Jeffrey Deitch (pronounced ''DIE-tch'';Mike Boehm (January 12, 2010)

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. He is best known for his gallery Deitch Projects (1996–2010) and curating groundbreaking exhibitions such as ''Lives'' (1975) and ''Post Human'' (1992), the latter of which has been credited with introducing the concept of "

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" to popular culture. In 2010, ''

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'' named him as the twelfth most influential person in the international art world. Deitch has been closely associated with artists such as

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, and

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. From 2010 to 2013, he served as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). He currently owns and directs Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, an art gallery with locations in

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and

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Early life and education

Deitch was born on July 9, 1952, and grew up in

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, where his father ran a heating oil and coal company and his mother was an economist.Carl Swanson (January 13, 2014)
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''. He attended public high school in

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, from 1967 to 1970. He was an exchange student in Paris in 1968, and in Japan in 1969. He graduated from

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in 1974 and received an

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from

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in 1978.

Career

Deitch opened his first gallery as a college student in 1972 at the Curtis Inn, a rented hotel parlor in

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, and sold out the first week. Fascinated by the work of Andy Warhol and other contemporary artists, he later moved to New York and worked as a receptionist at John Weber Gallery in

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.Randy Kennedy (June 30, 2010)
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''. From 1979 to 1988, Deitch helped develop and co-manage the art advisory and art finance department at

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. In this capacity, he lent money to major art collectors and facilitated loans to small galleries like

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for its 1984 renovation. Having become a regular at Warhol’s

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, Deitch also introduced Warhol to a number of wealthy clients to draw their portraits. In 2022, he appeared in the documentary series ''

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'' to discuss their friendship. Deitch was also a friend of and art dealer for

. He was the first dealer to buy a work by the artist and the first person to write about his work in print. He later delivered the eulogy at Basquiat's funeral and served on the artwork authentication committee for the artist's estate. From 1988 to 1996, Deitch was a successful private dealer and art adviser to a number of collectors, including

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. As advisor to Goldman Sachs for the public art in its 200 West Street New York headquarters in 2006, Deitch helped to realize

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's 80-foot-long work "Mural",Calvin Tomkins (March 29, 2010).
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. ''

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''. Retrieved 2017-08-04. described by one critic as "one of the largest and most successful public art works in recent times". In 1989, he bid US$10.5 million and paid $11.55 million for

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's silvery ''No. 8, 1950'', then a record at auction for a work by the artist and the second-highest price at auction for a work by any contemporary artist. In 2006, he bought

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's ''Untitled (Diagonal Curve)'' (1966), at

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for $2.1 million, nearly three times its $730,000 high estimate and also a record for the artist. Over his career, Deitch has crafted for himself a unique role that merges curatorial profile with the business side of art.

Curatorial projects

Since 1975, Deitch has curated exhibitions internationally. Among his most celebrated projects are ''Lives'' (1975), ''Born in Boston'' (1979), ''New Portrait'' (1984) at

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, and ''Form Follows Fiction'' (2001) at

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, Turin. Between 1988 and 2008, Deitch curated numerous shows at

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, Athens, including: *''Cultural Geometry'' (1988) *''Psychological Abstraction'' (1989) *''Artificial Nature'' (1990) *''Post Human'' (1992) *''Everything that’s Interesting is New'' (1996) *''Fractured Figure'' (2007-2008) In addition to Deste, Post Human was presented at five venues, including the Castello di Rivoli (Turin),

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(Hamburg), and

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(Jerusalem). Philosopher

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and others credit the show with introducing the term "

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" into the popular consciousness.Braidotti, Rosi. ''Feminismo posthumano''. Spain, GEDISA, 2022. In 1995, he wrote the strategic plan for the

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in Tokyo. His other curatorial projects have included the

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's ''Aperto'' (1993), ''City as Studio'' (K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2023), and ''Confluence'' (Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai, 2023), collaborating with poet

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on the latter. Deitch is known as an advocate for

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and has headed several influential public art projects with street artists. He initiated Wynwood Walls with Tony Goldman in Miami in 2009 and Coney Art Walls on

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in New York in 2015.

Art writing

In 1980, he became a regular columnist of ''

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'' and the first U.S. editor of ''Flash Art International''. His writings have appeared in numerous international magazines, including ''Art in America'', ''

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,'' ''Garage'', ''Interview'' magazine, ''Kaleidoscope'', ''Paper'' magazine, and ''Purple'' magazine.

