IRL GALLERY
86 Walker St. #2
New York, NY 10013
(between Broadway and Lafayette)
Gallery Hours:
Thursday - Saturday: 12-6pm
& by appointment
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About:
IRL is an art gallery and creative platform founded in 2020, currently based in NYC.
The gallery is focused on emerging, underrepresented, and mid-career artists and complements its 10–12 annual exhibitions with an avant-garde and electronic music program. Dedicated to nurturing emerging artists, the gallery frequently offers them the opportunity for their inaugural exhibition in the city. With a focus on promoting transnational dialogues, IRL Gallery curates a program that highlights process-driven and technically rigorous works, emphasizing artists who engage deeply with materiality, experimentation, and conceptual frameworks. The gallery values practices that explore the boundaries of form and technique, fostering a space where process is as vital as the final outcome.
In 2022, IRL moved to the LES/Chinatown/Two Bridges area, before moving to its current location in Tribeca, at 86 Walker st.
IRL has had the pleasure to offer NYC debuts to many artists, such as: Louis Le Kim, Manuel Tainha, Anna Ruth, Eliza Wagener, Stanislav Zabrodsky, Gaspard Girard d'Albissin, Alexander Skats, Kinderseele, Laust Højgaard, Almendra Bertoni (solo debut), Yirui Jia (solo debut), Chun, Gabrielle Graessle, Jonathon Downing, Okey Ofomata, Daniel Silva Flandez, Hawazin Alotaibi, Adèle Aproh, RAMSKO, Mattia Guarnera-McCarthy, Nina Bachmann, Laura Limbourg, Dominik Scharfer, Cai Ruei Heng, Douglas de Souza, Eugenia Mussa, and many more.
IRL GALLERY is a proud member of NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance).