
Wendy’s Subway
WONDER PRESS
Joining us on St Marks Pl are four organizations focused on community building and mutual aid work in the Lower East Side and beyond.
Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art.
BAILFRONT is a donation-based store that flips items contributed by artists, writers and presses and redistributes the proceeds to bailout/mutual aid organizations like Emergency Release Funds, CovidBailoutNYC and Survived & Punished. We’re always accepting donations <3
CORPUS NYC
CORPUS IS A COMMUNITY. COMMUNITY BUILDING IS DIRECT ACTION. CORPUS IS ABOUT MUTUAL RESPECT. RESPECT BUILDS SOLIDARITY. CORPUS IS BUILT ON HARD WORK AND PRACTICE. INTELLECTUAL WARFARE IS MANDATORY. INCREASING SELF DEFENSE AND AWARENESS IS PARAMOUNT. CORPUS IS EMPOWERMENT AND BECOMING FREE.
Friend of a Friend builds networks of support with our unhoused friends and neighbors in Lower Manhattan.
We know that there are far more zine makers in New York than there are tables available at the fair. So, 8-Ball will have a Drop-Off Table where anyone can sell their zines! You can drop off a stack of up to 6 zines, of which 8-Ball will sell 5 and keep 1 to be entered into their archive/library—think of it like a free consignment table. The step-by-step:
1. Drop off up to six zines at the 8-Ball Drop-Off Table
2. Enjoy the fair!
3. When you’re ready to leave, come back to the Drop-Off Table
4. We give you your zines and cash!
5. You now have fewer zines, but more cash! (Use it to buy zines?)
After the East Village Zine Fair, join us for a rooftop poetry reading at 38 St Marks Pl hosted by 8-Ball fair organizer Em Brill.
The East Village Zine Fair is made possible by our sponsors, Carhartt Work In Progress, Karma, Fortnight Institute, and Kapp Kapp; and the generous support of Below The Line Production Supply, Endless Editions, Keigo Prints Inc., and Essentia.
Flier artwork and design by Jason Wright, EVZF font by Dana Burns.
PRINTED MATTER’s VIRTUAL ART BOOK FAIR
White Columns September 22–December 12, 2020
Noah Lyon, Inside The Rainbow, Oil pastel on canvas
El que busca, encuentra…y sigue encontrando
curated by Danny Baez
September 22–December 12, 2020
View online at
https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/untitled-curated-by-danny-baez
This exhibition is the fourteenth in a series of online exhibitions; this exhibition was curated from White Columns’ Artist Registry.
For more information: registry.whitecolumns.org
Danny Baez is the co-founder and director of Mercado Caribeño (MECA), an international art fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico. And also a co-founder and board member of NYC collective ARTNOIR.
For more information visit www.mecaartfair.com
We Live in Real Time: A Window Exhibition of Mail Art Made During the Pandemic at Printed Matter / St Marks
Noah Lyon, “US, PS”, paint, stamped ink and postal stickers on found paper (up-cycled Printed Matter stationary) sent via United States Postal Service, 2020
In April and May of this year, Printed Matter/St Marks put out an open call for mail art submissions with the prompt We live in real time. Mail art has a deep association with Printed Matter’s mission of circumventing the institutional spaces through which art is usually consumed by widely distributing artworks to be experienced within our daily lives. As a medium, mail art felt especially relevant at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic—sending art through the postal system allows for a new type of physical connection between people, places, and ideas. On view now in the windows of the Printed Matter storefront at 38 St Marks Place at the Swiss Institute is an exhibition of selected mail art submissions that we received from around the world.
Over 43 days, we received 1207 pieces of mail and 613 email submissions from 1137 artists in at least 34 countries.
The mail art project was covered in Le Monde, Kunstforum International, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, and Atlas Obscura.