James Fuentes is an American gallerist whose eponymous contemporary art gallery opened in Manhattan, New York, United States in 2007.
Fuentes was born on the Lower East Side in the 1970s to Ecuadorian immigrant parents and was raised on the Lower East Side and South Bronx. [1]
Currently, the gallery has three physical locations: 55 Delancey Street and 52 White Street in New York, [2] [3] and 5015 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. [4] [5] Previously, the gallery occupied two spaces on the Lower East Side of Manhattan including its original address at 35 Saint James Place.
Before opening his eponymous gallery, James Fuentes worked for several notable galleries including Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Jeffrey Deitch, where he served as a Director. [6] [7]
Artists represented by James Fuentes include Alison Knowles, Didier William, [8] Amalia Ulman, Oscar yi Hou, Dalton Paula, and Lizzi Bougatsos, and the estates of Juanita McNeely, [9] Kikuo Saito, Geoffrey Holder, and Ed Baynard. Many of these artists have been exhibited in major exhibitions including the Biennale di Venezia, Whitney Biennial, and Prospect New Orleans, [10] and international museums including Whitney Museum of American Art, [11] Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. [12]
Alongside regular exhibitions of represented artists, the gallery has also exhibited special presentations of artists like Lonnie Holley and historical works by artists including Thornton Dial, Jonas Mekas, and Andy Warhol, whose eight-hour film, Empire (1965), the gallery screened in full for the first month of the work's 50th-anniversary year. [13]
The gallery regularly participates in international art fairs, including Art Basel Switzerland, [14] Art Basel Miami Beach, The Armory Show, The ADAA Art Show, and Independent 20th Century. [15] [16]
Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. The magazine is distinguished from other magazines by its unique 10½ × 10½ inch square format, with each cover often devoted to the work of an artist. Notably, the Artforum logo is a bold and condensed iteration of the Akzidenz-Grotesk font, a feat for an American publication to have considering how challenging it was to obtain fonts favored by the Swiss school via local European foundries in the 1960s. Artforum is published by Artforum Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation.
Rita Ackermann is a Hungarian-born American artist recognized for her abstract paintings that incorporate human forms, primarily focusing on themes of anthropomorphism and femininity. Her works, often depicting women and allusions to fairy tales, explore the nuances of adolescent disinterest using a unique and expressive style of brushwork. She lives in New York City.
William Powhida is an American visual artist and former art critic. Powhida's work is critical and addresses the contemporary art world.
Michelle Grabner is an artist, curator, and critic based in Wisconsin. She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. She has curated several important exhibitions, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art along with Anthony Elms and Stuart Comer, and FRONT International, the 2016 Portland Biennial at the Oregon Contemporary, a triennial exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio in 2018. In 2014, Grabner was named one of the 100 most powerful women in art and in 2019, she was named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician, a lifetime honor. In 2021, Grabner was named a Guggenheim Fellow by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2024 Grabner was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Art and Science.
James Cohan is a contemporary art gallery co-founded by James and Jane Cohan in 1999, which operates spaces in the Manhattan, New York neighborhoods of Tribeca and the Lower East Side.
Troy Brauntuch is an American artist. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is an art gallery founded by Tanya Bonakdar, located in both Chelsea in New York City and Los Angeles. Since its inception in 1994, the gallery has exhibited new work by contemporary artists in all media, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. The New York City location is at 521 W. 21st Street and the Los Angeles gallery is located at 1010 N. Highland Avenue.
Marian Goodman is owner of the Marian Goodman Gallery, a contemporary art gallery opened in Manhattan, New York in 1977. Goodman has been called one of the most respected and influential gallerists of contemporary art in the world. She is known for introducing European artists like Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, and Marcel Broodthaers to the United States and has represented a number of artists including Steve McQueen, Thomas Struth, Pierre Huyghe, Thomas Schütte, Lothar Baumgarten, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Chantal Akerman, Niele Toroni, Gabriel Orozco, Maurizio Cattelan, Giuseppe Penone, Giovanni Anselmo, Jeff Wall, Rineke Dijkstra, and William Kentridge. Marian Goodman gained prominence in the art world in the 1970s and 1980s, a time when few women worked in this sector.
Jordan Wolfson is an American visual artist who lives in Los Angeles. He has worked in video and film, in sculptural installation, and in virtual reality.
Laura Owens is an American painter, gallery owner and educator. She emerged in the late 1990s from the Los Angeles art scene. She is known for large-scale paintings that combine a variety of art historical references and painterly techniques. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Mariah Robertson is an American artist. She lives in New York City.
Johann König is a German art dealer, and the founder of König Galerie.
Venus Over Manhattan, known as VENUS, is an art gallery founded in 2012 by Adam Lindemann, with two locations in Manhattan.
Almine Rech Ruiz-Picasso is a French art dealer and owner of the eponymous contemporary art gallery. The gallery has exhibition spaces in Paris, Brussels, London, New York, Shanghai, Gstaad and Monaco. The gallery opened in 1997 in Paris.
Jack Shainman Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City. The gallery was founded by Jack Shainman and his then-partner Claude Simard (1956—2014) in 1984 in Washington, D.C. The gallery has a focus on artists from Africa, East Asia, and North America.
Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. She is the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art and the artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. She previously curated the 2017 Biennale's Italian pavilion and served as artistic director of the inaugural edition of the 2018 Art Basel Cities in Buenos Aires, held in 2018.
Adam Lindemann is a New York-based gallerist, art collector and writer who founded Venus Over Manhattan gallery in New York City in 2012. As an art collector and gallerist, Lindemann is known for setting multiple world records both at auction and privately, including career records for Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jean Royère. His personal collection includes work from Richard Prince, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, and Urs Fischer. Lindemann wrote for The New York Observer from 2009 to 2017, and authored two books about contemporary art.
David Lewis was a contemporary art gallery in New York founded by art historian David Lewis in 2013. The gallery was known for representation and championing prominent international artists such as Barbara Bloom and the estates of Thornton Dial, John Boskovich and Mary Beth Edelson.
Kotaro Nukaga is a contemporary art gallery owned by gallerist Kotaro Nukaga. Headquartered in the Roppongi neighborhood of Tokyo, the gallery operates multiple exhibition spaces including at the Terrada Art Complex in Tennōz. Nukaga expressed to The New York Times that one of his primary goals is to "make a stronger market for women artists."
Adam Putnam is an American visual artist working primarily with photography, drawing, and performance art. Putnam is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.