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\n\tArtist Jonathan Bruce Williams sued New York\u2019s Kai Matsumiya last month, alleging that the gallery still owes him more than $16,000 for two artworks that sold from his 2025 show there.<\/p>\n
\n\tLocated near Tribeca, one of the city\u2019s most densely populated gallery districts, Kai Matsumiya was founded in 2014 and has shown artists such as Steffani Jemison, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Hadi Fallapisheh. The gallery\u2019s exhibitions have earned acclaim from critics, with a 2020 Surface profile terming the space the \u201cNew York Art Gallery Where Anything Can Happen\u201d; the gallery won the Armory Show\u2019s Gramercy International Prize that year.<\/p>\n
\n\tFiled in the Civil Court of the City of New York, Williams\u2019s lawsuit claims that two pieces from his exhibition were sold to an art collection stewarded by the University of Chicago Booth School of
Business for a total of $22,600. Williams says he had agreed to split that money with the gallery in advance, with Kai Matusmiya keeping 50 percent. His show closed on November 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter the works were placed with the school\u2019s art collection, Williams made \u201crepeated requests for
payment,\u201d the lawsuit says, but the gallery \u201cfailed and refused to remit the amounts owed.\u201d The suit alleges that Matsumiya was given a formal demand for payment in May and that the artist still did not receive payment.<\/p>\n
\n\tWilliams is now seeking $16,441.41, an amount that he says also accounts for fabrication and shipping costs.<\/p>\n
\n\tA lawyer for Williams declined to comment. Reached by ARTnews<\/em>, Kai Matsumiya, the gallery\u2019s founding dealer, said that Williams had now been paid and the matter was now resolved. The lawsuit appears to still be pending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/kai-matsumiya-artist-lawsuit-1234791147\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/unnamed2-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Jonathan Bruce Williams sued New York\u2019s Kai Matsumiya last month, alleging that the gallery still owes him more than $16,000 for two artworks that sold from his 2025 show there. Located near Tribeca, one of the city\u2019s most densely populated gallery districts, Kai Matsumiya was founded in 2014 and has shown […]<\/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-2029745","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\/2029745","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=2029745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}