The Casey Kaplan gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City.
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Founded by Casey Kaplan (b. 1970, New York City) in March 1995, the gallery began as a 500sq. foot, one-room space located on an upper floor of a cast iron loft building on Broadway in SoHo. It now operates in a 5,000sq. ft. street level gallery containing three separate exhibition spaces on West 21st street in Chelsea.[1]
The gallery represents living artists from the United States, Canada and Europe. Jeff Burton, Miles Coolidge, Jason Dodge, Pamela Fraser, and Jonathan Monk have been exhibiting with the gallery for over ten years. Within the last two years the gallery initiated new relationships with Matthew Brannon, Geoffrey Farmer, Marlo Pascual, and David Thorpe. Many of the represented artists had their first solo gallery exhibitions at Casey Kaplan, and have become part of an international dialogue - participating in International Biennales,[2] achieving mid-career retrospectives at museums,[3] exhibiting at Documentas,[4] and winning a Turner Prize.[5]
Since 1997, guest curators such as Laurie Simmons, Liam Gillick, Daniel Birnbaum, Douglas Gordon, Jens Hoffmann, Nathan Carter, Daniel Baumann (2x), Bruce Hainley, and Matthew Brannon, have conceptualized and organized group exhibitions within the gallery. The June 2011 exhibition entitled, Everything Must Go, is a special project with Ceramica Suro[6] in Guadalajara, Mexico organized by José Noé Suro where 78 different contemporary artists have been invited to produce limited edition multiples with the 60 year old ceramics factory.
Casey Kaplan is one of the founders of New York Gallery Week,[7] a series of art events that occur the first week of May to celebrate the New York gallery community. NYGW is an annual event, concentrating on programmatic and artistic rigor, which aspires to redirect the focus back to artists and galleries[8] The second annual NYGW is from May 6 through May 8, 2011.[9]
The gallery has annually exhibited at Art Basel, Switzerland since Art 30 in 1999,[10] participating in: Art Galleries, Art Statements, Art Unlimited, and Art Public Projects. Additionally, the gallery has been included in Art Basel Miami Beach since its inception.[11] In 2011, Casey Kaplan will also participate in the Frieze Art Fair in London[12] and Artissima in Turin, Italy.[13]