David Maupin is an American art dealer. With Rachel Lehmann, he opened the Lehmann Maupin gallery in

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, in October 1996. Before opening Lehmann Maupin, Maupin was the director of

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Early life and education

Born in California, Maupin studied

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at the

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, and the

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. He studied in Florence during his university year abroad and completed an internship at the

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in Venice.James Imam (9 April 2024)
Lehmann Maupin to debut latest seasonal space in Milan
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Lehmann Maupin gallery

History

Lehmann Maupin gallery has organized and curated

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s for international contemporary artists working in all media. The gallery has given a number of artists their first one-person exhibitions in New York City, including

Kutluğ Ataman Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961 in Istanbul Turkey) is an acclaimed Turkish-American contemporary artist and feature filmmaker. Ataman's films are known for their strong characterization and humanity. His early art works examine the ways in which peo ...

Tracey Emin Dame Tracey Karima Emin (; born 3 July 1963) is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, Neon lighting, neon text ...

Anya Gallaccio Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a Scottish artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice). Her use of organic materials results in natural processe ...

, Shirazeh Houshiary,

Do-Ho Suh Do Ho Suh (; born 1962) is a South Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, Installation art, installation, and drawing. Suh is well known for re-creating architectural structures and objects using fabric in what the artist describes as an ...

, and

Adriana Varejão Adriana Varejão (born 1964, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist. She works in various disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. She was an artist-in-resident at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 20 ...

. In addition, the gallery has exposed emerging talents, such as Suling Wang,

Teresita Fernández Teresita Fernández (born 1968) is a New York City, New York-based visual artist best known for her public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Her work is characterized by a reconsideration of landscape and issues of visibility. Fern ...

, and the Japanese artist

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, through exhibitions at the gallery and participations in select art fairs. The gallery's first raw,

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-panelled space in Chelsea was designed by

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in 1996. It was a

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gallery located at 39 Greene Street (near Grand Street).Yoko Choy (March 15, 2013)
"OMA designs Lehmann Maupin's first Hong Kong gallery"
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''. In September 2002 the gallery moved to a bigger space, also located in Chelsea. A second New York gallery at 201

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opened in November 2007. In 2013, Koolhaas designed a gallery space in the historic Pedder Building in

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. The inaugural exhibition featured Korean artist Lee Bul. Ahead of the inaugural

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in 2013, Maupin joined the fair's selection committee. Lehmann Maupin launched its first Seoul outpost in the city's Sogyeok-dong neighbourhood in 2017, making it one of the first international galleries to establish a permanent space in South Korea. After four years, the gallery moved to a larger gallery in the

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area.Anny Shaw (November 18, 2021)
Lehmann Maupin gallery to move to larger space in Seoul’s Hannam-dong district, home to K-pop artists and movie stars
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''. Lehmann Maupin's current three-story gallery space, designed by Peter Marino, opened in Chelsea in September 2018. Shortly after, the gallery inaugurated its nearly black box space for film screenings. In 2019, Lehmann Maupin launched operations London before opening a space in the

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district in 2020. In addition, the gallery has had seasonal spaces in Aspen, Beijing, Palm Beach (2020), Taipei (2021) and Milan (2024).

Artists

Lehmann Maupin represents numerous living artists, including: * Hernan Bas * Loriel Beltrán (since 2023)Maximilíano Durón (14 February 2023)
Ahead of Frieze LA, Lehmann Maupin Takes on Loriel Beltrán, Abstract Artist on the Rise
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''. * McArthur Binion * Dominic Chambers (since 2021) *

Billy Childish Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper; 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer, and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing, and visual art. He has ...

Mary Corse Mary Corse (born 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Topanga, California. Fascinated with perceptual phenomena and the idea that light itself can serve as both subject and material in art, Corse's practice can be seen as existing at ...

* Mandy El-Sayegh (since 2019) *

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* Todd Gray * Shirazeh Houshiary * Kim Yun Shin *

Catherine Opie Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961) is an American fine art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Opie studies the connections between mainstream an ...

(since 2015) *

Tony Oursler Tony Oursler (born 1957) is an American multimedia and installation artist married to Jacqueline Humphries. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, in 1979. His art covers a range of med ...

Helen Pashgian Helen Pashgian (born 1934) is an American visual artist who lives and works in Pasadena, California. She is a primary member of the Light and Space art movement of the 1960s, but her role has been historically under-recognized. Education She ...

(since 2019) *

Lari Pittman Lari George Pittman (born 1952 in Glendale, California) is a Colombian-American contemporary artist and painter. Pittman is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Painting and Drawing at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Early life ...

(since 2019) * Alex Prager *

David Salle David Salle (born September 28, 1952; last name pronounced "Sally") is an American Postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and lives and works in East Hampton, New York. He earned a B ...

* Sung Neung Kyung (since 2023) * Do Ho Suh *

Patrick Van Caeckenbergh Patrick Van Caeckenbergh (born 1960) is a Belgian artist. Born in Aalst, East Flanders, he now lives and works in Gentbrugge, Belgium. Work Patrick Van Caeckenbergh has secluded himself from the outside world and as a hermit critically studies t ...

(since 2014) *

Cecilia Vicuña Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, dissolution, extinction and exile. Critics also note the relevance of her work to the politics of e ...

* Nari Ward * Billie Zangewa (since 2020) * Anna Park (since 2025) In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: * Ashley BickertonParra, Jamie, "Rachel Lehmann", ''Whitewall Magazine'', Fall 2008. * Heidi Bucher Artists with whom the gallery has worked in the past include: *

Lee Bul Lee Bul ( Korean: 이불; 李昢; born 1964) is a South Korean artist who works in various mediums, including performance, sculpture, installation, architecture, and media art. As curators such as Stephanie Rosenthal and art historians such as ...

(–2025)Alanna Martinez (April 24, 2015)
Photographer Catherine Opie Joins Lehmann Maupin Gallery
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Personal life

Maupin's partner is

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, the

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of the magazine '' W''; they met in 1987 when Maupin was studying in Florence.Ben Widdicombe (May 9, 2014)
Gatekeeper: W Magazine's Stefano Tonchi is Making Art and Fashion a Hot Mix
''The New York Observer''. The couple has twin daughters.Holly Brubach (April 19, 2019)
Inside a New York Family's Annabelle Selldorf-Designed Residence
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''. Since 2011, the family has been residing at Osborne Apartments, in a space designed by

Annabelle Selldorf Annabelle Selldorf (born July 5, 1960) is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf Architects, a New York City-based architecture practice. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and the recipient of the 2 ...

. They also maintain a weekend house in Bridgehampton.Kim Velsey (December 21, 2012)
Manhattan Transfers: Art World Hamptons House Swap Puts David Maupin in Janelle Reiring's Old Place
''The New York Observer''.Robin Pogrebin (August 12, 2016)

''The New York Times''.

References

External links

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