Magda Danysz Gallery

Magda Danysz Gallery is an art gallery in Paris, France, owned by Magda Danysz, an art dealer and art gallery owner originally from Poland.

Magda Danysz

Danysz started in the art business in the early 1990s, when she opened her first art space in 1991 as a student. She studied at the ESSEC French business school. She went on student exchanges at Osaka International University in 1995 and Buenos Aires University in 1998. After graduating in 1998, she opened her gallery in July of that same year. She provided instruction to artists from various disciplines, from street art to digital art.

She discovered Shepard Fairey (who did Barack Obama's official portrait for the presidential campaign), JonOne, Seen, Miss Van, Erwin Olaf and Ultralab. She participated in many art fairs around the world including Bologna, Brussels, New York, and even Miami. In June 2009 she was appointed to direct the building's Bund 18 gallery in Shanghai, China, which then became the MD Gallery. She published an extensive anthology of street art.

During the first years of her gallery, she did consulting at Arthur Andersen from 1997 to 2004. She consulted for the French retail group Carrefour and had various jobs in the cultural field, including positions with the Ministry of Culture, Christie's, the Théâtre Marigny, the Nantes Museum, and the Louvre.

Since 2001 Danysz has taught cultural policies and economics at Sciences Po in Paris. She is on the board of the multimedia cultural art center Le Cube in Issy-les-Moulineaux, whose mayor André Santini appointed her to promote digital art and research.

She was a founder of the Paris-based contemporary art fair known as ShowOff, which has been held every year at the same time as the Foire internationale d'art contemporain (Fiac) since 2006.

Since January 2009 she has been vice president of Fashion Group International of Paris.

In 2010 she helped launch the Ai Ling Foundation for the arts in Shanghai, China.

Shows (selected)

Mike Giant – Solo Show; 28 April – 26 May 2007
Dalek – 21 October – 25 November 2006
Shepard Fairey (Obey) – 3 June – 29 July 2006
Miss Van – 29 April – 27 May 2006
Dalek & Shepard Fairey – 4 June – 30 July 2005
Wonderland – 16 April – 28 May 2005, with Marion Peck, Mark Ryden, Eric White, Clayton Brothers
Miss Van – 19 June – 24 July 2004
Dalek – 15 May – 12 June 2004
Mambo – 31 January – 28 February 2004
Invader – 17 May – 21 June 2003

Awards and recognition

Compagnie National des Experts (CNE), appointed expert in Chinese contemporary art and street art (since 2010)
French-American Foundation (Young Leader) (since 2009)
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (promotion 14 July 2006)
Friends of the Palais de Tokyo (since 2005)
Member of the French National Art Galleries Committee (since 2002)
ESSEC Alumni (since 1998)

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