Seth Price

In 2017 the ICA London presented a survey of his film and video works co-curated by the Institute's director Stefan Kalmár, Richard Birkett and Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey. Price opted not to be involved in the planning and installation of the show, later explaining that he asked to be treated "as a dead artist."

In 2017 Price was the subject of a survey exhibition of 17 years of work at the Stedilijk Museum, Amsterdam, curated by Beatrix Ruf and Achim Höchdorfer. The exhibition then travelled to Museum Brandhorst, Munich."

Seth Price was the subject of a one-year research program from 2017-2018 at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco, called "Seth Price is on Our Mind," which included a regular private study group as well as a series of public events, activities, talks and commissioned essays.

In 2015 Price published the novel F*ck Seth Price. Before publication, an excerpt appeared in Harper's Magazine and it was part of The Believer Magazine's "favorite fiction of 2015". In 2015, writing for the New York Times Style Magazine, musician/artist Kim Gordon named it as one of her favorite books, calling it "the best description of the art world ever."

In 2015 Price was hired by clothing company Brioni to model for its Fall/Winter ad campaign. A photograph of this advertisement appearing in the New Yorker was used as the cover design of the second edition of F*ck Seth Price.

In 2015 Price created Organic Software a website providing algorithmically-mined data on prominent art collectors and their political donations. Originally intending to remain anonymous, Price was revealed as the creator of the site by Vice Magazine in 2017. Writing for Texte Zur Kunst in 2017, Price recounts taking a year's hiatus from the art world: shutting down his studio and attempting to write a young adult novel while pursuing the "dumb goal" of removing traces of himself from the internet. At the end of the hiatus and in an attempt to "bend my frustration toward something productive" Price wrote the autofiction novel "F*ck Seth Price" to which organic.software served as a companion piece.

Seth Price is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art and Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, Galerie Chantal Crousal, Paris; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi and Capitain Petzel, Berlin. At a 2014 Christie's auction in New York, a golden, vacuum formed polystyrene piece by Price called Vintage Bomber (2006) sold for $785,000, sweeping past its high estimate of $70,000.

Price has released cassettes, CDs, vinyl LPs and files through labels that include Audio Visual Arts, Dais Records, Period Tapes, Free103point9 and Distributed History. In 2012 his 2002 CD Army Jacket was re-released in a 10-year anniversary vinyl pressing.

Price published How to Disappear in America in 2008 and it was adapted into a musical by Ei Arakawa.

In 2005, Price curated "Grey Flags" at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, a group show including Richard Artschwager, Wade Guyton, Georg Herold, Joan Jonas, and David Lieske.

Price's work exhibits internationally and was included in the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials, the Venice Biennale in 2011 and dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012.

Price published Dispersion in 2002 as a self-published booklet. It has been translated into 7 languages and been bootlegged in a variety of ways, including a "Cult Classic" version from Burn Rate Berlin, which includes Kanye West "Wisdom Quotes" interspersed throughout.

Drawings: Studies for Works 2000-2015, Petzel Gallery, New York

Seth Price (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a New York-based multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist. He lives and works in New York City.