About The DAY Collection
The artwork featured here present highlights from Steven Day’s Agatha Wojciechowsky collection. Day acquired the 193 remaining works from Agatha’s family in 2012. Most of the works are on paper. There are also a few automatic writing books, paintings, catalogs, and archive material.
Steven Day is an artist based in New York City, and has been exhibiting his paintings, photographs, and experimental documentary videos nationally and internationally since he received his MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. Selected solo and group exhibitions include Haines Gallery SF, Danese Gallery NYC, Pierogi Brooklyn, PS1 MoMA NY, Gallery Nosco Marseille, Spruth Maggers - Image Movement Berlin, and Galeria Cisterna Lisbon, PT.
While in NYC, Day has worked on numerous art museum collections, including MoMA’s Drawings Department in New York, where he was first introduced to Agatha’s watercolor drawings in 2003 (1). Other museum collections that he worked on include The Guggenheim Museum, 2004-2009, and currently at The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2009-2021, as an Associate Art Collections Manager and Art Photographer.
Steven Day’s mission is to bring Agatha’s artwork to a larger public and art audience. He plans to continue to work with curators, museums, galleries, art publications and artists. Day would also like to collaborate with art institutions and colleagues in Europe and in Asia.