# Exit Art > Exit Art was an independent, nonprofit cultural center in New York City, founded in 1982 by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo and closed in 2012. This site is an independently maintained archive of its mission, history and exhibition programs. ## Key pages - [Home](https://exitart.org/): Mission and history of Exit Art - [About Exit Art](https://exitart.org/about-exit-art/): Former location and list of exhibition programs - [Every Exit Is an Entrance](https://exitart.org/retrospective/): The final exhibition, 30 Years of Exit Art (2012) ## Exhibition programs - [Alternative Histories](https://exitart.org/alternative-histories/) - [America for Sale](https://exitart.org/america-for-sale/) - [Autotopia](https://exitart.org/autotopia/) - [Brainwave](https://exitart.org/brainwave/) - [Charles Juhasz](https://exitart.org/charles-juhasz/) - [Collective/Performative](https://exitart.org/collectiveperformative/) - [Complicated Stories](https://exitart.org/complicated-stories/) - [Consume](https://exitart.org/consume/) - [Corpus Extreme](https://exitart.org/corpus-extreme/) - [Ecoaesthetic](https://exitart.org/ecoaesthetic/) - [EcoKids](https://exitart.org/ecokids/) - [Electric Lab](https://exitart.org/electric-lab/) - [Environmental Performance Actions](https://exitart.org/environmental-performance-actions/) - [Fracking](https://exitart.org/fracking/) - [Geometric Days](https://exitart.org/geometric-days/) - [Graphic Radicals](https://exitart.org/graphic-radicals/) - [Interplay](https://exitart.org/interplay/) - [Killing Time](https://exitart.org/killing-time/) - [Love/War/Sex](https://exitart.org/lovewarsex/) - [Négritude](https://exitart.org/negritude/) - [New Mirrors](https://exitart.org/new-mirrors/) - [New Money](https://exitart.org/new-money/) - [Object of Desire](https://exitart.org/object-of-desire/) - [Painting Club](https://exitart.org/painting-club/) - [Performance in Crisis](https://exitart.org/performance-in-crisis/) - [Regina José Galindo](https://exitart.org/regina-jose-galindo/) - [Signs of Change](https://exitart.org/signs-of-change/) - [Retrospective](https://exitart.org/retrospective/) - [Rico Gatson](https://exitart.org/rico-gatson/) - [Sultana's Dream](https://exitart.org/sultanas-dream/) - [Summer Mixtape Volume 1](https://exitart.org/summer-mixtape-volume-1/) - [The Drop](https://exitart.org/the-drop/) - [The End of Oil](https://exitart.org/the-end-of-oil/) - [The House Is Small but the Welcome Is Big](https://exitart.org/the-house-is-small-but-the-welcome-is-big/) - [The Order of Chaos](https://exitart.org/the-order-of-chaos/) - [Vertical Gardens](https://exitart.org/vertical-gardens/) - [Waterpod](https://exitart.org/waterpod/) ## Optional - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1982](https://exitart.org/1982-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1983](https://exitart.org/1983-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1984](https://exitart.org/1984-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1985](https://exitart.org/1985-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1986](https://exitart.org/1986-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1987](https://exitart.org/1987-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1988](https://exitart.org/1988-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1989](https://exitart.org/1989-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1990](https://exitart.org/1990-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1991](https://exitart.org/1991-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1992](https://exitart.org/1992-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1993](https://exitart.org/1993-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1994](https://exitart.org/1994-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1995](https://exitart.org/1995-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1996](https://exitart.org/1996-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1997](https://exitart.org/1997-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1998](https://exitart.org/1998-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 1999](https://exitart.org/1999-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2000](https://exitart.org/2000-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2001](https://exitart.org/2001-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2002](https://exitart.org/2002-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2003](https://exitart.org/2003-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2004](https://exitart.org/2004-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2005](https://exitart.org/2005-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2006](https://exitart.org/2006-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2007](https://exitart.org/2007-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2008](https://exitart.org/2008-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2009](https://exitart.org/2009-2/) - [Exit Art Exhibitions and Events, 2010](https://exitart.org/2010-2/)