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The Victoria Miro Gallery is a British contemporary art gallery in London, run by Victoria Miro.[1] Miro opened her first gallery in 1985 in Cork Street, before moving to larger premises in Islington in 2000[1] and later opening a second space in St George Street, Mayfair.

## Locations[edit]

### Cork Street[edit]

Once her children started school,[2] Victoria Miro opened her first gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair, in 1985, where she became one of the principal dealers,[3][4] although the premises at 750 square feet (70 m2) were little larger than a studio apartment.[5] In the late 1980s, she opened a second gallery in Florence in Italy, but shut it in 1991 after the art market slump.[5]

Long waiting lists of collectors and museums developed to buy work from the galleries, and Miro reported that even Charles Saatchi, when he bought a Cecily Brown painting from her, "seemed pleased to get one."[5]

### Wharf Road[edit]

In November 2000, the gallery moved to its present location in 16 Wharf Road, Islington, adjacent to the cutting-edge art area of Hoxton,[1] where it is housed in a two floor, 10,000-square-foot (930 m2), converted Victorian furniture factory, ten times the size of the Cork Street gallery.[1] Miro's co-director, Glenn Scott Wright, attributed the move to the "buzz" in the area, where Jay Jopling's White Cube gallery had also moved, and saw other galleries following suit, since rents in the West End of London were quadrupling.[1] She was described by Christie's curator, Gerard Goodrow, as "a leading figure in making the East End the center of contemporary art in London."[5]

A group show prior to the conversion of the building brought 4,000 visitors, which it would have taken the Cork Street gallery six months to attract.[1] The conversion architect, Trevor Horne retained some of the original features of the building, such as the worn staircase and rough roof beams, while the waste ground at the rear next to Regent's Canal was left to artist Ian Hamilton Finlay to regenerate.[1] The opening show by Thomas Demand was of paper and card reconstructions of photographs of interiors.[1]

The gallery's yearly turnover is in the tens of millions of pounds.[6]

The Upper Room by Chris Ofili was exhibited at the Wharf Road space in 2002: it consists of thirteen paintings, each of a rhesus macaque monkey, installed in a purpose-built room designed by David Adjaye.[7] Adrian Searle, art critic of The Guardian, wrote that it was a work the Tate had to buy.[7] In July 2005, the Tate announced the purchase of the work as the centrepiece of a new hang at Tate Britain.[7]

In 2022, art historian and author Katy Hessel celebrated the publication of her best-selling book “The Story of Art Without Men” with an exhibition she curated at the Wharf Road space of 16 works by women artists, including Jadé Fadojutimi and Flora Yukhnovich.[8]

### St George Street[edit]

In 2013, Victoria Miro Gallery opened a second space in a converted bank office in St George Street, Mayfair,[9] designed by Claudio Silvestrin and executed by project architect Michael Drain.[10]

### San Marco[edit]

In 2017, Victoria Miro Gallery opened an exhibition space in the former Galleria il Capricorno in a 17th-century building in the San Marco neighbourhood of Venice.[11]

## External shows[edit]

In September 2002, the gallery was one of the eighteen cutting edge, art galleries with international reputations to be selected for The Galleries Show at the Royal Academy, an exhibition curated by Norman Rosenthal and Max Wigram to highlight the role played by galleries in an artist's creative progress, as well as putting work on sale and realigning the Academy with a greater involvement in current art.[12]

The gallery was one of the 118 galleries worldwide to be selected for the first Frieze Art Fair in London in October 2003, alongside other leading British galleries, White Cube and Gagosian.[13]

In March 2004, at New York's Armory Show, the gallery sold everything on the opening day; this included work by a new artist to the gallery and recent graduate, Raqib Shaw, whose first solo show in London of eighteen drawings and five paintings, stemming from the work of Hieronymous Bosch and priced up to $20,000, had previously sold out.[14]

In December 2004, at Art Basel Miami Beach, the gallery sold out a room of paintings by Suling Wang, who had not at that time had a solo show. The room was re-hung and sold out again.[15]

## Artists[edit]

Victoria Miro represents numerous living artists, including:

* Doug Aitken
* Njideka Akunyili Crosby[16]
* Jules de Balincourt[17]
* Hernan Bas[18]
* Varda Caivano[19]
* Verne Dawson
* Peter Doig[20]
* Stan Douglas
* Elmgreen and Dragset[21]
* William Eggleston
* Inka Essenhigh
* Ian Hamilton Finlay
* Barnaby Furnas
* David Harrison
* Alex Hartley
* NS Harsha
* Christian Holstad
* Chantal Joffe
* Isaac Julien
* Idris Khan
* Udomsak Krisanamis
* John Korner[22]
* Yayoi Kusama (since 2008)[23]
* Tracey Moffatt
* Wangechi Mutu
* Chris Ofili[24]
* Jacco Olivier
* Grayson Perry[25]
* Tal R
* Conrad Shawcross[26]
* Sarah Sze
* Adriana Varejão
* Suling Wang
* Stephen Willats
* Flora Yukhnovich[27]

