Danica Lundy, Monira Al Qadiri, and Cecilia Vicuña Sign to New Galleries
Galleries have gravitated towards women artists in the wake of Cecilia Alemani's female-focused exhibition The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Cecilia Vicuña, El Paro / The Strike (2018). Oil on linen. 137.2 x 161.3 x 2.5 cm. After the lost original 1977 work. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo: Matthew Herrmann.
White Cube today announced their representation of Brooklyn-based Canadian artist Danica Lundy, whose first exhibition with the gallery will take place in Bermondsey, London, from 8 July to 11 September.
Lundy adds to a long list of female artists who have signed to new galleries over the past month (including Jadé Fadojutimi, whose representation by Gagosian was announced just hours after this piece was first published).
Pace welcomed mid-career New York artist Kylie Manning, Thaddaeus Ropac will now represent Paris-based Chinese contemporary painter Han Bing in Europe and Korea, and Manjari Sharma, best known for her photographic series 'Darshan' (2011-2013) re-imagining of various Hindu deities, joined the newly established Houston-based Assembly.
König Galerie signed Berlin-based Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri, who is known for her sculptures and videos that critically examine the petro-culture of the Gulf States. Al Qadiri presented 3D-printed kinetic sculptures akin to oil drill-heads at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Another artist who showed in Venice, Chilean artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña, made one of the most notable moves this year, signing on with Brussels-based gallery Xavier Hufkens. She is co-represented by Lehmann Maupin, who signed the artist in 2018.
Vicuña's ascent has been especially significant given that she flew largely under the radar of the international art market for more than 40 years. Vicuña has found new-found acknowledgement recently including Spain's highest award for an artist, the Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas in 2019 and a nomination for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize.
'Her work responds to global issues that are particularly urgent today, a pertinence which is reflected in the institutional recognition she has earned so deservedly,' said gallery owner Xavier Hufkens.
The announcement of Cecilia Vicuña's representation by Xavier Hufkens followed the opening of her first show at the Guggenheim New York, Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene, from 27 May to 5 September 2022.
A year of recognition for the artist, Vicuña was also awarded the Golden Lion for Life-Time achievement at the Venice Biennale this year, and selected for the Hyundai Commission which will be shown at the Tate Modern from 13 October 2022 to April 16 2023.
'I am proud to begin working with such a vigorously sensitive, aware and singular artist as Cecilia', said Hufkens. The artist's first exhibition with the gallery will be in autumn 2023.
Among the most prominent male artist to change representation over the past month is African American abstract painter Stanley Whitney, who moved from Lisson to Gagosian. —[O]
