Art galleryLisson Gallery
The London gallery of Minimal and Conceptual art, open on the same street since 1967.
- Founded
- 1967, London
- Founded by
- Nicholas Logsdail
- Run from
- London
- Spaces in
- 5 cities
- Highest reported sale
- Just over $925,000
The gallery
Nicholas Logsdail was still an art student when he opened a gallery on Bell Street, near Lisson Grove in north-west London, in 1967. It is still there. In its first years it was one of the few places in Britain to show the American Minimal and Conceptual artists, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Dan Graham, as they were making their names.
In the 1980s the gallery introduced a generation of British sculptors, among them Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg and Richard Deacon, each of whom went on to win the Turner Prize. Later it took on artists from further afield: Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, Lee Ufan, Carmen Herrera.
Lisson stayed in London alone for almost fifty years. It opened in New York in 2016, under the High Line, and since then in Shanghai, Beijing and Los Angeles.
Reported sales
- Leiko IkemuraUsagi Greeting (440), 2025Just over $925,000Art Basel Paris 2025
- Lee UfanResponse, 2024$850,000Art Basel 2024
- Sean ScullyWall of Light Green Mountain, 2022$562,500Art Basel 2024
Prices as the gallery reported them from its stand at the fair named. They are the seller's figures, usually the asking price, and cannot be checked.
Artists and estates
- Anish Kapoor
- Ai Weiwei
- Marina Abramović
- Lee Ufan
- Sean Scully
- Carmen Herrera
- Tony Cragg
- Richard Deacon
- Richard Long
- Julian Opie
- Daniel Buren
- Sol LeWitt
- Lawrence Weiner
- Robert Mangold
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Ryan Gander
- Laure Prouvost
- Leiko Ikemura
A selection. Rosters change, and the gallery's own site has the full list.
Milestones
- 1967The gallery opens on Bell Street with a group of young artists, Derek Jarman among them.
- 1972The first of a run of shows of Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd.
- 1981From the early 1980s, the New British Sculpture: Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon.
- 2016New York opens beneath the High Line.
- 2019Shanghai: a permanent space in Asia.