Rachel Lehmann
was born in Asmara, Ethiopia, and studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She started her career as the proprietor of two contemporary galleries in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, where she showed young artists such as Jeff Koons, David Salle and Candida Höfer, who have since become internationally acclaimed.
Rachel Lehmann met David Maupin in Italy in 1991, and in 1993, she and David, in collaboration with Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer of Metro Pictures, established Offshore Gallery in East Hampton, where leading artists such as Richard Prince, David Salle, and Ross Bleckner were exhibited.
Three years later, in October 1996, Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin founded Lehmann Maupin and opened their first gallery location in SoHo, later relocating to Chelsea and expanding to the Lower East Side. The gallery notably established its first international exhibition space in Hong Kong in 2013, and a second international exhibition space in Seoul in 2017. The gallery expanded its footprint in 2018 in New York with the inauguration of a 8,500 square foot gallery in Chelsea designed by internationally esteemed architect Peter Marino. In October 2020. the gallery opened its fifth physical location and first-ever space in London in the heart of South Kensington.
Throughout its 25 year history, Lehmann Maupin has fostered the careers of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, both emerging and established, working in multiple disciplines and across varied media. The gallery represents artists from the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Known for championing artists who create groundbreaking and challenging forms of visual expression, Lehmann Maupin presents work highlighting personal investigations and individual narratives through conceptual approaches that address such issues as gender, class, religion, history, politics, and globalism. Since inception, the gallery has been instrumental in introducing international artists in new geographies. This mission has resulted in historic first exhibitions in New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and now London.
Lehmann Maupin represents world-renowned and multi-awarded artists, including Do Ho Suh, Teresita Fernández, Gilbert & George, Liza Lou, Catherine Opie, Nari Ward, Liu Wei, and Cecilia Vicuña. The gallery has secured the placement of historically significant artworks in international public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA; Museum Voorlinden, The Netherlands; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; Tate Modern, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; among many others. Lehmann Maupin’s exhibitions, along with Rachel Lehmann, have been reviewed by and featured in international publications, including The New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Art in America, South China Morning Post, Tatler Asia, among many others.
Rachel Lehmann has served on the International Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and also on the Museum’s Acquisitions Board. She has also been a member of the Selection Committee for the Art Dealer’s Association of America.
Rachel Lehmann, 2018. Photo by Jason Schmidt. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London