COVID-19 Update: Paula Cooper Gallery is open to the public by appointment. Click here to schedule a visit.
Please note that the gallery is working with reduced hours (11am – 5pm) and limited on-site staff to help ensure safety for us and our visitors. While we will strive to accommodate all visits, we may not be able to honor all same-day appointment requests. To ensure maximum access to the space with the highest level of safety and ease for all, we politely request that appointments be made 24 hours in advance.
Paula Cooper Gallery, the first art gallery in SoHo, opened in 1968 with an exhibition to benefit the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The show included works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold and Robert Ryman, among others, as well as Sol LeWitt’s first wall drawing. For over fifty years, the gallery’s artistic agenda has remained focused on, though not limited to, conceptual and minimal art. In 1996, the gallery moved to Chelsea to occupy an award-winning redesigned 19th century building. The architect was Richard Gluckman. In 1999, Paula Cooper opened a second exhibition space at 521 West 21st Street. In fall 2018, the gallery temporarily relocated its primary space to 524 West 26th Street, opening with a 50th anniversary exhibition that benefitted March For Our Lives.
Beyond its immediate artistic program, the gallery has regularly hosted concerts, music symposia, dance performances, book receptions, poetry readings, as well as art exhibitions and special events to benefit various national and community organizations. For 25 years until 2000, the gallery presented a much celebrated series of New Year’s Eve readings of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Hours
The galleries are open to the public by appointment Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Paula Cooper Gallery Locations
524 West 26th Street, New York, 10001
521 West 21st Street, New York, 10011
529 West 21st Street, New York, 10011
243A Worth Ave, Palm Beach, FL, 33480
TELEPHONE
New York — 212.255.1105
Palm Beach — 561.282.0505
Correspondence
524 West 26th Street, New York, 10001
Staff
Paula Cooper
- Assistant to Paula Cooper
- Anna Cloarec
- Senior Director
- Steve Henry
- Assistant to Steve Henry
- Mabel Gantos
- Director
- Anthony Allen
- Assistant to Anthony Allen
- Eva Jensen
- Asia Representative
- Cara Zhuang
- General Manager
- Lucas Cooper
- Director of Finance
- Etrel Torne
- Assistant Director of Finance
- Ylenia Tripodi
- Registrar
- Kristoffer Haynes
- Registrar
- Jan Riley
- Registrar
- Joe Borelli
- Photographer / Designer
- Steven Probert
- Artist Liaison
- Nora Woodin
- Research Associate
- Daisy Charles
- Archivist / Rights and Reproductions
- Tessa Morefield
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