World Map, 1989. Cut paper on board, watercolor, dry transfer lettering, 40 × 50 inches (101.6 × 127 cm).

World Map

Map Dissection I, 1991/1997. Cut paper map, glass, and hardware, 24 × 36 × 0.5 inches (61 × 91.4 × 1.3 cm). 

Map Dissection I and II

Map Dissection II, 1991. Cut paper map fragments placed between 200 microscope slides (each slide 2 x 0.75 inches) and arranged on 18-foot aluminum shelf.

Map Dissection I and II

Australia from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

England from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Taiwan from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Hawaii from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Sicily from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Bali from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

New Zealand from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Ostrov and Buru from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Novaja Zemla from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Canary Islands from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Madagascar from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Ireland from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Crete from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Iceland from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Falkland Islands from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic prints, each 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Cuba from Series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic print, 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Comoros Islands from series Moss Maps, 1993. Chromogenic print, 9.75 × 14.25 inches (24.8 × 36.2 cm).

Moss Maps

Coastal Merger, 1993. Reconstructed paper map on board, 22.5 x 14.75 inches

Coastal Merger

Chloe, 1994. Vitrine with taxidermy pet dog, pillow, towel, carpet, dimensions variable, as displayed in Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego.

Chloe

Chloe’s Case, 1994. Detail of vitrine with pillow, towel, carpet, framed photograph with text, dimensions variable, as shown in San Diego Natural History Museum.

Chloe

CARPARK, 1994. Live one-day event, commissioned by inSITE, Southwestern College campus, Chula Vista, CA. Dimensions variable.

CARPARK

World Map II, 1995–96. Cut paper on board, 51 × 36 inches (129.5 × 91.4 cm)

World Map II

Hand-held Subway, 1996. Cibachrome, 20 × 13.25 inches.

Hand-held Subway

South America from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.

Geographic Pathologies

Africa from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.

Geographic Pathologies

Italy from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.

Geographic Pathologies

India from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.

Geographic Pathologies

North America from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.

Geographic Pathologies

Japan from series Geographic Pathologies, 1996. Reassembled paper maps, dimensions variable.

Geographic Pathologies

Lake Michigan, 1996. Cut paper, 12 × 35 inches (30.5 × 88.9 cm)

Lake Michigan

Wanted, 1996. Collaboration with Julia Meltzer. One hour audio loop playing in a free-standing room with 6 × 9 × 7 feet interior dimensions.

Wanted

Songs of the Islands: Concrete Music from New York, 1996-1998. Found audiotape between Plexiglas, paper board, ink, soundtrack, audio player with headphones. 40 × 30 × 2 inches (102 × 76 × 5 cm).

Songs of the Islands

The Nightgown Pictures, 1996-2004. 14 piezo prints and two archival color inkjet prints, dimensions variable.

The Nightgown Pictures

The Gummy Songs, 1996-1998.

The Gummy Songs

Map of Elgaland/Vargaland, 1997. Excised polyethlyne map between two acrylic sheets. 75 cm × 137 cm × 3 cm.

Map of Elgaland/Vargaland

Surface Spoils: Concrete Music from Europe, 1997. Found audio tape, plastic domes, color photocopies and foam core, dimensions variable.

Surface Spoils: Concrete Music from Europe

Austria, Dissected paper map, 9 x 6 inches, 1997, and C-print, 40 x 30 inches, 2006.

Austria

Artificial Insemination 1, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.

Artificial Insemination

Artificial Insemination 2, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.

Artificial Insemination

Artificial Insemination 3, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.

Artificial Insemination

Artificial Insemination 4, 1998, C-print, 20 x 20 inches.

Artificial Insemination

Artificial Insemination, 1998, video loop.

Artificial Insemination

Renovated Mushroom (Tip-Top Tire Rubber Patch Kit), 1998. Cibachrome print, 27.25 × 39.5 inches. (69.2 × 100.3 cm).

