IFPDA Print Fair Showcases Over 500 Years of Printmaking at the Park Avenue Armory

IFPDA Print Fair Showcases Over 500 Years of Printmaking at the Park Avenue Armory

The largest art fair for prints and editions will bring together an international group of galleries and publishers to New York City, March 27–30.

From March 27–30, the IFPDA Print Fair will gather more than 70 exhibitors at the Park Avenue Armory in New York to celebrate over 500 years of prints and printmaking. 

Organized annually by the IFPDA, the Fair brings together an international roster of blue chip galleries, private dealers, and publishers to offer critical attention on a wide range of artists, from key art historical figures to new voices in contemporary art. Exhibitors this year include Berggruen Gallery, Black Women of Print, Carolina Nitsch, David Zwirner, Harlan & Weaver, Hauser & Wirth, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Pace Prints, The Paris Review, and Peter Blum Gallery. 

Returning exhibitor David Zwirner will debut new lithographs by Josh Smith and present a new edition by Gerhard Richter, alongside historic prints and editions by Ruth Asawa, Yayoi Kusama, Donald Judd, and Raymond Pettibon.

London-based gallery Cristea Roberts will debut new, large-scale woodcuts by German artist Christiane Baumgartner inspired by Mount Fuji and Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige, who immortalized the mountain and its surrounding landscape in his iconic series of woodcuts, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. To complement this presentation, Baumgartner will be speaking at the fair on Friday, March 28, with Harvard Art Museums curator Elizabeth Rudy.

Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, a Berlin-based gallery specializing in Modernism, will showcase masterful examples of German Expressionism by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Otto Dix, as well as lithography by Edvard Munch.  

Pace Prints will exhibit recent large-scale monoprint collages by David Salle, who will be speaking at the fair on Sunday, March 30, with noted art critic and art historian Susan Tallman. The publisher will also present historical editions including Louise Nevelson’s “Dawnscape” and “Nightscape” — two cast paper works from 1975 — and Jean Dubuffet’s large-scale screenprint on canvas, “Site de Memoire II,” from 1979. 

Longtime exhibitor Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl will prominently feature their first collaboration with acclaimed artist Thomas Demand, who has created a series of eleven lithographs called “Portals,” along with new work by Richard Serra and a selection of new mezzotints by Toba Khedoori. 

Tamarind Institute — a New Mexico-based center for collaborative printmaking — will present lithographs centered on personal narrative, activism, and intimacy including Jeffrey Gibson’s prints weaving together Indigenous craft with protest language; Ellen Lesperance’s complete series of printed, meticulously reconstructed knitwear from women-led protests; and Sonya Clark’s prints engaging with the politics of Black hair.

Krakow Witkin Gallery, a leading gallery in Boston, presents works ranging from 1948 to 2023 by Latin American, North American, and European artists, including Josef Albers, Gego, Liliana Porter, Agnes Martin, Sol LeWitt, and Kiki Smith.

In addition to this year’s booths, the IFPDA will host a range of programming including artist talks and expert-led presentations on printmaking. 

To learn more, visit fineartprintfair.org.