Mark Wagner: None Dollar Bills

Mark Wagner’s None Dollar Bills reimagines the language of currency to expose the contradictions embedded in our ideas of value. This 2025 edition features a bundle of 100 two-sided color handbills, each meticulously printed with Wagner’s signature collage aesthetic—dense with surreal imagery, layered references, and visual wit. In place of a presidential portrait, a skull stares out, underscoring themes of mortality, impermanence, and the futility of material accumulation.

Each bundle is wrapped with a custom letterpress-printed band labeled Null, Zip, Zilch, or Nada—four ways to say “nothing.” These subtle variations turn the object into a conceptual provocation: What are we collecting, and why? What does it mean to own a perfectly rendered stack of nothing?

Measuring 6.25” x 2.625” x .375”, the piece mirrors the scale and presence of actual currency, but its worth lies in reflection, not exchange. Wagner plays with expectation and illusion, transforming an everyday symbol of power into a philosophical object.

Known for his intricate dissections of the dollar bill, Wagner’s work has long challenged our relationships to wealth, labor, and consumption. None Dollar Bills distills that practice into a minimal, potent form—a quiet monument to the absurdity of constructed value.

Collect one, or all four variations, and consider what you're really holding in your hands.