Exhibitions

Kathe Burkhart

9 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Since 1982, artist Kathe Burkhart’s ongoing conceptual project The Liz Taylor Series has mined a distinct terrain within the canon of feminist art merging provocative image and text to critique notions of gender, sexuality, power dynamics, and the body. Drawing on depictions of actress Elizabeth Taylor from film stills, publicity... Read more

Joel Mesler: The Rabbis

ADAA: The Art Show 2 - 5 Nov 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to present the work of the painter Joel Mesler at the upcoming ADAA Art Show, which will be held November 2 - 5, 2023 at the Park Avenue Armory, 67th Street and Park Avenue, New York. In January of this year, Cheim & Read presented... Read more

Sean Scully

Jack the Wolf 26 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of Sean Scully’s drawings from Jack the Wolf, an extraordinary and deeply personal project that the artist made in collaboration with his young son, Oisin. The suite of drawings will be gathered together and published as a children’s book in October... Read more

Maureen Dougherty

Borrowed Time 11 Jul - 16 Sep 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Maureen Dougherty: Borrowed Time, an exhibition of new work by the Manhattan-based painter and filmmaker. The show will open on July 11, 2023, at the gallery’s Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street, and run through September 16. This is the artist’s first solo... Read more

Dear Louise

A Tribute To Louise Fishman (1939 – 2021) 18 May - 30 Jun 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Dear Louise: A Tribute To Louise Fishman (1939 - 2021) an exhibition of paintings spanning four decades of the artist’s career. The show will open on May 18 at the gallery’s Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street, New York, and run through June... Read more

Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

18 Apr - 21 Jul 2023 Read more

Peter Shear

Following Sea 23 Mar - 13 May 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Following Sea, an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Shear, whose work was recently featured in Regarding Kimber, the gallery’s homage to the painter Kimber Smith. The show will open on March 23, 2023, at the gallery’s Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street,... Read more

Joel Mesler

The Rabbis 26 Jan - 8 Apr 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Joel Mesler: The Rabbis, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper. The show will open on January 26, 2023, at the gallery’s Upper East Side location, 23 East 67th Street, and run through April 8. With The Rabbis, Joel Mesler takes... Read more

Cumwizard69420

The Americans 12 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to present two new exhibitions, Diane Arbus: Untitled and Cumwizard69420: The Americans, at the gallery’s Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street, New York. The shows open on January 12, 2023, and run through March 18. The Americans is Cumwizard’s first solo exhibition in New York.... Read more

Diane Arbus

Untitled 12 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to present two new exhibitions, Diane Arbus: Untitled and Cumwizard69420: The Americans, at the gallery’s Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street, New York. The shows open on January 12, 2023, and run through March 18. Writing about the Diane Arbus retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

29 Nov - 3 Dec 2022 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 with a presentation of works by Donald Baechler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Barry McGee, Joan Mitchell, Marco Pariani, Serge Poliakoff, Kimber Smith, Pat Steir, and... Read more

Regarding Kimber

17 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Regarding Kimber, a group exhibition curated by Jay Gorney. The exhibition, which will include more than 20 works by eight artists, marks the centenary of the forward-looking abstract painter Kimber Smith (1922–1981) by exploring the impact of his practice on contemporary art. The... Read more

Lynda Benglis: Lagniappe

ADAA: The Art Show 2 - 8 Nov 2022 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Lynda Benglis: Lagniappe Series, a group of mixed media sculptures, at this year’s edition of The Art Show, which will take place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, November 3 - 6, 2022. “Lagniappe” is a regional term from the... Read more

Ron Gorchov

Watercolors 1968 – 1980 29 Sep - 14 Jan 2022 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Ron Gorchov: Watercolors 1968 - 1980, an exhibition of intimate, revelatory works by one of the most influential painters of the past half-century. The show will open on September 29th at the gallery’s Upper East Side location, 23 East 67th Street, and run... Read more

Marco Pariani

Trees and Traditions 15 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Marco Pariani: Trees and Traditions, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by the Brooklyn-based, Italian-born artist. The show will open on September 15, 2022, at the gallery’s Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street in Manhattan, and run through November 12. This is... Read more

Ron Gorchov

Independent 20th Century 8 - 11 Sep 2022 “To me there is no past or present in art,” Pablo Picasso famously declared in 1923. “If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all.”1 There is no past or present for Ron Gorchov either, an artist whose work looks in... Read more

Summer Hours

21 Jun - 23 Sep 2022 Read more

Art Basel

14 - 19 Jun 2022 Cheim & Read is delighted to participate in the 2022 edition of Art Basel with a presentation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Gorchov, Bill Jensen, Joan Mitchell, Marco Pariani, Serge Poliakoff, Ad Reinhardt, Kimber Smith, and Matthew Wong. Read more

Matthew Wong

The New World, Paintings from Los Angeles 2016 9 May - 10 Sep 2022 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Matthew Wong: Paintings from Los Angeles 2016, which will open on May 4 and run through September 10 at the gallery’s Chelsea location. This is Wong’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, which follows Matthew Wong: Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013–2017... Read more

Some People

24 Feb - 4 Jun 2022 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Some People, a thematic group exhibition that explores portraiture from the 1930s to the present day, and features over thirty artists. The show opens on Thursday, February 24, and will remain on view through June 4 at the gallery’s uptown location, 23 East... Read more

Bill Jensen

Stillness/Flowing 20 Jan - 23 Apr 2022 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Stillness/Flowing, an exhibition of new paintings by Bill Jensen. The exhibition will run from January 20 through April 23, 2022, at the gallery’s Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street in New York. We will host an opening day on Thursday January 20 from... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

30 Nov - 14 Feb 2021 Cheim & Read is delighted to particiapte in this year's Art Basel Miami Beach with a presenation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Bill Jensen, Chantal Joffe, Jonathan Lasker, Barry McGee, Alice Neel, Marco Pariani, Jack Pierson, Kimber Smith, and Matthew Wong. Read more

Marco Pariani

ADAA: The Art Show 3 - 7 Nov 2021 Cheim & Read will present new paintings by Marco Pariani at ADAA The Art Show, opening November 3, 2021. This will be the artist's second solo presentation with the gallery. Marco Pariani is an Italian artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. After regularly visiting Brooklyn starting in 2016, Pariani... Read more

Milton Resnick

Paintings 1954–1957 26 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Milton Resnick: Paintings 1954 – 1957 23 East 67 Street New York, NY 10065 October 26 - December 17, 2021 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Milton Resnick: Paintings 1954 - 1957. The show opens on October 26 and runs through December 17 at the gallery’s uptown location, 23... Read more

Art Basel

22 - 26 Sep 2021 We are happy to be reunited with our colleagues and clients from around the world here at Art Basel for the first time since lockdown. Our presentation this year includes works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Bill Jensen, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Marco Pariani, Jack Pierson, Sean Scully,... Read more

Ron Gorchov

The Last Paintings 2017-2020 14 Sep - 18 Dec 2021 Ron Gorchov: The Last Paintings 2017–2020 547 West 25 Street New York, NY 10001 September 14 - December 18, 2021 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Ron Gorchov: The Last Paintings, 2017-2020, an exhibition of the works executed in the final four years of the artist’s life. It will... Read more

Serge Poliakoff

Gouaches 1938 - 1969 20 May - 25 Sep 2021 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Serge Poliakoff: Gouaches 1938–1969, an exhibition devoted to the works on paper of the Russian-born painter who lived and worked in Paris. This show follows the survey of Poliakoff’s work held at the gallery in 2016, which was the artist's first solo exhibition... Read more

Matthew Wong

Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013–2017 5 May - 3 Sep 2021 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Matthew Wong: Footprints in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013–2017, an exhibition of ink drawings on rice paper. These works represent some of the late Canadian artist’s very first efforts in painting. The exhibition opens on May 5 and runs through September 3, 2021,... Read more

Marco Pariani

19 Feb - 30 Apr 2021 Cheim & Read will present an exhibition of new paintings by Marco Pariani in collaboration with The Journal Gallery, opening February 19. Marco Pariani is an Italian artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. After regularly visiting Brooklyn starting in 2016, Pariani decided to permanently relocate in 2019. The artist... Read more

