Elizabeth Dee Gallery

About

Contemporary art gallery presenting emerging and mid career artists, and developing their careers and a program of innovative cultural strategies.

Story

Elizabeth Dee opened her first gallery in 1997 at 118 Mercer Street, designed as an intimate space to create exhibitions and research. The gallery established its first public space in 2002 in Chelsea, introducing emerging and mid career artists, and developing their careers and a program of innovative cultural strategies that engaged the spaces between the museum, gallery and fair.

Since its inception, the gallery program has resulted in over 100 critically acclaimed exhibitions, publications and productions by contemporary artists responding to the changing landscape of contemporary art and larger culture. Dee has written, curated and spoken widely on the changing landscape of gallery practice and the art market.

In February 2016, the new gallery opened at its current location in Harlem, a landmark cultural site that was formerly the building of the original Studio Museum in Harlem, established in 1968. Next to the location is the original Black National Theatre, which has occupied the site since the 1960s.