ACM, 2024 T-shirts, thread, old pillowcase, various found clothing and fabric, steel, enamel paint, acrylic paint, silver brazing, lost/found shoe heel 19.75 x 16.625 x 20 inches

TRH, 2024 Found cardboard, found beige objects, steel, paint, rust, found fabric, lost/found shoe heel 23.5 x 17 x 12 inches

L_B, 2023 T-shirt, found shoe heel, inkjet fabric prints, steel, silver brazing, stitching 21.25 x 18.875 x 7.25 inches

JMZ, 2023 T-shirt, found shoe heel, inkjet fabric prints, steel, silver brazing, stitching 13.75 x 21 x 5.25 inches

Greg Carideo
June 3rd, 2025

“Won’t you let me see your naked body?” demands Leonard Cohen from Greg Carideo’s mixtape about looking and being seen. “They cannot see me naked,” replies Michael Stipe; Anohni and Yoko Ono weigh in. My delightful conversation with artist Greg Carideo traverses topics from Elliott Smith’s appearance on a demented FX morning show in 1995 to the close relationship between Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Bannisters” and Greg’s own work.

Carideo transforms steel, old t-shirts, bits of scrap metal, and other shopworn fragments into tabernacles of urban life. Each sculpture is a little world, a structure that carries narrative, materiality, and vernacular forms of architecture and adornment—ghostly bodegas, ramshackle duplexes, basilica-shaped cuchifritos.

For Carideo, collecting—impressions, images, writing—is a major part of his process. We talk about how his use of found objects, each one a little history of wear and tear, is a reflection of collected ideas and shapes that he transforms into palimpsests of time, material, and thought. We discuss all of this and more in this wide-ranging exploration of materiality, will, lyrics, and looking.

Dalhart, Texas, 1967, John Fahey, 1971
Clementine Live + Interview 1995 (Breakfast Time), Elliott Smith
Blue Banisters, Lana Del Rey, 2021
Memories, Leonard Cohen, 1977
Among the Leaves, Sun Kil Moon, 2012
Watch Me, ANOHNI, 2016
Panic, The Smiths, 1987
Solo, Frank Ocean, 2016
Blues Run the Game, Jackson C. Frank, 2001
Let X=X, Laurie Anderson, 1982
Nightswimming, R.E.M., 1992
Nobody Sees Me Like You Do, Yoko Ono, 2022
Losing My Taste For The Night Life, Arthur Russell, 1993
Regret, Fiona Apple, 2012
The Well, Smog, 2005
Tecumseh Valley, Townes Van Zandt, 1969
When I Get to Heaven, John Prine, 2018

Greg Carideo was born in. 1986, in Minneapolis, MN, and lives and works in New York. He received BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis in 2008 and an MFA from New York University in 2015. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Public Gallery, London in 2025; In Lieu, Los Angeles in 2024; Foreign & Domestic, New York in 2023; FR MoCA, Fall River in 2022; an GRIMM, New York in 2021. His work has been featured in recent group exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Pangée Gallery, Montreal; 12.26 Gallery, Dallas; Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal; Margot Samel, New York; Public Gallery, London; ICA, Portland; and International Objects, New York. Several of Carideo’s exhibitions have garnered press, including a New York Times review for his solo exhibition, Dog Eared Reverie at Foreign & Domestic in 2023, a BOMB: Studio Visit for his solo exhibition ground work at Public Gallery in 2025, as well as group exhibitions featured in Cultured Magazine, Artforum, and the New York Times.

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