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Volume 1 of SECONDARY explores the work in depth, with contributions by Eric Banks, Jonathan Bepler, Raven Chacon, Mark Godfrey, Juliette Lecorne, Helen Marten, Maggie Nelson, David Thomson, and editor Louise Neri. Volume 2, edited by Isabella Achenbach, maps the life of Barney’s former Long Island City studio, where the work premiered to the public. Both volumes are housed in a slipcase.
 After Pacific was selected to design the identity for Barney’s SECONDARY exhibition at Fondation Cartier in 2024, we continued this work providing creative direction and design for Barney’s companion publication.

Please join Pacific in celebrating the launch of As for Protocols at The New School on the evening of Friday, March 21. Co-published by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Amherst College Press, As for Protocols examines protocols across a wide range of disciplines, featuring essays, artworks, conversations, and scores by twenty-four international contributors who speak to protocols as practice.

The As for Protocols launch will bring together the book’s editors—Re’al Christian, Carin Kuoni, and Eriola Pira—with several contributors: artist Salome Asega, scholar Shannon Mattern, performer Silas Riener, and artist Robert Sember of the sound art collective Ultra-red. Using the book as a generative prompt, performances, readings, a somatic activation, and dialogues with the contributors reflect on protocols through their technological, political, and corporeal dimensions. There will be a reception immediately following the event.

The event will take place at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium from 6:30–8PM.

Soeur, the French women’s ready-to-wear label, elected to collaborate with Pacific for its third object showcase, this time in celebration of the literary world. Taking into consideration the Soeur woman–elegant, modern and urbane–Pacific imagined a curation of pieces for this collaboration inspired by our love of books. With the cosmopolitan bibliophile as our model, we created a collection of unique vintage objects, a selection of Pacific and vintage publications, and a capsule of our signature "Books" caps and new tote bags in limited-edition colors.

The project launches on Soeur’s website on March 19. A limited number of the totes and caps are available for purchase on Pacific’s website.

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the accompanying catalogue to the Met Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibition of the same name, is out now.

Featuring a stunning photo essay by Tyler Mitchell and accompanying texts by curators Monica L. Miller and Andrew Bolton, among others, this special book honors Black dandyism and traces its evolution across three centuries.

Design and art direction by Pacific. The catalogue is available for purchase through the Met Museum’s website.

To celebrate the Harvey B. Gantt Center's 50th anniversary, A Superlative Palette brings together the work of more than a dozen generation-defining contemporary Black women artists from around the world. Their powerful and thought-provoking work has redefined artistic expression.

The catalogue, co-published by Pacific and the Gantt Center, features work from Nina Chanel Abney, Lauren Halsey, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Amy Sherald, and Mickalene Thomas amongst others, coming together in a thrilling presentation of contemporary art today.

Pacific is pleased to announce the release of Walter Pfeiffer’s Vis-à-vis, co-published with the Swiss Institute.

Inspired by the illustrated alphabets found in abecedariums, complete with hand-drawn illustrations and a freewheeling glossary written by the artist, this publication unites some of Pfeiffer’s most iconic images with never-before-seen artworks. The volume features a number of newly commissioned texts reflecting on five decades of Pfeiffer’s artistic practice from an international group of curators, critics and writers.

At once a meticulously crafted artist’s book and a comprehensive monograph, Vis-à-vis demonstrates the artist’s sustained commitment to exquisite publications and extraordinary contribution to the history of photography.

Join Pacific at the opening of The Writing’s on the Wall: Language and Silence in the Visual Arts at New York’s Hill Art Foundation. Curated by Hilton Als, this group exhibition presents 20th and 21st-century artists whose work explores the relationships between communication and language. An essay by Als––Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, critic, and curator––accompanies the show.

Please join us at CARA this Thursday, December 12 at 7 PM to celebrate the release of Cynthia Hawkins’ publication, Art Notes, Art. A record of routine and the everyday, Art Notes, Art gathers sketches, notes for new and in-progress works, and responses to contemporary art and criticism, bringing the artist’s process, experimentation, and reflections on materials, formalism, abstraction, and figuration into relief.

