Sean Kelly Gallery, Contemporary art gallery in Manhattan, United States
Sean Kelly Gallery is a two-story, 22,000 sq ft contemporary art gallery at 475 Tenth Avenue in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of Manhattan. Designed by architect Toshiko Mori, it opened in 2012 and shows installation and performance-based work by artists such as Marina Abramović and Joseph Kosuth.
Sean Kelly founded the gallery in 1991 and ran it privately in SoHo until 1995, when it moved to a street-level space there. It relocated to 29th Street in Chelsea in 2001, then in 2012 to a 22,000 sq ft two-story building in Hudson Yards designed by Toshiko Mori. A Taipei project space opened in 2018 and a Los Angeles branch in 2022.
The gallery's name comes from its founder, British-born Sean Kelly, who began by curating shows for sculptors Richard Deacon and Anthony Gormley in British museums. In 2018 it launched Collect Wisely, a campaign with New York Times ads and a billboard on 10th Avenue asking "Will history remember you as an investor or a collector?" Invite-only salons there gathered collectors, writers, musicians and scientists to discuss art's emotional rather than monetary value.
The gallery occupies a two-story, 22,000 sq ft space designed by architect Toshiko Mori in the Hudson Yards neighborhood, reached via Tenth Avenue. It is a commercial gallery, so exhibitions change; check the current show before travelling. The 2018 Collect Wisely billboard stood near the gallery on Tenth Avenue.
In 2018 the gallery launched Collect Wisely, a campaign with New York Times ads and a billboard on 10th Avenue reading "Connoisseurship is not a dirty word." It also hosted invite-only salons where collectors, writers, musicians and scientists discussed art's emotional rather than monetary value.
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