Lynda Benglis

Early Work 1967 – 1979 8 Oct - 23 Dec 2020 A major exhibition presented by Cheim & Read and Ortuzar Projects brings together work that proved crucial to the development of Lynda Benglis’s practice during her first decade in New York. Three concurrent exhibitions will be on view in Tribeca and the Upper East Side. Lozenge-shaped wax paintings are juxtaposed... Read more

At Dawn

10 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door, Or has it Feathers, like a Bird, Or Billows, like a Shore — - Emily Dickinson Cheim & Read will open a group exhibition, At Dawn, on Thursday, September 10, which will feature the work of Lynda Benglis, Ron... Read more

Kimber Smith

Paintings 1965-1980 5 Mar - 4 Sep 2020 Cheim & Read presents Kimber Smith, Paintings: 1965 – 1980, the gallery’s first exhibition with the artist, and his first exhibition in the US since 2011. Kimber Smith (USA; born 1922 Boston, MA; died 1981 Southampton, NY) ​had his first exhibition at The New Gallery, New York, in 1951, where... Read more

Alice Neel

ADAA The Art Show 27 Feb - 1 Mar 2020 Cheim & Read will present a group of important historical works by Alice Neel, with a focus on her early work from 1928 — shortly after her move from Havana to New York and the tragic death of her first, infant daughter in 1927 — through 1973. Though active and... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

5 - 8 Dec 2019 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2019 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach with a presentation of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Gorchov, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Serge Poliakoff, Sean Scully, Pat Steir, Juan Uslé, and Matthew Wong. Read more

In Honor of the New MoMA

21 Nov 2019 - 20 Feb 2020 In October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, reopened its doors after a significant renovation that included a complete overhaul to the presentation of its permanent collection. In an attempt to recontextualize art-historically important works with recent and previously overlooked art, the museum transformed how their collection had... Read more

Ron Gorchov

At the cusp of the 80s, paintings 1979–1983 26 Sep - 16 Nov 2019 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition of its new East 67th Street location, Ron Gorchov: at the cusp of the 80s, paintings 1979–1983. It will open on September 26, 2019, and run through November 16, accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Thomas Micchelli. This... Read more

Art Basel

13 - 16 Jun 2019 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2019 edition of Art Basel with a presentation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Gorchov, Hans Hartung, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Serge Poliakoff, Sean Scully, and Juan Uslé. Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

6 - 9 Dec 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2018 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach with a presentation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Milton Resnick, Sean Scully, and Juan Uslé. Read more

Louise Bourgeois

Spiral 8 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Louise Bourgeois: Spiral, the gallery’s ninth solo exhibition devoted to the artist’s work. The show will explore the range of Bourgeois’ spiral motifs as expressed in sculpture, painting, and drawing, from the early 1950s through 2010, the year of her death. It also... Read more

Joan Mitchell

Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953–1962 6 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce its next exhibition, Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953–1962, which explores a crucial decade in the artist’s early career. It is the ninth solo show that the gallery has devoted to Mitchell’s paintings and drawings, and the nineteenth... Read more

All over the moon

Laurel Sparks, Lily Stockman, Richard Tinkler. Curated by Jack Pierson 12 Jul - 30 Aug 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to present All over the moon curated by Jack Pierson, an exhibition showcasing the work of three abstract painters: Laurel Sparks, Lily Stockman, and Richard Tinkler. The show opens on Thursday, July 12, and runs through August 30. The paintings of Sparks, Stockman, and Tinkler... Read more

Art Basel

14 - 17 Jun 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2018 edition of Art Basel with a presentation of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Lynda Benglis, Louise Fishman, Jenny Holzer, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Jack Pierson, Serge Poliakoff, Sean Scully, and Juan Uslé. Read more

Al Held

Paris to New York 1952–1959 17 May - 6 Jul 2018 Cheim & Read and Nathalie Karg Gallery are pleased to present Al Held: Paris to New York, 1952−1959, an exhibition of experimental works in pigment and wax that anticipate the painter’s well-known, epic-scaled geometric abstractions. Following exhibitions devoted to the Alphabet Paintings (1961−1967); Armatures (1953−1954); and Black and White Paintings... Read more

Frieze New York

3 - 6 May 2018 A focus of our presentation will be a new suite of drawings by Tal R entitled : a ship called New York. The drawings in the new suite, executed in crayon, ink, acrylic and oil on paper, primarily in tones of blue, merge a vision of the open sea with... Read more

Ghada Amer

5 Apr - 12 May 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent painting and sculpture by Ghada Amer. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, with an essay by Jenni Sorkin. This is Amer’s fourth solo show with the gallery. Many of Amer’s paintings make art historical references in subversive... Read more

Jack Pierson

Independent Art Fair 8 - 11 Mar 2018 Cheim & Read will present works in various media from the early nineties by Jack Pierson at the 2018 Independent Art Fair. Centered on the iconic 1990 sculpture, Diamond Life, the presentation will focus on Pierson’s study of his personal, quotidian routine, and a poetic suggestion “that someone was just... Read more

Lynda Benglis: Sparkle Plenty

ADAA: The Art Show 28 Feb - 4 Mar 2018 For the ADAA’s The Art Show, Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Lynda Benglis. The title of the new series, Sparkle Plenty, comes from the name of a character in the Dick Tracy comic strip. Since the 1960s, Benglis (b. 1941) has been... Read more

Milton Resnick

Boards 1981–1984 22 Feb - 31 Mar 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Milton Resnick: Boards 1981–1984, an exhibition of thickly painted, mostly monochromatic works that Resnick made during the 1980s on wax-impregnated, corrugated boards. The show will open on February 22 and run through March 31, accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Geoffrey... Read more

Barry McGee

4 Jan - 17 Feb 2018 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Barry McGee, which will open on January 4, 2018, and run through February 17, accompanied by a catalogue with essay by Katya Tylevich. This is the artist’s second show with the gallery. Barry McGee is an artist... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

7 - 10 Dec 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2017 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach with a presentation of works by Ghada Amer, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Adam Fuss, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Milton Resnick, Sean Scully, and Juan... Read more

Donald Baechler

2 Nov - 23 Dec 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Donald Baechler, which will open on November 2 and run through December 23, and be accompanied by a catalogue with essay by Phoebe Hoban. This is the artist’s seventh solo show at the gallery, where he also... Read more

Lynda Benglis: Defining Post-Minimalism, 1968–1990

Frieze Masters, Regent’s Park, London 5 - 8 Oct 2017 Cheim & Read and Thomas Dane Gallery are pleased to announce a survey of important works by Lynda Benglis to be presented at Frieze Masters, Regent’s Park, London, October 5–8, 2017. In the late 1960s, Benglis rejected the formalist precepts of Clement Greenberg and Donald Judd to produce a form... Read more

Louise Fishman

7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Fishman. It will open on September 7 and run through October 28, accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Aruna D’Souza. This is the artist’s eighth solo exhibition at the gallery. Fishman’s art has always... Read more

The Horizontal

6 Jul - 31 Aug 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce The Horizontal, a group exhibition exploring the poetics of the horizon in abstract art. The show will feature an intergenerational selection of 21 artists, from modern masters to emerging talent, with works dating from 1937 to today. It will open on July 6... Read more

Art Basel

15 - 18 Jun 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2017 edition of Art Basel with a presenation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Serge Poliakoff, Milton Resnick, Sean Scully, and Juan Uslé. Read more

Chantal Joffe

25 May - 30 Jun 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by the American-born British painter Chantal Joffe. The show will open on May 25 and run through June 30. With influences ranging from Piero della Francesca to Edgar Degas and Francis Bacon, Joffe has based her work on... Read more

Frieze New York

5 - 7 May 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to particpate in the 2017 edition of Frieze New York with a presentation of works by Ghada Amer, Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, Jack Pierson, Tal R, and Juan Uslé. Read more

SP-Arte

São Paulo International Art Festival 6 - 9 Apr 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the São Paulo International Art Festival with a presentaiton of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, and Joan Mitchell. Read more

Sean Scully

Wall of Light Cubed 30 Mar - 20 May 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Sean Scully, which will open on March 30, 2017, and run through May 20. In this show, Scully underscores the interplay between his two-dimensional and three-dimensional work, employing an expansive array of forms and... Read more

