Who We Are

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 story that can be traced to its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist, Minimalist, Pop, and Light and Space movements. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery maintains enduring ties with its legacy artists and estates while also making long-term investments in the careers of contemporary artists, including rising painters Pam Evelyn, Li Hei Di, and Lauren Quin as well as established figures such as Loie Hollowell, Kylie Manning, Robert Nava, Adam Pendleton, Marina Perez Simão, and Anicka Yi. 

Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher and President Samanthe Rubell, Pace has established itself as a gallery of and for the future. It has played a key role in shaping and building major public and private collections across the globe since its founding. Pace highlights the shared lineages among its intergenerational artists through a robust global exhibition program encompassing 20th-century masterworks and contemporary art, as well as scholarly projects from Pace Publishing, one of the longest standing gallery imprints. Its artist-first ethos extends to public installations, philanthropic events, performances, and other interdisciplinary programming. 

Pace also has a strong reputation for collaboration, and it shares representation of some artists with various small and midsize galleries around the world. In 2025, in this spirit of community, Pace became a partner in Pace Di Donna Schrader, a boutique gallery devoted to secondary market sales operating on a global scale. Pace continues its long history of collection-building with this venture, which charts a new path for its work in the secondary market and its stewardship of historic artworks. 

Today, Pace has nine 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 in Chelsea—and 125 Newbury, an experimental project space in Tribeca named for the gallery’s original address on Newbury Street in Boston. Through an exhibition program directed by Arne Glimcher, 125 Newbury mounts innovative shows by emerging artists as well as curated presentations focusing on specific aspects or periods of historical artists’ practices. Pace’s origin in New York dates to 1963, when it opened its first space in the city on East 57th Street.

Pace has also been active in California for some 60 years, opening its West Coast flagship in Los Angeles in 2022. It maintains European footholds in London, Geneva, and Berlin, where it established a gallery space in 2025. 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 Seoul and Tokyo along with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong.