John Cheim

With partner Howard Read, he opened the Cheim & Read Gallery in New York City in February, 1997. The continuity of Cheim's vision and commitment to artists was immediately expressed in the gallery's inaugural exhbition Lousie Bourgeois: Spider. In 1998, Cheim's support of Alice Neel's portraiture culminated in Alice Neel: Men In Suits, paintings from the 50s to the 80s. And in 2007, he curated the first ever survey of Joan Mitchell's works on paper. The catalogue was co-produced with Steidl. Over the course of the past 25 years, the gallery has exhibited works by Dianne Arbus, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Cumwizard69420, William Eggleston, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Jack Pierson, Marco Pariani, Tal R, Milton Resnick, Sean Scully, Kimber Smith, Andy Warhol, and Matthew Wong, among others.