Exhibitions
Transformer presents six, 5-6 week long exhibitions per year, within our exhibition space, at cultural institutions throughout DC and beyond, and via online formats.
CURRENT OFFSITE EXHIBITION:
Predestiny
Xenia Gray & Sarah Bell Wilson
On view through March 20, 2026
Opening Reception: Thurs. December 11, 2025, 5 - 7 pm
G Level Lobby of the LINE DC Hotel
2468 Champlain Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Presented in partnership the LINE DC
Past Exhibitions:
2025
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Mia Feuer: A Tender Sieve
Presented in tandem with Transformer’s cultural partnership with the Embassy of Canada
OCT 25 - DEC 6, 2025 -
A Litany for Survival E22: Glass for Social Justice
JUL 26 — SEP 6, 2025
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Yakob Tesfaye: LO-LIFE: SEARCHING FOR GOLD
In collaboration with the Duke Ellington School of the Arts
JUN 21 — 28, 2025 -
Marie B Gauthiez: Jardin Intérieur
MAY 10 — JUN 14, 2025
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To dream con los cuerpos
Curated by: Fabiola R. Delgado
MAR 22 — APR 26, 2025 -
Jeff Herrity: Material Defects
FEB 1 — MAR 8, 2025
2024
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Pretty Like the Sun: Transformer’s Annual Winter FlatFile Exhibition
DEC 14 — 21, 2024
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Ada Pinkston: I’m Not Your Superwoman
SEP 21 — NOV 9, 2024
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Pointless Theatre: Democracy’s Last Hurrah?
JUL 19 — SEP 7, 2024
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E21: A Different Horizon Atlas
JUN 1 — JUL 13, 2024
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Steve Dore: A Good Recluse is Hard to Find
APR 6 — MAY 18, 2024
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MK Bailey: Bucolia
FEB 3 — MAR 16, 2024
2023
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Transformer’s Annual FlatFile Storefront Exhibition: Apricity
DEC 16, 2023 — JAN 13, 2024
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The Invincible Visible
NOV 4 — 18, 2023
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Felipe Pereira Gonçalves: bay sick: an excursion of perversion
SEPT 23 — OCT 28, 2023
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E20: AM I THE PAST, AM I THE FUTURE
JUL 8 — AUG 19, 2023
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Beth Yashnyk & Fanni Somogyi: Sticky Entanglments
MAY 6 — JUN 17, 2023
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Anthony Le: Golden Looking Hour
MAR 11 — APR 15, 2023
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Holly Bass & Maps Glover: Double Rainbow: future archives
JAN 21 — FEB 25, 2023
2022
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Transformer20 Retrospective Exhibition
NOV 11 — DEC 10, 2022
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Artise Fletcher: Commemorative Strands
SEP 17 — OCT 22, 2022
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Jordana Rubenstein-Edberg: Deeper Roots Realty (Community Led Design)
AUG 24 — SEP 3, 2022
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Adele Kenworthy: to carry within us an orchard
AUG 10 — 20, 2022
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Vonne Napper: Choose Your Gender
JUL 27 — AUG 6, 2022
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Chris Combs: The Algorithm Will See You Now
JUL 9 — 23, 2022
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The Nomadic House Project
JUN 4 - 30, 2022
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Azikiwe Mohammed: Shared Words, Split Catfish and Sweet Tea: An Open Platform for Discussion
APR 9 — MAY 21, 2022
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Very Sad Lab: The Incubator
FEB 5 — MARCH 19, 2022
2021
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IRIDESCENCE
DEC 4, 2021 – JAN 15, 2022
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ENVISIONING
NOV 6 – 21, 2021
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OTRO TIEMPO: MICHAELANGELO RODRIGUEZ
SEP 18 – OCT 23, 2021
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E18: PERFORMANCE ART
JUL 17 – AUG 14, 2021
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Looking In/Looking Out
MAR 20 – JUL 10, 2021
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Evoking the Senses
DEC 12 – FEB 20, 2021
2020
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Queer Threads: Curious Spaces
SEP 26 – NOV 14, 2020
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Mapping the Future World
AUG 17 – SEP 12, 2020
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E17: Zines
AUG 1 – Sep 5, 2020
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Dahlia Elsayed & Andrew Demirjian: Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow
MAR 14 – JUL 18, 2020
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Farah Skeiky: Present Tense: DC Punk and DIY, Right Now
JAN 18 – FEB 29, 2020
2019
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Collect and Gather
DEC 7 — 28, 2019
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NORMCORE
SEP 7 — OCT 10, 2019
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The Revolution Will Be Televised
JUL 20 – AUG 24, 2019
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Transceiver Radio
MAY 03 – JUN 08, 2019
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where we came from & where we are going
MAR 09 – APR 20 2019
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David R. Ibata: I See A Darkness
JAN 12 – FEB 23 2019
2018
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Break Time Contemplations: Aristeidis Lappas
OCT 29 — DEC 10, 2018
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What We Leave Behind: In the Name of Art
SEPT 15 — OCT 20, 2018
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E15: A Body to Follow
JUL 14 — AUG 18, 2018
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The Environmental Performance Agency (EPA): Department of Weedy Affairs
MAY 5 — JUN 16, 2018
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Queer Tropics
Organized by Pelican Bomb
OCT 21 — DEC 2, 2017 -
Adrienne Gaither: HOW I GOT OVER
Transformer’s 15th Annual DC Artist Solo Exhibition
OCT 21 — DEC 2, 2017
2017
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Aloud: Rose Eken & Camilla Reyman
Transformer’s 7th Annual Storefront Exhibition
OCT 21 — DEC 2, 2017 -
Nevermind, Azizam
SEPT 9 — OCT 14, 2017
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homegrown
JUL 12 — AUG 23, 2017
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Bloodlines
Curated by Martina Dodd
MAY 20 — JUN 24, 2017 -
MERIDIANS LAB: Experiments In Art, Change & Praxis, Jess Solomon & Co.
