Greene Naftali is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. [1]
Greene Naftali is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. [1]
Carol Greene is an American art dealer and founder of Greene Naftali. She was born and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts, and received a B.A. from Harvard University. After college, Greene moved to New York City, where she began working at John Good Gallery in SoHo. In 1995, she opened Greene Naftali. In addition to her gallery, she is involved in a number of arts organizations, including Artists Space, where she serves on the board of directors. Greene lives in New York City with her partner, artist Craig Kalpakjian.
Carol Greene and Gloria Naftali founded Greene Naftali in 1995, making it one of the first galleries to open in Chelsea. [2] The gallery shows contemporary art in various media—including painting, video, music, and fashion—and has a reputation for championing emerging artists as well as historical figures, [3] including Rachel Harrison, Dan Graham, Jacqueline Humphries, Paul Chan, Helen Marten, Michael Krebber, and Tony Conrad.
Greene Naftali is also renowned for its ambitious performance programming with music events by Thurston Moore, the NNCK Blues Band, Dan Graham, Loren Connors, and Electrophilia with Jutta Koether & Steven Parrino. In 2008 and 2018, the gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery organized "Painting: Now and Forever", a large-scale, ongoing survey of contemporary painting, covering 10 years each. [4]
Greene Naftali has been featured in several "top galleries" lists, in publications such as Flash Art, Modern Painters (magazine), and artnet. [5] [6] [7]
The gallery occupies two spaces in the West Chelsea Building at 508 W. 26th Street: an 8th-floor space, which opened in 1995 with a group exhibition including Laura Owens, and a ground floor space, which opened in 2014 with a solo exhibition by Dan Graham. [8] [9]
In 2016, Greene Naftali opened Greene Naftali Garage, a temporary exhibition space at 227 Leonard Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [10]
Greene Naftali represents numerous living artists, including:
In the past, the gallery has worked with the following artists and estates:
In 2022, Greene Naftali held a voter-registration drive for the duration of a Paul Chan exhibition; those who signed up received an original drawing Chan made “as a gesture of appreciation for affirming the basic and inalienable right to vote in America.” [25]
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