Hales Gallery is a contemporary

art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...

owned by Paul Hedge and Paul Maslin. Hales Gallery opened in 1992 in

Deptford Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, within the London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century to the late 19th it was home to Deptford Dock ...

, South London, before moving to the Tea Building, in

Shoreditch Shoreditch is a district in the East End of London in England, and forms the southern part of the London Borough of Hackney. Neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets are also perceived as part of the area. In the 16th century, Shoreditch was an impor ...

, London's East End in 2004 and later opening a second space in Chelsea, New York in 2018.

History

Hales opened its first space in Deptford, South London, in 1992. In this period, Hales launched the careers of a number of British artists, including

Jake and Dinos Chapman Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers. Their subject matter tries to be deliberately shocking, including, in 2008, a series of works that ...

, whose first show was with the gallery, as well as

Mike Nelson (artist) Michael Nelson (born 20 August 1967) is a contemporary British installation artist. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize: first in 2001 (that year the prize was won by Marti ...

and

Sarah Jones (artist) Sarah Jones (born 1959) is a British visual artist working primarily in photography. Her practice is deeply rooted in art history, and she draws influence from topics such as Psychoanalysis, adolescence, and the Victorian period. She gained inte ...

.
In 1997 Hales added

Hew Locke Hew Donald Joseph Locke (born 13 October 1959) is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London. In 2000 he won a Paul Hamlyn Award and the EASTinternational Award. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Fourth plinth, T ...

and

Sebastiaan Bremer Sebastiaan Bremer (born 27 June 1970) is a Dutch artist who lives and works in New York City. Bremer turns photographs, found or snapped, of himself and his family into trippy, dusty memories that reveal the subconscious and the real world in o ...

to their roster, and held exhibitions of

Tomoko Takahashi Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist. She was born in Tokyo in 1966 and has based in London since the early 1990s. She studied at Tama Art University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art. Takahashi's main medium is installati ...

and

Spencer Tunick Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American photographer best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994, he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world. Life and career Spencer Tunick was born in Middle ...

's work. In 2004 Hales moved to its current gallery space in the Tea Building in

, London's East End. In February 2016 Hales opened an office and viewing room in New York's

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district, which in September 2017 became the 'Hales Project Room' – a small space for exhibitions and artist's project works. The programme has included exhibitions from Rachael Champion, Jeff Keen and

Frank Bowling Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling (born 26 February 1934, Bartica, British Guiana), known as Frank Bowling, is a Guyana-born British artist. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Color Field painting, and ...

. In October 2018 Hales Gallery expanded, opening a new location in

Chelsea, Manhattan Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The area's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern b ...

, New York City. The inaugural exhibition: ''Foundations,'' a solo presentation of works by abstract painter Virginia Jaramillo (artist). In 2017, at Frieze New York, Hales presented three works by Virginia Jaramillo (artist) – painted in the 1970s, none of which had been shown in public for four decades. ''Untitled'' (1971) was acquired by the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

in New York from this presentation.
The gallery represents feminist artist Carolee Schneemann, who had her first ever solo exhibition in London with the gallery, ''Water Light, Water Needle,'' in February 2014.Quaintance, Morgan
"Carolee Schneemann's "Water Light/Water Needle""
''art agenda'', 4 April 2014

References

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* Contemporary art galleries in London Shoreditch {{UK-art-display-stub