About

Capricious is an arts foundation based in New York focused primarily on book publishing, with an emphasis on engaging intersectional, queer perspectives.

Capricious has made 33 books, 23 magazines, 5 tote bags, 4 artist editions, 2 beach towels, 2 t-shirts, 1 hat, 1 poster, and 1 pair of socks

The Capricious Photo Award is a quasi-annual international competition, granting one photographer the opportunity to publish a book.

Capricious Publishing is committed to the Palestinian Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). For more information please visit bdsmovement.net/pacbi

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Capricious

2016

Capricious Photo Award established

2013

Capricious 88 opens

2008

Capricious Space opens

2004

Capricious magazine founded by Sophie Mörner

Publications

2023

A slight cast down at the edges of the lips, Katherine Hubbard

2022

Tuesday or September or The End, Hannah Black

2021

Hello Future, Farah Al Qasimi; Untitled by Sasha Phyars-Burgess

2020

wild wild Wild West & Haunting of the Seahorse, Jonathan Lyndon Chase

2019

Se Te Subió El Santo (Are You In A Trance?) by Tiona Nekkia McClodden

2018

Higher, John Edmonds; Quiet Storm, Jonathan Lyndon Chase

2017

Truant, Barbara Hammer;
Mucus in my Pineal Gland by Juliana Huxtable;
Ellen Cantor: I’m Still Coming Edited by Julie Tolentino & Pati Hertling;
Shade the King by Rindon Johnson;
TOM by Silvia Prada

2016

RANDY Zine Anthology;
Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything, Dodie Bellamy, Cecilia Corrigan, Amy De’Ath, Lynne Tillman, and Jackie Wang

2015

Stranger Lives, Caitlin Teal Price;
Non-Human Person, Melanie Bonajo;
Porno Thietor, Bianca Casady;
Pro Anatomy, Cajsa von Zeipel;
= = #2 by Matt Keegan & Su Barber