X Artists' Books

Artist Alexandra Grant and actor and writer Keanu Reeves have teamed up to create X Artists' Books, a small Los Angeles-based press focusing on artists' books and collaborations. Since 2017, they publish thoughtful, high-quality, artist-centered books that fit within and between genres. Their books are works of art; portals to imagined worlds; treasured companions; the fabric of a community. Generous, open-hearted, intelligent, mysterious, and styled, their publications bring sustenance and shift realities. They may occasionally break your heart.
 
Los Angeles
 
19 titles
 
Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
2023
English edition
Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.
Anuradha Vikram - Use Me at Your Own Risk - Visions from the Darkest Timeline
2023
English edition
A speculative novel set in 2046 that asks us to question our role in the destruction of our environment, the impact of automation on society, and heightened inequity across class, race, and gender.
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian - The Institute for Other Intelligences
2023
English edition
In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian brings speculative fiction and media studies to bear on an imagined future where machine intelligences convene annually for curriculum on algorithmic equity.
Wangechi Mutu -
2022
English edition
New monograph of the famous American-Kenyan artist, presenting her bronze and clay sculptures and her recent films.
Asad Raza - Diversion
2022
English edition
This artist newspaper, edited by Asad Raza and Mathew Hale, accompanies a new work by Raza of the same name, which redirects the river through Portikus and invites the public to interact with and dip in the waters of the Main (contributions by Keren Cytter, Emily Dickinson, Dan Graham, Rufus Hale, Catalina Imizcoz, Wolfram Lotz...).
Maya Dunietz - Root of Two
2022
English edition
A retrospective of immersive performances and installations with which the Israeli sound and visual artist, composer and musician explores the physicality of sound.
Amir Zaki - Building + Becoming
2022
English edition
Hyperrealist photographer of California skateparks Amir Zaki's new monograph covers twenty-plus years of photographic work, including an essay and interview.
The Youngest Day
2022
English edition
A newspaper format publication by artist and curator Mathew Hale, derived from an exhibition of 24 LA and Berlin-based artists.
Blondell Cummings - Dance as Moving Pictures
2022
English edition
The first monograph dedicated to the pivotal work of African American postmodern dancer, choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings.
Sarah Cain - Music Book
2021
English edition
Music Book is a 64-page facsimile artist's book by Sarah Cain, comprising a series of colorful abstractions painted directly over a collection of vintage sheet music.
Kim Schoen - BARAGOUIN
2021
English edition
A nonsense opera (artist's book).
Lynn Marie Kirby - Oracular Transmissions
2020
English edition
Oracular Transmissions weaves together three of the most recent collaborative projects Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby have completed through processes of exchange and translation: Back, Back Again to Paris (2013), The Alhambra (2016), and Transmissions (2017).
Asher Hartman - Mad Clot on a Holy Bone - Memories of a Psychic Theater
2020
English edition
The first published collection of the work of playwright and artist Asher Hartman and his Gawdafful National Theater company.
 Cog•nate Collective - Regionalia
2020
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
First monograph.
George Herms - Haiku
2019
English edition
Haiku originated in New York City in 1964, when Beat Generation poet Diane di Prima gave West Coast assemblage artist George Herms a series of seasonal poems that would lead him to create a suite of woodcuts illustrating them.
León Ferrari - The Words of Others - Conversations between God and a few men and between a few men and a few men and God
2017
English edition
The first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece from 1967. A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources.
Sylvan Oswald - High Winds
2017
English edition
High Winds is an artist's book written by Sylvan Oswald, with graphics by Jessica Fleischmann. This “western phantasmagoria” is a bedtime book for adults based on Oswald's experiences with insomnia, gender transition, and moving to Los Angeles.
Benoît Fougeirol - (ZUS)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
In (ZUS), a visual essay by the French photographer Benoît Fougeirol, views of and views from eleven of the “Zones urbaines sensibles” (Sensitive Urban Zones) on the peripheries of Paris reveal harsh paradoxes of modern society. The series is accompanied by a text by author Jean-Christophe Bailly.
Eve Wood - The Artists\' Prison
2017
English edition
This collaborative artist's book is a work of fiction set in a Kafkaesque world where creativity is a criminal offence and artists are imprisonned. Alexandra Grant's text, the testimony of the prison's warden, is powerfully illustrated by Eve Wood's drawings.
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