Sean Kelly Gallery, founded in 1991 in

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by British-born Sean Kelly, represents established and mid-career artists, particularly with work based in installation and performance. Owner Sean Kelly began in the British museum world by curating shows by sculptors such as Richard Deacon and

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early in their career. He opened a place in SoHo, Manhattan, in 1995, with artists such as

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and Robert Mapplethorpe. Outside Sean Kelly Gallery

History

The gallery was founded in 1991 and operated privately in

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, New York, until 1995. The original list of artists represented included

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, Robert Mapplethorpe and Julião Sarmento, who are still represented by the gallery. In 1995, the gallery relocated to a street-level space in SoHo. In 2001, Sean Kelly Gallery moved to 29th Street in the

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gallery district. In 2012, it moved to a space in the new Hudson Yards neighborhood. The two story gallery was designed by architect Toshiko Mori. In 2018, Sean Kelly Gallery launched an initiative called Collect Wisely, an advertisement- and event-driven campaign aimed at reinvigorating the collectors’ interest in actual art, including ads placed in various publications (including the ''

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'') featuring phrases like “Will history remember you as an investor or a collector?” and a billboard near the gallery on 10th Avenue carrying the slogan “

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is not a dirty word.” Another element of Collect Wisely was a series of invite-only salons held at the gallery, where people from a variety of backgrounds — collectors, but also writers, musicians and scientists — gathered for dinner and to discuss art’s emotional, rather than

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, value. Also, Kelly launched the Collect Wisely

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, in which he talks one-to-one with collectors like

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and J. Tomilson Hill about the essential values of art, their reasons for collecting and their cultural passions. Also in 2018, the gallery opened a project space in

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.Maximilíano Durón (November 11, 2021)
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''. In 2021, Sean Kelly Gallery announced plans to open a space in the Hollywood neighborhood of

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, again designed by Mori.John Chiaverina (September 6, 2018)
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Artists

Artists represented by the gallery include: In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: * Ilse D'Hollander *

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* Julião Sarmento

References

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