{"id":222402,"date":"2025-10-18T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222402\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:36:20","slug":"altman-siegel-gallery-to-close-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222402\/","title":{"rendered":"Altman Siegel Gallery to Close Next Month\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

After nearly 17 years in business, San Francisco gallery Altman Siegel will wind down operations next month. Founder Claudia Altman-Siegel specifically cited the current art market as the reason for the gallery\u2019s closure in an announcement<\/a> released yesterday, October 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs it has become too difficult for a gallery this size to scale in this climate, I have made the incredibly tough decision to close rather than diminish either the space or the commitment to exhibit conceptually uncompromising work,\u201d Altman-Siegel wrote, noting that the decision to close the gallery on November 22 was made \u201cwith both pride and sadness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[While] the art market can be relentless, the true heart of this project has always been ideas, community, and joy,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Altman-Siegel established her namesake gallery in 2009 following her relocation to the West Coast from New York. She had previously spent a decade working at Luhring Augustine Gallery, where she steadily climbed the ranks from security guard to co-director.<\/p>\n

\"\"Installation view of Simon Denny\u2019s Security Through Obscurity (2020) at Altman Siegel, San Francisco (photo by Robert Divers Herrick)<\/p>\n

In downtown San Francisco, Altman Siegel carved out a reputation for showcasing work by early- and mid-career artists from the Bay Area and abroad, with a roster of artists including Shannon Ebner, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Trevor Paglen, Koak, Grant Mooney, and Zarouhie Abdalian. The gallery was known for its diverse programming that embraced new art forms as much as traditional mediums \u2014 a characteristic that local independent curator and writer Natasha Boas<\/a> told Hyperallergic placed the gallery \u201cin the middle of the most pressing conversations coming out of the Bay Area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPrograms such as Altman-Siegel\u2019s do not exist in our city, and perhaps may no longer exist in the art world writ large which is steeped in the transactional, and will be greatly missed,\u201d Boas said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The gallery navigated expansions and moves over the course of its run. In 2016, it relocated from its first address in the city\u2019s Financial District to the Dogpatch neighborhood, and opened a second exhibition space<\/a> in Presidio Heights last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach chapter allowed the gallery to take risks, experiment, and keep pace with the evolving practices of our artists,\u201d said Altman-Siegel. \u201cNow, 213 exhibitions and art fairs later, the project is coming to a close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tokyo-based painter Shinpei Kusanagi, who has shown with the gallery since it opened, will be the subject of its final show. Entitled It is not far to the sea<\/a>, the exhibition opens tomorrow and is slated to run through November 15, one week before the gallery will officially cease operations.<\/p>\n

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\t\tInstallation view of Koak\u2019s Letter to Myself (when the world is on fire) (2023) at Altman Siegel, San Francisco (photo by Chris Grunder)<\/p>\n

\u201cAltman Siegel Gallery will be keenly missed,\u201d San Francisco-based art advisor Lizanne Suter told Hyperallergic. \u201cClaudia and her excellent staff were completely devoted to the gallery\u2019s artists and their practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news of Altman Siegel\u2019s closure coincides with a growing number of gallery shutterings as part of a reported dip in the global art market<\/a>. This year alone, the United States has witnessed a string of closures<\/a>, including Blum in Los Angeles, Venus Over Manhattan in New York, and Clearing in both cities; earlier this month, Almine Rech announced that it would be vacating its 11-year-old exhibition space in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unfortunate that a gallery of this caliber is closing its doors,\u201d Jessica Silverman, founder of the namesake San Francisco gallery, told Hyperallergic. \u201cClaudia will remain a dear friend, and I look forward to collaborating with her in new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly 17 years in business, San Francisco gallery Altman Siegel will wind down operations next month. Founder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,52136,6113],"class_list":{"0":"post-222402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-galleries","16":"tag-san-francisco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}