The exhibition A Survey of Artist's Ephemera 1960-1999 at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco is the first comprehensive, international survey of printed ephemera produced by a diverse selection of artists (such as Marcel Duchamp, Chris Burden, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Robert Smithson, etc.). The show features exhibition invitation cards, postcards, posters, artist advertisements, periodicals, and other materials.

The design strategy for the exhibition environment is to provide museum-like cases and new walls for display that would provoke a sense of impermanence, inherent to the initially non-precious and generally disposable works on display. Referencing Paul Nelson's 1936 prototypical Suspended House, all display cases are suspended in air via thin wires. Via this system, the artwork hovers and sways in the air with the slightest touch. The entry sign wall is painted a digitally matched Manila envelope buff, and display walls are painted an accurate IBM computer gray.