In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including:

* Alice Neel
* Paula Rego (since 2020)[28]
* Francesca Woodman[29]

## See also[edit]

* Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art next door

## Notes and references[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f g h Husband, Stuart. "Go see... the Victoria Miro gallery, The Observer, 3 December 2000. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
2. ^ Jackie Wullschlager (27 September 2013), Gallerist Victoria Miro on the changing art market scene Financial Times.
3. ^ "Gilbert & George--true pioneers of East End art[dead link], The Daily Telegraph, 31 May 2004, page 2 of 3. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
4. ^ "Victoria Miro". Ocula.
5. ^ a b c d Peterson, Thane. "Looking for Tomorrow's Artists? Follow Victoria Miro ", BusinessWeek, 21 February 2001. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
6. ^ Duguid, Hannah. "It's show time: Meet the ambitious young 'galleristas' behind Britain's art boom", The Independent, 16 December 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
7. ^ a b c Kennedy, Maev. "Tate buys Ofili's roomful of apostles", The Guardian, 20 July 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
8. ^ Scott Reyburn (10 October 2022), 25 Years After ‘Sensation,’ Has London’s Art Scene Kept Its Cool? New York Times.
9. ^ Jackie Wullschlager (27 September 2013), Gallerist Victoria Miro on the changing art market scene Financial Times.
10. ^ Coline Milliard (20 May 2013), East End Grandee Victoria Miro Returns to Mayfair 30 Years After The Opening of Her First Gallery on Cork Street ARTINFO.
11. ^ Anny Shaw (6 April 2017), Victoria Miro to open first overseas gallery in Venice The Art Newspaper.
12. ^ "Not the Summer Exhibition"[dead link], The Daily Telegraph, 6 April 2002. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
13. ^ "Market news: Howard Rutkowski and the Frieze Art Fair"[dead link], The Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2003. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
14. ^ Gleadell, Colin. "Contemporary market"[dead link], The Daily Telegraph, 29 March 2004. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
15. ^ Gleadell, Colin. "Art sales: Miami hit by an art hurricane"[dead link], The Daily Telegraph, 13 December 2004. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
16. ^ Alex Greenberger (9 November 2018), David Zwirner Now Represents Njideka Akunyili Crosby ARTnews.
17. ^ Jackie Wullschlager (27 September 2013), Gallerist Victoria Miro on the changing art market scene Financial Times.
18. ^ Jackie Wullschlager (27 September 2013), Gallerist Victoria Miro on the changing art market scene Financial Times.
19. ^ Jackie Wullschlager (27 September 2013), Gallerist Victoria Miro on the changing art market scene Financial Times.
20. ^ Alex Greenberger (29 June 2020), Pace Gallery Takes on Elmgreen & Dragset, Beloved Duo Behind Prankish Sculptures ARTnews.
21. ^ Alex Greenberger (29 June 2020), Pace Gallery Takes on Elmgreen & Dragset, Beloved Duo Behind Prankish Sculptures ARTnews.
22. ^ Jackie Wullschlager (27 September 2013), Gallerist Victoria Miro on the changing art market scene Financial Times.
23. ^ Jackie Wullschlager (27 September 2013), Gallerist Victoria Miro on the changing art market scene Financial Times.
24. ^ Alex Greenberger (29 June 2020), Pace Gallery Takes on Elmgreen & Dragset, Beloved Duo Behind Prankish Sculptures ARTnews.
25. ^ Alex Greenberger (29 June 2020), Pace Gallery Takes on Elmgreen & Dragset, Beloved Duo Behind Prankish Sculptures ARTnews.
26. ^ Alex Greenberger (29 June 2020), Pace Gallery Takes on Elmgreen & Dragset, Beloved Duo Behind Prankish Sculptures ARTnews.
27. ^ Tessa Solomon (22 June 2023), Flora Yukhnovich, Whose Modern Spin on Rococo Made a Market Splash, Joins Hauser & Wirth ARTnews.
28. ^ Claire Selvin (1 October 2020) Departs Embattled Marlborough Gallery, Joins Victoria Miro Ahead of Tate Retrospective ARTnews.
29. ^ "Victoria Miro: Artists", Victoria Miro Gallery. Retrieved 29 April 2008.

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