Deitch Projects (1996–2010)

In 1996, Deitch opened Deitch Projects in

in New York City. He stated in a later interview that he was inspired by the example of Warhol's Factory to try to "create space for another generation of misfits." His first shows included works by

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, Jocelyn Taylor,

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, and

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. Soon after, he bought the building housing Canal Lumber, a bigger space around the corner on Wooster Street. The first major exhibition project there was of a

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video-and-slide-projection show in 1997. An early advocate of graffiti art in the 1980s, he later introduced New York to the style of

which had originated in San Francisco in the 1990s among artists on the fringe of the skateboard scene. Deitch became well known as a supporter of young artists like

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and

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, while also representing the work of more established artists like

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and

. In the 1990s, Deitch helped fund Koons' expensive “Celebration series” and also organized the artist’s 50th birthday party at his gallery. In conjunction with Creative Time and ''Paper Magazine'', Deitch Projects also organized SoHo's annual Art Parade, with over 1,000 participants from 2005 to 2008.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

In 2010, Jeffery Deitch was appointed Director to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), which was seeking to recover from low attendance and a near-bankruptcy following the

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. Before stepping into the new role, Deitch closed Deitch Projects and also resigned from the Basquiat authentication committee. During his three-year tenure, Deitch advised and curated seminal exhibitions such as ''Dennis Hopper: Double Standard'' (2010), ''The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol'' (2012) and '' Art in the Streets'' (2011), the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. In 2013, he helped organize a show by

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in which the artist collaborated with 1000 LA residents to fill an exhibition space with clay figures. Additionally, Deitch conceived MOCAtv, the first original

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dedicated to fine art. Deitch donated his after-tax salary back to the museum throughout his tenure. By 2012, Deitch's directorship led to what one commentator called a "cultural collision" between Deitch's more popular art tastes and MOCA's previous interests. Though Deitch was acknowledged to have boosted museum attendance to record levels, critics charged that MOCA's shows sometimes prioritized popular exhibits over artists who were well-known in the LA art scene or over more traditional scholarly concerns. In 2012, as the conflict grew, MOCA's board of trustees unanimously voted to ask for the resignation of its longtime chief curator

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, leading to the resignation of four artists on MOCA's board in protest. Deitch resigned from MOCA the following year.

Return to art dealing

In 2014, Deitch published ''Live the Art'' on the 15-year history of Deitch Projects. In 2015, he began hosting shows at 76 Grand Street in New York, one of his former gallery spaces. In July 2016, he reopened his Lower Manhattan gallery at 18 Wooster Street, the space he ran from 1996 to 2010 and rented out to the

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for the following five years. Deitch now runs the two spaces under Jeffrey Deitch Inc. Since reopening the gallery, Deitch has organized exhibitions by

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, Kennedy Yanko, and Walter Robinson, among others. Every year, during

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, Deitch's gallery collaborates with art dealer

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on a thematic exhibition. From 2015 to 2021, the exhibitions were housed in The Moore Building of Miami's Design District. In 2018, Deitch opened a new space in Hollywood, designed by

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, specifically to mount what he described as "museum-level" exhibitions. The gallery was inaugurated with a solo exhibition of

, followed by shows by

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, George Clinton, and

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, among others. The gallery has also organized large-scale thematic exhibitions such as ''Shattered Glass'' (curated by AJ Girard and Melahn Frierson, 2021), ''Clay Pop'' (curated by Alia Dahl, 2022), and ''Wonder Women'' (curated by Kathy Huang, 2023). In 2019, Deitch edited ''Unrealism'', a publication on new figurative painting featuring the most groundbreaking contemporary artists and their important predecessors. The following year, he conceived the creation of the Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA), to "generate excitement about the L.A. gallery scene" and shared his idea with a group of gallerists in Los Angeles. In May 2020, GALA launched galleryplatform.la, an online platform that serves the dynamic Los Angeles art community with editorial content and rotating online viewing rooms. In 2022, Deitch opened a second location in a historic building on

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, the former home of

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, a studio that recorded

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and

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, among others. Periodically, Deitch hosts artisan marketplaces in the back courtyard of his flagship Los Angeles location.

References

External links

* Maxwell Williams
"Inside and Out: Jeffrey Deitch's Life in the Art World"
''KCET Artbound'', 2019. * Deborah Vankin

''Los Angeles Times'', September 19, 2018. * Anna Louie Sussman
"How Jeffrey Deitch, Citibank, and Christo Created the Art Market as We Know It"
''

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'', July 30, 2017 * Donatien Grau
"Jeffrey Deitch"
'' Flash Art International'', October 3, 2014. * Carl Swanson
"Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World's Most Essential Zelig"
''

'', January 12, 2014. * Calvin Tomkins
"A Fool For Art. Jeffrey Deitch and the exuberance of the art market"
''The New Yorker'', November 5, 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Deitch, Jeffrey 1952 births American art dealers Art in Greater Los Angeles Directors of museums in the United States Harvard Business School alumni Living people Wesleyan University alumni People from Los Feliz, Los Angeles