Raffle Ticket for Felix Gonzalez-Torres Tattoo
1 ticket - $25 | Set of 5 tickets - $100
“Untitled”, 1992
Tattoo
Size varies with individual
Open edition
As part of the Radius 2025 Artist Weekend fundraising campaign, the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation has generously donated this edition of the only tattoo Gonzalez-Torres ever produced as an artwork. Rather than including this work in the Radius benefit auction, the raffle is a more democratic way of making this rare opportunity available to the widest potential pool of collectors. On the night of Saturday, August 2, 2025, we will draw the winning lot live during the Radius auction.
The tattoo design consists of a ring of dolphins, which the raffle winner receives the right to have tattooed anywhere on their body, one time (along with a physical certificate of authenticity for the work) . They may also gift the tattoo.
In 1992, Felix Gonzalez-Torres made an endless edition in the form of a tattoo. Created prior to his one-person museum exhibition at Renaissance Society, this work’s connection to the body resonates with the intimacy and meditations on the ephemerality, and magic, of human life that runs throughout the artist’s practice. While exact significance of the dolphin symbol isn’t specified, in keeping with Gonzalez-Torres’s tendency to resist any single interpretation, the continuous circle contains echoes of the ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail to represent the concept of eternity and endless return. Once the work is realized, its physical existence is linked to the individual owner’s lifespan–yet the ‘unlimited’ edition size suggests a certain kind of renewed existence. A democratic ethos, and the poetic possibilities of considering the human body as a site for personal memory and politics, underscore Gonzalez-Torres’s unwavering affirmation of art as a medium for transformation, even if barely perceptible. As curator Hamza Walker wrote on the occasion of the 1994 exhibition at the Renaissance Society, the artist’s work is, “[...] whether through a reflection on death or through joy wrought from the simplest thing, […] ultimately an affirmation of life.”
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (b. 1957; Guáimaro, Cuba) was an American artist known throughout his career for involvement in social and political causes that fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life. From 1987 to 1991, he was part of Group Material, a New York-based art collective whose members worked collaboratively to initiate community education and cultural activism.
1 ticket - $25 | Set of 5 tickets - $100
“Untitled”, 1992
Tattoo
Size varies with individual
Open edition
As part of the Radius 2025 Artist Weekend fundraising campaign, the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation has generously donated this edition of the only tattoo Gonzalez-Torres ever produced as an artwork. Rather than including this work in the Radius benefit auction, the raffle is a more democratic way of making this rare opportunity available to the widest potential pool of collectors. On the night of Saturday, August 2, 2025, we will draw the winning lot live during the Radius auction.
The tattoo design consists of a ring of dolphins, which the raffle winner receives the right to have tattooed anywhere on their body, one time (along with a physical certificate of authenticity for the work) . They may also gift the tattoo.
In 1992, Felix Gonzalez-Torres made an endless edition in the form of a tattoo. Created prior to his one-person museum exhibition at Renaissance Society, this work’s connection to the body resonates with the intimacy and meditations on the ephemerality, and magic, of human life that runs throughout the artist’s practice. While exact significance of the dolphin symbol isn’t specified, in keeping with Gonzalez-Torres’s tendency to resist any single interpretation, the continuous circle contains echoes of the ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail to represent the concept of eternity and endless return. Once the work is realized, its physical existence is linked to the individual owner’s lifespan–yet the ‘unlimited’ edition size suggests a certain kind of renewed existence. A democratic ethos, and the poetic possibilities of considering the human body as a site for personal memory and politics, underscore Gonzalez-Torres’s unwavering affirmation of art as a medium for transformation, even if barely perceptible. As curator Hamza Walker wrote on the occasion of the 1994 exhibition at the Renaissance Society, the artist’s work is, “[...] whether through a reflection on death or through joy wrought from the simplest thing, […] ultimately an affirmation of life.”
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (b. 1957; Guáimaro, Cuba) was an American artist known throughout his career for involvement in social and political causes that fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life. From 1987 to 1991, he was part of Group Material, a New York-based art collective whose members worked collaboratively to initiate community education and cultural activism.
1 ticket - $25 | Set of 5 tickets - $100
“Untitled”, 1992
Tattoo
Size varies with individual
Open edition
As part of the Radius 2025 Artist Weekend fundraising campaign, the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation has generously donated this edition of the only tattoo Gonzalez-Torres ever produced as an artwork. Rather than including this work in the Radius benefit auction, the raffle is a more democratic way of making this rare opportunity available to the widest potential pool of collectors. On the night of Saturday, August 2, 2025, we will draw the winning lot live during the Radius auction.
The tattoo design consists of a ring of dolphins, which the raffle winner receives the right to have tattooed anywhere on their body, one time (along with a physical certificate of authenticity for the work) . They may also gift the tattoo.
In 1992, Felix Gonzalez-Torres made an endless edition in the form of a tattoo. Created prior to his one-person museum exhibition at Renaissance Society, this work’s connection to the body resonates with the intimacy and meditations on the ephemerality, and magic, of human life that runs throughout the artist’s practice. While exact significance of the dolphin symbol isn’t specified, in keeping with Gonzalez-Torres’s tendency to resist any single interpretation, the continuous circle contains echoes of the ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail to represent the concept of eternity and endless return. Once the work is realized, its physical existence is linked to the individual owner’s lifespan–yet the ‘unlimited’ edition size suggests a certain kind of renewed existence. A democratic ethos, and the poetic possibilities of considering the human body as a site for personal memory and politics, underscore Gonzalez-Torres’s unwavering affirmation of art as a medium for transformation, even if barely perceptible. As curator Hamza Walker wrote on the occasion of the 1994 exhibition at the Renaissance Society, the artist’s work is, “[...] whether through a reflection on death or through joy wrought from the simplest thing, […] ultimately an affirmation of life.”
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (b. 1957; Guáimaro, Cuba) was an American artist known throughout his career for involvement in social and political causes that fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life. From 1987 to 1991, he was part of Group Material, a New York-based art collective whose members worked collaboratively to initiate community education and cultural activism.