Bill Jensen: Dark Paintings

ADAA: The Art Show 1 - 5 Mar 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Hushed Mountains, a new suite of paintings by Bill Jensen, at the 2017 edition of ADAA: The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Jensen’s Hushed Mountains, which belong to the artist’s acclaimed series of “dark paintings,” are inspired... Read more

Ron Gorchov

16 Feb - 25 Mar 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Ron Gorchov, which will open on February 16, 2017, and run through March 25. With this exhibition, Gorchov continues his “Arguments with Rectangles, Flatness and Dimension,” to invoke the title of a series of works he made... Read more

Louise Bourgeois

Holograms 5 Jan - 11 Feb 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Louise Bourgeois: Holograms, the first exhibition devoted exclusively to this little-known aspect of the artist’s long, groundbreaking career. In 1998 Bourgeois was approached by C-Project, a New York-based fine arts holographic studio (the C stands for the speed of light) dedicated to exploring... Read more

Tal R

Keyhole 5 Jan - 11 Feb 2017 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Tal R: Keyhole, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by the Copenhagen-based artist. The show will open on January 5, 2017, and continue through February 11. This is the third solo exhibition of Tal R’s work at the gallery. Several years ago,... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

1 - 4 Dec 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2016 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach with a presenation of works by Ghada Amer, Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Chantal Joffe, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Jack Pierson,... Read more

Joan Mitchell

Drawing into Painting 27 Oct - 23 Dec 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Joan Mitchell: Drawing into Painting, a survey of works on canvas and paper from 1958 through 1992, the year of the artist’s death. The exhibition, which will open on October 27, 2016, and run through December 23, will be accompanied by a catalogue... Read more

Lynda Benglis

New Work 8 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Lynda Benglis: New Work, an exhibition opening on September 8, 2016, and running through October 22. A catalogue will be available with an essay by Nancy Princenthal. This is Benglis’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Since the 1960s, Lynda Benglis has been celebrated... Read more

The Female Gaze, Part Two

Women Look at Men 23 Jun - 2 Sep 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to present, The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, a group exhibition of thirty-two women artists, and their variegated portrayals of men, curated by John Cheim. The Female Gaze, a two-part exhibition at Cheim & Read, presents works by women that directly address... Read more

Art Basel

16 - 19 Jun 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2016 edition of Art Basel with a presentation of works by Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Ron Gorchov, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Serge Poliakoff, and Sean Scully. Read more

Sean Scully

Circa 70 20 May - 1 Jul 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Sean Scully: Circa 70. This is a unique opportunity to view a little seen but surprisingly relevant body of work in a unique setting, a raw industrial space in Ridgewood, Queens. The space is in keeping with the itinerant, at times hardscrabble circumstances... Read more

Juan Uslé

Membrana Porosa 5 May - 18 Jun 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Membrana Porosa, an exhibition of recent paintings by Spanish artist Juan Uslé. Uslé has been showing with Cheim & Read since 1997; his last exhibition with the gallery was in 2011. Continuity and discontinuity, light and shadow, material and illusion are the drivers... Read more

Frieze New York

5 - 8 May 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in Frieze New York with a presentation of works by Ghada Amer, Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Barry McGee, Serge Poiliakoff, Tal R, and Juan Uslé. Read more

Serge Poliakoff

Curated by Joe Fyfe 31 Mar - 30 Apr 2016 Cheim & Read gallery is pleased to present a survey of paintings by one of the foremost post-war European abstractionists, the Russian-born Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969). At a moment when the accepted canon of abstract painting is in radical revision, an encounter with the work of Poliakoff is the best kind... Read more

Ron Gorchov

ADAA: The Art Show 1 - 6 Mar 2016 For the ADAA’s The Art Show, Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new, multi-paneled, “stacked” paintings by Ron Gorchov. Gorchov (b. 1930) has been steadily creating finely nuanced, unpredictably spatial paintings for over 50 years. He first developed his unique, saddle-like stretchers in the late 1960s... Read more

Al Held

Black and White Paintings 18 Feb - 26 Mar 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to present eight monumental black and white paintings, dating from 1967 to 1969, Al Held (1928–2005). An exhibition of Held’s “Alphabet Paintings,” made between 1961 and 1967, was exhibited at the gallery in 2013. This exhibition focuses on the unique series of paintings Held began... Read more

Jonathan Lasker

7 Jan - 13 Feb 2016 Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work, including a series of black and white drawings, by Jonathan Lasker. Lasker’s previous show with the gallery, comprised of early work (1977–1985), was in 2012. The current exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

3 - 6 Dec 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2015 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach with a presenation of works by Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Chantal Joffe, Jonathan Lasker, Barry McGee, Joan Mitchell,... Read more

Donald Baechler

Early Work 1980 to 1984 24 Nov - 30 Dec 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of Donald Baechler’s early paintings and collages on paper. These works represent the genesis of the artist’s iconic vocabulary of symbols and techniques. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by David Rimanelli. Between 1980 and 1984,... Read more

Paris Photo 2015

12 - 15 Nov 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2015 edition of Paris Photo with a presenation of works by Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Adam Fuss, and Jack Pierson. Read more

Louise Fishman

22 Oct - 21 Nov 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Fishman. The work will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Alex Greenberger. Her last show with the gallery was in 2012. Brushed, scraped, layered and smeared, the dynamic surfaces of Louise Fishman’s paintings... Read more

Frieze London

14 - 17 Oct 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to particiapte in Frieze London with a presentation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Gorchov, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Jack Pierson, Bernard Piffaretti, and Tal R. Read more

Adam Fuss

λόγος 10 Sep - 17 Oct 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by Adam Fuss. His previous solo show with the gallery was in 2010. Born in London in 1961, Fuss has lived in New York for over thirty years. Known for his experimental work with the earliest photographic techniques,... Read more

Jack Pierson

onthisisland 25 Jun - 28 Aug 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce its sixth exhibition by the artist Jack Pierson. This will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery in six years. Opening to the public on June 25, the show will remain on view through August 29 and will be accompanied by a... Read more

Art Basel

18 - 21 Jun 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2015 edition of Art Basel with a presenation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Al Held, Jenny Holzer, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, and Sean Scully. Tal R's photo installation GARBAGE MAN is featured at Art Unlimited. Read more

Chantal Joffe

Night Self-Portraits 14 May - 20 Jun 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of recent self-portraits by British painter Chantal Joffe. This is Joffe’s third show at the gallery. It will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by Louise Yelin. Using, Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Chantal Joffe will open at the... Read more

Frieze New York

14 - 17 May 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2015 edition of Frieze New York with a presentation of works by Ghada Amer, Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Ron Gorchov, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Barry McGee, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Pat Steir, and... Read more

Bill Jensen

Transgressions 9 Apr - 9 May 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Bill Jensen. Jensen, who turns 70 this year, has been represented by the gallery since 2007. Bill Jensen’s paintings are the result of experimental, unpredictable, and sometimes years-long journeys. Striving for an ego-less, unpretentious practice devoid of... Read more

Al Held: Armatures 1953-1954

ADAA: The Art Show 4 - 8 Mar 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of six large-scale paintings on paper by Al Held, dating from 1953–54, and shown for the first time in public in this exhibition. In the artist’s collection through his lifetime, these paintings comprise a pivotal and formative series in Held’s body... Read more

Sean Scully

Landline 18 Feb - 4 Apr 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Landline, an exhibition of eight new paintings by the Irish-born American artist Sean Scully. Begun in 2013, Scully’s Landline series resonates with newfound urgency and freedom. Thick horizontal bands of subtly-layered color provide his compositions with rhythmic pulse, while the interactions between striations... Read more

Tal R

Altstadt Girl 15 Jan - 14 Feb 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Copenhagen-based artist Tal R. This is his second exhibition with the gallery; the first was in 2012. The show will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with a story by Gary Indiana. For the past... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

4 - 7 Dec 2014 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2014 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach with a presentation of works by Ghada Amer, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Pat Steir, Tal R, and Juan Uslé. Read more

Louise Bourgeois

Suspension 30 Oct 2014 - 10 Jan 2015 Opens Thursday October 30, 2014 from 6-8 pm Exhibition continues through January 10, 2015 Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of hanging works by renowned French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with a text by Robert Pincus-Witten. The sculptures... Read more

