10 Facts About Pace Gallery

Pace Gallery is an American contemporary and modern art gallery with 9 locations worldwide.

Pace Gallery operates in New York, London, Hong Kong, Palo Alto, Geneva, Seoul, East Hampton, and Palm Beach.

From 2008 until 2019, PaceWildenstein – and later Pace – maintained a 22,000 square feet space gallery in the Factory 798 District of Beijing, China; it was the first major Manhattan art gallery with a presence in the city.

Under the direction of its president, Leng Lin, Pace Gallery Beijing showed a mixture of American, European, and Asian artists.

Since 2012, Pace Gallery has been occupying the 9,000 square feet west wing of the Royal Academy of Arts's 6 Burlington Gardens building in London, beginning with an exhibition that juxtaposed late paintings by Mark Rothko with photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

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Also in 2014, Pace Gallery operated a temporary space in Chesa Busin, a historic 12th century house in Zuoz, Switzerland.

In 2020, Pace Gallery opened a temporary 1,700 square feet exhibition space in East Hampton Village.

In 2021, Pace relocated its London outpost to 4 Hanover Square in Mayfair, the former home of the now-defunct Blain Southern gallery, and enlisted Jamie Fobert for the renovation of the 8,600 square feet space.

In June 2022, Pace Gallery partnered with the NFT platform Art Blocks, with the intention of each organization giving access to each other's collectors bases.

In 1993, after sales had slowed following the art-market crash of 1990, Arne Glimcher agreed to take up Daniel Wildenstein's long-standing merger offer; by 2010, the Glimcher family paid $100 million to buy back the Wildensteins' 49 percent share in Pace Gallery's assets, including an inventory of several thousand paintings.