CURATED BY SCOTT PORTNOY

In collaboration with Galerie Buchholz, Blank Forms Editions will be publishing a book about Curtis Cuffie set for release in June 2023. This photobook, the first publication about Cuffie, seeks to honor the artist by collecting the efforts of two of his partners: Carol Thompson, who archived a great number of his 35mm photographs, and Katy Abel, a Cooper Square resident who took hundreds of snapshots of his art. Curtis Cuffie is edited by Scott Portnoy and Robert Snowden with Ciarán Finlayson, designed by Julie Peeters, and includes writing by the artist himself, Finlayson, and critic Alan Moore, as well as additional images by photographers Tom Warren and Margaret Morton.

Solo exhibitions by the artist include Curtis Cuffie: Recent Sculpture curated by Darrell Maupin and Kenny Schachter at Flamingo East (1992), Meet me at the Margin curated by Carol Thompson at A Gathering of the Tribes (1996), and Heaven is Under your Feet curated by Carol Thompson at 4th Street Photo Gallery (2000). Group exhibitions include Assemblage: Reordering Chaos curated by Aarne Anton at American Primitive Gallery (1996), Paradise 8: Baker’s Dozen curated by Kenny Schachter at Exit Art (1999), Treasures of the Soul: Who Is Rich? curated by Marcus Schubert at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore (2000), Souls Grown Diaspora curated by Sam Gordon at Apex Art (2020), and Greater New York curated by Ruba Katrib at MoMA PS1 (2021).

Galerie Buchholz and Scott Portnoy would like to thank Katy Abel, Aarne and Tina Anton, Robert Funk, Ciarán Finlayson, Ruba Katrib, Lawrence Kumpf, Darrell Maupin, Julie Peeters, Kenny Schachter, Robert Snowden, and Carol Thompson for their support of this exhibition.