Frieze Masters

15 - 19 Oct 2014 Cheim & Read is pleased to make a special presention of William Eggleston’s Troubled Waters portfolio at Frieze Masters. The portfolio is comprised of 15 dye-transfer prints published in 1980 at the end of the artist’s most prolific decade. Troubled Waters’ title was suggested by the first image in the... Read more

Jenny Holzer

Dust Paintings 11 Sep - 25 Oct 2014 Opens Thursday September 11, 2014 from 6-8 pm Exhibition continues through October 25 Cheim & Read is pleased to present Dust Paintings, an exhibition of recent painting by Jenny Holzer. A catalogue with an essay by the poet Henri Cole accompanies the exhibition. Jenny Holzer has used government documents as... Read more

Art Basel

19 - 22 Jun 2014 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in the 2014 edition of Art Basel with a presentation of works by Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Gorchov, Jenny Holzer, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Tal R, and Sean Scully. Read more

Joan Mitchell

Trees 15 May - 29 Aug 2014 Opens Thursday May 15, 2014 from 6-8 pm Exhibition continues through August 29 Cheim & Read, in cooperation with the Joan Mitchell Foundation, is pleased to announce an exhibition of seven large-scale canvases by celebrated painter Joan Mitchell (1925–1992). The show is accompanied by a full color catalogue with an... Read more

Frieze New York

9 - 12 May 2014 Cheim & Read is pleased to participate in Frieze New York with a presentation of works by Ghada Amer, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Al Held, Chantal Joffe, Gaston Lachaise, Jonathan Lasker, Barry McGee, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Tal R, and Juan Uslé. Read more

Ghada Amer

Rainbow Girls 3 Apr - 10 May 2014 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent painting and sculpture by Egyptian-born, New York artist Ghada Amer. The show will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue, with an essay by the French art historian Anne Creissels. Ghada Amer is well known for brightly-colored, embroidered “paintings” in... Read more

Gaston Lachaise and Louise Bourgeois: A Juxtaposition

ADAA: The Art Show 5 - 9 Mar 2014 For the 2014 ADAA The Art Show, Cheim & Read will present an exhibition juxtaposing two French-born sculptors of the twentieth century, Gaston Lachaise and Louise Bourgeois. Both artists moved to New York; Lachaise in 1912 and Bourgeois in 1938, and demonstrated through their art, obsessive interests in sexuality and... Read more

Pat Steir

20 Feb - 29 Mar 2014 Opens Thursday February 20, 2014 from 6-8 pm Exhibition continues through March 29 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by New York painter Pat Steir. The show is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by Raphael Rubinstein. Pat Steir is known for... Read more

Lynda Benglis

16 Jan - 15 Feb 2014 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new ceramic works by Lynda Benglis. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1941, Lynda Benglis moved to New York City in the late 60s. Her early, ground-breaking work – landscape-like, sculptural installations of poured polyurethane foam and latex – confronted... Read more

Sean Scully

Night and Day 30 Oct 2013 - 11 Jan 2014 Opens Wednesday October 30, 2013 from 6-8 pm Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Irish-born American artist Sean Scully. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by John... Read more

Barry McGee

12 Sep - 26 Oct 2013 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Barry McGee. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. It will also be his first in New York in 8 years. Born in 1966, Barry McGee is arguably the most well-known and influential of... Read more

Reinventing Abstraction

Curated by Raphael Rubinstein 27 Jun - 30 Aug 2013 This exhibition focuses on New York abstraction in the 1980s as practiced by a generation of painters born between 1939 and 1949. Official accounts of the 1980s—the decade when most of these artists either emerged or solidified their approaches—tend to ignore the individualistic abstraction exemplified by these painters in favor... Read more

Jannis Kounellis

2 May - 22 Jun 2013 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Greek-born, Italian artist Jannis Kounellis. This exhibition incorporates the themes and concerns of Kounellis's best known work, while also reacting to and engaging with the gallery as a unique space. Kounellis's last gallery show with Cheim &... Read more

Al Held

Alphabet Paintings 1961–1967 28 Feb - 20 Apr 2013 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of seven monumental paintings, dating from 1961–67, by New York painter Al Held (1928–2005). Curated from several private collections, the show presents a unique opportunity to see first-hand the geometric, “hard-edge” works that defined Held’s artistic output for almost a decade.... Read more

McDermott & McGough

Suspicious of rooms without music or atmosphere 17 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of painting, sculpture and works on paper by the collaborative duo McDermott and McGough entitled Suspicious of rooms without music or atmosphere. The show will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue. David McDermott and Peter McGough (born 1952 and 1958 respectively)... Read more

Don Bachardy

Portraits From a Canyon: Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s selected by Jack Pierson 17 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of a suite of drawings by Don Bachardy: Portraits From a Canyon: Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s. The show was selected by Jack Pierson. Born in Los Angeles in 1934, Don Bachardy attended UCLA, the Chouinard Art Institute, Los... Read more

Tal R

1 Nov - 22 Dec 2012 Reception Thursday November 15 from 6 to 8 pm Exhibition continues through January 12, 2013 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Tal R. This is his first exhibition with the gallery. The show will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay... Read more

Louise Fishman

13 Sep - 27 Oct 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by New York painter Louise Fishman. The show will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by Judith Stein. Known for gestural abstractions characterized by unique intersections of color and space, Fishman has long recognized the... Read more

Bianca Casady

Daisy Chain 28 Jun - 8 Sep 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by multi-media artist Bianca Casady. The show will present installation works, drawings, collages, photographs, audio and projected video works. Casady’s recent group of works address ideas of gender and race, especially as they are played out in prison.... Read more

Alex Van Gelder

Line of Inquiry 28 Jun - 8 Sep 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by photographer Alex Van Gelder. Van Gelder’s most recent photographic series is a meditation on death, disintegration, and decay. In subtly toned platinum prints, he takes as his subject matter glass-printed sepulchral portraits found on gravestones, mausoleums, and... Read more

Chantal Joffe

4 May - 23 Jun 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by British painter Chantal Joffe. This is Joffe’s second solo show in New York; her first was also with the gallery. Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe received an undergraduate degree at Glasgow School of Art (the school was... Read more

Ron Gorchov

29 Mar - 28 Apr 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Ron Gorchov, curated by Phong Bui. Born in Chicago in 1930, Ron Gorchov has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1950s. Following a first solo show at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery... Read more

Lynda Benglis & Adam Fuss: Knots and Entrails

ADAA: The Art Show 7 - 11 Mar 2012 For their ADAA booth this year, Cheim & Read is pleased to present a two-person exhibition: “Benglis/Fuss: Knots and Entrails.” Lynda Benglis (knots) and Adam Fuss (entrails) are thematically united by the organic nature of their imagery and their intuitive juxtaposition of the erotic and visceral. Though emerging from distinctly... Read more

Jonathan Lasker

Early Works 23 Feb - 24 Mar 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to present an exhibition of early work by New York painter Jonathan Lasker. The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977–1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker’s methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language. His consistent, critical questioning of the painting... Read more

Bill Jensen

12 Jan - 18 Feb 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Bill Jensen. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1945, Bill Jensen has lived and worked in New York since the early 1970s, and was one of the first artists to establish a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He came... Read more

Joan Mitchell

The Last Paintings 3 Nov 2011 - 4 Jan 2012 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of late paintings by Joan Mitchell. The show brings together 13 works, dating from 1985–1992, that represent Mitchell’s exploration of painting in the last decade of her life. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with a text by Richard... Read more

Milton Resnick

The Elephant in the Room, Paintings from the 1960s to 1980s 22 Sep - 29 Oct 2011 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by the late Milton Resnick. The gallery has been the exclusive representative of the artist’s estate since 2006. Cheim & Read’s previous exhibition of Resnick’s paintings was in 2008 and focused on works from 1959-1963. This show looks to... Read more

The Women in Our Life

A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition 30 Jun - 17 Sep 2011 In celebration of our fifteenth anniversary, Cheim & Read is pleased to announce a group exhibition of the women artists with whom they work: Ghada Amer, Diane Arbus, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Jenny Holzer, Chantal Joffe, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel and Pat Steir. John Cheim and Howard Read... Read more

Louise Bourgeois

The Fabric Works 12 May - 25 Jun 2011 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of works in fabric by Louise Bourgeois. Dating from 2002 – 2010, Bourgeois’s fabric “drawings” - assembled from discarded clothes, sheets, towels and similar material from her personal collection - became a central focus in the last decade of her life.... Read more

