Deitch Projects specializes in producing ambitious projects by contemporary artists. Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in January 1996, the gallery has presented over one hundred and twenty solo exhibitions and projects, twelve thematic exhibitions, and numerous public events. The gallery has a global outlook and has presented projects by artists from thirty-three countries.

The gallery's best known projects include the Shopping exhibition in 1996 with installations by twenty-six artists in twenty-six shops in SoHo, I Bite America and America Bites Me, the notorious 1997 performance in which Oleg Kulik lived in the gallery for two weeks as a dog, Yoko Ono’s 1998 exhibition Ex It featuring trees growing out of one hundred wooden coffins, Street Market in 2000, a collaborative installation with Barry McGee, Todd James and Steve Powers that recreated an apocalyptic version of an urban street, six over the top live performances by Fischerspooner in May 2002, and a 2003 installation by assume vivid astro focus that covered every surface of the gallery including the facade, floors, walls and ceiling.

The gallery is active in exploring the new convergence of art, fashion, music, and performance. It has produced spectacular installations by AsFour in 2002 and Jeremy Scott in 2003 to coincide with the opening of fashion week. In December 2002 it presented Simparch’s Free Basin, a giant sculpture in the shape of a skate bowl and hosted a program of skateboarding demonstrations along with new music emerging from the skateboard subculture. In the spring of 2004, the gallery presented Adam Kalkin’s Suburban House Kit, for which a full-scale house made of shipping containers, with a carpet designed by Jim Isermann and an indoor front yard designed by Tobias Rehberger were constructed in the gallery.

ARTISTS' ESTATES

The gallery is the exclusive representative of the Estate of Keith Haring and advises and handles the sale of works for the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Jeffrey Deitch has been involved with the work of both Haring and Basquiat since 1980.

NEW ADDITIONS TO THE GALLERY PROGRAM

The gallery is expanding its focus to represent the works of other major artists including Jonathan Borofsky. The gallery represents Jonathan Borofsky in partnership with the Paula Cooper Gallery. Jeffrey Deitch has long been involved with Jonathan Borofsky's work. Borofsky's wall painting was first publicly exhibited in Deitch's exhibition Lives in 1975.

ART CONSULTING

Jeffrey Deitch is the longtime advisor to several of the most important private collectors of modern and contemporary art, including the Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation in Athens. Jeffrey Deitch Inc. is also the art consultant to Skadden, Arps Slate, Meagher & Flom, and several other corporate collections. One of Deitch’s most important recent projects was advising Mori Building Company in Tokyo on the development of the Mori Art Museum and the Roppongi Hills Public Art Project.

PRIVATE ART DEALING

Jeffrey Deitch has handled the sale of some of the most important modern and contemporary works to come on the market during the past decade including the sale of James Rosenquist's F-111 and Robert Rauschenberg's Factum II to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sol LeWitt's All Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes and Gordon Matta-Clark's Four Corners to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Umberto Boccioni's Forces of the Street to the Osaka City Museum of Art.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Jeffrey Deitch’s recent curatorial projects include Form Follows Fiction at the Castello di Rivoli, Torino, in 2001, and Monument to Now at the Deste Foundation, Athens in 2004. The gallery is active in the production of artists’ books and books on new art. Recent publications include Yoko Ono’s Odyssey of A Cockroach, Jon Kessler’s Global Village Idiot and Chris Johanson’s Now is Now. An ambitious book on new art in New York, Live Through This, was published in 2005.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION

Tom Powel has been the gallery’s photographer since its inception.  His photographic documentation of the gallery’s projects has been an essential part of our program.  Tom’s 360 degree photographic tours of our installations are among the most interesting and innovative components of our website.