What David Kordansky Gallery does

David Kordansky Gallery is a private contemporary art gallery founded in 2003 and headquartered in Los Angeles, with a second permanent gallery in Chelsea, New York (520 W. 20th St.). The gallery represents a roster of internationally recognized contemporary artists — including Jonas Wood, Rashid Johnson, Lauren Halsey, Deana Lawson, Mary Weatherford, Betty Woodman, and others — and supports them through curated exhibitions, institutional placements, publications, and international art fair participation.

The gallery operates through physical exhibition spaces in Los Angeles (5130 W. Edgewood Pl.) and New York, supplemented by an Artlogic-based website (davidkordanskygallery.com), an e-commerce shop for publications and merchandise (shop.davidkordanskygallery.com), Instagram, email newsletters, and a dedicated WeChat channel for Chinese-speaking audiences. It maintains a consistent presence at major international art fairs including Frieze Los Angeles, Frieze New York, Frieze London, Frieze Seoul, Art Basel Hong Kong, ART021 Shanghai, ADAA: The Art Show, EXPO Chicago, and Art Los Angeles Contemporary.

The business model is transaction-based: the gallery generates revenue by selling primary-market artworks from its represented roster to private collectors and institutional buyers (museums, cultural institutions). Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, with sales executed through direct gallery transactions, art fair booths, and a sales team reachable at [email protected]. Secondary revenue comes from the publication program (exhibition catalogues and artist monographs) and merchandise sold through the online shop. The gallery is independently operated, founder-owned, and privately held, with no disclosed institutional investors, parent companies, or funding rounds.

Name

David Kordansky Gallery

Legal name

David Kordansky Gallery

Website

https://davidkordanskygallery.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

David Kordansky Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2003, representing internationally recognized artists through exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, international art fair participation, and direct sales to private collectors and museums.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Contemporary Art Gallery

NAICS

Art Dealers (459920), Art Dealers (45992)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Art Galleries & Exhibition Spaces (Commercial & Nonprofit) (THAJADAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Performing Arts & Cultural Event Venues (Theaters, Museums) (THAHAAAG)

Keywords

• Contemporary art gallery
• Artist representation
• Fine art sales
• Art fair participation
• Exhibition curation

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Art Sales: The gallery generates revenue by selling artworks created by its roster of represented artists to collectors, institutions, and other galleries. Sales occur through direct gallery transactions, art fair participation, and inquiries via the gallery's sales team.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

David Kordansky Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that represents and promotes a roster of artists, organizes and hosts exhibitions at its Los Angeles and New York gallery spaces, participates in major international art fairs, publishes exhibition catalogues and artist monographs, and sells artworks and publications directly to collectors and institutions through its galleries, fairs, and online shop. The gallery operates as a unified contemporary art platform combining physical exhibition spaces with a digital sales channel.

Product overview

David Kordansky Gallery is a contemporary art gallery operating as a unified platform that combines physical exhibition spaces in Los Angeles and New York with digital sales channels. The core offerings include artist representation, curated exhibitions (Art Exhibitions), art sales via the Shop, and publications documenting artist work. The gallery also participates in major international art fairs. This is not a software technology product but rather a traditional art business with a web presence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Art Exhibitions Curated solo and group art exhibitions featuring represented contemporary artists, hosted at the gallery's Los Angeles and New York locations. Recent and upcoming shows include Tom's Stretch and Persona Works by Moka Lee (LA, July 10 – August 22, 2026) and An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 curated by Ricki and Jay Blakesberg (NY, June 23 – August 7, 2026).
• Art Sales / Shop Direct sales of artworks by represented artists to collectors and institutions through the gallery's physical spaces, art fair booths, and an online shop. Sales are quote-based and conducted through the gallery's sales team.
• Publications Exhibition catalogues, artist monographs, and books documenting the work of represented artists, offered for sale through the gallery's online shop and distributed to institutional and collector audiences.
• Artist Representation Long-term representation and career development of contemporary artists including exhibition programming, sales representation, museum placement, fair participation, and publication support.
• Art Fair Participation Presentation and sale of artworks by represented artists at major international art fairs, extending the gallery's sales and exhibition footprint beyond its permanent gallery spaces.
• Gallery Locations (Exhibition Spaces) Two physical gallery exhibition spaces — Los Angeles headquarters and New York — open to the public and used to stage regular exhibition programming for represented artists.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Pace Gallery: Pace is a leading contemporary art gallery representing many of the same blue-chip artists David Kordansky competes for, with comparable global footprint and participation in the same international art fairs. It is the closest direct peer in terms of representation strategy and primary-market positioning.
• Marian Goodman Gallery: Marian Goodman Gallery is a highly regarded NYC- and Paris-based contemporary art gallery representing many senior international artists. It operates a similar artist-representation, fair-participating primary-market model to David Kordansky.
• Sprüth Magers: Sprüth Magers is an international contemporary art gallery with locations in Berlin, London, and LA, representing a roster of contemporary artists that overlaps meaningfully with David Kordansky's. Close peer in programmatic and curatorial approach.
• Luhring Augustine: Luhring Augustine is a NYC-based contemporary art gallery representing a roster of established international contemporary artists. Comparable in scale and primary-market representation model to David Kordansky.
• Regen Projects: Regen Projects is a long-standing LA-based contemporary art gallery with a comparable roster of internationally recognized artists. It is the most geographically and operationally similar peer to David Kordansky within the LA market.
• Perrotin: Perrotin is a contemporary art gallery with global locations (Paris, NYC, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Dubai) and a similar artist roster profile. Competes with David Kordansky for blue-chip contemporary placements and art fair visibility.
• Lisson Gallery: Lisson Gallery is an international contemporary art gallery with locations in London, NYC, and Shanghai, representing many of the same generation of post-war and contemporary artists as David Kordansky. Closely comparable in primary-market representation strategy and fair calendar.

Broad incumbents

• Hauser & Wirth: Hauser & Wirth is a major international contemporary and modern art gallery with multi-continent gallery locations and representation of established blue-chip artists. Overlaps with David Kordansky on artist representation and collector base but operates much more broadly across modern and contemporary categories.
• Gagosian: Gagosian is the world's largest contemporary art gallery with a global network of exhibition spaces. It competes with David Kordansky for top contemporary artists and institutional collectors, but at vastly greater scale, headcount, and geographic reach.
• David Zwirner: David Zwirner is a leading global contemporary art gallery with operations in NYC, LA, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. It competes directly with David Kordansky for blue-chip LA-adjacent contemporary artists and institutional placements but with materially greater scale and infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/davidkordanskygallery/?hl=en
• Facebookfacebook.com/davidkordanskygallery

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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