Juan Uslé

Desplazado (Displaced) 31 Mar - 7 May 2011 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce “Desplazado” - an exhibition of recent paintings by Spanish artist Juan Uslé. Uslé has been showing with Cheim & Read since 1997; his last exhibition with the gallery was in 2008. Uslé’s abstractions are evocative of the colors, light and space of his... Read more

Pat Steir

Winter Paintings 17 Feb - 26 Mar 2011 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Pat Steir. The show is accompanied by a full color catalogue with essays by Kay Larson and Matthew Israel. Steir’s last show with Cheim & Read was in 2007. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1940, Pat... Read more

McDermott & McGough

Of Beauty and Being 7 Jan - 12 Feb 2011 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the collaborative artists McDermott & McGough. Their previous show with Cheim & Read was in 2008. David McDermott and Peter McGough (born 1952 and 1958), are known for their creative appropriation of different historical eras and styles.... Read more

Ghada Amer

100 Words of Love 7 Jan - 12 Feb 2011 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the exhibition of a new sculpture in the gallery's dome room, by Ghada Amer, entitled 100 Words of Love, 2010. The piece is comprised of one hundred Arabic words for love. Calligraphic inter-twining of letters creates an open, lace-like lattice form around a... Read more

Hans Hartung

The Last Paintings 1989 29 Oct - 30 Dec 2010 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce a landmark exhibition of Hans Hartung’s late paintings, dating from 1987–1989. This is the first showing of Hartung’s works in New York since his controversial 1975 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and focuses on the artistic output of his last years... Read more

From a collection of Abstract Works on Paper 1941-1971

29 Oct - 30 Dec 2010 WILLIAM BAZIOTES LOUISE BOURGEOIS WILLEM DE KOONING ARSHILE GORKY ADOLPH GOTTLIEB HANS HARTUNG LEE KRASNER YAYOI KUSAMA JOAN MITCHELL ROBERT MOTHERWELL JACKSON POLLOCK RICHARD POUSETTE-DART MILTON RESNICK MARK ROTHKO DAVID SMITH MARK TOBEY CY TWOMBLY Read more

Adam Fuss

Home and the World 9 Sep - 23 Oct 2010 Opening Reception 16 September from 6 to 8 pm Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Adam Fuss. The show is accompanied by a full color catalogue with essays by Joseph Koerner and Mark Siegeltuch. Fuss’s previous show with the gallery was in 2003.... Read more

Le Tableau

French Abstraction and its Affinities curated by Joe Fyfe 24 Jun - 3 Sep 2010 LE TABLEAU In Achim Hochdörfer's article in the February 2009 Artforum entitled 'A Hidden Reserve: painting from 1958 to 1965,' the author names a number of painters included in this exhibition, 'Whose practices are rich with implication.' Le Tableau, continuing the conversation begun by Hochdörfer, attempts to expand his time... Read more

Ghada Amer

Color Misbehavior 6 May - 19 Jun 2010 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Ghada Amer. This is Amer's first solo show with the gallery. It will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an interview by Maura Reilly. Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 to a diplomat... Read more

Donald Baechler

New Work 2 Apr - 1 May 2010 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Donald Baechler. Baechler's previous solo show with the gallery was in 2006. Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956 and currently lives and works in New York City. His work... Read more

Bill Jensen

18 Feb 2010 - 27 Mar 1010 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Bill Jensen. The show is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by David Hinton, a prominent scholar and respected translator of Chinese poetry. This is Jensen's second show with the gallery; his... Read more

William Eggleston

Twenty-First Century 7 Jan - 13 Feb 2010 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce two concurrent photography exhibitions featuring, respectively, a selection of rarely shown photographs by Diane Arbus and new work by William Eggleston. The installation of Arbus's work, shown here under the title In the Absence of Others, brings together a group of photographs of... Read more

Diane Arbus

In the Absence of Others 7 Jan - 13 Feb 2010 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce two concurrent photography exhibitions featuring, respectively, a selection of rarely shown photographs by Diane Arbus and new work by William Eggleston. The installation of Arbus's work, shown here under the title In the Absence of Others, brings together a group of photographs of... Read more

Lynda Benglis

New Work 19 Nov 2009 - 2 Jan 1010 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Lynda Benglis, including large-scale bronze wall-hangings cast from urethane foam over wire, as well as free-standing non-objective sculptural forms. A refinement of Benglis's post-minimalist aesthetic, this body of work represents a synthesis of the artist's critical sensibility... Read more

Jack Pierson

Abstracts 8 Oct - 14 Nov 2009 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of abstract sculpture by multi-media artist Jack Pierson. Pierson's last exhibition with the gallery was in 2006. Most recently, his show, 'Abstracts,' was on view at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, from June 19 to September 27, 2009. Jack Pierson... Read more

Abstractions by Gallery Artists

24 Sep - 3 Oct 2009 Works by Ghada Amer, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Jenny Holzer, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Milton Resnick, Pat Steir, and Juan Usle will be included. Read more

The Female Gaze

Women Look at Women 25 Jun - 19 Sep 2009 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce a group exhibition of women artists depicting the female form. With this premise, the show seeks to present a collection of works which reclaim the traditional domination of the 'male gaze' and reorient the significance of the female figure to allow for more... Read more

Chantal Joffe

7 May - 20 Jun 2009 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by British painter Chantal Joffe. This is Joffe's first solo show with the gallery. Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe studied at Glasgow School of Art and in 1994 received her master's degree from the Royal College of Art,... Read more

Louise Fishman

26 Mar - 2 May 2009 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Fishman. This is Fishman's fifth solo show with the gallery; her previous exhibition was in 2006. Now seventy years old, Fishman is from a generation of artists that includes Brice Marden (age 70), Mary Heilmann (age... Read more

Paul Morrison

12 Feb - 21 Mar 2009 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by London-based artist Paul Morrison. Morrison is best known for boldly graphic, black-and-white landscape paintings, wall drawings, sculpture and animations. His work incorporates found imagery culled from various pictorial genres and different time periods, such as Disney cartoons,... Read more

Don Bachardy

Christopher Isherwood; Last Drawings 6 Jan - 7 Feb 2009 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings by Los Angeles painter Don Bachardy. The show intimately documents the last six months of esteemed writer Christopher Isherwood's life. Barchardy's long-time partner, Isherwood died of prostate cancer in 1986. Bachardy is well-known for portraits of artists, musicians. writers... Read more

Joan Mitchell

Sunflowers 4 Nov - 20 Dec 2008 Cheim & Read in cooperation with the Joan Mitchell Foundation is pleased to announce Joan Mitchell Sunflowers, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the artist. The earliest date from the late 60s and culminate with large diptychs painted the year before Mitchell died in 1992. The show... Read more

Louise Bourgeois

Echo 9 Sep - 1 Nov 2008 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent sculptures and gouaches by Louise Bourgeois. The show is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with writings by the artist. Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and has lived in New York since 1938. Her prolific career has spanned,... Read more

"I Won't Grow Up"

Curated by Beth DeWoody and Donald Baechler 26 Jun - 29 Aug 2008 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce I WON'T GROW UP, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler. The exhibition will present works in various media by a variety of artists that embrace a child-like sensibility. These artists, gaining inspiration from childhood, incorporate compositional elements which are evocative of... Read more

Milton Resnick

A Question of Seeing: Paintings 1958-1963 1 May - 20 Jun 2008 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings, made between 1958 and 1963, by New York painter Milton Resnick (1917 – 2004). This is Cheim & Read's first exhibition of Resnick's work since obtaining exclusive representation of his estate in 2006. The extraordinary group of paintings brings... Read more

McDermott & McGough

Because of Him 21 Mar - 26 Apr 2008 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of painting and sculpture by the collaborative duo McDermott & McGough. Their last show with Cheim & Read was in 2006. A full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with an essay by Wayne Koestenbaum. David McDermott and Peter McGough, born 1952 and... Read more

Juan Uslé

Brezales 7 Feb - 15 Mar 2008 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by the Spanish artist Juan Uslé. The show is accompanied by a full color, limited edition catalogue with an essay by John Yau. Juan Uslé has been showing with Cheim & Read since 1997; his last exhibition with... Read more

