Lisson Gallery was founded in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail as an artists’ exhibition space whilst he was a student at the Slade School of Fine 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.
In the 1980s Lisson Gallery championed the school of British sculptors, featuring Richard Long, Bill Woodrow, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Richard Wentworth and Anish Kapoor.
With the advent of the 1990s, 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.
Whilst 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, Marina Abramovic, Ryan Gander, Tim Lee, Sean Snyder, Gerard Byrne, Rashid Rana and Haroon Mirza and in 2011 will host shows by Ai Weiwei, Cory Arcangel, Shirazeh Houshiary and Daniel Buren.
Lisson Gallery
52-54 Bell Street
London NW1 5DA, UK
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