Marian Goodman, whose eponymous gallery was been at the forefront of the New York art scene for decades, has died.
Having previously run an art publishing house, Goodman opened her first exhibition space in Manhattan’s 57th Street in late 1977 with an exhibition by Marcel Broodthaers. While the US art scene at the time focused on local artists, Goodman looked to Europe, particularly Germany, going on to host shows for Gehard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and other neo-expressionist painters, establishing them as canonical figures in the US as much as they were at home.
Goodman would go on to champion mediums beyond the canvas, with filmmakers Chantel Ackerman, Dara Birnbaum, Tacita Dean and Steve McQueen among her artists, as well as Andrea Fraser, Pierre Huygue, Giuseppe Penone and Danh Vo joining the stable.
In 1999, she opened a gallery in Paris, in a townhouse near the Pompidou Centre. From 2014 the gallery had an outpost in London, closing it in 2022, before opening a Los Angeles space in 2023.
Goodman instigated a succession plan in 2021, naming Rose Lord, Junette Teng, Emily-Jane Kirwan, and Leslie Nolen as partners in the business. In 2024 they moved the New York gallery to a five-story building at 385 Broadway in TriBeCa.