The Sum of its Parts

8 Jan - 2 Feb 2008 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce a group exhibition of works by a diverse selection of artists, all of whom create artworks configured from multiple parts, sequences or series. Artists included in the show are Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Teresita Fernandez, Adam Fuss, Gilbert & George, Jenny Holzer, Roni... Read more

Art Basel Miami Beach

Hall A Booth D 8 6 - 9 Dec 2007 Read more

Pat Steir

9 Nov - 22 Dec 2007 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Pat Steir. The show is accompanied by a full color catalogue with an essay by the poet Anne Waldman. Pat Steir was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1940. She had her first solo exhibition at Terry... Read more

FIAC Art Fair

Grand Palais Booth C 53 18 - 22 Oct 2007 Cheim & Read will be exhibiting works by Louise Bourgeois and Joan Mitchell at this year's FIAC Art Fair in Paris. Read more

I Am As You Will Be

The Skeleton in Art 20 Sep - 3 Nov 2007 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce I Am As You Will Be, a group exhibition of more than thirty works which incorporate the skeleton as subject. Curated in part by the James Ensor scholar Xavier Tricot, the wide range of artists include Francis Alÿs, Donald Baechler, Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel... Read more

Lynda Benglis Louise Bourgeois Circa 70

21 Jun - 31 Aug 2007 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce Circa 70, an exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois and Lynda Benglis. The show focuses back to the late 1960s and early 70s, repositioning the contemporary viewer to sculptural work by the two still celebrated and active women artists. Both Bourgeois and Benglis... Read more

Joan Mitchell

A Survey of Works on Paper 1956–1992 10 May - 16 Jun 2007 Cheim & Read, in cooperation with the Joan Mitchell Foundation, is pleased to announce a comprehensive survey exhibition of Joan Mitchell's works on paper from 1956 to 1992. The show, unique in its scope and focus, is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by John Yau. It is... Read more

Jonathan Lasker

29 Mar - 5 May 2007 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce their first exhibition of paintings by Jonathan Lasker. Born in 1948 in Jersey City, New Jersey, Lasker attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and CalArts in Valencia, California in the late 1970s. He has shown regularly since the early 1980s.... Read more

Bill Jensen

5 Feb - 24 Mar 2007 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce their first exhibition of paintings by Bill Jensen. The show is accompanied by a full color, limited edition catalogue with an essay by John Yau. Over his thirty-year career as an abstract painter, New York artist Bill Jensen has been described with adjectives... Read more

John Sonsini

10 Jan - 10 Feb 2007 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the gallery's first exhibition of work by Los Angeles painter John Sonsini. The show is accompanied by a color catalogue with an essay by Jeffrey D. Grove. John Sonsini is best known for his lushly painted portraits of Latino day laborers, which investigate... Read more

Jannis Kounellis

8 Nov - 6 Jan 2006 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce their first exhibition of works by Jannis Kounellis. Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece in 1936. He moved to Rome in 1956, where he became a defining member of what came to be known as the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s.... Read more

Donald Baechler

14 Sep - 28 Oct 2006 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Donald Baechler. New York painter Donald Baechler has steadily sustained a successful career as one of the more respected artists of his generation. Born in Connecticut in 1956, Baechler studied art in both New York... Read more

Soutine and Modern Art

The New Landscape, The New Still Life 22 Jun - 9 Sep 2006 Willem de Kooning chose Chaim Soutine as his 'favorite artist,' one whose paintings 'had a glow that came from within.' Jack Tworkov spoke of 'his [Soutine's] completely impulsive use of pigment as a material, generally thick, slow-flowing and viscous, with a sensual attitude toward it, as if it were the... Read more

Jenny Holzer

Archive 12 May - 17 Jun 2006 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Jenny Holzer presented in collaboration with Yvon Lambert New York. The exhibition at Cheim & Read will consist of Holzer's 2005 and 2006 series of oil on linen paintings and a single, large-scale LED (light emitting diode)... Read more

Jack Pierson

Melancholia Passing into Madness 30 Mar - 6 May 2006 MELANCHOLIA PASSING INTO MADNESS March 30 to May 6, 2006. Opening Reception: Thursday, March 30, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Jack Pierson. This is Pierson's third exhibition at Cheim & Read, his last was in 2003. Jack Pierson... Read more

Louise Fishman

15 Feb - 25 Mar 2006 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings (dated 2003 - 2005) by Louise Fishman. This is Fishman's third exhibition with Cheim & Read; her previous show at the gallery was in 2003. A full-color catalogue is available, with an essay by David Deitcher. Louise Fishman's... Read more

McDermott & McGough

A True Story Based on Lies 12 Jan - 11 Feb 2006 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by McDermott & McGough. A full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with an essay by Robert Rosenblum. David McDermott (born 1952) and Peter McGough (born 1958) met in the in the notorious East Village art scene of the 1980s,... Read more

Andy Warhol

The Late Male Nudes 25 Oct - 17 Dec 2005 Cheim & Read, in cooperation with Anthony d'Offay, is pleased to announce an exhibition of Andy Warhol's photographs of the male nude from the years 1982 to 1987. In addition, Warhol's 1964 film, 'Blow Job' will be shown in the gallery's side exhibition space. The exhibition is accompanied by a... Read more

Lynda Benglis: The Graces

Monique Prieto: New Paintings 10 Sep - 19 Oct 2005 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Monique Prieto. 'As her paintings of the last decade bear evidence, Prieto rejects not only the possibility of a form/content split, but of a favored imbalance. Abstraction and representation cohabitate and co-depend in her works, which reveal... Read more

William Eggleston: Nightclub Portraits, 1973

Marvin Israel (1924-1984): Black Paintings 28 Jun - 3 Sep 2005 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of Nightclub Portraits from 1973 by William Eggleston. These large-scale black and white photographs are being shown for the first time and represent a unique project for Eggleston. Walter Hopps writes that the portraits were taken 'with an unusual 5 x... Read more

Joan Mitchell

Frémicourt Paintings 1960–62 10 May - 25 Jun 2005 After moving to Paris in 1959 Joan Mitchell began painting in a studio on the rue Fremicourt. This exhibition will feature major paintings created from 1960-62 borrowed from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and private collections. The following are excerpts from Klaus Kertess' catalogue essay that accompanies the show. In 1960,... Read more

Pat Steir

Moons and a River 31 Mar - 7 May 2005 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Pat Steir. Pat Steir had her first one-person exhibition at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York in 1964 and has been showing nationally and internationally since that time including participation in several Whitney Biennials and Venice... Read more

Jean-Michel Basquiat

In Word Only 17 Feb - 26 Mar 2005 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, 'IN WORD ONLY.' The exhibition presents paintings, drawings, and notebooks that feature only Basquiat's written words. The artist is well know for large, colorful works dense with gesture, collage, figures, symbols, and words; but this... Read more

Donald Baechler

Sculpture 13 Jan - 12 Feb 2005 The American artist Donald Baechler, who was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1956, is widely considered one of the most interesting painters of his generation. In addition to paintings, his oeuvre includes drawings, collages and, increasingly since the mid-80s, sculptures. His repertoire of motifs is to be found dispersed across... Read more

Louise Bourgeois

The Reticent Child 21 Oct - 31 Dec 2004 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Louise Bourgeois entitled 'The Reticent Child.' The exhibition takes its title from the sculpture 'The Reticent Child' that Louise Bourgeois created for the Freud Museum in Vienna in 2003 and is being shown in New York for... Read more

Richmond Burton

8 Sep - 16 Oct 2004 To open the fall season, Cheim & Read will present an exhibition of new paintings by Richmond Burton. This will be Burton's first New York show since his 2001, when he exhibited his exuberant series of paintings, 'I Am,' at Cheim & Read. Though some paintings in the forthcoming show... Read more

I Am the Walrus

Curated by Jan Avgikos 10 Jun - 31 Jul 2004 Featuring the work of Vito Acconci, Donald Baechler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ashley Bickerton, Olaf Breuning, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Roni Horn, Michael Hurson, Martin Kippenberger, Sean Landers, Tony Matelli, Dan McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, McDermott & McGough, Anna Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Aura Rosenberg, Ugo Rondinone, David Salle, Cindy... Read more

