Carmelle Safdie is an artist and archivist based in New York City, and Visual & Critical Studies and Art History faculty member at the School of Visual Arts.
CONTACT
carmellesafdie[at]gmail.com
ARCHIVES
Ned Truss (1939-2022) www.nedtruss.net
Vera Ronnen (1930-2015) www.veraronnen.com
Irwin Rubin (1930-2006) www.irwinrubin.com
CURRENT
October 10, 2025
Carmelle Safdie, Electricity in the Home, 020-DESK-ZERO, Dial 7
Created for Gates of Desire, a hotline transmitting frequencies from artists, writers, musicians – twelve sound works on and around desire – compiled alongside two outdoor aerial sculptures of the same name by James Jessiman for Modern Nature, Frieze London, on view on Sloane Street, October 10-19, London UK
PAST
September 13 – October 16, 2025
Carmelle Safdie, Hardware, Desnivel Gallery at H&W Hardware, 220 1st Ave, New York, NY
September 25, 2025
Please join Darling Green at 5:00pm on Thursday, September 25th for Telephone Telephone #38 hosted by Desnivel Gallery at H&W Hardware in the East Village. We will be viewing Carmelle Safdie: HARDWARE, followed by conversation at Desnivel’s original location nearby, from 6–8pm.
5–6pm
H&W Hardware
220 1st Ave.
New York, NY 10009
6–8pm
Desnivel
341 East 5th St.
New York, NY 10003
Please RSVP to info@darlinggreen.com
September 11 – 14, 2025
Soft Network presents: posters, flyers, postcards, rare books and catalogues for sale from the archives of artists and estates in our network: Allen Frame, Agosto Machado, Camille Billops and James Hatch, Ching Ho Cheng, Idelle Weber, Ned Truss, Rosemary Mayer, St. Clair Bourne, Stan VanDerBeek, and Sur Rodney Sur, Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, Booth J4, MoMA PS1, Queens, New York
July 16, 2025
Silver Salon. A night in Wapping, overlooking the Thames. Sena Başöz, Toni Davey, Marianthy Chazantiki, James Jessiman, Vera Ronnen, Carmelle Safdie, Yelena Zhelezov, Certain Fallacies, London, UK
June 10, 2025
Reappearing Acts: Missing Colors and New Connections in the Irwin Rubin Papers, article by Carmelle Safdie for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
January 22, 2025
Album artwork for Cherries, Cherries of Fire, Radical Documents, Chicago, IL
November 14th – 18th, 2024
Sudden Salon, Jason Burgess, Jack Heard, Tom Rees, Carmelle Safdie, Kat Waters, Trystan Williams, Yelena Zhelezov, Anna Zoria, poetry reading by Spencer Everett & Madeline Zuzevich, Certain Fallacies, New York, NY
October 21, 2024
The Daily Heller: Teaching Color, One Pigment at a Time, interview with Carmelle Safdie by Steven Heller for Print Magazine
October 1 – 24, 2024
Irwin Rubin: '60s Polychrome, curated by Carmelle Safdie, SVA Flatiron project Space, New York, NY
October 30, 2023
Lost Art, presenters: Matt Connors on Miyoko Ito (1918-1983), Allen Frame on Ronald Girard (c.1911-1998), Carmelle Safdie on Vera Ronnen (1930-2015), Rafael Sánchez on Kathleen White (1960-2014), organized by Marie Warsh, Soft Network, New York, NY
June, 2023
Ongoing Work in Enamel, solo exhibition at the Mothership, Woodstock, NY, with interview by Chelsea Spengemann
November, 2022
Constructing the Miniature Museum: from the Irwin Rubin Archive, article by Carmelle Safdie for Spaces Archives
July 29 – August 14, 2022
Pink Flamingo: Clubs in Flux, group exhibition and archive curated by Jess Dilday and Anton Lapov, presented by Flux Factory at the cell theater, New York, NY
November 11, 2020
Relational Archiving: Color Theory and Memory, moderated by Sena Başöz, SALT Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey
January 12 – March 24, 2018.
Please save the date! – Calendriers d'artistes, works by Harold Ancart, Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari / Toilet Paper, Paul Chidester, Claude Closky, Jeanne Dunning & Hirsch Perlman, Brendan Fowler & Andrea Longacre-White, Matthew Geller, General Idea / FILE Megazine, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Tommaso Corvi Mora, Jesse Harris, Stéphane Le Mercier, Sara MacKillop, Sophy Naess & Carmelle Safdie, Pierre-Guilhem, Marie-Amélie Porcher pour Yvette & Paulette, Colin Sackett, Matthieu Saladin, Patrick Sarmiento, Studio Manuel Raeder, Erica Van Horn, Marijke van Warmerdam, Lisa Young, curated by Marie Boivent, Lendroit éditions, Rennes, France