Paula Cooper Gallery will temporarily relocate its primary space to 524 West 26th Street.

While construction commences on the adjoining property of the gallery’s current location, Paula Cooper Gallery will temporarily relocate from its primary space at 534 W 21st Street to 524 W 26th Street. Programming will continue uninterrupted on the second floor of 521 W 21st Street, as well as at our vitrine space below it at 529 W 21st Street. We look forward to seeing you at both our current and new locations this fall.

We are thrilled to announce that 2018 marks Paula Cooper Gallery’s 50th Anniversary. In celebration of the gallery’s fifty years of exhibitions as well as performance, poetry, and music events, we will be sharing weekly images from the gallery’s archive on Instagram as well as on this dedicated page on our website.

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 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 on 21st Street. 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.