Paul Morrison

14 Apr - 20 May 2004 'Drawing on plant imagery from popular and classical references, Morrison's breathtaking compositions produced by eliminating color, leave the viewer to project their own associated vision onto the canvas, utilizing 'color from behind the eye'. Morrison's films combine heavily modified footage from a number of different sources that are manipulated to... Read more

Lynda Benglis

A Survey: Sculpture 1969 to 2004 3 Feb - 3 Apr 2004 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce a survey of sculpture by Lynda Benglis from the mid-sixties to the present. A color catalogue with an essay by critic and curator Richard Marshall will accompany the exhibition. Arriving on the New York art scene in the late sixties with her poured... Read more

William Eggleston

Precolor: The Black and White Pictures 8 Jan - 21 Feb 2004 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of black and white photographs taken from 1960 to 1974 by William Eggleston. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1939, Eggleston became seriously interested in photography in the early 1960's. Although he would ultimately be celebrated for his breakthrough work in color,... Read more

Jack Pierson

20 Nov 2003 - 3 Jan 2004 Cheim & Read announces a new exhibition by Jack Pierson, his third at the gallery. The themes of his work – sex, drugs, and the vicissitudes of longing in general – are broadcast in words and phrases formed by variously sized and styled letters from defunct movie houses, bars and... Read more

Adam Fuss

16 Oct - 15 Nov 2003 Cheim and Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Adam Fuss, the artist's first solo New York show since 1999 and his second at the gallery. The exhibit will feature large pigment prints-solemn, darkly luminous human-sized blow-ups of butterfly chrysalides that recall sarcophagi. The theme of... Read more

Alessandro Raho

New Paintings 10 Sep - 11 Oct 2003 Cheim & Read is pleased to open the fall 2003 season with an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Alessandro Raho. This will be Raho's first show with Cheim & Read, and his first in New York since his debut exhibition here in 1996. The exhibition will open on... Read more

Simple Marks

23 Jul - 2 Sep 2003 Cheim and Read is pleased to announce a summer group exhibition 'Simple Marks' including work by Richmond Burton, Louise Bourgeois, Lynda Benglis, Louise Fishman, Joe Fyfe, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Bernard Piffaretti, Pat Steir, Cy Twombly, Juan Usle, Claude Viallat, and Otto Zitko. The exhibition examines work by artists who... Read more

Jeff Perrone | Rene Ricard

27 May - 18 Jul 2003 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Jeff Perrone and Rene Ricard. Born in 1953, Jeff Perrone works at the intersection where West African fabric, Indian miniature color, and Southwest Native American form flow into abstract painting. Perrone combines, transposes, and joins together the materials,... Read more

Louise Fishman

22 Apr - 24 May 2003 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Louise Fishman. Born in Philadelphia in 1939, Fishman has had two previous exhibitions at this gallery. As Tom Breidenbach writes in the essay that accompanies the exhibition: 'In her latest series of monumental oil paintings... Read more

Donald Baechler

18 Mar - 19 Apr 2003 Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956, Donald Baechler has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and has shown extensively and internationally since his first one-person exhibition at Artists Space in 1980. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum... Read more

Ingo Meller | Otto Zitko

11 Feb - 15 Mar 2003 Ingo Meller was born in 1955 in Cologne, Germany and continues to live and work there. He studied at the Fachhochschule in Cologne between 1976 and 1980 and has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States since 1985. First brought to wide public attention in 1987 by his participation... Read more

Dona Nelson

Tactile Image 7 Jan - 8 Feb 2003 Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Dona Nelson has lived and worked in New York since 1968. Throughout a career spanning several decades, Nelson has been steadfastly occupied with the exploration of a painting's ability to embody the nature of experience – be it visual, emotional, or intellectual. In her latest... Read more

Saint Clair Cemin: WIND | Monique Prieto: New Paintings

19 Nov 2002 - 4 Jan 2003 Monique Prieto was born in 1962 in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works. Her last exhibition in New York was at the Pat Hearn Gallery in 1998. Prieto is widely regarded as one of the most influential younger painters working today – her abstract paintings are admired for... Read more

Bettina Rheims: Chambre Close | Lynda Benglis: Quartered Meteor 1969

15 Oct - 16 Nov 2002 Bettina Rheims was born in Paris in December 1952. After working in galleries, as a model, and later as a journalist, Rheims began her career as a photographer in the late 1970s by taking black and white pictures of striptease and circus artists. In Chambre Close, 1991 – never before... Read more

Claude Viallat

12 Sep - 12 Oct 2002 Born in Nimes, France in 1936, Claude Viallat last exhibited in New York in 1982 at the Leo Castelli Gallery. He attended the Ecole de Beaux Arts de Montpellier in the South of France (1955-1959) and the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris (1962-63); His first solo show was in... Read more

Joan Mitchell

The Presence of Absence: Selected Paintings 1956–1992 20 Jun - 18 Aug 2002 The exhibition will feature ten major paintings, ranging in date from 1956 to 1992, and is timed to coincide with both the ten-year anniversary of her death, and the forthcoming Retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Chicago in 1926, Mitchell graduated from the School of... Read more

Juan Uslé

30 Apr - 15 Jun 2002 Born in Santander, Spain in 1954, he first exhibited in New York in 1989 at the Farideh Cadot Gallery. This will be his third presentation at Cheim & Read. He lives and works in New York City and in Santander, Spain. Featured in the new exhibition are a group of... Read more

Pat Steir

26 Mar - 27 Apr 2002 Born in 1940, Pat Steir had her first one-person exhibition at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York in 1964 and has been showing nationally and internationally since that time including participation in several Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennales and Documenta IX. In these new works Steir continues to explore the... Read more

Saint Clair Cemin

12 Feb - 23 Mar 2002 Working in a variety of materials (bronze, hydrocal, clay, marble, wire mesh, wood, paint), in various sizes (from the very small to the very big), techniques (carving, chiseling, casting), styles (from the figurative to the abstract), and across a wide spectrum of history (from the primitive to the Classical, from... Read more

Bernard Piffaretti

8 Jan - 9 Feb 2002 Bernard Piffaretti was born in 1955 in Saint Etienne, France, and has exhibited regularly in France and abroad since 1983. This will be his first solo show in New York. Piffaretti defines his work as a rigorous exploration into the implications and dynamics of the painting process itself. His radical... Read more

Louise Bourgeois

2001 20 Nov 2001 - 5 Jan 2002 If as Bourgeois has said 'my sculpture is my psychoanalysis', her recent sculptural output continues the transposition of the psychological exploration of the self from the 'father' to the 'mother'. This profound shift in Bourgeois's sculptural exorcism is expressed in new typologies of form from the large steel images of... Read more

Jenny Holzer

OH 12 Oct - 17 Nov 2001 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the relocation of the gallery to 547 West 25th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues), New York City. The inaugural exhibition, which opens on October 16, presents new work by artist Jenny Holzer in her first New York gallery show since 1994. Cheim... Read more

Liquid Properties

Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Richmond Burton, Adam Fuss, Mary Heilmann, David Hines, Gary Hume, Dona Nelson, Jack Pierson, Pat Steir, Juan Usle 6 Jul - 3 Aug 2001 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the group exhibition Liquid Properties The exhibition examines the formal and metaphorical qualities of liquid as it: becomes hard in the work of Lynda Benglis; is caught in an Adam Fuss; responds to gravity in a Richmond Burton, Mary Heilmann and Pat Steir;... Read more

Richmond Burton

I Am Paintings 25 Apr - 30 Jun 2001 A Few Remarks on Richmond Burton's I AM Paintings. By Dominique Nahas The eighteenth - century critic Jean Francois Marmontel described the thin line which separates the sublime from the ridiculous, as an essence which is often at the very limit of taste. It is the sensation that we feel... Read more

William Eggleston

1 Mar - 14 Apr 2001 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographic works by William Eggleston. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1939, Eggleston began experimenting with color photography in the late 1960's as a means to record experience in more accurate and sensual terms than traditional black and white. This... Read more

Dona Nelson

Twelve Stations of the Subway 10 Jan - 24 Feb 2001 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Dona Nelson. Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Dona Nelson has lived and worked in New York since 1968. The group of paintings to be shown are collectively titled The Twelve Stations of the Subway and were recently presented... Read more

Jack Pierson

2 Nov 2000 - 6 Jan 2001 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Jack Pierson. Born in 1960, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, this will be the artist's second presentation at the gallery. Pierson's art is concerned with the grand themes of life-love, pain, desire, memory and mortality. He works in a... Read more

