Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

What Tanya Bonakdar Gallery does

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is a New York-based contemporary art gallery founded in 1994 and headquartered at 521 West 21st Street in the Chelsea arts district. The gallery represents an internationally curated roster of contemporary artists including Mark Manders, Tomás Saraceno, Shilpa Gupta, Yuko Mohri, Olafur Eliasson, Gillian Wearing, Monica Bonvicini, Kimsooja, Magali Reus, Susan Philipsz, and Ernesto Neto, mounting exhibitions in its Chelsea space and placing works in major museums across the US, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, and Canada. Operationally, the gallery runs on the Artlogic platform for inventory, client, and exhibition management, and supplements its physical programme with an online viewing room, a bilingual English/Simplified Chinese website, and WeChat outreach to collectors in Asia.

The gallery's business model is transaction-based: it earns commissions on primary-market sales of works by represented artists and on secondary-market transactions routed through the gallery. Its customer base is bifurcated between HNW private collectors (relationship-driven, acquisition-focused) and museums and public institutions (curatorial placement, not direct sales revenue). Marketing and distribution are conducted through physical exhibitions, international art fair participation, institutional partnerships, email newsletters, Instagram, and press coverage. In 2025, the gallery ceased operations and shuttered its Chelsea space as part of a broader contraction among high-profile New York galleries.

Name

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Legal name

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Website

https://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is a Chelsea-based contemporary art gallery, founded in 1994, representing an international roster of established artists and serving HNW private collectors and museums through primary- and secondary-market transactions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Contemporary Art Gallery

NAICS

Art Dealers (459920), Art Dealers (45992)

akta.pro primary industry

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

Keywords

• Contemporary art gallery
• Artist representation
• Art exhibitions
• International art fairs
• Art sales

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Art Sales: Primary revenue from selling contemporary artworks by represented artists to collectors, museums, and institutions. Transactions include primary market sales from gallery exhibitions and secondary market consignments.
2. Art Fair Exhibitions: Revenue from participation in international art fairs, presenting represented artists to broader collector bases.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is a New York-based contemporary art gallery that represents an international roster of established artists, presents exhibitions of their work at its Chelsea gallery space and through international art fairs, and facilitates primary and secondary market sales, bespoke commissions, and related publications to collectors and institutions.

Product overview

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is a New York-based contemporary art gallery offering a unified portfolio of services centered on artist representation, exhibitions, and art sales. The core offerings include gallery exhibitions (both physical and viewing room), representation of artists across multiple disciplines, publications, commissions, and art fair participation. The gallery maintains a roster of internationally recognized artists including Mark Manders, Tomás Saraceno, Shilpa Gupta, and Yuko Mohri, representing a cohesive program of sculptural, installation, and conceptual art practices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gallery Exhibitions

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered major and minor.

• London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACEmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on Mark Manders site-specific commission 'Room with All Existing Words' at the ancient Temple of Mithras site, transforming the space between past and present.
• Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, BerlinmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMajor institutional partnership presenting Shilpa Gupta's solo exhibition 'What Still Holds' as part of the museum's 30th anniversary program.
• New Taipei City Art Museum, TaiwanmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTomás Saraceno's first large-scale solo exhibition in Taiwan, 'Interwoven,' exploring webs of life and environmental themes.
• Centro Botín, SpainmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYuko Mohri's exhibition 'Entanglements' exploring interconnectedness between objects, energies, sounds, and people.
• MOCA TorontominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKimsooja exhibition 'Dimensions of a Needle' at Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto.
• Kunstverein Freiburg, GermanyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMagali Reus exhibition 'Salt' at Kunstverein Freiburg.
• National Portrait Gallery, LondonmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGillian Wearing solo exhibition 'Spiritual Family' at National Portrait Gallery.
• Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOlafur Eliasson exhibition 'Presence' at QAGOMA.
• Seoul Museum of Art, South KoreaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerErnesto Neto installation 'Ba Ka Ba, a Dance of the Eternal Polarities' at Seoul Museum of Art.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• David Zwirner: One of the most influential contemporary art galleries globally, headquartered in New York's Chelsea with galleries in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. Represents living artists of comparable caliber to Tanya Bonakdar's roster and operates a similar high-end primary-market, art-fair, and institutional-loan model.
• Pace Gallery: Major New York-based contemporary gallery with global locations (London, Seoul, Tokyo, Geneva, Hong Kong). Closely comparable operating model: blue-chip artist representation, international art fair participation, institutional partnerships, and commission facilitation.
• Gagosian: The largest global network of contemporary art galleries, founded by Larry Gagosian, with locations across the US, Europe, and Asia. Directly comparable in targeting the same HNW collectors, museums, and blue-chip contemporary artists as Tanya Bonakdar.
• Hauser & Wirth: International contemporary and modern art gallery with locations in Zurich, London, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Comparable in representing major living artists, running a robust art-fair circuit, and cultivating institutional museum partnerships globally.
• Marian Goodman Gallery: New York-based contemporary gallery with outposts in Paris and London. Highly comparable in roster caliber (conceptual and installation-driven practices), collector base, and global art fair presence; another direct Chelsea competitor.
• Lehmann Maupin: New York- and Seoul-based contemporary gallery with a similar international roster and collector profile. Closely comparable in scale, programmatic focus on installation and conceptual work, and cross-border institutional engagement.
• Perrotin: Paris-headquartered contemporary gallery with global locations including New York. Comparable in representing internationally active artists, running major art fair booths, and cultivating museum exhibition pipelines.
• Gladstone Gallery: New York-based contemporary gallery with locations in Brussels and Seoul. Direct peer in Chelsea real estate, contemporary artist representation, and HNW collector development.
• Mitchell-Innes & Nash: New York-based contemporary gallery named in the same 2025 'Daddy Deathpocalypse' closure event as Tanya Bonakdar. Closely comparable in scale, Chelsea positioning, and blue-chip contemporary roster before the simultaneous shutdown.
• Venus Over Manhattan: New York-based contemporary gallery also identified as part of the 2025 wave of gallery closures alongside Tanya Bonakdar. Comparable as a mid-to-upper-tier contemporary program serving the same collector and institutional audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TanyaBonakdar
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• Instagraminstagram.com/tanyabonakdargallery/?hl=en
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tanya-bonakdar-gallery

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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