Yancey Richardson Gallery

About the Gallery
Founded in 1995, Yancey Richardson represents artists working in photography, film, and lens-based media. The gallery is committed to working with museums, private institutions, leading art collectors, and other galleries to advance the careers of the artists we represent. Our current program includes emerging photographers as well as critically recognized, mid-career artists such as John Divola, Mitch Epstein, Ori Gersht, Anthony Hernandez, Laura Letinsky, Andrew Moore, Zanele Muholi, Mickalene Thomas and Hellen van Meene. Additionally, the gallery has presented exhibitions of historically significant figures such as Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Ed Ruscha, August Sander, and Larry Sultan.

Gallery artists have been extensively collected and exhibited by museums worldwide including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Getty Museum, Centre George Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum, Tate Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Gallery artists have been widely published in artist monographs, prominent art journals, and critical texts and reviews of the gallery's exhibitions have appeared in Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Modern Painters, The Nation, New York Times and the New Yorker among many other publications. Yancey Richardson is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and the Association of International Photography Art Dealers. 

About the Presentation
Yancey Richardson Gallery will debut at Independent with a solo presentation featuring work by Tseng Kwong Chi.

Between 1979 and 1989, the New York-based queer immigrant artist Tseng Kwong Chi created a ground-breaking series of photographic self-portraits in which he posed in a “Mao suit” and mirrored sunglasses at national monuments and tourist sites. The series, titled East Meets West, combined performance, self-portraiture and photography to investigate core issues of outsider and identity politics. While these pictures can be seen as anticipating “selfies,” they elicit questions of artifice and reality, masquerade and identity, belonging and estrangement, as well as the displacement and disjunction of the Asian diaspora. Thirty-five years after his death in 1990 from AIDs, with much of the nation characterizing immigrants and non-heteronormative figures as a threat, Tseng’s mischievous and subtle personification of otherness is particularly relevant. In addition to a selection of Tseng’s most iconic images from East Meets West, our presentation will also include a selection of portraits made by Tseng between 1985 and 1988 of his artist friends in their studios, including Jean-Michael Basquiat, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol.