Postmasters Gallery opened in East Village in December 1984. In 1989 Postmasters moved to Soho to its location at 80 Greene Street. In September 1998 the gallery relocated again to a new ground floor space of a former 4,000 square feet garage in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street.

During its 23 years Postmasters is showing young and established artists of all media. We actively seek new forms of creative expression and show them in a context of painting, sculpture and photography. Painters (Steve Mumford, David Diao), sculptors (David Herbert, Jack Risley), installation artists (Diana Cooper , Sally Smart), and artists for whom form follows conceptual ideas (Spencer Finch, Mary Kelly, Claude Wampler) are represented along the video and new media artists like Katarzyna Kozyra, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Omer Fast, Eddo Stern, Guy Ben-Ner, Anthony Goicolea, Natalie Jeremijenko, 0100101110101101.ORG (Eva and Franco Mattes), and Wolfgang Staehle. The artworks are generally content oriented, conceptually based, and - most importantly - reflective of our time. Given the configuration of the space (two large rooms) we are often able to present two exhibitions simultaneously.

Postmasters is the primary gallery for all the artists we represent.

Postmasters' artists in most recent global / institutional exhibitions:
Guy Ben-Ner represented Israel at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Anthony Goicolea was a recipient of the Paris Photo 2005 prize. In 2006 Natalie Jeremijenko participated in 2006 Whitney Biennial and the Design Triennial 2006-2007 at Cooper Hewitt Museum.
In March 2007 Jennifer and Kevin McCoy inaugurated the new galleries of British Film Institute Southbank in London with a solo show and a new commission. They exhibit at MoMA, New York in June 2007.
Omer Fast and Wolfgang Staehle are exhibiting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a show of new media acquisitions March 2007.
GuyBen-Ner video installation is shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal, beginning May 2007.
A large survey exhibition of Spencer Finch is being presented by MassMOCA beginning May 2007, until March 2008.
A solo show of Diana Cooper will open at MOCA Cleveland in the fall of 2007.
In June 2007 three installations by Mary Kelly will be included in Documenta XII in Kassel.
Guy Ben-Ner will show a new work at 2007 Munster Sculpture Project.

Postmasters is one of the few galleries committed to showing art associated with new technologies. It began with - now seminal - "Can you Digit?" an exhibition of digital projects on 30 computer stations in March 1996. Most recently Postmasters exhibited "13 Most Beautiful Avatars", a project by well known culture jamming media artists Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.ORG) The Matteses currently live an alternative life in the online virtual world Second Life where they created a post-Warholian series of digital paintings of avatars.

Extensive archives of all exhibitions since 1999 are available online www.postmastersart.com

Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich are the owners/directors of Postmasters.

Postmasters Gallery, located in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street, NYC 10011 is open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 6 pm.
Please contact Magdalena Sawon or Tamas Banovich for any further information or with any questions that you might have. phone: 212-727-3323 fax: 212-229-2829 e-mail: [email protected]