Metro Pictures was a

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founded in 1980 by Janelle Reiring (previously of Leo Castelli Gallery), and Helene Winer (previously of

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). It was located in

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until 1995 when it moved to Chelsea. The gallery closed in December of 2021.

Artists

Metro's opening group exhibition in 1980 included

Cindy Sherman Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often co ...

Robert Longo Robert Longo (born January 7, 1953) is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his ''Men in the Cities'' drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writ ...

Troy Brauntuch Troy Brauntuch (born 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American artist known for his association with the Pictures Generation, a group of artists who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s exploring the relationship between images, media, ...

Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein (September 27, 1945 – March 14, 2003) was a Canadian born, California and New York-based performance and conceptual artist turned post-conceptual painter in the 1980s. Early life and education Goldstein was born to a Jewish ...

Sherrie Levine Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston. Ea ...

, Laurie Simmons,

James Welling James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American artist, photographer and educator living in New York City. He attended Carnegie-Mellon University where he studied drawing with Gandy Brodie and at the University of Pittsburgh where ...

, and

Richard Prince Richard Prince (born August 6, 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. His image ''Untitled (Cowboy)'', a photographic reproduction of a photograph ...

. During the early and mid-1980s, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler,

Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German painter, draftsman, photographer, sculptor, installation and performance artist. He became known for his prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction, as w ...

, John Miller,

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 ...

, Walter Robinson, and Jim Shaw joined the gallery. Subsequent generations of artists included Gary Simmons,

Olaf Breuning Olaf Breuning (born February 16, 1970)SIK ISEAOlaf Breuning/ref> is a Swiss-born artist, born in Schaffhausen, who lives in New York City. Works *''Home 1/Home 2'' (2004/7) 30 minute video starring Brian Kerstetter. ''Home 1'' is presented as ...

, Andy Hope 1930, Andre Butzer,

Sara VanDerBeek Sara VanDerBeek (born 1976), is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for photographing sculptures and three-dimensional still-life assemblages of her own making, some of which she destroys after the photos have be ...

Tris Vonna-Michell Tris Vonna-Michell (born 1982) is a British artist who performs narratives and constructs installations through the layering of these narratives, photographs and mementos, presented using antiquated technologies and slide projection. Vonna-Michel ...

Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work covers mass surveillance and data collection. In 2016, Paglen won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and he has also won The Cultural Award from the ...

Camille Henrot Camille Henrot (; born 21 June 1978) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris and New York City. Early life and education Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris, France. She attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, École ...

, Sam Falls , Judith Hopf, and

Gretchen Bender Gretchen Bender (1951 in Seaford, Delaware – December 19, 2004 in New York City) was an American artist who worked in film, video, and photography. She was from the so-called 1980s Pictures Generation of artists, which included Cindy She ...

History

In 1996, Metro Pictures teamed up with two other galleries – Gladstone Gallery and

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– to acquire and divide up a warehouse at 515 West 24th Street. The space was renovated by

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in 2016. It closed in December 2021.Sarah Douglas (March 7, 2021)
Metro Pictures Gallery, Which Represents Cindy Sherman and Other Top Artists, to Close
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References

External links

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