An artist’s studio increasingly functions as both a production site and an economic infrastructure for creative careers. Accordingly, artists and co-curators Anicka Yi and Josh Kline examine the shifting role of studio culture in a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York City. Notably, the exhibition is presented with Performance Space New York and brings together 27 artists under the title Studio Visit. At the same time, the project positions the studio as a psychological, conceptual and economic environment that actively shapes artistic identity. Moreover, the exhibition invites participants to reflect on the private spaces and formative practices that supported the early stages of their careers. As a result, the presentation moves beyond conventional display models and reframes artistic labor as an evolving infrastructure.
Curatorial framework and technological experimentation
Not only does the exhibition move between public display and private memory, but it also integrates writing and artificial intelligence into its curatorial structure. In addition, each artist contributes a written reflection on their early studios, which the organizers transform into full-color, machine-generated images. Consequently, the exhibition introduces speculative visual archives that reframe memory through digital production tools. At the same time, the curatorial approach draws on Circular File, the experimental collective founded by Yi and Kline with Jon Santos. Likewise, that earlier platform used performance and broadcast formats to investigate artistic labor beyond institutional exhibition spaces. Therefore, the current project extends a long-standing research trajectory into how artists work, collaborate and sustain professional networks. By centering the communities formed through everyday artmaking, the exhibition also encourages reflection on the technologies and spatial conditions that enable dialogue among emerging artists.
Dozens of artists relocate their working studios to Hauser & Wirth New York, inviting the public inside the creative process through a live, participatory exhibition format. 
Dozens of artists relocate their working studios to Hauser & Wirth New York, inviting the public inside the creative process through a live, participatory exhibition format. 
Dozens of artists relocate their working studios to Hauser & Wirth New York, inviting the public inside the creative process through a live, participatory exhibition format. 
Dozens of artists relocate their working studios to Hauser & Wirth New York, inviting the public inside the creative process through a live, participatory exhibition format.
Participating artists and program scale
The exhibition features work by the following artists, whose practices collectively span painting, performance, photography, installation and research-based production.
Accordingly, the participating artists are:
- American Artist
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Huma Bhabha
- Black Quantum Futurism
- Cecily Brown
- Nicole Eisenman
- Jason Fox
- Nikita Gale
- Georgia Gardner Gray
- Josh Kline
- Ella Kruglyanskaya
- Carolyn Lazard
- Guadalupe Maravilla
- Paul McCarthy
- New Red Order
- Monira Al Qadiri
- Farah Al Qasimi
- Jesús Hilario-Reyes
- Alicia Riccio
- Tschabalala Self
- Avery Singer
- Tavares Strachan
- Sung Tieu
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
- Ambera Wellmann
- Anicka Yi
Importantly, the exhibition is on view in New York through April 11, positioning Studio Visit as a time-limited platform for examining how creative labor, technology and community increasingly intersect within the contemporary art economy.