Collection: Nari Ward

Nari Ward (b. 1963, Jamaica) is an American artist known for large-scale installations made from found and discarded materials — fire hoses, baby carriages, shopping carts, shoelaces — gathered from the streets of Harlem, where he has lived and worked since the early 1990s. His practice addresses race, community, consumption and the social life of objects, operating at the intersection of sculpture, performance and public space.

The objects gathered here are printed ephemera relating to Ward’s exhibition history: catalogues, invitation cards and printed matter issued for presentations of his work. Each piece records a specific institutional moment and the printed form through which his practice entered public circulation.