Exhibitions & Projects

Since the mid-1990s, Jeffrey Allen Price and the Think Potato Institute have organized, curated, and presented exhibitions, special projects, festivals, performances, media initiatives, and collaborative programs exploring the cultural, historical, symbolic, and artistic life of the potato.

These projects range from experimental installations and artist-run exhibitions to public festivals, educational initiatives, performances, screenings, agricultural interventions, and international cultural exchanges. Together they document the continuing development of Potato Humanities and POTATOISM over more than three decades.

Select exhibitions and projects are presented below.


Exhibitions:


2024
Global Potato Cinema

Curated by Jeffrey Allen Price from the TPI Collection, Global Potato Cinema featured more than 80 potato-themed movie posters from around the world, presented at the Global Center for Latvian Art in Cēsis, Latvia, exploring the potato’s role in cinema and popular culture.

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2018
POTASIA: Potatoism in the East

Co-curated by Jeffrey Allen Price and Jinyoung Jin at the Charles B. Wang Center, POTASIA: Potatoism in the East brought together 19 artists from 10 countries to explore the potato’s role in Asian art, culture, media, and history.

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2016
The BIG POTATO Invitational

Curated by Jeffrey Allen Price at Ripe Art Gallery, The The BIG POTATO brought together more than two dozen New York artists to create new potato-themed artworks. Presented alongside Think Potato Festival V, the exhibition transformed a gallery and working farm into a celebration of potato art, culture, agriculture, food, and community.

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2012
Unpacking My Potato Collection

Curated and installed by Jeffrey Allen Price in the Islip Art Museum Historical Room, Unpacking My Potato Collection transformed the TPI Collection into a large-scale archival installation exploring collecting, classification, memory, and the cultural life of the potato.

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2012
Occupying Potato: Cult of Potato 2012

Curated by Jeffrey Allen Price at the Islip Art Museum, Occupying Potato: Cult of Potato 2012 brought together artists from ten countries and demonstrated the remarkable breadth of contemporary potato art.

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2011
The Potato Revolution Café

The Potato Revolution Café was an immersive installation environment constructed from artifacts, ephemera, artworks, books, toys, advertisements, and collected potato objects drawn from the Think Potato Institute archive.

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2011
The Potato Revolution: Cult of Potato 2011

The Potato Revolution: Cult of Potato 2011 was an international exhibition featuring 20 artists from around the world and the debut of The Potato Revolution Café, an immersive installation drawn from the Think Potato Institute collection.

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2010
THINK POTATO INSTITUTE (Temporary Headquarters)

THINK POTATO INSTITUTE (Temporary Headquarters) in Riverhead, NY represented the first dedicated public home of the THINK POTATO INSTITUTE and an important milestone in its evolution from concept to institution.

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2003
Potato House & THINK POTATO Festival IV

Combining installation, collection display, educational programming, and public participation, Potato House transformed a historic Long Island home into a temporary center for potato art, culture, history, and community engagement.

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2002
POTATOLAB (Solanum tuberosum laboratorium)

A two-week exhibition and event series featuring lectures, performances, games, comedy, storytelling, and audience participation, POTATOLAB explored the potato as a vehicle for art, education, humor, and social interaction.

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Special Projects


2016-present
THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO (Film Project)

A participatory film and oral history project by Jeffrey Allen Price and Juan López Espantaleón. THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO features more than 80 participants sharing over 65 ways of saying, singing, and screaming “potato” in languages from around the world.

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2024
Kartupelis Gardēdim (Potato for Gourmets)

Co-created with Michelin-star chef Edgars Rubenis at H.E. Vanadziņš Ziemeļu restorāns in Cēsis, Latvia, Potato for Gourmets transformed the potato into a multi-course haute cuisine experience inspired by the culinary legacy of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier.

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2016
Potato Masquerade Ball 2016

Potato Masquerade Ball was a formal potato-themed dinner and social event inspired by the legendary potato banquets of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier in eighteenth-century France. Held at Ripe Art Gallery on October 8, 2016.

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2012
Open Feast: Potato Potluck

A collaborative community dinner organized with Open Feast artists Irina Zadov and Abraham Epton as part of the CO-ACTIVATE exhibition at the Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery in Bay Shore, New York.

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2001
EMERGENCY PÖTATOFÊTE

Created in the aftermath of 9/11 and staged during a visit from the Food Network, EMERGENCY PÖTATOFÊTE combined installation, performance, collection display, games, music, and audience participation into one of the earliest fully realized expressions of the Think Potato project.

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Festivals & Public Events


2016
THINK POTATO Festival V

Presented alongside The BIG POTATO Invitational at Ripe Art Gallery and Rexer’s Crossroads Farm, THINK POTATO Festival V featured exhibitions, performances, food, music, games, and community events celebrating the cultural, artistic, and agricultural life of the potato.

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2003
THINK POTATO Festival IV

Presented as part of Potato House, Think Potato Festival #4 featured games, performances, music, readings, contests, and community participation, expanding the Think Potato project into a large-scale public celebration of potato culture.

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Performances & Media


2016
POTATOTRON Returns

NICE GARAGE / The BIG POTATO • Ripe Art Gallery • Huntington, New York

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2013
POTATOTRON in Potatoville

Potatoville: Post-Potatoism • Glenwood Arts Center • Glenwood Landing, New York

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2012
POTATOTRONThe Second Coming of POTATOTRON

Occupying Potato • Islip Art Museum • East Islip, New York

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2011
POTATOTRON Potato Revolution

The Potato Revolution Café • WAH Center • Brooklyn, New York

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