Collection: Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon (b. 1953) is an American musician, artist, and writer, best known as a co-founder and bassist of Sonic Youth. Before forming the band, Gordon was embedded in the New York art world — writing criticism, making visual art, and moving through the circles of artists, curators, and critics that defined the downtown Manhattan scene of the early 1980s.

Her practice has consistently refused the separation of music from art, fashion, and cultural criticism. Her memoir Girl in a Band (2015) and her ongoing visual art practice — paintings, installations, and performances — extend a body of work that has always operated across disciplines.

Her participation in Mike Kelley's Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile at Artists Space in 1986 is one of the most direct documents of the overlap between her music and art world practice.

Publications and recordings gathered here document Gordon's involvement in art-adjacent projects and collaborations. Original and period items.