David Maupin is an American art dealer. With Rachel Lehmann, he opened the Lehmann Maupin gallery in SoHo, Manhattan, in October 1996. Before opening Lehmann Maupin, Maupin was the director of

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Early life and education

Born in California, Maupin studied

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at the

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, and the

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Lehmann Maupin gallery

History

Lehmann Maupin gallery has organized and curated exhibitions for international contemporary artists working in all media. The gallery has given a number of artists their first one-person exhibitions in New York City, including

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Anya Gallaccio Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a British artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice). Her use of organic materials results in natural processes ...

, Shirazeh Houshiary,

Do-Ho Suh Do Ho Suh (hangul: 서도호, born 1962) is a Korean sculptor and installation artist. He also works across various media, including paintings and film which explore the concept of space and home. His work is particularly well known in relation ...

, and

Adriana Varejão Adriana Varejão (born 1964, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist. She works in various disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. She was an artist-in-resident at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2004. ...

. In addition, the gallery has exposed emerging talents, such as Suling Wang, Teresita Fernández, and the Japanese artist Mr., through exhibitions at the gallery and participations in select art fairs. The gallery's first raw, plywood-panelled space in

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was designed by Rem Koolhaas in 1996. It was a storefront gallery located at 39 Greene Street (near Grand Street).Yoko Choy (March 15, 2013)
"OMA designs Lehmann Maupin's first Hong Kong gallery"
''

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''. In September 2002 the gallery moved to a bigger space, also located in Chelsea. A second New York gallery at 201

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opened in November 2007. In 2013, Koolhaas designed a gallery space in the historic

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. The inaugural exhibition featured Korean artist Lee Bul. Ahead of the inaugural Art Basel Hong Kong in 2013, Maupin joined the fair's selection committee. Lehmann Maupin launched its first Seoul outpost in the city's

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neighbourhood in 2017, making it one of the first international galleries to establish a permanent space in South Korea. After four years, the gallery moved to a larger gallery in the

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area. Lehmann Maupin's current three-story gallery space, designed by

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, opened in Chelsea in September 2018. Shortly after, the gallery inaugurated its nearly black box space for film screenings. In 2019, Lehmann Maupin launched operations London before opening a space in the

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district in 2020.

Artists

Ashley Bickerton Ashley Bickerton (May 26, 1959 – November 30, 2022) was a Barbadian-born American contemporary artist. A mixed-media artist, Bickerton often combined photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages. He is asso ...

Parra, Jamie, "Rachel Lehmann", ''Whitewall Magazine'', Fall 2008. * Lee BulAlanna Martinez (April 24, 2015)
Photographer Catherine Opie Joins Lehmann Maupin Gallery
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''. * Dominic Chambers (since 2021) * Billy Childish *

Mary Corse Mary Corse (born 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Topanga, California. Fascinated with perceptual phenomena and the idea that light itself can serve as both subject and material in art, Corse's practice can be seen as existing at ...

* Mandy El-Sayegh (since 2019) *

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* Shirazeh Houshiary *

Catherine Opie Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961) is an American fine-art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles. Opie studies the connections between mainstream and i ...

(since 2015) *

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* Helen Pashgian (since 2019) *

Lari Pittman Lari George Pittman (born 1952 in Glendale, California) is a Colombian-American contemporary artist and painter. Pittman is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Painting and Drawing at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Early life ...

(since 2019) * Alex Prager *

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* Patrick Van Caeckenbergh (since 2014) * Cecilia Vicuña *

Nari Ward Nari Ward (born 1963 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is an American artist based in New York City. His work is often composed of found objects from his neighborhood, and "address issues related to consumer culture, poverty, and race". He is a distingui ...

* Billie Zangewa (since 2020)

Other activities

* Edible Schoolyard NYC, Member of the Board * Perfect Earth Project, Member of the BoardRobin Pogrebin (August 12, 2016)
How David Maupin, an Art Dealer, Spends His Sundays
''The New York Times''.

Personal life

Maupin's partner is

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, the

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of the magazine '' W''; they met in 1987 when Maupin was studying in Florence.Ben Widdicombe (May 9, 2014)
Gatekeeper: W Magazine's Stefano Tonchi is Making Art and Fashion a Hot Mix
''The New York Observer''. The couple has twin daughters.Holly Brubach (April 19, 2019)
Inside a New York Family's Annabelle Selldorf-Designed Residence
'' Architectural Digest''. Since 2011, the family has been residing at

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, in a space designed by

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. They also maintain a weekend house in Bridgehampton.Kim Velsey (December 21, 2012)
Manhattan Transfers: Art World Hamptons House Swap Puts David Maupin in Janelle Reiring's Old Place
''The New York Observer''.

References

External links

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