Sean Kelly Gallery, founded in 1991 in

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by British-born Sean Kelly, represents established and mid-career artists, particularly with work based in installation and performance. Owner Sean Kelly began in the British museum world by curating shows by sculptors such as Richard Deacon and Anthony Gormley early in their career. He opened a place in

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, in 1995, with artists such as

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, James Casebere and

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History

The gallery was founded in 1991 and operated privately in

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, New York, until 1995. The original list of artists represented included

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, James Casebere,

and Julião Sarmento, who are still represented by the gallery. In 1995, the gallery relocated to a street-level space in SoHo. In 2001, Sean Kelly Gallery moved to 29th Street in the Chelsea gallery district. In 2012, it moved to a space in the new Hudson Yards neighborhood. The two story gallery was designed by architect

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. In 2018, Sean Kelly Gallery launched an initiative called Collect Wisely, an advertisement- and event-driven campaign aimed at reinvigorating the collectors’ interest in actual art, including ads placed in various publications (including the ''

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'') featuring phrases like “Will history remember you as an investor or a collector?” and a billboard near the gallery on 10th Avenue carrying the slogan “

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ship is not a dirty word.”M.H. Miller (1 May 2018)
At a New York Gallery, Confronting the Art World’s Existential Crisis
'' T: The New York Times Style Magazine''. Another element of Collect Wisely was a series of invite-only salons held at the gallery, where people from a variety of backgrounds — collectors, but also writers, musicians and scientists — gathered for dinner and to discuss art’s emotional, rather than

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, value. Also, Kelly launched the Collect Wisely

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, in which he talks one-to-one with collectors like Pamela Joyner and J. Tomilson Hill about the essential values of art, their reasons for collecting and their cultural passions. Also in 2018, the gallery opened a project space in

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.Maximilíano Durón (November 11, 2021)
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''. In 2021, Sean Kelly Gallery announced plans to open a space in the

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neighborhood of

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, again designed by Mori.John Chiaverina (September 6, 2018)
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Artists

Artists represented by the gallery include: In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: * Ilse D'Hollander *

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* Julião Sarmento

References

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