Renovated Mushroom

Rock Family Tree, 1998, thirty framed photographs, each 5 x 7 or 7 x 5 inches, with wooden connectors, dimensions variable.

Rock Family Tree

Transplant, 1998. Cibachrome, 10 x 8 inches, and framed plant fragment with insect wings, 10 x 8 inches.

Transplant

GIFT/GIFT, 1998. Video, 11:55 minutes.

GIFT/GIFT

Finland's Longest Road, 2000. Excised paper map fragment in glass petri dish, 6 x 6 x .75 inches.

Finland’s Longest Road

Airplane Family Tree, 2000. Ninety-nine inkjet prints mounted to aluminum connected by red graphic tape applied to wall, 28 feet x 10 feet.

Airplane Family Tree

Finland’s Unnamed Islands, 2000. Ninety-six paper map fragments between glass microscope slides on aluminum shelves, dimensions variable.

Finland’s Unnamed Islands

Talking Popcorn, 2001. Popcorn machine, black pedestal, red vinyl base, microphone, laptop with custom-written Morse code program, printed paper bags, popcorn. Dimensions variable.

Talking Popcorn

Talking Popcorn's First Words, 2001. Bronze popcorn kernels in velvet-lined wooden box.

Talking Popcorn’s First Words

Indecision on the Moon, 2001. Audio, 31:35 minutes, played into dark room, dimensions variable.

Indecision on the Moon

Intimate Marine Signals, 2001. C-print, 20 x 24 inches.

Intimate Marine Signals

Natural Car Alarms, 2002. Six custom-made audio systems with soundtracks installed into cars, dimensions variable.

Natural Car Alarms

QUIT USING US, 2002. C-print mounted on aluminum, 18 × 96 inches.

QUIT USING US

Barnacle Mixer, 2002. C-print, 60 x 41 inches.

Barnacle Mixer

Carla and a Friend II, C-print, 24 × 24 inches, 2002.

Carla and a Friend I, II and III

Carla and a Friend I, C-print, 24 × 24 inches, 2002.

Carla and a Friend I, II and III

Carla and a Friend III, C-print, 24 × 24 inches, 2002.

Carla and a Friend I, II and III

Large Barnacled Rock (left) and Extra-Large Barnacled Rock (right).

Barnacled Rocks

Extra-Large Barnacled Rock, 2002. Rock with barnacles and plastic googly eyes in velvet-lined wooden box.

Barnacled Rocks

Endurance, 2002. Video installation.

Endurance

Natural Crossdressing, 2002. C-print.

Natural Crossdressing

Animal Crossdressing, 2002. Two framed c-prints, each 32.5 × 40 inches, vitrines with animal costumes, dimensions variable, and single-channel video, 3 minutes.

Animal Crossdressing

Crossdressed Snake, 2002. C-print, 32.5 × 40 inches.

Animal Crossdressing

Crossdressed Rat, 2002. C-print, 32.5 × 40 inches.

Animal Crossdressing

Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Artist, 2002. C-print, 6.5 x 4.5 inches.

Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Artist

Self-Portrait as Sir Ernest Shackleton, 2002. C-print, 5.4 × 8 inches.

Self-Portrait as Sir Ernest Shackleton

Parasite, 2003. Sited installation, rocks with 200 resin-cast rock climbing holds, dimensions variable.

Parasite

Parasite 1, 2004. 31 x 44 inches framed.

Parasite

Parasite 2, 2004. 31 x 44 inches framed.

Parasite

Ant Static, 2003. Video with sound.

Ant Static

Birdhouse/Outhouse: The Semiotics of the Forest, 2003. Four C-prints, each 20 × 12 inches.

Birdhouse/Outhouse: The Semiotics of the Forest

Too Late, 2003. C-print, 32 × 47 inches.

Too Late

Telemarketing Indeterminacy, 2004, audio work.

