Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch began his art career with a small gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1973. After working as Assistant Director at the John Weber Gallery from 1974-76 and earning an MBA at the Harvard Business School, he developed and co-managed Citibank’s Art Advisory Service from 1979-88. In 1996, he opened Deitch Projects which presented more that 250 exhibition and projects. He closed the gallery in 2010 to become Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2014, Deitch reopened his gallery, focusing on projects with major artists and curated thematic exhibitions. Deitch opened a large gallery in Los Angeles in September 2018. In addition to his commercial career, Deitch curated influential exhibitions in museums and foundations including Artificial Nature, Post Human, Form Follows Fiction, and Overpop at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. Unrealism, Deitch's book on new figurative painting, was published by Rizzoli in October 2019.