Bradley Eros
hẏstéry in every media
September 18 – October 25, 2025
Opening Reception September 18, 6-8pm
Microscope is very pleased to present hẏstéry in every media as the 3rd solo exhibition at the gallery by Bradley Eros.
Following two solo exhibitions, several group shows, and numerous performances at the gallery featuring new works, hystery in every media also looks back to include rare works made by the artist over the past 45 years since his arrival in New York City in 1980.
The works by Eros — who has been a fixture and frequent catalyst in NYC art and film scenes such as the Cinema of Transgression; 1980s-90s Lower East Side; late-1990s-early 2000s Williamsburg; and mid-2000 to present-day Bushwick, among others — emphasize the artist’s long practice with collage across various mediums including collage on paper, experimental film, 35mm slides, expanded cinema, sound, installation, sculpture, and other formats. The title word hẏstéry not only references the name of Eros’ 1985 film on view but can be seen as a collage of the words history and mystery.
Alongside individual works, the show also prominently features the historic collaborative works with Aline Mare (as Erotic Pysche, 1983-1987) and those with Jeanne Liotta (as Media Mystics, 1988-1998), as well as other more recent collaborations.
New works on view include “X-Ray Eros,” a short video featuring actual medical scans and imagery of the artist’s internal body taken in connection with a life-threatening stroke within the past year, involving (successful) brain surgery, and a very recent hernia surgery; “Timeline,” a wall collage combining original and archival materials dating back to 1980; as well as numerous collages on paper.
Frequent themes of the artists include ephemerality, the medium of film itself, the body, gender roles, sex, love, and myths, among others. Eros’ works across mediums, even when primarily structural or conceptual, are lush with layered meanings, provocative, poetic, sometimes light, sometimes dark, never predictable, often imbued with a trickster energy, and always asking us – including the artist himself – to think beyond preconceptions and expectations. To this affect, the exhibition may expand during the course of the show, and the artist may often be on site.
hẏstéry in every media opens on September 18th — exactly 15 years to the day of the gallery’s inaugural show, in which the artist’s installation, video, and live expanded cinema performance appeared — and closes on October 25th.
Opening Reception: Thursday September 18, 6-8pm. Gallery Hours Tuesday – Saturday 12-6pm.
For inquiries please contact the gallery at inquiries@microscopegallery.com.
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Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad mediums including film & video, collage, performance, expanded cinema, and installation. Eros has been a catalyst of the New York film community since the 1980s and his works have exhibited and screened extensively in the US and abroad including at the Whitney Museum of American Art (in “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art: 1905-2016”, “The Whitney Biennial 2004”, and “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000”) as well as at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), MoMA PS1, New Museum, The Kitchen, Participant Inc., Pioneer Works, Performa09, Exit Art, Anthology Film Archives, Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Camden Arts Center (London), Arsenal (Berlin), and The New York, London and Rotterdam Film Festivals. His work has been written about in ArtFCity, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Wall Street Journal, and the Village Voice, among many others. Collaborations include the Alchemical Theater, the band Circle X, Voom HD Lab, and the expanded cinema groups kinoSonik, Arcane Project and currently with Optipus. Grants and Awards include: Acker Award, NYFA Fellowship, Experimental Television Center (ETC), and Issue Project Room’s artist in residence, among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Eros currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Special thanks to Qianqi Zhang and Scott Kiernan.