Envisioned as a new and innovative space in which to showcase the finest contemporary art from Africa and the African Diaspora, the Kyle Kauffman Gallery is breaking ground with exhibitions by emerging, highly-skilled, young African artists, as well as by world-renowned, contemporary masters.

The newest addition to the red-hot art scene in New York City, the Gallery mounts tightly focused group exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions by some of Africa’s most gifted artists. The Kyle Kauffman Gallery opened September 2007 in its first location, between the Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen neighborhoods. After a year and half at our 39th street gallery, we moved to a larger space in Chelsea, at our current location at 150 West 25th street.

The inaugural exhibition, ‘Not So Black and White: South African Contemporary Art’, drew on works by both artists who are represented by the Kyle Kauffman Gallery and other artists whose work the Gallery also promotes and exhibits. Many of the works in the show explore the nuanced realities of memory and history in South Africa’s racially charged past. Othe... [ Read all ]