1. Marc Glimcher was born on September 16,1963 and is an American art dealer who is the President and CEO of Pace Gallery, a modern and contemporary art gallery founded by his father, Arne Glimcher, in Boston in 1960.
13 Facts About Marc Glimcher
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In 2012, Glimcher sold a Gerhard Richter painting for more than $20 million at Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland.
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Marc Glimcher graduated from Harvard University in 1985 with a degree in biological anthropology, and from 1989 to 1991 studied biochemistry and immunology at Johns Hopkins University.
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Marc Glimcher subsequently worked as science teacher in Santa Fe, moving there with his first wife Natalie Geary and their two daughters.
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Marc Glimcher joined Pace Gallery in 1985 as Associate Director, and was named President and CEO in 2011.
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Marc Glimcher has broadened Pace's representation of artist estates, including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Vito Acconci Studio.
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Marc Glimcher oversees the gallery's global activities from its headquarters in New York City, including international expansion to Beijing, London, Palo Alto, Seoul, Geneva, and Hong Kong.
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In 2008, Marc Glimcher founded Artifex Press, the first digital, online catalogue raisonne publishing company.
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Marc Glimcher has curated thematic exhibitions including Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective; Je Suis le Cahier, The Sketchbooks of Picasso, the only comprehensive exhibition of Picasso's sketchbooks; Mark Rothko: The Last Paintings; Earthly Forms: The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder, and Noguchi; Alexander Calder: From Model to Monument; and Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, for which he authored the catalogue essay.
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From 1989 - 2002, Marc Glimcher was married to Natalie Geary.
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From 2003 to 2013, Marc Glimcher was married to Andrea Bundonis.
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Marc Glimcher has five children: Isabelle, Lilleth, Katharine, Alexander, and Gage.
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From 2021 to 2024, Marc Glimcher maintained a six-bedroom waterfront home in Palm Beach, Florida.