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David Zwirner
David Zwirner (born October 23, 1964) is a German art dealer and owner of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Paris.
His gallery represents over seventy artists.
Zwirner was born in Cologne, West Germany. The son of art dealer Rudolf Zwirner and his wife Ursula, he was exposed to art at an early age as the family lived in a house with a gallery on the ground floor. At the suggestion of the art dealer Harold Diamond, Rudolf sent David and his sister to the Walden School in New York for one year.
Zwirner left West Germany after high school and attended New York University, where he studied music and performed as a jazz drummer.
On graduating, Zwirner returned to West Germany and worked in Hamburg in A&R for an affiliate of the PolyGram record label. Zwirner moved from working with musical talent to visual artists, and began to build his own art collection, acquiring works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hanne Darboven, and Dan Graham. His first job in the United States was with the art dealer Brooke Alexander at Brooke Alexander Gallery.
In 1993, Zwirner opened David Zwirner Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City with the intention of showcasing an international mix of contemporary artists.
From 2000 to 2009, David Zwirner also partnered with Iwan Wirth in Zwirner & Wirth, a gallery on New York's Upper East Side that focused on private sales. The collaboration yielded a series of exhibitions, including Gerhard Richter: Early Paintings (2000); Bruce Nauman (2001); Cy Twombly: Letter of Resignation (2002/2003); Claes Oldenburg: Early Work (2005); David Hammons (2006); Joseph Beuys: Sculpture and Drawing (2007); and Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Exhibition (2008).
In 2002, David Zwirner gallery moved to Chelsea and established three galleries in Chelsea in four years. Zwirner planned to open a new gallery in 2021 on West 21st Street in New York City and would be the first commercial gallery space to be designed by architect Renzo Piano.[needs update] David Zwirner decided not to move forward with this project in 2024.
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David Zwirner
David Zwirner (born October 23, 1964) is a German art dealer and owner of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Paris.
His gallery represents over seventy artists.
Zwirner was born in Cologne, West Germany. The son of art dealer Rudolf Zwirner and his wife Ursula, he was exposed to art at an early age as the family lived in a house with a gallery on the ground floor. At the suggestion of the art dealer Harold Diamond, Rudolf sent David and his sister to the Walden School in New York for one year.
Zwirner left West Germany after high school and attended New York University, where he studied music and performed as a jazz drummer.
On graduating, Zwirner returned to West Germany and worked in Hamburg in A&R for an affiliate of the PolyGram record label. Zwirner moved from working with musical talent to visual artists, and began to build his own art collection, acquiring works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hanne Darboven, and Dan Graham. His first job in the United States was with the art dealer Brooke Alexander at Brooke Alexander Gallery.
In 1993, Zwirner opened David Zwirner Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City with the intention of showcasing an international mix of contemporary artists.
From 2000 to 2009, David Zwirner also partnered with Iwan Wirth in Zwirner & Wirth, a gallery on New York's Upper East Side that focused on private sales. The collaboration yielded a series of exhibitions, including Gerhard Richter: Early Paintings (2000); Bruce Nauman (2001); Cy Twombly: Letter of Resignation (2002/2003); Claes Oldenburg: Early Work (2005); David Hammons (2006); Joseph Beuys: Sculpture and Drawing (2007); and Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Exhibition (2008).
In 2002, David Zwirner gallery moved to Chelsea and established three galleries in Chelsea in four years. Zwirner planned to open a new gallery in 2021 on West 21st Street in New York City and would be the first commercial gallery space to be designed by architect Renzo Piano.[needs update] David Zwirner decided not to move forward with this project in 2024.