Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York (2011)
The Potato Revolution: Cult of Potato 2011 represented one of the largest and most ambitious international potato-themed exhibitions organized to date. Presented at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Brooklyn, New York, the exhibition brought together twenty artists from around the world working across photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and video.
Building upon earlier Cult of Potato exhibitions and collaborations, the project demonstrated the growing international reach of potato-centered artistic practice. By bringing together artists from multiple countries and diverse artistic backgrounds, the exhibition helped establish the potato as a surprisingly flexible subject capable of supporting serious artistic, historical, political, and humorous interpretations.
The exhibition also marked an important moment in the development of the broader Potatoism movement. Rather than presenting the potato as a novelty or visual joke, The Potato Revolution demonstrated its potential as a shared cultural symbol through which artists could explore questions of identity, labor, food, memory, history, popular culture, and everyday life.
Simultaneously, the first floor of the historic building was transformed into The Potato Revolution Café, an immersive installation featuring hundreds of potato-related artifacts and artworks from Jeffrey Allen Price’s collection. The Café would become an important milestone in the development of the Think Potato Institute and is documented separately within the TPI Timeline.
Looking back, The Potato Revolution remains an important landmark in the history of Cult of Potato, helping expand an international network of artists while advancing the broader cultural and artistic framework that would later become known as POTATOISM.
Related Documentation:
• Institute Chronicle: The Potato Revolution: Cult of Potato 2011
Related Timeline Entry:
• The Potato Revolution Café (2011)