This event will feature a conversation between Hawkins and her friend Janet Olivia Henry, who is among the artists featured in the book.

Pacific is pleased to announce our participation in Press Play––a weekend-long fair of books, art, and ephemera. Hosted by Pioneer Works, the fair will include various talks, readings, and workshops. Come visit us at Pioneer Works on December 7 and 8!

Contemporary Arts Memphis (CAM) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the growth and development of young visual artists from Memphis-area high schools. Founded in 2020 by the artist Derek Fordjour, CAM has been nurturing the talent of young visual artists through no-cost programming for the past four years.

As CAM prepared to open its first permanent home, down the street from Memphis's renowned Sun Studio, it partnered with Pacific to reimagine the organization's brand and digital presence in order to highlight their vital and inspiring work with young artists and the Memphis community.

Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), showcases the creation of Kara Walker’s major new commission of the same name, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The installation features eight Black automatons, including the seven-foot-tall prophetess, Fortuna, who responds to each visitor with a choreographed routine and a printed fortune fresh from her mouth. The exhibition opened on July 1, 2024 and remains on view through Spring 2026.

This new Pacific-designed book features Walker’s working drawings and paintings, photographs of her creative process with collaborators, detailed images of the final installation, as well as a number of illuminating contributions by David A. M. Goldberg, Gary Graham, Donna Haraway, Damani McNeil, and Walker herself.

Exhibiting performances that unfold across media—on film, in text, as objects, through sound, and as illustrated in drawings—Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. SWEAT SHAME ETC. surveys Spooner’s artistic output of the last ten years and includes a lecture by Spooner and newly commissioned essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Pierre Bal-Blanc, and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti.

Designed by Pacific and co-published by Swiss Institute and Lenz Press.

Join Pacific at the opening and reception for The Kitchen’s new exhibition Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art. Legacy Russell, exhibition organizer and Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen will bring remarks. The event will take place at the Schomburg Center from 6–8PM on October 15.

As part of an ongoing collaboration with the avant-garde arts organization, Pacific designed the exhibition identity and ephemera, allowing us to continue to reimagine and develop The Kitchen's dynamic new brand. The exhibition will remain on view at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture until December 19.

Pacific is pleased to present a new edition of Contextures, originally published in 1978 as an exhibition catalog by the legendary New York gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM). Written and edited by gallery founder Linda Goode Bryant and Marcy S. Philips, the publication provides an extensive history of Black artists working in abstraction from 1945 to 1978, while also articulating a newly-emerging movement of Black Conceptual Art in the 1970s. Co-published with Primary Information, Contextures is reproduced as a full-color facsimile edition, with a newly commissioned afterword by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax.

Contextures is available for purchase on our website.

Please join Pacific at 192 Books this Wednesday, October 16 at 6:30PM to celebrate the release of Glenn Ligon’s new book, Distinguishing Piss from Rain; Writings and Interviews. Ligon will be in conversation with James Hoff, co-founder of Primary Information.

Pacific is pleased to announce the launch of Joyspace, a new manifesto by celebrated architect Adam Rolston, in partnership with PIN–UP magazine. Rolston is co-founder and creative director of the architecture firm INC, where the book launch will be held. The event will include a talk between Rolston and PIN–UP founder Felix Burrichter.

Joyspace is the inaugural publication in the Pacific Design Series. The vibrant, sharp publication presents readers with new definitions of art and value within the built environment, dismantling the binary divide between exterior architecture and interior design.

Please join us at The Cooper Union’s historic Great Hall this Tuesday, October 1 from 7–8:30PM to celebrate the release of Glenn Ligon’s Distinguishing Piss From Rain; Writings and Interviews.

This essential publication collects three decades of writings by and interviews with Glenn Ligon, whose work has delivered an incisive examination of race, history, sexuality, and culture in America since his emergence as an artist in the late 1980s.

This event will feature a conversation with artist Glenn Ligon, writer Dr. Kellie Jones, and artist Julie Mehretu, along with readings from the book by performer Helga Davis. This event is co-sponsored by The Cooper Union School of Art.