Louise Fishman

New Paintings 15 Sep - 21 Oct 2000 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Fishman. The following paragraphs are excerpted from the catalog essay, 'Why There Are Great Women Artists,' by John Yau: Louise Fishman was born in 1939, and is part of the generation that includes Robert Mangold (b.1937)... Read more

Opulent

Lynda Benglis, Richmond Burton, Saint Clair Cemin, Beatriz Milhazes, Chris Ofili, Jeff Perrone, Philip Taaffe, and Juan Uslé 14 Jun - 1 Sep 2000 In contrast to the current fascination with media-based social realism, irony, and illustration, in all their various guises, Cheim & Read is pleased to propose an alternative, the group exhibition, Opulent. Focusing on a recent trend in contemporary art that revels in optical beauty, richness of color, and depth of... Read more

Robert Mapplethorpe

Autoportrait Polaroids 1972-1974 28 Apr - 10 Jun 2000 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of auto-portrait Polaroids by Robert Mapplethorpe from the years 1972-1974. Most of these have never been exhibited before. Robert Mapplethorpe was born in 1946, the third of six children. He remembered a very secure childhood on Long Island, which he summed... Read more

Otto Zitko

10 Mar - 22 Apr 2000 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the first exhibition in the United States of works by Otto Zitko. Born in 1959, Zitko lives and works in Vienna, Austria. His work was most recently seen in d'APERTutto at the 48th Biennale di Venezia where he presented a large drawing installation.... Read more

Couples

6 Jan - 26 Feb 2000 Inspired by a recent rereading of John Updike's classic 1960's novel, Couples, Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of that same name. Couples is a group exhibition including the works by Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Billingham, Larry Clark, John Currin, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Philip Guston,... Read more

Richmond Burton

17 Nov 1999 - 1 Jan 2000 From November 17, 1999 to January 1, 2000, Cheim & Read will present an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Richmond Burton. Burton had his first exhibition in New York in 1987. This will be his second exhibition with the gallery. In his catalogue text Dominique Nahas describes Burton's work:... Read more

Lynda Benglis

Wols: Photographs of the 1930s 19 Oct - 13 Nov 1999 Lynda Benglis's new sculptures, known collectively as 'Hot Spots,' will be shown at Cheim & Read from October 19 through November 13, 1999. Cast in bronze, aluminum or glass, the Hot Spots are roughly hemispherical nodes formed of what appear to be tangled masses of thick irregular cords or filaments.... Read more

Adam Fuss

My Ghost 9 Sep - 16 Oct 1999 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Adam Fuss. Born in London in 1961, Fuss grew up in rural England. He became interested in the naturalistic surroundings and was soon documenting it through photography. Since 1982, he has lived and worked in New York... Read more

Saint Clair Cemin

Sculpture 8 Jun - 31 Jul 1999 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by Saint Clair Cemin. Born in 1951, Cemin grew up in Cruz Alta, the heart of Brazil's cowboy country. His early childhood was spent on a rural farm without electricity and running water. In 1974 he moved to... Read more

Juan Uslé

Blind Entrance 4 May - 5 Jun 1999 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Juan Uslé. Born in Santander, Spain in 1954, Uslé has lived and worked in New York City since 1987. In a recent interview with Maria de Corral, the curator for the Fundacio la Caixa, Uslé had this... Read more

Jack Pierson

31 Mar - 1 May 1999 For his first solo exhibition at Cheim & Read, Jack Pierson will exhibit large paintings on canvas from three recent series, 'Hang On To Your Ego' (1997), 'Watercolors' (1999) and a series of ocean images. The new paintings, digitally sprayed on canvases up to 7 by 12 feet in size,... Read more

Donald Baechler

Crowd Paintings 23 Feb - 27 Mar 1999 We are pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Donald Baechler. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956, Baechler has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and has shown extensively internationally since his first one person exhibition at Hallwalls, Buffalo in 1982. This year the Basel Kunsthalle... Read more

William Eggleston

Photographs 1966–1971 13 Jan - 20 Feb 1999 'There are four simple words for the matter, which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar' Walker Evans 1969 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of the first color efforts of William Eggleston. Taken in the years 1966-1971, these photographs have never previously been shown. In 1976,... Read more

Francis Bacon | Louise Bourgeois | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

18 Nov 1998 - 9 Jan 1999 Cheim & Read Gallery, with the collaboration of Jean Clair, the Director of the Musée Picasso, is pleased to announce a loan exhibition of the work of Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt which runs from November 18th through December 31st, 1998. In dealing with the body, each... Read more

Louise Fishman

Recent Paintings and Drawings 14 Oct - 14 Nov 1998 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Louise Fishman. As Nathan Kernan writes in the text essay that accompanies the exhibition: 'Louise Fishman has been searchingly committed to abstract painting for well over 30 years, yet in a way there is nothing... Read more

Lynda Benglis

Recent Sculpture and a screening of "Female Sensibility" from 1973 12 Sep - 10 Oct 1998 Read more

Small Paintings

1 - 31 Jul 1998 SMALL PAINTINGS: HAND PAINTED PICTURES by Ingo Meller Louise Fishman Juan Uslé Richmond Burton Joan Mitchell Mary Heilmann Bill Jensen Jack Pierson Dona Nelson Eva Hesse Philippe Richard Lynda Benglis From July 1st to July 31st, 1998 the Cheim & Read Gallery will present SMALL PAINTINGS: Hand Painted Pictures. The... Read more

Three Catholics

Ruscha | Mapplethorpe | Warhol 29 Apr - 27 Jun 1998 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the exhibition Three Catholics: Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha & Robert Mapplethorpe. The exhibition will include painting, photography and sculptural works. Modernism was in large part formed by its move away from the Church, organized religion; by its secular nature. Not unlike children rebelling... Read more

Alice Neel: Men in Suits

Also on view: Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s of businessmen, entrepreneurs and industrialists by August Sander 4 Mar - 25 Apr 1998 ALICE NEEL: MEN IN SUITS Paintings from the 1950's to 1980's Also on view: AUGUST SANDER Photographs of Businessmen, Entrepreneurs and Industrialists from the 1920's & 1930's Funny, y'know? After all the highways, and trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. -... Read more

Ingo Meller

14 Jan - 28 Feb 1998 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Ingo Meller. Born in 1955 in Cologne, Meller continues to live and work there. Committed to painting, he has shown internationally; most recently in the exhibition Theories of the Decorative at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh, Scotland... Read more

Joan Mitchell & John Chamberlain

A Juxtaposition 19 Nov 1997 - 10 Jan 1998 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce the exhibition 'Joan Mitchell & John Chamberlain: A Juxtaposition.' The following is an excerpt from the text by Klaus Kertess that accompanies the exhibition. 'Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was born one year before John Chamberlain. Both grew up in Chicago; she was born there,... Read more

Cy Twombly

18 Oct - 15 Nov 1997 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Cy Twombly from the years 1963 to 1979. On view for the first time in America will be Souvenir de l'Ile des Saintes, a suite of eight watercolors. Painted in 1979 these pictures represent the artist's first venture... Read more

Richmond Burton

New Paintings 9 Sep - 11 Oct 1997 From September 9th to October 11th, 1997, Richmond Burton will present an exhibition of brightly colored abstract paintings at Cheim & Read. Burton, who had his first exhibition in New York in 1987, graduated with a degree in architecture in 1984. As an explanation of his works Burton says: The... Read more

Lynda BENGLIS | Adam FUSS | David SALLE | Serge SPITZER

5 Jun - 31 Jul 1997 Cheim & Read will open on Thursday, June 5th, 1997 with a group exhibition of Lynda Benglis, Adam Fuss, David Salle, and Serge Spitzer. Works to be included in the exhibition are Knots, wall sculptures from the early 1970s by Lynda BENGLIS (born Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1941); recent 'liver' photograms... Read more

Juan Uslé

Luz Aislada 11 Apr - 31 May 1997 Spanish born painter Juan Uslé, 42, will have the first exhibition that presents an overview of his photographs from 1977 to 1997, opening at Cheim & Read on the 11th of April, 1997. Uslé's photographs - shown here with his paintings - represent an oeuvre which the artist has consistently... Read more