This is a list of invisible artworks; that is, works of art that cannot be seen and, in many cases, touched.
| Artist | Title | Year | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle" (Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) | 1959 | Consists of the sale of documentation of ownership of empty space; the piece could be completed in a ritual in which the buyer would burn said documentation. | ||
| "Show V: Immateriële ruimte" (Immaterial space) | 1965 | Consists of three "air doors" made from currents of cold and warm air blown into the room.[1] | ||
| "Vertical Column of Accelerated Air" | 1966 | Drafts of pressurized air. | ||
| Art & Language (group) | "" or "Air Show" | 1967 | An empty room with two air conditioning units; the artwork is "what is felt and said about it", and not anything tangible. | |
| "The Ghost of James Lee Byars" | 1969 | The artwork itself is the emptiness and darkness of a pitch-black room.[2] [3] | ||
| "Telepathic Piece" | 1969 | An artwork "the nature of which is a series of thoughts that are not applicable to language or image", which Barry would communicate telepathically to visitors during the exhibit.[4] | ||
| "Invisible Sculpture" | 1985 | Consists of an invisible, intangible sculpture atop a white pedestal.[5] | ||
| "Untitled (A Curse)" | 1992 | Similar to Warhol's sculpture, but a witch was reportedly hired to curse the space immediately above the pedestal. | ||
| "Aire" (Air) | 2003 | Similar to Air Show, the artwork consists of a room with air humidified with water used to wash corpses before autopsy.[6] | ||
| "Invisible Labyrinth" | 2005 | A maze with invisible and intangible walls; visitors are given headphones that vibrate when they "touch" a wall.[7] | ||
| "More Silent Than Ever" | 2006 | The artwork consists of a covert listening device supposedly hidden somewhere in the (empty) exhibition room: visitors are told they are being eavesdropped. The device itself cannot be seen, and no evidence is given that it really exists.[8] | ||
| "Buddha in Contemplazione" (Buddha in Contemplation) | 2021 | An invisible, intangible sculpture. | ||
| Salvatore Garau | "Io Sono" (I am) | 2021 | Another invisible, intangible sculpture, that occupies a square area with side of .[9] | |
| Ruben Gutierrez | "This Sculpture Makes Me Cry (A Spell)" | 2022 | An immaterial, invisible sculpture atop a small white pedestal, displayed as part of a bigger exhibit. It is said to represent what the artist cannot see, but which affects him emotionally, making him feel invisible and insignificant.[10] [11] |