List of participating artists:

Samuel T. Adams Vanessa Black Amber Boardman Jin Kyoung Bom Jenn Brantley Zoe Chan Tre Chandler Noa Charuvi & Aslaug Iris Fridjonsdottir Curver Brandon Davey Rebecca Goyette Alex Guzman Yuhi Hasegawa Hai Hsin Huang Mulaundo Jones Kahori Kamiya Egill Karlsson Paul Limperopulos Gregg Louis Habby Osk Kathleen Mallaney Cameron McPherson Jabari Owens-Bailey Min Pang Stacy Scibelli Christina Sucgang Trish Tillman Theodoros Zafeiropoulos Shai Zurim

A New Currency is an exhibition of thirty-one artists, which developed out of discussions within the MFA seminar class taught at School of Visual Arts by curator Dan Cameron. It will take place in three stages: local, virtual, and global. It has evolved as an artistic response to the changing economic circumstances facing the contemporary art community. The participants hope for the exhibition to serve as a model for applying art’s experimental methods to a fundamentally entrepeneurial task: rethinking art’s relationship to systems of exchange.

The first part of the project will take place at 55 Delancey Street New York, NY 10002, in the form of a group exhibition organized by the artists themselves around the theme A New Currency, around which most have created new pieces. The exhibition will open May 29, 2009, and will run for four weeks.

The second part of the project is a website, www.anewcurrency.com, on which a number of approaches to A New Currency are pursued. The website and blog will serve as the clearing-house for information on the exhibition, and its offshoots in multiple locations, both within the U.S. and internationally.

The third stage of A New Currency is its interpolation in multiple sites. Participating artists will contact their friends and colleagues in other cities, encouraging them to develop their own exhibition, using the same title. The results from this stage will be exhibited at SVA Gallery in July and August, along with works from the first stage of the exhibition.

Also, panel discussions will be held on Sunday May 31, 2009 at 3 pm and Wednesday June 10, 2009 at 6 pm. The topics and panelist can be found by visiting our website. Further locations, both nationally and internationally, will also be announced on our website as they are confirmed.