APR 8 — MAY 6, 2017
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LUMINIFEROUS AETHER — Chandi Kelley and Marissa Long
FEB 04 — MAR 25, 2017
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Johab Silva: I Want Order
DEC 10 — JAN 21, 2017
2016
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Martha Wilson & Franklin Furnace
NOV 12 — DEC 18, 2016
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Andrea Polichetti: smug guy and a lady, pump it up, all around.
NOV 02 — NOV 30, 2016
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Defy/Define
SEP 17 — OCT 22, 2016
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Exile Books @ Transformer
JUL 07 — AUG 20, 2016
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NoMuNoMu: Gift Shop
MAY 14 — JUN 18, 2016
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Southern Constellations
APR 02 — MAY 29, 2016
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No Sharps, No Flats
MAR 17 — APR 30, 2016
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Nao Bustamante & Marcus Kuiland-Nazario: Prim@s
FEB 04 — MAR 05, 2016
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Hannah Spector: We Lost Our Teeth For A Second Time
DEC 12, 2015 — JAN 23, 2016
2015
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Hélène Garcia: Let’s Drink a Dozen Roses
NOV 7 — 29, 2015
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Temporary Art Repair Shop
OCT 03 — OCT 31, 2015
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Exploring Social Practice
SEP 24 — OCT 22, 2015
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E12: Social Practice
AUG 22 — SEP 12, 2015
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Interspatial
MAY 09 — JUN 13, 2015
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Before the Law
MAR 14 — APR 25, 2015
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Locally Sourced
JAN 24 — MAR 15, 2015
2014
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Jameson Magrogan: Oil, Then Acrylic
DEC 13, 2014 — FEB 14, 2015
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Hej!
NOV 01 — 30, 2014
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Tamar Ettun: My Hands Are the Shape of My HeightSEP 20, 2014 - OCT 25, 2014 Tamar Ettun: My Hands Are the Shape of My Height
SEP 20, 2014 — OCT 25, 2014
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Promised Land
AUG 01 — SEP 07, 2014
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E11: Coda
JUL 23 — AUG 10, 2014
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FlatFile Summer Socials
JUL 09 — AUG 09, 2014
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Float
MAY 17 — JUN 21, 2014
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Atmosphere
MAR 30 — MAY 04, 2014
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Homo Cats: Fight the Power
FEB 08 — MAR 15, 2014
2013
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Jessica Cebra: Cave
DEC 14, 2013 — JAN 25, 2014
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Chris Rackley: Protosystems
NOV 2 — 30, 2013
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A Modest Occupation
SEP 14 — OCT 26, 2013
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E10: Conceptual Art
JUL 11 — AUG 17, 2013
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Terminators
MAY 11 — JUN 22, 2013
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Expansions
MAR 17 — APR 21, 2013
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Forest Z. Allread: Cabinets of Curiosity
JAN 19 — FEB 23, 2013
2012
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felipe pereira goncalves: MAGIC
NOV 17 — DEC 08, 2012
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My Barbarian: Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale
SEP 22 — NOV 10, 2012
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ReMixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words
JUL 24 — AUG 04, 2012
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E9: Design - Mass Fad Discharge
JUL 13 — AUG 18, 2012
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Sean Lynch: Bandits in the Ruins
JUN 09 — JUL 07, 2012
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Bread and Butter
APR 07 — MAY 19, 2012
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2:46 and Thereafter
FEB 16 — MAR 25, 2012
2011
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Lily deSaussure: Double Dare Ya
DEC 10, 2011 — JAN 28, 2012
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Storefront Video
OCT 29 — DEC 04, 2011
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transformers
SEP 17 — OCT 22, 2011
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E8: Sculpture
JUL 7 — AUG 13, 2011
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This is Hawai'i
MAY 21 — JUN 25, 2011
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Sketch
APR 02 — MAY 07, 2011
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Lauren Rice: Heirlooms
FEB 05 — MAR 12, 2011
2010
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ALPTRAUM!
