Cheim & Read was founded in 1997 by John Cheim and Howard Read. The gallery actively represents an international group of leading contemporary artists and estates, embracing diverse artistic practices, from painting and sculpture to photography and video. Artists represented have exhibited extensively in museums and galleries world-wide, and are regularly included in exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Carnegie International and Documenta. Established in New York City’s Chelsea neighbourhood, Cheim & Read has an airy, 6,000 square foot building with multiple spaces, allowing for intimate or expansive exhibition formats.
Read MoreCheim & Read is characterised by its commitment to a rigorous curatorial model. It is known for critical monographic exhibitions, including comprehensive, museum-quality surveys of work by William Eggleston (21st Century), Lynda Benglis (New Work), Louise Bourgeois (Suspension), Joan Mitchell (Trees), Milton Resnick (The Elephant in the Room) and Al Held (The Alphabet Paintings). The gallery is also acclaimed for organising historically-significant group exhibitions, including The New Landscape/The New Still Life, an in-depth examination of Chaim Soutine’s influence on Modern art; The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, a show of women artists’ depictions of the female form; and I Am As You Will Be, a study of the skeleton and mortality in artistic representation.
The gallery publications complement our exhibition program. Carefully selected writers, poets and respected historians provide insight to the artist’s working process, resulting in exhibition catalogues that are not only beautifully designed and printed, but which add to the scholarship of contemporary artistic discourse.
Since its founding, Cheim & Read has also specialised in the resale of select works from the 20th century, including artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. Members of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the gallery subscribes to the highest standards of connoisseurship, professionalism and ethical practice, and offers an effective and confidential alternative for the transfer of important works of art from and on behalf of private individuals and institutions.
Ocula Photolog ADAA The Art Show 2020 Members of The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) joined forces for The Art Show at the end of February (27 February–1 March 2020). The 2020 iteration saw more than half of its presentations dedicated to a single artist and 19 exhibitions focused on female artists, in addition to vibrant thematic and group surveys.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel 2019 'The show's main sector comprises 232 of the world's leading galleries, showing painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video and editioned works of the highest quality. Art Basel's unique platform for projects that transcend the limitations of a traditional art-fair stand, is curated for the eighth and final year by Gianni...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Miami Beach 2018 'This year, over 200 of the world's leading international Modern and contemporary art galleries display artworks by over 4,000 artists, including paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, film, video, and digital art.' –Art Basel in Miami Beach (6–9 December 2018).
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Related Press Paper work – the British Museum shows off its collection of contemporary drawings 4 November 2019, Apollo Magazine Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter. These may not be names that spring to mind when you think of the British Museum, but they all have work filed away in its extensive archive of prints and drawings. 'Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now' lifts a lid on a lesser-known collection at a museum renowned...
Related Press Ron Gorchov: At the Cusp of the 80s, Paintings 1979–1983 1 November 2019, The Brooklyn Rail Eight of Ron Gorchov’s classic paintings on shields, executed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, are currently on view in the new uptown gallery of Cheim & Read. Two of them arch out vertically, while the others are horizontally oriented. None, needless to say, are either rectangular or flat. Like Gorchov, the European old masters painted on...
Related Press Jenny Holzer Hits Her Mark in a Major, Largely Unnoticed Retrospective 29 August 2019, Hyperallergic BILBAO, Spain — One of the strangest things about this exhibition is how invisible it is beyond Bilbao. How does it happen that a major artist like Jenny Holzer gets a major retrospective — the largest survey of her work to date — at a major museum like the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao but no catalogue is produced, and there is...
Related Video & Audio Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont — Jeremy Lewison in conversation with Angela Lampe 13 December 2018, Xavier Hufkens Jeremy Lewison, adviser to the Estate of Alice Neel, talks with Angela Lampe, curator of Modern Art at Centre Pompidou, on the occasion of the exhibition 'Alice Neel in New Jersey and Vermont' (26 October—15 December 2018).
Related Video & Audio TAL R : 17 December 2017, Louisiana Channel Shortly before he turned fifty, we had the unique pleasure of spending six months with Danish artist Tal R, while he was in the process of making his grand series of nine enormous railcar-paintings, 'Habakuk'. Watch the intimate and biographical film. A film by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc-Christoph WagnerCamera: Klaus Elmer Additional footage:...
Related Video & Audio INTERVIEW Academy of Tal R 14 November 2017, Elephant Academy of Tal R is the Israeli-born artist's largest exhibition to date, recently moving from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Tal R is also currently showing Sexshops at Victoria Miro in London. Here, the decidedly anti-academic artist discusses moving sculptures, keyholes and broken...
Related Video & Audio Tal R: Painting is like Free Falling 27 March 2017, Louisiana Channel 'Art is the only place I can bear disappointment,' says Danish artist Tal R, who paints sex shops and dreams of making a clay pigeon fly. Meet one of Denmark's leading painters in this engaging and humorous interview on the nature of art. Tal R was interviewed by Martin Krasnik at the Art Alive festival at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art...
