The Pace Gallery celebrates 65 years

Robert Indiana, LOVE (Red Outside Gold Inside), 1966–1999, Conceived: 1966; Executed: 1999 SCULPTURE polychrome aluminum 36" × 36" × 18" (91.4 cm × 91.4 cm × 45.7 cm) © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, courtesy Pace Gallery

On Friday, April 25, The Pace Gallery celebrates 65 years since it was founded by Arne and Milly Glimcher. 

Throughout 2025, Pace is celebrating its 65th anniversary year with a series of exhibitions around the globe of work by artists who have been central to its program for decades. This special run of anniversary exhibitions is an ode to some of the gallery's longest-lasting relationships. Over the course of their careers, these figures, with Pace's support, charted new courses in the history of art. Pace's 65th anniversary presentations are listed chronologically below.

·       Joel Shapiro: Works from 1975–2024, Tokyo, January 17–February 22

·       Louise Nevelson: Shadow Dance, New York, January 17–March 1; Louise Nevelson: The Fourth Dimension, Seoul, April 11–May 17

·       Kenneth Noland: Paintings 1966–2006, Seoul, January 10–March 29; Tokyo, March 7–May 6

·       Sam Gilliam: The Flow of Color, Seoul, January 10–March 29; Tokyo, March 7–May 6

·       Jean Dubuffet: The Hourloupe Cycle, New York, March 13–April 26; Reverse Alchemy: Dubuffet, Basquiat, Nava, Berlin, May 2–June 14

·       Robert Indiana: The Shape of the World, Hong Kong, March 25–May 9; Robert Indiana: The American Dream, New York, May 9–August 15

·       Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, April 5–June 7

·       Robert Mangold: Pentagons and Folded Space, New York, May 9–August 15

·       Pace: 65 Years, Geneva, May 21–August 9

·       James Turrell, Seoul, June 12–August 16

·       Claes Oldenburg, Tokyo, July 18–August 23

·       Agnes Martin, New York, November/December

Opening May 21 and running through the end of the summer, Pace will open a group exhibition at its Geneva gallery delving into the past 65 years of Pace through a changing display of works that—situating the gallery's contemporary program in the context of its 20th century history—cultivates a dialogue between the past and present. Featuring works by Lynda Benglis, Adolph Gottlieb, Agnes Martin, Yoshitomo Nara, Louise Nevelson, Adam Pendleton, Pablo Picasso, Richard Pousette-Dart, Lucas Samaras, Antoni TaÌpies, and other major figures, this focused, thoughtfully curated presentation will invite visitors to learn about Pace's legacy. 

These exhibitions are accompanied by films featuring gallery founders Arne and Milly Glimcher and CEO Marc Glimcher discussing their relationships with artists over the course of the past 65 years. The films and other archival material are accessible here.

Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries, founded by Arne Glimcher in 1960. Holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko, Pace has a unique history that can be traced to its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery continues to nurture its longstanding relationships with its legacy artists and estates while also making an investment in the careers of contemporary artists, including Torkwase Dyson, Loie Hollowell, Robert Nava, Adam Pendleton, and Marina Perez Simão.

Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher and President Samanthe Rubell, Pace has established itself as a collaborative force in the art world, partnering with other galleries and nonprofit organizations around the world in recent years. The gallery advances its mission to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences and collectors around the world through a robust global program anchored by its exhibitions of both 20th century and contemporary art and scholarly projects from its imprint Pace Publishing, which produces books introducing new voices to the art historical canon. This artist-first ethos also extends to public installations, philanthropic events, performances, and other interdisciplinary programming presented by Pace.

Today, Pace has eight locations worldwide, including two galleries in New York—its eight-story headquarters at 540 West 25th Street and an adjacent 8,000-square-foot exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. The gallery’s history in the New York art world dates to 1963, when it opened its first space in the city on East 57th Street. A champion of Light and Space artists, Pace has also been active in California for some 60 years, opening its West Coast flagship in Los Angeles in 2022. The gallery maintains European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where it established an office in 2023. Pace was one of the first international galleries to have a major presence in Asia, where it has been active since 2008, the year it first opened in Beijing’s vibrant 798 Art District. It now operates galleries in Hong Kong and Seoul and opened its first gallery in Japan in Tokyo’s Azabudai Hills development in 2024.

For more news regarding Pace Gallery, please visit their website here. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too