Elizabeth Dee

Elizabeth Dee Gallery was founded under sole ownership in 2002. For the last ten years, the gallery has mounted over 90 exhibitions and productions with contemporary artists with a commitment to critical inquiry in the territories of conceptual practice, political agency and shifting modes of discourse relevant to the changing landscape of contemporary art, technology and culture.

Elizabeth Dee has produced numerous innovative, first and internationally acclaimed exhibitions by such artists as Adrian Piper, Mark Barrow, Miriam Cahn (debut), Alex Bag, Philippe Decrauzat, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn (debut), Miranda lichtenstein, Ryan McNamara (debut), Jeff Keen (debut), Josephine Meckseper (debut), Ryan Trecartin (debut) and Meredyth Sparks (debut).

We have co-published artists' monographs with Josephine Meckseper (Sternberg Press), Meredyth Sparks (Monografik Éditions) and Ryan Trecartin (Dee/Rizolli) with contributions by Cindy Sherman, Linda Norden, and Lauren Cornell. Production is underway on new publications for 2012 which include a comprehensive monograph on Adrian Piper with essays by Helmut Draxler, Jörg Heiser, and Adrian Piper (Gregory R. Miller & Co.).

Elizabeth Dee has co-produced ten movies by Ryan Trecartin beginning with the making of his first feature length video in 2007 (I-BE AREA). These co-productions include: I-BE AREA, Trill-ogy Comp, Sibling Topics, K-Corea, P.opular S.ky, Re'Search Wait'S, Temp Stop, Roamie View and History Enhancements, The Re'Search and Ready. The gallery has served as producer of Any Ever exhibiting at museum venues internationally (The Power Plant, Toronto; MOCA, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, New York; MOCA, North Miami; and MAM de la Ville de Paris).

Elizabeth Dee is the founder of X-Initiative, an experimental non-profit global collective which took place in 2009-2010 at the former Dia Center for the Arts in New York and is co-editor of the accompanying X-Initiative Yearbook (Mousse Publishing, Milan). She is the co-founder of Independent, a hybrid collective exhibition forum/fair highlighting international galleries and non-profit spaces which takes place annually. She has written for October and Art World Salon. Elizabeth is a charter member of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.