Inspired by Hans Ulrich Obrist's "The Kitchen Show" (1991), The Bathroom Show comes to you in the highest temple to modern art this side of the Hudson: Helen's Bathroom. For Helen, the bathroom’s shared uses of waste and wash are almost irreconcilably opposed - with poo particles pluming from open-lid flushing defiling any attempt to clean oneself. But for this art exhibit, Helen laughed at her own toilet anxiety, opened it up to the artists, and welcomed guests into the [sanitized] bathroom. Just please flush with lid down.

Timothy Ho
‍Potpourri, 2025
Toilet paper, paper towels, tissue, toilet seat covers

Tim had just returned from a trip having worked with an artist who made paper flowers that he wished for keepsake but accepted as memory—until the Bathroom Show became the perfect opportunity to make his own flowers. Over 5 weeks in the springtime while all was in bloom, on his 15-minute walk to the subway for work, he took moments to photograph people’s front yard flowers for study: “My camera roll is just all flowers, like some old man.” While at work he collected toilet paper from the office for the end of the day, when he would make what he saw on his morning commute, staying up until 3 in the morning making flowers all night. A full vase of New York's spring flowers, lightly misted, scented the room as Tim's toilet bowl Potpourri.

Taylor Corley
Toilets on Vacation, 2025
Inkjet Prints
5x7 inches

A Canadian passport on a soap dish and 18 photos of toilets on the tiled wall of the tub. For Taylor, in the midst of a vacation in Copenhagen, the toilets were more than a place for relief. They were part of a mission. With a background in thousand-options architecture including OMA, Taylor’s work is generally “very serious about everything,” always requiring justification. For this piece, he just took photos of toilets.

Anastasia Miller
Scroller, 2025
Paper, PLA filament, metal, iPhone Notes app drawings
5x6 inches

Made as an anecdote to doomscrolling, and documentation of others.

“Cranky” is a puppeteering art form that presents a silhouette in light, in continuous loop, in a box. Replacing the smart phone, Ana’s Scroller is a cranky fitted as a playful tease for the bathroom. Instead of silhouettes, the prints are white paper with colored iPhone drawings of people on the subway. Instead of at hand, the Scroller sat across the toilet on the tiled wall just slightly out of reach. Instead of a continuous loop, it ends.

Helen Chen
Light, 2025
7 Pantiliners, duck feathers

Light references feathered bread rolls that trailed walls at the opening exhibit of Serralves Museum’s Alvaro Siza Wing. Instead of rolls, pantiliners fly toward the skylight in Helen’s relatively large bathroom, both lucky features in a jank New York apartment. These "little pads" are what menstruating people use in anticipation of the cycle's beginning, as backup coverage, and at the end of the bleeding, the lighter days. They bookend painful emotional troubling times that come again and again, but at least these little angels can be a sign of light, a sign of a new phase. In the context of this show, Helen’s piece purposely shared the walls of all the artists while giving them their space, because relationships with them made this show possible.