Lisson Gallery

Lisson Gallery was founded in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail as an artists’ exhibition space whilst he was a student at the Slade school of art. The gallery quickly came to prominence as the first London space to introduce the generation of American minimalists to a European audience, in its first decade showing Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre and Dan Graham.
 
The gallery has always provided a platform for the careers of emerging artists, working with communities of young like minded artists. In the 1980¹s Lisson Gallery brought to prominence the school of British sculptors, featuring Richard Long, Bill Woodrow, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Richard Wentworth, Anish Kapoor and Julian Opie.
 
With the advent of the 1990¹s, the continuous growth of Lisson Gallery resulted in a new building designed by Tony Fretton, opening in 1991. The space has been frequently lauded for its design, and has become the icon by which the gallery is known. The gallery continued to plough its own distinctive path, bringing the work of Douglas Gordon, Tony Ourlser, Francis Alys, Jane and Louise Wilson, Pierre Bismuth, Ceal Floyer and Jonathan Monk to the public eye.

Lisson Gallery signalled its intentions at the beginning of the millennium with the opening of a new space on Bell Street, featuring a controversial exhibition by Santiago Sierra. And while still working with the generations of formative Lisson artists, including Lawrence Weiner, Art & Language and Daniel Buren, the gallery has recently showcased Christian Jankowski, Allora & Calzadilla, Tim Lee, Sean Snyder and Gerard Byrne, maintaining its commitment to a generation of younger artists.