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Expanding to Chelsea and London Installations, Activations, and Interactions The Maturing Program

The Maturing Program

The inaugural exhibition in each space sets the tone for the next decade; always artist-centric, the gallery's program developed and matured across the different locations.

The West 20th Street gallery is focused on artists' estates, staging museum-quality exhibitions of work by American minimalists like Dan Flavin and Fred Sandback and twentieth-century masters such as Josef Albers and Giorgio Morandi. 

Exhibitions at West 19th Street, New York, and 24 Grafton Street, London, balance the program's historical component with presentations of recent painting, photography, sculpture, and video, among other mediums, by boundary-pushing contemporary artists like Kerry James Marshall, Oscar Murillo, Diana Thater, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Jordan Wolfson.

While the initial decade in Chelsea included a number of important firsts for the gallery—including acclaimed solo exhibitions by Francis Alÿs, Michaël Borremans, Isa Genzken, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Al Taylor, and Lisa Yuskavage—David Zwirner continued to gain momentum in its next decade. In a 2013 profile, T: The New York Times Style Magazine noted that David Zwirner "was making news with staccato regularity, lining up new shows by heavyweight artists—Jeff Koons, Richard Serra and Yayoi Kusama. This recent burst of empire building has seemed to presage a reordering of the New York art-world firmament."

In 2012, the gallery held its first showcase of art created by the ever-expanding David Zwirner staff of art handlers, sales assistants, registrars, and photographers. People Who Work Here became a recurring opportunity to celebrate the dedicated team that supports the gallery's artists and programming.