Mar 7, 2004–Jun 27, 2004
The Contemporary Jewish Museum is proud to present 100 Artists See God—an exhibition that reaches beyond universal images of traditional faiths to offer individual interpretations of spirituality by a variety of leading contemporary artists, co-curated by artists John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, and organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI).
100 Artists See God is an exhibition that goes beyond universal images of traditional faiths to offer individual interpretations of spirituality. The show was organized around the following questions: How do contemporary artists see God? How and why might the point of view of artists reinforce or stand in contrast to that of the general public? And what comfort or answers do we all seek in spiritual undertakings of varying kinds?
The curators invited artists to respond to one of art’s most enduring challenges: picturing the divine. They imagined, “a group of a hundred artists standing in a field having a simultaneous revelation.” The exhibition consists of one work by each artist—primarily photographs, drawings and paintings along with several sculptures and single-channel videos—many of them made in response to the curators’ call for participation.
Through a variety of mediums and vastly different approaches, the participating artists challenge themselves and their viewers to rethink the very idea of God. The approaches vary from irreverent to sincere, from playful to portentous.
Reverend Ethan Acres
Terry Allen
Jo Harvey Allen
Eleanor Antin
Brienne Arrington
David Askevold
Lillian Ball
Cindy Bernard
Andrea Bowers
Delia Brown
Edgar Bryan
Angela Bulloch
Chris Burden
Mary Ellen Carroll
Erin Cosgrove
Michael Craig-Martin
Jeremy Deller
Sam Durant
Jimmie Durham
Nicole Eisenman
Katharina Fritsch
Jonathan Furmanski
Liam Gillick
James Gobel
Jack Goldstein
Scott Grieger
Andreas Gursky
James Hayward
Micol Hebron
Damien Hirst
Rebecca Horn
Darcy Huebler
Christian Jankowski
Larry Johnson
Mike Kelley
Mary Kelly
Martin Kersels
Nicholas Kersulis
Martin Kippenberger
Rachel Lachowicz
Norm Laich
Liz Larner
Louise Lawler
Barry Le Va
William Leavitt
Roy Lichtenstein
Jen Liu
Thomas Locher
Daria Martin
T. Kelly Mason
Rita McBride
Paul McCarthy
Carlos Mollura
JP Munro
Bruce Nauman
Jennifer Nelson
Eric Niebuhr
Leonard Nimoy
Albert Oehlen
Catherine Opie
Tony Oursler
Jorge Pardo
Simon Patterson
Hirsch Perlman
Luciano Perna
Renée Petropoulos
Raymond Pettibon
Paul Pfeiffer
Nicolette Pot
Richard Prince
Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz
David Reed
Victoria Reynolds
Gerhard Richter
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Susan Rothenberg
Nancy Rubins
Glen Walter Rubsamen
Allen Ruppersberg
Ed Ruscha
Pauline Stella Sanchez
Kim Schoenstadt
Jim Shaw
Gary Simmons
Alexis Smith
Yutaka Sone
Thaddeus Strode
Diana Thater
Mungo Thomson
Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson, in collaboration with Helena Jonsdottir
Jeffrey Vallance
John Waters
Marnie Weber
William Wegman
Lawrence Weiner
Benjamin Weissman
James Welling
Eric Wesley
John Wesley
Franz West
Chris Wilder
Christopher Williams
Steven Wong
Mans Wrange, in collaboration with Igor Isaksson
Mario Ybarr