Lisson Gallery is a contemporary

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with locations in London and New York, founded by Nicholas Logsdail in 1967. The gallery represents over 50 artists such as

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, Ryan Gander, Carmen Herrera, Richard Long, John Latham,

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, Robert Mangold,

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, Julian Opie, Richard Wentworth, Anish Kapoor, Richard Deacon and

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.Colin Gleadell
"Art Sales: dealer who opened Saatchi's eyes"
on ''telegraph.co.uk'', 22 June 2009.

History

Lisson Gallery was founded in 1967 by former artist Nicholas Logsdail and Fiona Hildyard when they renovated three floors of a derelict space in Bell Street,

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, London. The opening exhibition in April 1967 was a group show of five young artists including

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and Keith Milow. It soon became one of a small number of pioneering galleries in the UK, Europe and the United States to champion artists associated with

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and Conceptual art. Within the gallery's first five years, it showed

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, Robert Ryman,

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, Mira Schendel,

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and

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.Josh Spero (9 June 2017)
Nicholas Logsdail on 50 years of pioneering artistic talent
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''. In the early seventies, Logsdail worked closely with Nicholas Serota when he was director of

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. In the 1980s, Logsdail exhibited many of the artists who came to be known under the term New British Sculptors, who came to maturity in the early-1980s. Lisson artists accounted for 14

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nominations between 1984 and 1999, five of whom — Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor,

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, Grenville Davey and Douglas Gordon — were winners. He is also said to have 'converted'

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to conceptual art. Lisson Gallery's London spaces were designed by Tony Fretton in 1986 and 1992. From 2011 until 2017, the gallery also operated a branch in

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, Italy.Nate Freeman (3 October 2017)
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''. Lisson Gallery opened its first office in New York in 2012. Alex Logsdail, the founder's son who had joined the gallery officially in 2009, took charge of its US expansion in 2016. A location in New York City opened in May 2016. The gallery, designed by StudioMDA and Studio Christian Wassmann, is a purpose-built space beneath the

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. An exhibition by Carmen Herrera inaugurated the New York space (May–June 2016). By 2020, the gallery expanded into the space adjacent to its outpost at 504 West 24th Street. Lisson Gallery opened a fifth location in Shanghai in 2019. It is located on Huqiu Road. In 2020, it opened a outpost in East Hampton.Rachel Spence (18 August 2020)
Lisson Gallery announces representation of US painter Van Hanos with Hamptons show
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''. Lisson Gallery operates an artists' retreat in a renovated

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factory on Lamu Island, Kenya. Lisson Gallery also opened a new space on Cork Street, London in October 2020. In 2021, the gallery operated a temporary space in the

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, China.

Artists

Among others, Lisson Gallery has been representing the following living artists: *

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limit ...

Gareth Harris (31 January 2017)
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''. *

* Kelly Akashi (since 2023) *

John Akomfrah Sir John Akomfrah (born 4 May 1957) is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in ...

* Allora & Calzadilla * Garrett Bradley * Daniel Buren * Ryan Gander *

Rodney Graham William Rodney Graham (January 16, 1949 – October 22, 2022) was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School. Early life Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on January 16, 1949. ...

* Van Hanos (since 2020) * Hugh Hayden (since 2018) * Carmen Herrera (since 2010) * Shirazeh Houshiary * Anish Kapoor * Lee Ufan * Liu Xiaodong (since 2012) * Otobong Nkanga (since 2023) * Dalton Paula (since 2025) *

Jack Pierson Jack Pierson (born 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Massachusetts) is an American photographer and an artist. Pierson is known for his photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His "Self-Portrait ...

(since 2022) * Laure Prouvost (since 2017) * Lucy Raven (since 2022) * Pedro Reyes * Sean Scully (since 2019) *

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Early life and education Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs ...

(since 2024) In addition to living artists, Lisson Gallery also handles the estates of the following: * Roy Colmer *

Susan Hiller Susan Hiller (March 7, 1940–January 28, 2019) was a US-born, British conceptual artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her practice spanned a broad range of media, including installation, video, photography, painting, sculpture, per ...

* Channa Horwitz * Sylvester Houédard * John Latham *

Hélio Oiticica Hélio Oiticica (; July 26, 1937 – March 22, 1980) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what ...

(since 2019) * Joyce Pensato (since 2014) * Leon Polk Smith (since 2017) * Fred Sandback * Ted Stamm (since 2017) * Laurence Weiner In the past, Lisson Gallery has represented the following: * Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (2014–) *

Mat Collishaw Matthew "Mat" Collishaw Royal Photographic Society#Distinctions and qualifications, Hon. FRPS (born 6 January 1966) is a contemporary British artist based in London. Work Collishaw's work uses photography and video. With an early foundati ...

(until 2000) *

Stanley Whitney Stanley Whitney (born 1946) is an American artist who primarily works in abstract painting and printmaking. Biography Stanley Whitney was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on November 11, 1946. The third of four children, his father was a real ...

(until 2022)

Notable exhibitions

, Han vases redecorated with industrial paint, 2011. * Richard Long, decorative walk, 2014. * Carmen Herrera, 2016.

References

External links

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