We are pleased to announce Dear Jean Pierre has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in its 100th year of the 50 Books | 50 Covers competition. Dear Jean Pierre has received the AIGA's 50 Books | 50 Covers award for both the book design and cover design, selected from over 542 entries from 28 countries.

Published by Primary Information and designed by Pacific, the publication collects hundreds of postcards and letters between David Wojnarowicz and his Parisian lover, Jean Pierre Delage, from 1979 to 1982.

Our rebranding of the Studio Museum in Harlem has won a 365: AIGA Year in Design (2023) award. from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Pacific was selected by the Studio Museum to reimagine a brand identity for the historic institution as it prepares to open its new building on Harlem's 125th Street.

The 365: AIGA Year in Design competition publicly celebrates designers, design teams, and their clients for effectively working together to design creative solutions for challenges presented by businesses and organizations.

We are excited to announce that Pacific apparel is now available at Pilgrim in Japan, including special edition colorways of our bestselling “Books” hats, t-shirts, and “Books” tote bags. Select publications are also available at Pilgrim's Tokyo store.

Co-published by Pacific and the Norton Museum of Art, this catalog-cum-genealogical record accompanies an exhibition of the same name now on view at the Norton Museum of Art.

Journeys of Clay explores Simpson’s artistic evolution and examines the influence of nearly seventy generations of Santa Clara Pueblo ceramic traditions. Creative writing by Simpson and texts by Roxanne Swentzell and Rina Swentzell accompany family photographs, object plates and installation images. The exhibition, which opened on March 23, is on view at the Norton Museum of Art until September 1, 2024.

You can purchase Journeys of Clay on our website.

We are pleased to share that Pacific’s rebranding of the Studio Museum in Harlem has been shortlisted for a D&AD award in the Branding category

Thank you to the Studio Museum for collaborating on this monumental project and to D&AD for recognizing this work.

Pacific is pleased to announce that The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century has been received an ADC award in this year’s ADC Annual Awards. The catalogue, designed by Pacific, brings together the work of nearly 100 artists and brands to explore the influence of hip hop over the past 50 years.

We are honored to announce that Pacific is a Type Directors Club, Certificate of Typographic Excellence winner for our rebrand of the Studio Museum in Harlem. The new brand identity system – which includes print and digital assets, video, animation, merchandise, signage and a comprehensive brand book – is foregrounded in a new custom typeface, Studio Museum Black.

Library Fetish is hosting a curation of titles from Pacific for the month of March. The selection from the Pacific Library includes rare and out-of-print books on art and design, books by artists with ties to the Caribbean, and new titles with contemporary artists many of which are designed and published by Pacific.

The Pacific ‘Books’ hat is featured in french fashion label Soeur’s newest campaign. Founded by sisters Angélique and Domitille Brion, the ready-to-wear label makes clothing for women of all generations. For their SPRING/SUMMER 2024 campaign Soeur traveled to New York to visit French author Violette d’Urso. As Soeur toured around the city with Violette she wore our signature ‘Books’ caps, which are offered with this season’s collection. ⁣ The caps are available for purchase at Soeur’s boutique at 88 Rue Bonapart, 6th Arr. in Paris, on the Soeur website, and in Pacific’s online shop.

We’re pleased to share Tschabalala Self's Bodega Run, a new publication designed by Pacific. The book catalogs Self’s years-long visual exploration of the social, political and economic implications of New York bodegas – a mainstay, and emblem of diaspora, in many of Manhattan's Black and Latino neighborhoods. Bodega Run is a 248-page, clothbound catalogue raisonné of the eponymous series, including installation images and project-expanding texts. A zine insert with photographs of the New York bodegas that inspired the series accompanies the book. Bodega Run is the final look at a monumental project by one of the most exciting young artists working today.

To conclude her exploration, Self has created a collection of new wall-mounted sculptural reliefs and prints inspired by the products bodegas sell. These works will be presented to the public by Pilar Corrias and Galerie Eva Pressenhuber for three days at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York. An opening and book launch will take place at Swiss Institute on Thursday, January 11, 6–8PM.

