Walter Wickiser Gallery

The Walter Wickiser Gallery, located in the prestigious Fine Art Building in Chelsea – located at 210 Eleventh Avenue, Suite 303, New York, NY 10001 – was established in 1992. As the son of artist and art educator Ralph Wickiser – who was former the Chairman of the graduate art program at Pratt Institute from 1962-1978 – Walter Wickiser was born and raised in the American art world amongst internationally renowned modern artists including Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, George McNeil, and Stephen Pace. Walter Wickiser’s career as an art dealer formally began in 1990 in Soho, NY, when he became the first director of the first gallery to be established in the United States, from main land China. This led to establishing his primary direction as a gallerist to exhibit work by both American and Asian-American painters, as well as artists from China, Japan and Korea. It has always been the focus of the Wickiser Gallery to create a visual dialogue between these cultures, and simultaneously remind us of the ability of the arts to transcend cultural boundaries.The United States State Department and Art For Embassy’s Program has exhibited Wickiser’s choice of Asian artists in the United States Embassy’s in Seoul, Korea, and Manila, Philippines. Clients and visitors to the gallery have included Sally Michael, Betsy Bloomingdale, Leo Castelli, Kim Catrall, Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Philip Gustin, Alex Katz, Ted Koppel, Sarah Kuniyoshi, Sam LeFrak, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Geraldo Rivera and Paul Volker. The Wickiser Gallery has received numerous reviews in ARTnews, Art In America and many other internationally recognized publications. Work by many of the gallery’s artists have been exhibited at American museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the High Museum of Art in Georgia, the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, and the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut.