Marc Glimcher

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Marc Glimcher
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Marc Glimcher (photo by Kris Graves)
Born (1963-09-16) September 16, 1963 (age 59)
Nationality American
Education Johns Hopkins University (Biochemistry and Immunology)
Alma mater Harvard University
Occupation Pace Gallery (President & CEO)
Known for"Power 100" (Top 25 Most Powerful People in the International Art World) by ArtReview
Spouse(s)Andrea (divorced); [1] Fairfax Dorn [2]
ChildrenIsabelle, Lilleth, Katharine, Alexander, Gage
Parents
Relatives Paul Glimcher (brother)

Marc Glimcher (born September 16, 1963) is an American art dealer who is the President and CEO of Pace Gallery, a modern and contemporary art gallery founded by his father, Arne Glimcher, in Boston in 1960. He and his father were cited among the top 100 most powerful people in the international art world, according to the annual "Power 100" list published by ArtReview . [3] In 2012, Glimcher sold a Gerhard Richter painting for more than $20 million at Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. [4]

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Education

Glimcher was born in New York City. He is the second son (his brother is neuroscientist Paul W. Glimcher) of Mildred “Milly” and Arnold “Arne” Glimcher, an art historian and art dealer respectively, who together founded Pace Gallery in Boston in 1960. He graduated from Harvard University in 1985 with a degree in biological anthropology, and from 1989 to 1991 studied biochemistry and immunology at Johns Hopkins University. [5]

Art world career

Glimcher joined Pace Gallery in 1985 as Associate Director, [6] and was named President and CEO in 2011. In his more than 30 years with the gallery, Glimcher has expanded Pace's roster of artists to include established artists such as Michal Rovner and Julian Schnabel, [7] and as well as newer artists such as Loie Hollowell. [8] Glimcher has also broadened Pace's representation of artist estates, including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation [9] and Vito Acconci Studio. [10]

Glimcher oversees the gallery's global activities from its headquarters in New York City, including international expansion to Beijing, [11] London, [12] Palo Alto, [13] Seoul, [14] Geneva, [15] and Hong Kong. [16] In 2008, Glimcher founded Artifex Press, the first digital, online catalogue raisonné publishing company. [17]

He has also curated thematic exhibitions including Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective; Je Suis le Cahier, The Sketchbooks of Picasso (1986), [18] the only comprehensive exhibition of Picasso’s sketchbooks; Mark Rothko: The Last Paintings; Earthly Forms: The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder, and Noguchi;Alexander Calder: From Model to Monument; and Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, for which he authored the catalogue essay (2005). [19]

Personal life

Glimcher is married to Fairfax Dorn, the co-founder and artistic director of Ballroom Marfa. The couple resides in New York City. [20] Glimcher has five children: Isabelle, Lilleth, Katharine, Alexander, and Gage.

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