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Gregory Linn
Gregory Linn, Moscow.
©2018 Walead Beshty, courtesy of the artist.
Since 1980, Gregory has been active in the contemporary art market in the United States and Europe. He first began collecting art in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, he became involved with national and international galleries, first via Art Chicago, and then by frequent travel to New York and Los Angeles.
After moving from to Los Angeles in 1985, Gregory co-founded New Strategies, one of the first of the “salon-style” galleries in the evolving contemporary art scene in Southern California. New Strategies was the first gallery to present the work of Richard Prince, Larry Johnson, and Andres Serrano in Los Angeles.
Gregory moved to London in 1990, where he volunteered for Maureen Paley’s Interim Art and the Terrence Higgins Trust. He developed relationships with galleries, curators, and artists in Europe. Returning to New York in 1993, he was the first employee of David Zwirner Gallery, before joining the marketing department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There, Gregory was among the pioneers of web-based marketing and participated in the American Alliance of Museums' "digital museum" discussion group, the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). In 2003 Gregory founded linn press, specialists in contemporary art.
In spring 2009, linn press was invited to be guest curators of ПЯТь {FIVE}, at BAIBAKOV art projects (Moscow). This was the first in-depth presentation of work in Russia by then-emerging American artists Walead Beshty, Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Sterling Ruby, and Kelley Walker. The exhibition compared at the aesthetic lineages of Donald Judd, Robert Indiana, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra and Andy Warhol with these five younger artists. Since then, he has helped to organize numerous exhibitions in Antwerp, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami Beach, Moscow, and New York.
Gregory manages several key client relationships in the United States, Mexico, South Korea, and France/Austria. He is also responsible for quantitative and qualitative research for client purchases and market and insurance valuations.
Gregory is a member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's William Society, as well as The New Century Club and Legacy Society of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has also been a benefactor to The Art Institute of Chicago, City of Chicago (Department of Cultural Affairs), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Gregory graduated from Western Illinois University, concentrating in business and marketing. He has served on the boards of the Sculpture Center (Long Island City, New York) and the Arcadia University Art Gallery (Glenside, Pennsylvania).