Please join us in Los Angeles this Saturday, September 16 from 4–6PM at MOCA to celebrate the launch of Isabelle Albuquerque's first monograph, Orgy for Ten People in One Body.

The event will feature a conversation between Albuquerque and book contributors Miranda July and Arthur Jafa, moderated by Ariana Reines. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

Pacific worked with the Studio Museum to create their new graphic identity, developing a new brand strategy, logotype, typeface (customized from Pangram Pangram Foundry’s Fragment) and color palette to communicate the mission and values of the legacy arts institution.

We are pleased to share that Pacific is an AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2022 winner for Can I Ask You A Question by Jennifer Venditti, published by A24.

We are pleased to celebrate the release of Alake Shilling's new publication this Saturday in Los Angeles.

The Hippest Trip in America features works from Shilling's 2021 exhibition with Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, as well as texts by Laura Owens, Kidogo Kennedy, Perwana Naziff and Grant Levy-Lucero. Shilling will be in conversation with Seth Bogart. Please join us!

Watch Reginald Sylvester II in conversation with Tschabalala Self.

In November 2022, to celebrate the launch of Reginald Sylvester II's publication, Painter’s Refuge: A Way of Life which documents and expands upon his first solo US museum exhibition at the Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC, the artist was in conversation with Tschabalala Self in New York.

Photo: Nick Brinley

Pacific has been named a recipient of the celebrated Black Visionaries grant, awarded by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum. Selected by Antwaun Sargent, the grant is given to visionary black creatives working in design.

Please join us for the launch of Like It Is by Austin Lee, co-published with Jeffrey Deitch, on Sunday, May 8th from 2–4PM at Pacific's studio. Lee has made an edition of 3D printed bookmarks for the occasion.

We are thrilled to announce that the Museum of Modern Art Library has acquired the entire Pacific catalogue! We have had the privilege to work with an amazing roster of artists, writers, editors, institutions, galleries and creative thinkers since founding Pacific in 2016. We couldn't be happier to have their publications at MoMA.

Please join us for the launch and signing of Balsam by artist and writer Vanessa Thill on Saturday, August 8 from 4–7PM in Cooper Park, Brooklyn. We invite you to bring friends, wine, a picnic blanket and, of course, to practice social distancing. Thill will read from her publication at 5PM.

We are lucky to have amazing friends, family, artists and clients on the other side of the Pacific, all of whom are being effected by the bushfires and climate change right now. We will be donating 100% of our online store profits until January 21st to NSW RFS, Wires and Red Cross Australia.

Come visit us next week at the New York Art Book Fair! Pacific is at booth Q06, next to the Classroom.

Join us this Sunday at 11 AM for a Classroom presentation on our most recent title Mirror/ Echo/ Tilt. The Classroom is a long-running program that provides space for artists, writers, designers, and publishers to highlight new releases at Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair. NYABF.

Please join us for the launch of, Măiastra: A History of Romanian Sculpture in Twenty-Four Parts this week at Mast Books in the East Village. Artist Timothy Stanley will be in discussion with writer Vinson Cunningham.

We are participating in F.A.B.U (For All By Us) books and editions at Shoot the Lobster over the summer. Book, editions, objects and clothing made by independent publishers or artists.

The special artist edition of ...In that Empire by Cal Siegel and Sable Elyse Smith has been acquired by the MoMA Library for its collection. The hardcover publication, launched in May, was also acquired.

...In that Empire by Cal Siegel and Sable Elyse Smith will have its New York launch on May 13th at Mast Books in the East Village.

Join us tonight on Swiss Institute’s roof terrace to celebrate the launch of Servane Mary: 2006–2018, the first monograph of the artist’s work, published by Pacific and A Palazzo. At 6PM, John Miller will read his essay for the book. Mary will sign copies throughout the evening.

Pacific and agnès b. galerie boutique Tokyo have partnered to publish Memoria, photographer Chad Moore's first hardcover publication. Join Moore at the Tokyo launch of his book on Tuesday, April 9 at Daikanyama Tsutaya Books.

