The Monya Rowe Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in

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owned and curated by Monya Rowe.

History

Monya Rowe opened her first 200 square-foot contemporary art gallery on the south side of

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in 2003. The first exhibition was reviewed in ''

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'' by Roberta Smith where she called it "possibly the smallest white cube in the New York art world". The gallery has occupied locations in Chelsea, the

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and

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. The gallery has given many up-and-coming artists their first New York solo exhibition. Some artists include: Larissa Bates,

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, Josephine Halvorson, Vera Iliatova,

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, Devin Troy Strother and Ann Toebbe. Guest curators have included

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, Jose Lerma,

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and the filmmaker

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. In 2015,

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, Senior Art Critic at ''

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'', listed Ann Toebbe's solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery titled "Remarried" as one of "The 10 Best Art Shows of 2015" (December 9, 2015). After 12 years in NYC, the gallery relocated to

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in 2015. Holland Cotter of ''The New York Times'' reviewed the 2015 solo exhibition by Larissa Bates and noted the gallery's history: " ... This month, after more than a decade in New York, Monya Rowe will close her gallery and move it to St. Augustine, Fla. Originally in Brooklyn, then in Chelsea, and most recently on the Lower East Side, her gallery is one of a handful of independent-minded, tight-budget commercial spaces that function as alternatives to a corporatized art world mainstream". Monya Rowe Gallery received three consecutive New York Times reviews in 2015 for the exhibitions of Ann Toebbe, Vera Iliatova, and Larissa Bates. After two years in Florida, the gallery relocated back to Manhattan in 2018, where it is currently operating.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowe, Monya Art museums and galleries in New York (state) Art museums and galleries in Florida