Hal Bromm
90 West Broadway, 2nd floor
New York, NY, 10007
+1 212-732-6196
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Hal Bromm
90 West Broadway, 2nd floor
New York, NY, 10007
+1 212-732-6196
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ABOUT HAL BROMM
Tribeca’s first contemporary art gallery was founded by Hal Bromm in 1975 at 10 Beach Street. Works by British film-maker Derek Jarman and New York artists John Chamberlain, Rosemarie Castoro, and Donald Judd were among those featured in Hal Bromm Gallery’s debut.
The gallery's inaugural exhibition at 114 Franklin Street in 1976 included Suzanne Harris, Jene Highstein, Richard Nonas, Lucio Pozzi, and Susanna Tanger. Building its momentum, Hal Bromm Gallery was then invited to participate annually in Arte Fiera/Bologna, a prestigious international art fair hosted each June in Italy.
In 1977, Hal Bromm Gallery opened a new space: 90 West Broadway at Chambers Street. The debut show, MOVING, was a two-part invitational exhibition mirroring the transformative chapter in the gallery’s history. An international roster of twenty-five contemporary artists were invited to create works focused on movement and relocation. Contributing artists included Andre Cadere, Antonio Dias, Diego Cortez, Joel Fisher, Gerald Incandela, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
As Hal Bromm Gallery continued to cement its place amongst both NYC contemporary art communities and those abroad, the gallery hosted annual “new talent” shows. These introduced and provided a platform for young artists such as Jeff Wall, John Hilliard, Roger Cutforth, Mac Adams, Robert Longo, Troy Brauntuch, David Salle, Peter Downsbrough and many others long before they became well-known.
French artist Andre Cadere had planned a gallery exhibiton for autumn 1978, but tragically died that summer. Bromm followed through, staging a memorial exhibition featuring works lent by friends of the artist who had collected Cadere’s work including Jeanne Claude and Christo, Merrill Wagner and Robert Ryman, Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici. Nothing was for sale.
In 1979, an exchange exhibition with Banco Gallery in Brescia, Italy was organized. Gallerist Massimo Minini brought works by Alighiero Boetti, Paolo Icaro, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, and Michele Zaza to New York. In 1980, Hal Bromm presented new works at Minini’s Banco Gallery in Brescia by five women: Alice Adams, Rosemarie Castoro, Linda Francis, Jody Pinto, and Lynn Umlauf.
In 1981, the gallery presented Keith Haring's first major solo exhibition, introducing the public to the gifted artist who had been reclaiming subway advertising boards and transforming them into what would become his signature, magical chalk illustrations.
“Climbing”, a major group exhibition of prominent East Village artists was organized at the gallery’s Tribeca space in 1984. Twenty-five artists were invited, including Luis Frangella, David Wojnarowicz, Keiko Bonk, Russell Sharon, Kiki Smith, Martin Wong, Judy Glantzman, Steven Lack, Rick Prol, Greer Lankton, Walter Robinson, John Fekner, and Mike Bidlo. This benchmark exhibition illuminated the vibrant energy and breadth of talent surfacing in the East Village in the first half of the decade, and Bromm soon opened a second space on Avenue A.
For the gallery’s 30th Anniversary, four important artists whose lives were cut short by AIDS were honored: Carlos Alfonzo, Luis Frangella, Keith Haring, and David Wojnarowicz. The exhibition focused attention on the tragic reality that the AIDS crisis was not over.
In 2015, the gallery celebrated the life and work of Rosemarie Castoro with a memorial exhibition following her death in May of that year, marking four decades in their artistic and personal relationship. For the gallery’s 40th Anniversary, an exhibition of over 100 artists featured many whose work had been shown at the gallery along with Castoro, including: Alice Adams, Lynda Benglis, Jeanne-Claude and Christo, Judy Glantzman, Michael Goldberg, Keith Haring, Paolo Icaro, Allan McCollum, Natalya Nesterova, Walter Robinson, Kiki Smith, Keith Sonnier, David Wojnarowicz, and Martin Wong. Joey Tepedino is the latest artist in Hal Bromm Gallery’s long history of supporting emerging creators at such pivotal points in their careers.
From its conception, the gallery has developed strong alliances with both prominent private and public collections worldwide. The gallery’s rich history collaborating with artists, galleries, museums, and institutions on the development and curation of historic exhibitions is internationally respected.
As Hal Bromm Gallery now celebrates its 50th anniverary, it continues to focus on collaborating with collectors in forming and refining their collections, assisting art advisers and curators in finding exceptional works, and bringing light to emerging artists while paying homage to the people and art who contributed to an extraordiary history.