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\n\tDealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York\u2019s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner\u2019s Los Angeles outpost.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI genuinely wish Liz the best,\u201d Kreps told ARTnews<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s a big life decision, and I\u2019m supportive. She made a huge contribution to the gallery and I\u2019m forever grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFounded in 1993, Zwirner\u2019s gallery empire expanded to Los Angeles in 2023, when he opened a 15,000-square-foot showroom in East Hollywood and a 30,000-square-foot Melrose Hill flagship, adding to its portfolio of galleries in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. He joined Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace with outposts in LA.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAsked to recall some of her proudest accomplishments at Kreps, Mulholland, in an email, said, \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to single out just a few moments or milestones. Spending two decades with a gallery has given me a rare perspective on its evolution and the profound role it can play in shaping artists\u2019 careers while establishing itself within the landscape and discourse of contemporary art. When I joined the gallery, the roster consisted of young artists at the beginning of their careers. Watching the gallery grow alongside them has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. I\u2019m grateful to Andrew for these two incredible decades.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMulholland is heading to a market whose sustainability has at times seemed in question. Just this year, Artnet News<\/em> reported that \u201cthe Los Angeles gold rush is over,\u201d with advisor Michael Thomas telling reporter Katya Kazakina that \u201clocal collectors can\u2019t support all the galleries\u201d and Gordon Veneklasen calling the collector community \u201cdisengaged.\u201d After highly destructive wildfires last year, one local dealer headed into Frieze Los Angeles this past February told me that \u201cthe town is kind of on its ass in ways that worry even us locals,\u201d partly because of job cuts in the entertainment industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBut Mulholland is bullish.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019ve recently seen an upswing in the art market overall, and it feels as though some collectors are re-engaging with the market who might have taken a break,\u201d she said. \u201cAt the same time, we may be losing some buyers who approached collecting as a form of short-term investment. While that could be perceived as a sign of disengagement, I believe it will ultimately strengthen the market in Los Angeles and elsewhere by reinforcing a more sustained commitment to collecting. And from my experience, Los Angeles is the home to serious collectors who are amassing incredible collections and are active in supporting locally.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMulholland is in for a big change, heading from a New York\u2013only gallery with 10 or so employees and a roster of 41 artists to a globe-spanning operation representing some 86 artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOne of the reasons I\u2019m so excited to be joining David Zwirner in September is that I\u2019ve always recognized the humanity at the heart of the gallery,\u201d said Mulholland. \u201cWhile each location reflects its own community, they are united by a shared vision and a generosity of spirit that closely mirrors the way Andrew has always led his gallery. In my new role, I\u2019ll continue to work with artists and collectors, and I\u2019m looking forward to collaborating with the LA team: Alex Tuttle, Alex Marshall and Nick Gregory.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe\u2019ll also be living in a city whose contrasts with New York are the stuff of endless debate and argument.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cLiving in New York for the past twenty years has been one of the defining experiences of my life,\u201d said Mulholland. \u201cMy relationship with the city has been romantic, demanding, exhilarating, troubling, comforting, and undeniably beautiful. I\u2019ll always love it, but I\u2019m ready for a new experience and a new city!\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe went on, \u201cOne of the things that makes the Los Angeles art scene so special is how artist-driven it is. So many artists have stayed in the city after attending school there, creating a community with deep, long-standing relationships and an unusually collaborative spirit. It\u2019s a place where artists genuinely support one another, and I\u2019m excited to become part of that community. And, of course, the city is also home to incredible institutions: the Getty, MoCA, the Broad, and the Hammer, and I\u2019m an absolute fan of the new LACMA building.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/david-zwirner-recruits-andrew-kreps-partner-liz-mulholland-1234794448\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/liz-mulholland.jpg?w=1024″] Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York\u2019s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner\u2019s Los Angeles outpost.\u00a0 \u201cI genuinely wish Liz the best,\u201d Kreps told ARTnews. \u201cIt\u2019s a big life decision, […]<\/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-2083365","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\/2083365","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=2083365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}