David Zwirner Gallery is an American contemporary art gallery owned by David Zwirner. It has three gallery spaces in New York City and one each in Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Paris.
History
The Zwirner Gallery opened in 1993 on the ground floor of 43 Greene Street in SoHo in New York City with a one-man show of the Austrian sculptor Franz West.Arthur Lubow (January 7, 2018), The Business of Being David Zwirner The Wall Street Journal.Nick Paumgarten (June 2, 2016), William Eggleston Joins Zwirner Gallery The New York Times.
In 2002 it moved to 525 West 19th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. In 2012 it opened a London branch in Grafton Street, in Mayfair, and built a large new space, designed by Annabelle Selldorf, at 537 West 20th Street, Chelsea, New York.
In September 2017 it opened an Upper East Side space in a 1907 townhouse off Madison Avenue, redesigned by Selldorf.Brook Mason (September 25, 2017), Annabelle Selldorf Turns Her Talented Hands to David Zwirner's New Upper East Side Art Gallery Architectural Digest. A spaceMelanie Gerlis (March 23, 2018), H Queen's: the gallery space Hong Kong was waiting for Financial Times. at the H Queen's building in Hong Kong was also designed by Selldorf.Anny Shaw (July 13, 2017), David Zwirner's Hong Kong gallery to launch with new works by Michaël Borremans The Art Newspaper. That space closed in July 2026 upon the completion of renovations at 525 W. 19th Street.
In 2019 the gallery opened an outpost in the Marais district of Paris, its first in continental Europe.Anny Shaw (July 11, 2019), 'Brexit changes the game': David Zwirner to open Paris gallery The Art Newspaper.Ted Loos (October 16, 2019), David Zwirner Expands His Reach to Paris The New York Times.
The gallery opened 52 Walker, an offshoot exhibition space in New York's Tribeca neighborhood in 2021. 52 Walker was developed by curator Ebony L. Haynes, a director at the gallery who was hired in 2020. Her concept for a new program with the gallery included all-black staff hosting rotating exhibitions in a kunsthalle style, which Zwirner said inspired him to put her in charge of a new separate, autonomous exhibition space.
In 2023 it opened a 1,300 m2 (15,000 sq ft) branch in the Melrose Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
According to The New York Times in 2018, the gallery reports annual revenue of $500 million.Anny Shaw (January 9, 2018), David Zwirner to expand again with another New York gallery opening in 2020 The Art Newspaper. Given the overall size of its operations, it is often compared to Gagosian Gallery and Hauser & Wirth.Randy Kennedy (March 21, 2013), The Art of the Dealer T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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