DEC 11, 2010 — JAN 15, 2011
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Tang: Freedom & Its Owner
OCT 30 — DEC 04, 2010
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Rebecca Key: Archetype
SEP 10 — OCT 15, 2010
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E7: Tetrad
JUN 25 — AUG 14, 2010
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Nancy Bannon: Cornfield
MAY 13 — MAY 29, 2010
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Sustainability Lab
MAY 01 — JUN 12, 2010
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Mia Feuer: Suspended Landscape
MAR 05 — APR 17, 2010
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Snow Globe
JAN 16 — FEB 20, 2010
2009
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Geoffrey Aldridge: Hole in the Wall
NOV 21 — DEC 26, 2009
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Brain Storm
OCT 15, 2009 — JAN 03, 2010
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Ink Storm
SEPT 18 — OCT 31, 2009
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Give & Take / Da y Toma
JUL 30 — AUG 20, 2009
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E6: In Situ
JULY 11 — AUG 15, 2009
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Domesticated
MAY 16 — JUN 20, 2009
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No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents
JUN 24 — JUN 28, 200
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Fabrication of Blindness / Fabricating Rain
MAR 21 — APR 25, 2009
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Summer Camp
FEB 07 — MAR 07, 2009
2008
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Paper Trail
DEC 12, 2008 — JAN 24, 2009
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If You Didn't Know What This Was...
NOV 01 — DEC 06, 2008
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ID-entity
SEP 12 — OCT 18, 2008
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E5: RANGEFINDER
JUN 28 — AUG 02, 2008
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Here & Now
MAY 10 — JUN 14, 2008
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HATNIM LEE PHOTOGRAPHS September 2006 - December 2007
MAR 22 — APR 26, 2008
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absence presence
FEB 02 — MAR 08, 2008
2007
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wall/paper
DEC 15, 2007 — JAN 19, 2008
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Sink Sank Sunk
OCT 27 — DEC 01, 2007
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SASS
SEP 15 — OCT 20, 2007
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E4: Station to Station
JUL 11 — AUG 4, 2007
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Not only A, but also B
MAY 13 — JUN 16, 2007
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Natural (dis)Order
MAR 24 — APR 28, 2007
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Seen
FEB 03 — MAR 10, 2007
2006
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Drawn to It
DEC 16, 2006 — JAN 20, 2007
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Gentle Reader
OCT 28 — DEC 02, 2006
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Appropriately Yours
SEP 09 — OCT 14, 2006
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E3: Painters
JUL 01 — AUG 05, 2006
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Comfort Potential
MAY 13 — JUN 17, 2006
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Long Distance Relationship
MAY 05 — JUN 03, 2006
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dis/connected
APR 28 — MAY 06, 2006
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Itsy Bitsy Bollocks
MAR 18 — APR 22, 2006
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The Relationship Show
JAN 28 — MAR 04, 2006
2005
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Little Creatures
DEC 10, 2005 — JAN 14 ,2006
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Past/Perfect
OCT 22 — NOV 26, 2005
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Jason Zimmerman: Fair Game
SEP 10 — OCT 15, 2005
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E2: Carving a Path
JUL 9 — AUG 6, 2005
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We Could Be Heroes
MAY 21 — JUN 25, 2005
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Cynthia Connolly Photgs.
APR 02 — MAY 07, 2005
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Touch & Go
FEB 05 — MAR 19, 2005
2004
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Rejoice
DEC 11, 2004 — JAN 22, 2005
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Cryptic Communications
NOV 06 — DEC 04, 2004
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sub-TEXT
SEP 18 — OCT 16, 2004
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E1: Contemplating Process
JUL 17 — AUG 14, 2004
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Transformers
MAY 15 — JUN 26, 2004
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Daytrippers
MAR 20 — APR 24, 2004
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Gleaming the Screen
FEB 07 — MAR 06, 2004
2003
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The Out-of-Towners
DEC 13, 2003 — JAN 17, 2004
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(stud)wall
NOV 08 — NOV 29, 2003
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The Peep Show
SEP 13 — OCT 18, 2003
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Super!
MAY 30 — JUL 06, 2003
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Captain 20's Children (C20C)
MAR 01 — APR 12, 2003
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Reflexance
JAN 11 — FEB 08, 2003
2002
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Big Mind
NOV 23 — DEC 28, 2002
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BOOK
SEP 14 — OCT 19, 2002
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Mica and Misaki
JUN 08 — JUL 13, 2002