We are excited to be participating in Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair in April, 2019. The fair will take place from April 11–14 at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Pacific will be at Booth N15. The full exhibitor list is now up on their website.

Imaginary Concerts has been selected for a Typographic Award of Excellence by the Type Directors Club New York.

Jasper Johns VS Brian Ramnarine is now in the collections of the New York Public Library and the Whitney Museum Library.

Nelson George will be in conversation with Dr. Scot Brown to speak about his recent publication with Pacific, The Nelson George Mixtape. The event is organized by UCLA’s Department of African American Studies. A signing will follow along with music by Greg Everett.

Rainbow 1 Hour Photo by Jennie Jieun Lee will launch on February 27 at Martos Gallery in New York. Co-published with Martos, this is Lee's first hardcover publication. A signing and performance by dancer and experimental artist Stanley Love will take place during the launch.

We will be participating in LooP Video Lounge this weekend alonsige friends and artists (_hr) Club, Nikholis Planck's exhibition at Magenta Plains in New York.

Pacific titles will be included in the selection of books at the new Gucci Bookstore in Soho.

This weekend, we will be included in Amu Nue’s Stapled: A showcase of books and zines from the New York Art Book Fair on display in Hamburg, Germany.

We are excited to be participating in Printed Matter's 2018 New York Art Book Fair. Find us on the third floor of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City at booth Z10. The fair will run from September 20th–23rd.

Pacific will be participating in Antifurniture's exhibition throughout August at Fortnight Institute with a selection of our titles and several single edition books.

Please join us this Friday at 7pm at Picture Room to celebrate the launch of Recycle, by Amy Gall and Sarah Gerard. Gall and Gerard will both show original work from the publication, a brief conversation will follow.

We are pleased to announce the release of Impressions, by Berlin- and Lisbon-based artist Michael Bennett. The publication will be released at COMA Gallery in Sydney, Australia on June 2, along with a small exhibition of the artist's work.

A new suite of Imaginary Concert posters designed by Pacific was on display at Marfa Myths. This time, poet Eileen Myles chose their dream lineup, to be printed on the iconic Colby poster backgrounds.

Roots of the Dinner Party was released this weekend at the Brooklyn Museum. Designed by Pacific and published the Brooklyn Museum and Salon 94, the volume takes a compressive look at the making of Chicago's permanent installation, The Dinner Party.

We are pleased to announce the launch of Recycle by Amy Gall and Sarah Gerard. Join us this Thursday, March 29 at Books Are Magic in Cobble Hill from 7:30–8:30 PM.

Please join us this Saturday, March 17 at 17ESSEX Gallery for the launch of N is for Nice by Bonnie Lucas. A book signing and conversation between the artist and Vanessa Thill capped off Lucas's solo exhibition in the space.

Join us this Friday, March 16, from 6pm onward at JTT for beer, popcorn and a special 31 Movie Night screening. The event coincides with the launch of The Fool at Sea by Anna-Sophie Berger, published by Pacific and JTT.

On February 20th, Susumu Kamijo signed copies of Poodles as well as presenting a small showcase of drawings at Tortoise General Store in Los Angeles. A fantastic company that has been a staple on Abbot Kinney, we're thrilled to see Kamijo's works at Tortoise.

False Flag's eponymous publication will launch this week during Miami Basel. The event will take place at The Standard in Miami. For more details visit the Pacific website.

Susumu Kamijo and Jonas Wood will be signing copies of Poodles at Sotheby’s New York. Several large-scale pastel drawings by Kamijo will also be on display. The two artists first met in graduate school and their ongoing dialogue continues with an interview in the publication.

Pacific will have books with China Heights Gallery at this months Volume Art Book fair in Sydney, Australia. The fair is hosted by Printed Matter and Perimeter Books.

We are pleased to announce the launch of A Handbook of Drug Terms at Situations Gallery in New York, organized by Rachel Eulena Williams. The publication is the first in a series of facsimiles of government-produced printed matter published by Pacific.