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Mary Boone Gallery was founded in New York in 1977. The first Gallery was a small ground floor space at the renowned Soho address 420 West Broadway. From the outset, the Gallery was committed to showing the work of innovative young artists.

By the early 1980s, two artists who started with the Gallery-David Salle and Julian Schnabel-had attained international recognition. Both were given dual exhibitions with the Gallery's upstairs neighbor, Leo Castelli Gallery . Matching the heroic output and ambition of these artists, in September 1981 Mary Boone Gallery expanded by completing a dramatic renovation of a truck garage directly across the street.

The Gallery intermittently mounted historical shows such as works by Francis Picabia, an installation by Marcel Broodthaers, 1960s works by Agnes Martin, the rarely seen paintings of Clyfford Still, and the "Mirror Paintings" of the 1970s by Roy Lichtenstein. These exhibitions proved to be influential to the upcoming generation of artists.

By the 1990s, Soho had evolved into a lively commercial district no longer chiefly inhabited by, and nurturing to, artists. In May 1996 the Gallery moved uptown to Fifth Avenue and 57 Street, long established crossroads of the art world.

The Gallery in this manner functions as a Kunsthalle or project space, stimulating observation and discourse. Through this program the Gallery has shown and developed relationships with new artists such as Pierre Bismuth, Carol Bove, Thomas Demand, Douglas Gordon, Aleksandra Mir , and Mika Rottenberg. A number of these artists have proceeded to mount solo shows at the Gallery.

In November 2000, Mary Boone Gallery opened an additional space in Manhattan's developing Chelsea art district - again in a former garage. This Gallery allows for an expanded exhibition schedule and provides facilities for large-scale works and dramatic installations, such as Peter Hall ey 's explosive hanging of paintings and wallpaper, Marc Quinn 's complete series of carved marble statues of persons with missing limbs, a four-channel DVD installation by Barbara Kruger , and monumental sculpture by James Lee Byars .