A cracked open roll of pennies which are edge-engraved with the phrase, “THE BODY WAS ALREADY SO FRAGILE”. The image is carefully composed: half of the roll is stacked upright and half is spilling out across a neutral-grey background, which is studio lit.
Jill Magid, Tender, 2020
120,000 edge-engraved 2020 US pennies, custom wrapper, image courtesy of the artist; Creative Time, New York; and LABOR, Mexico City. Photograph by Paul McGeiver

September 27–November 20, 2024

The Perlman Teaching Museum presents Bank Job, a group exhibition that reflects on the conceptual, material, ideological, and political contours of currency and exchange. The exhibition is an art history lesson in conceptual art via the medium of currency, themes of forgery, trickery, and the trope of the heist. 

An exhibition opening and artist talk with Jill Magid will take place Thursday, September 26 at 5–6 p.m. in the Weitz Cinema, followed by a reception 6–7 p.m. in the Perlman Teaching Museum.