Lehmann Maupin

Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin founded their gallery in 1996 in New York's SoHo, driven by a conviction that the most interesting art was being made outside the Western canon long before the market agreed. Their early championing of Korean artists Do Ho Suh and Lee Bul — when Korean contemporary art had virtually no Western market — proved prescient. Both are now blue-chip names, and the gallery's Asian expertise has been validated by a decade of explosive growth in Korean collecting. Today Lehmann Maupin operates spaces in Chelsea (New York), Seoul, and London, with a roster that spans Teresita Fernández, McArthur Binion, Hernan Bas, Mandy El-Sayegh, and Gilbert & George alongside its Asian program. The gallery occupies a distinctive sweet spot: blue-chip infrastructure and curatorial standards, but with pricing that remains accessible relative to mega-gallery competitors. Primary market works typically range from $10,000 to $500,000 — a band where serious collectors can build significant holdings without the waitlists and allocation games that characterize the top tier. The Seoul gallery positions Lehmann Maupin as a bridge between Western and Asian art worlds, giving collectors on both sides of the Pacific access to programs they would not easily encounter locally. This cross-pollination model — rather than pure geographic expansion — is what makes their approach distinctive.