London-based gallery Richard Saltoun will open a new location in New York this May, coinciding with the Frieze New York fair. The space will open on Thursday (2 May) with a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Jan Wade.Situated on the third floor of a 1920 townhouse in Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side, the space will be the gallery’s third location. Neighbours in the same building include Rosenberg & Co and Franklin Parrasch Gallery. The space is also the former New York location of Blum gallery, which will open a new space downtown in Tribeca this year. Richard Saltoun founded his gallery in 2012 in Mayfair, London as one of the first spaces to centre its programme around women artists. Saltoun opened a space in Rome on Via Margutta in 2022.“It’s an honour and privilege to open a gallery in New York, a city renowned for hosting some of the most important exhibitions of the past 100 years. We look forward to contributing to this thriving artistic landscape,” Saltoun said in a statement.The gallery’s inaugural show in Manhattan will also be Wade’s first solo exhibition in the US, and showcase work from across her decades-long career that deals with Black postcolonial identity and spirituality. Wade often draws on inspiration from her own heritage through her familial ties to the American South. Wade’s work was the subject of a major retrospective that opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2021, Jan Wade: Soul Power, which marked the museum’s first solo show for a Black female artist. That show is now travelling and will next open in Ontario at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in June.
