Timothy Taylor is a modern and contemporary art gallery in

Mayfair Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the eastern edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane. It is one of the most expensive districts in the world. ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, owned and founded by the art dealer Timothy Taylor. The gallery represents artists and sells original and editioned artworks across different media.

History

Timothy Taylor was founded in 1996 on Bruton Place in London and later moved to 24 Dering Street in 2003, expanding to include a second space at 21 Dering Street from 2006 to 2007. The gallery opened a space inside a former bank building at 15 Carlos Place,

, in October 2007, with an inaugural exhibition of

Alex Katz Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Early life and career Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ha ...

's ''One Flight Up''.^, The move allowed the gallery to exhibit a greater scope of works in a space designed by Eric Parry Architects. In 2019, it relocated to a five-story townhouse with a exhibition space, again designed by Parry. The gallery first opened at 515 West 19th Street in New York’s

Chelsea Chelsea or Chelsey may refer to: Places Australia * Chelsea, Victoria Canada * Chelsea, Nova Scotia * Chelsea, Quebec United Kingdom * Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames ** Chelsea (UK Parliament consti ...

district in 2016. By 2022, it decided to relocate to a space in

Tribeca Tribeca (), originally written as TriBeCa, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle Below Canal Street". The "triangle" (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Stree ...

on the ground floor of 74 Leonard Street, designed by the New York-based architectural firm studioMDA. The gallery has produced over twenty publications, and shown over seventy exhibitions since its opening. Timothy Taylor also takes part in art fairs, including

Frieze Art Fair Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair in London, New York, and Los Angeles. Frieze London takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. In the US, the fair ran on New York's Randall's Island from 2012–19 and in 2 ...

, Art Basel Miami, and

Art Basel Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach; Hong Kong and from 2022, Paris. Art Basel works in collaboration with the host city's local institutions to help ...

. The art dealer Timothy Taylor is its owner and director.

Artists

Timothy Taylor Gallery represents numerous living artists, including: *

Shezad Dawood Shezad Dawood (born 1974) is an artist born and based in London. Shezad Dawood works across the disciplines of painting, film, neon, sculpture, performance, virtual reality and other digital media to ask key questions of narrative, history and emb ...

(since 2015) *

Gabriel de la Mora In Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Gabriel (); Greek: grc, Γαβριήλ, translit=Gabriḗl, label=none; Latin: ''Gabriel''; Coptic: cop, Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ, translit=Gabriêl, label=none; Amharic: am, ገብር ...

(since 2015) *

Josephine Meckseper Josephine Meckseper (born 1964) is a German artist, active mainly in New York City. Her large-scale installations and films have been exhibited in various international biennials and museum shows worldwide. Life and education Meckseper studied ...

Kiki Smith Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a West German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, whil ...

In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: * Antoni Tàpies In the past, the gallery has worked with the following artists and estates: *

Simon Hantaï Simon Hantaï (7 December 1922, Biatorbágy, Hungary – Paris, 12 September 2008; took French nationality in 1966) is a painter generally associated with abstract art. Biography After studying at the Budapest School of Fine Art, he traveled th ...

Hilary Pecis Hilary Pecis (born 1979) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. Pecis was raised in Redding, California close to the border with Oregon. She earned a BFA and MFA from California College of the Arts California College of the Arts (CCA) ...

Angelica Villa (20 September 2021)
With Her Market Ascending, Hilary Pecis Joins Los Angeles’s David Kordansky Gallery
''

ARTnews ''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countr ...

''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Timothy Taylor Gallery 1996 establishments in England Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster Contemporary art galleries in London