Telemarketing Indeterminacy

Accent Elimination, 2005. Six-channel video with sound, six televisions, three pedestals, dimensions variable.

Accent Elimination

The Recovery Channels, 2005. CRT television, hidden laptop, customized remote control, and fourteen hours of browsable footage transferred from found discarded videotape.

The Recovery Channels

Office Semaphore, 2006. Interactive public art sculpture commissioned by Public Art Fund and installed at One Chase Manhattan Plaza.

Office Semaphore

Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha, 2006. Six soundtracks and twelve bullhorn speakers mounted to trees.

Please, Please, Pleased to Meet'cha

GRNAD OPENING, 2006. C-print, 16 × 20 inches.

GRNAD OPENING

GRNAD OPENING banner, Tang Museum, 2006.

GRNAD OPENING
The Continuum of Cute

Fugitive, Six-channel synchronized video installation, 2007.

Fugitive

Mystic Shark, 2007. Video with audio, 4:35 minutes.

Mystic Shark

Heartland, 2013. C-print, 29 × 40 inches.

Heartland

Globe I, 2019. Digital chromogenic print, 24 3⁄4 × 24 3⁄4 inches. (62.9 × 62.9 cm).

Globe I

Lucy Katchadourian (American, birthplace unknown, ca. 1914–2001), Embroidery sampler, ca. 1923, 26. 15 × 20 1⁄2 in. (38.1 × 52.1 cm).

Lucy's Sampler

Plant #1, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, orange rubber paint, polystyrene foam beads, 8 11⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches (22 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #2, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, egg carton, metallic foil from product packaging, N95 mask fragments, 11 × 5 1⁄8 × 5 1⁄2 inches (28 cm × 13 cm × 14 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #3, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, wire dental brushes, orange rubber paint 4 3⁄4 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches.

Fake Plants

Plant #4, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, N95 mask fragments, ping pong ball pieces, polystyrene foam beads, 12 3⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches (31 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #5, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, ping pong ball pieces, polystyrene foam beads, orange rubber paint, 9 7⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 (24 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #6, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, paper-covered wire, rubber tips from dental brushes, 5 1⁄2 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 inches (14 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #7, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, scrubber sponge, spaghetti, orange rubber paint, metallic foil from product packaging, 11 7⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 (29 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #8, 2021. Ceramic soap dish, pumice block, paper-covered wire, crepe paper, rubber tip from dental brush, glass-head Pin, 9 13⁄16 × 8 11⁄16 × 8 11⁄16 (25 cm × 22 cm × 22 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #9, 2021. Scrubber sponge, spaghetti, orange rubber paint, 8 11⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 3 1⁄8 (22 cm × 13 cm × 8 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #10, 2021. Ceramic eggcup, ping pong ball, polystyrene beads, steamer paper, shredded kitchen wipes, 6 5⁄16 × 5 1⁄8 × 5 1⁄8 inches (16 cm × 13 cm × 13 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #11, 2021. Ceramic eggcup, ping pong ball, crepe paper, wool, toothpicks, ink, 10 1⁄4 × 5 1⁄8 × 5 1⁄8 inches (26 cm × 13 cm × 13 cm).

Fake Plants

Plant #12, 2021. Ceramic eggcup, metallic foil from product packaging, crepe paper, monofilament, polystyrene beads, 5 7⁄8 × 1 15⁄16 × 1 15⁄16 inches (15 cm × 5 cm × 5 cm).

Fake Plants

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.

Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking

The Case of the Worried Waitress Chilly Scenes of Winter from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.

Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking

The Case of the Worried Waitress Chilly Scenes of Winter from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.

Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking

Big Sur from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.

Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking

Dialogue over a Ouija Board from the series Look Who’s Talking, 2022, from the project “Sorted Books,” 1993 and ongoing. Digital chromogenic prints, 15 × 12 1⁄2 inches.

Sorted Books: Look Who's Talking