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\n\tLyles & King, a taste-making downtown New York gallery that\u2019s been in business for just over a decade, announced on Thursday that it had closed.<\/p>\n
\n\tIts final exhibitions, a solo for Jessie Makinson and a three-person show for Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galv\u00e3o, and Ren Light Pan, closed on June 20. The gallery\u2019s roster included artists like Aneta Grzeszykowska, Mira Schor, Jo-ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol, Kathy Ruttenberg, and Lily Wong.<\/p>\n
\n\tA number of artists had exhibitions at Lyles & King before being included in major international exhibitions, like Grzeszykowska in the 2022 Venice Biennale, Shala Miller in the 2026 Carnegie International, and Kiyan Williams in the 2024 Whitney Biennale. Aaron Gilbert, who first showed at Lyles & King in 2019, is now represented by Gladstone Gallery.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn an email to its listserv, addressed as \u201cDear Friends,\u201d founder Isaac Lyles wrote, \u201cIt is with profound gratitude and a tinge of\u00a0sadness that I announce\u00a0after eleven years and 118 exhibitions\u00a0Lyles & King\u00a0has closed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe continued, \u201cI founded Lyles & King in May 2015, with a belief in the importance of experiencing\u00a0exhibitions\u00a0in an all-too-mediated world. I believed then, as I believe now, in art\u2019s capacity to engage us with our humanity: with our bodies, with one another, and with\u00a0subjectivities outside our own. I feel we need this sense of connection today more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFounded in May 2015, Lyles & King started out in the Lower East Side at 106 Forsyth Street, opening with an exhibition titled \u201cThe Inaugural,\u201d which included an intergenerational mix of artists like Mira Schor, Violet Dennison, Davina Semo, Despina Stokou, and Eli Ping. Solo exhibitions for Schor, Semo, Chris Hood, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Aaron Gilbert, and Rose Kallal, among others, followed.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe gallery\u2019s last show on Forsyth closed in May 2020 before it relocated to a larger location at the corner of Catherine Street and Henry Street in Chinatown. It inaugurated that space in September 2020 with an exhibition titled \u201cI WANT TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN,\u201d which a press release described the show as coming at a time when the \u201cworld [has] grown uncertain\u201d and as such it would be apt to \u201crefocus on figuration, to take refuge in the facticity of our bodies (when pricked, we bleed: fact),\u201d with \u201cskin as the central motif.\u201d Among the artists included were Rebecca Horn, Farley Aguilar, Ivana Ba\u0161i\u0107, Jenna Gribbon, Ariana Papademetropoulous, Chiffon Thomas, Faith Wilding, and Elia Alba.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe gallery has more recently staged solo shows for Natalie Frank, Julia Thompson, Kiyan Williams, Lily Wong, Ren Light Pan, Daniela Paz Gomez, Shala Miller, and Ophelia Arc. The gallery also organized a number of group exhibitions, including \u201cIn Praise of Shadows,\u201d curated by Ebony L. Haynes, and \u201cThe Skin I Live In,\u201d curated by Geena Brown.<\/p>\n
\n\tLast October, it mounted a \u201c10th Anniversary Exhibition,\u201d which featured a number of artists who had shown at the gallery throughout its history. \u201cThere\u2019s this new sense of energy and vitality that\u2019s hard to describe, which I think comes from a period of deep reflection, especially through this exhibition,\u201d Lyles told the Observer<\/em> on the occasion of the exhibition.<\/p>\n \n\tIn his Thursday email, Lyles thanked \u201cthe artists, their visions, their\u00a0risks, and their ambitions,\u201d as well as \u201ccollectors, curators, fellow gallerists, writers, gallery\u00a0visitors,\u00a0and my family\u201d for their support during the gallery\u2019s run. He concluded, \u201cI look forward to sharing with you what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/lyles-and-king-gallery-closure-1234791059\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lylesking.jpg?w=1024″] Lyles & King, a taste-making downtown New York gallery that\u2019s been in business for just over a decade, announced on Thursday that it had closed. Its final exhibitions, a solo for Jessie Makinson and a three-person show for Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galv\u00e3o, and Ren Light Pan, closed on June 20. The gallery\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2024593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}