Watchlist: The Moving Pieces in Gallery Representation Ahead of Frieze New York

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As spring fair season approaches New York, art enthusiasts look to be united around the watersheds of Frieze New York, TEFAF, and more. Here at Ocula, we’ve kept tabs on the key changes at leading galleries so you can know what’s what and who’s where come May.

Nancy Graves Foundation has joined Perrotin. The gallery will open an exhibition of rare paintings and sculptures by American artist Nancy Graves (1939–1995) in New York from 23 April to 31 May.

A ‘groundbreaking’ voice of the late 20th century, Graves pushed boundaries of the different mediums she adopted, including sculpture, print-making, painting, and film, and at the age of 29 was the youngest artist to exhibit solo at Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969.

Dalton Paula has joined Lisson Gallery. The Brazilian artist, researcher, and educator will join Lisson Gallery in addition to current representation at Martins&Montero (São Paulo/Brussels) and Cerrado Galeria de Arte (Brasília/Goiânia).

Lisson Gallery CEO Alex Logsdail recalled being captivated by the artist’s work in São Paulo in a first encounter ten years ago: ’[Paula] has an innate ability to capture the soul of a subject with an immediacy that stops you in your tracks,’ he said.

An exhibition of Paula’s work is set to open at Lisson Gallery in New York this September.

Faith Ringgold‘s estate has joined Jack Shainman Gallery, alongside the artist’s Anyone Can Fly Foundation. The American artist (1930–2024), whose paintings, narrative quilts, and texts confronted Black stereotypes, had been represented by ACA Galleries in New York since 1995.

Ringgold launched Anyone Can Fly in 1999 to promote artists from the African diaspora and masters of African American art.

Gallery founder Jack Shainman said ‘Ringgold’s work touches on themes that continue to be relevant to our current social and political climates, perhaps more so now.’

The gallery have scheduled a presentation of her work at their new Tribeca headquarters for November.

Tatiana Trouvé has joined Xavier Hufkens. The Belgian gallery will join Gagosian in co-representing the French Italian artist, whose first solo exhibition with the gallery opens in Brussels in September of next year.

‘It’s a privilege to be joining a gallery whose vision and programme I have long admired,’ Trouvé said. ‘I am particularly excited to conceive a new exhibition for the St-Georges gallery space, whose architecture offers an inspiring new environment for my work.’

Venice’s Palazzo Grassi is currently showing a selection of Trouvé’s work through to 4 January 2026.

Hans Op de Beeck has joined Almine Rech. Founder Almine Rech said the Belgian artist’s ‘highly sophisticated practice creates a surreal liminal space, inviting the viewer to contemplate, reflect, and dream’.

The gallery will bring the multidisciplinary artist’s work to Art Brussels (24–27 April 2025) and Art Basel, Basel (19–22 June 2025), while his first solo exhibition with the gallery is scheduled to open at its Brussels site next year.

Jared Buckhiester has joined David Kordansky Gallery. The gallery will bring the American multimedia artist’s work to Art Basel in Switzerland this June and open his next exhibition at their New York site this November.

In its announcement, the gallery said Buckhiester’s process is led first and foremost by intuition.

‘Buckhiester’s works are exercises in repetitive expressions, yielding new and surprising outcomes with each gesture and each application of glaze, charcoal, or paint.’ —[O]

Main image: Nancy Graves filming Izy Boukir in Morocco, June 1970. Courtesy Nancy Graves Foundation, Inc. Photo: © David Anderson.