The beloved Jack Hanley Gallery in New York will close this month, marking its 37th anniversary, the gallery said late Tuesday.
Jack Hanley Gallery, currently located in Tribeca, first opened in Austin, Texas in 1987 as Trans-Avant Garde Gallery. Founding dealer Jack Hanley moved the gallery to San Francisco in 1990 and renamed it the current gallery. Briefly, Hanley was still running a space in Los Angeles during the 2000s.
Then, in 2008, the gallery closed its two spaces in California and moved again to New York, where it remained until the end.
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“We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of the extraordinary artists who have shared their artwork and vision with us over the years,” Hanley said in an emailed announcement of the gallery closing Tuesday night. “They are the foundation of this gallery and community, and it is truly a privilege to work with them.”
Hanley Gallery is characterized by its adventurous spirit. In the 1990s alone, his gallery held solo exhibitions for Zoe Leonard, Christian Marclay, Jack Pierson, Erwin Wurm and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Although all of these artists are household names today, they were still in the early stages of their careers when Hanley showed their work, and most had only had a few solo exhibitions.
“A lot of times I’m drawn to things that I want to solve or don’t quite understand—if I had it right away, I wouldn’t be as interested,” Hanley once told me. art space. “I like things that I need to try and sort out and see what it does to my mind, and I need to spend a month using or owning them.”
The gallery’s alumni list includes many other notable names. Bay Area giants such as Alicia McCarthy and Chris Johanson have exhibited at the gallery, as have photographers Torbjørn Rødland, sculptor Jonathan Monk Monk, conceptual artist Tauba Auerbach and painter Xylor Jane, among other unclassifiable figures, have also exhibited at the gallery.
In recent years, he has continued to showcase rising stars, with Margaret Lee, Amy Yao, Elizabeth Jaeger and Maia Ruth Lee among the Gallery exhibition. Hanley has never shied away from art that has been outright rejected by some, even staging Beeple’s first gallery show in 2022.
His current show at Ed Loftus closes on Saturday and will be the gallery’s last.
Hanley’s gallery now joins many others in New York that have closed this year. These galleries include David Lewis, Deli, Simone Subal, Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Helena Anrather.
