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Group Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.)

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Corporate name headingGroup Material (Firm : New York, N.Y.)
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Variant(s)GM (Firm : New York, N.Y.)
Beginning date1979
Ending date1996
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
AddressNew York New York (State) United States
Found inLiberty and justice, c1986: t.p. (Group Material) t.p. verso (represents artists and produces exhibitions which address a particular social theme)
Art demonstration, 2022, ©2022: title page (Group Material) page 1 (the group came together in 1979 wjen New York was still in the grips of a historic fiscal crisis. In April 1982, four artists of Group Material displayed a series of large format posters at the Union Square in New York City)
Wikipedia WWW site, May 24, 2023: (Group Material was a group of conceptual artists and an exhibition space, active from 1979 to 1996, which included Jenny Holzer, Julie Ault, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Félix González-Torres, Hans Haacke, and others as members and participants. The group operated a gallery space in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where exhibitions such as 1981's The People's Choice (Arroz con Mango) took place, participated in the 1985 Whitney Biennial with their show Americana, which included appliances and pop music alongside historical artworks. The group's archive is held in the special collections of New York University)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Material>
bidoun.org WWW site, May 24, 2023: (Group Material (GM), the New York based artist-activist)
   <https://new.bidoun.org/articles/show-and-tell>