Rob Pruitt's eBay Flea Market: Year One

Rob Pruitt's eBay Flea Market: Year One documents the opening chapter of Pruitt's ongoing flea-market project, first staged in New York and since restaged internationally.

The project takes the form of a live, open flea market: Pruitt invites artists, dealers, collectors and passersby to set up tables and sell whatever they bring, collapsing the distinctions between artwork, souvenir, and secondhand junk that structure the conventional art market. This book gathers photographic documentation of that first edition alongside a critical text by Tommaso Speretta situating the project within Pruitt's broader interest in participation, commerce, and spectacle. It was published by Bruno as a 296-page paperback.

Pruitt is an American artist known for work that moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, and social practice, often using humor and popular imagery — pandas, cocaine, celebrity gossip — to needle at ideas of taste and value in the art world. The Flea Market project extends that inquiry into a live, collective format, treating the marketplace itself as the artwork.