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

www.xartistsbooks.com

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23 titles

Vincent Valdez
Just a Dream...

2024

bilingual edition (English / Spanish)

Retrospective monograph.

Alexandra Grant - Itinéraires Fantômes (box set)

Alexandra Grant, Hélène Cixous
Itinéraires Fantômes (box set)

2024

bilingual edition (English / French)

Itinéraires Fantômes is an oracle deck created by Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous in celebration of H. Cixous' work.

Lynn Marie Kirby
Time & Place – On the Work of Lynn Marie Kirby

2024

English edition

An exploration of Lynn Marie Kirby 's work through a collection of writing, essays and interviews (Etel Adnan, Lynne Sachs, Jalal Toufic, Alexandra Grant, Trinh T. Minh-ha...).

Miljohn Ruperto
An Operational Account of Western Spatio-Temporality

2024

English edition

An artist's edition by Miljohn Ruperto comprising three flipbooks and an accordion-fold booklet, that examines different forms of time.

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

currently out of stock

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).

Etel Adnan, Lynn Marie Kirby
Oracular Transmissions

2020

English edition

currently out of stock

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.

Diane di Prima, 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

(last copies available!)

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, Jessica Fleischmann
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.

$Eve Wood - The Artists\' Prison$

Alexandra Grant, 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.