Paula Cooper Gallery
The first art gallery in New York's SoHo, Paula Cooper Gallery 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 five decades, 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 19th century building redesigned by Richard Gluckman. In 1999, Paula Cooper opened a second exhibition space on 21st Street. In fall of 2018 the gallery temporarily relocated its primary space to 26th Street, opening with a fiftieth anniversary exhibition that recreated the inaugural 1968 show and benefitted March For Our Lives.
Over the years, the gallery has organized many shows of historical importance. 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.