The mission of Welancora Gallery is to represent artists from around the world by placing their work with collectors and institutions, holding major exhibitions and publishing scholarly catalogues and monographs.
The gallery is located in a 19th century townhouse in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. At the onset, the gallery established itself as a unique entity by mounting exhibitions in a non-traditional space at a time when few people wanted to live or work in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Welancora designates space in its schedule for guest curators to organize exhibitions. A few of the more memorable exhibitions at the gallery include Conjure, a solo show of work by Aisha T. Bell, curated by Derrick Adams; RED, a group exhibition curated by Nico Wheadon and featuring the work of Alteronce Gumby, Leslie Hewitt, Felipe Baiza, Jaishri Abichandani, Anders Jones, Dana Robinson, Joe Hayes III, Eleisha Faith McCorkle, Joseph Collier III, Soull Ogun, Lina Puerta, and Devin Morris; Mirrored by Nature curated by Corinne Gordon and featuring the work of Oasa DuVerney, David Rios Ferreira, Tajh Rust and Adrienne Elise Tarver; and, How Did You Get This: The Spaces We Inhabit, with work by Deborah Willis, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Anders Jones, Zalika Azim and Melvin Harper. The gallery has also served as an exhibitor at Frieze Los Angeles, Art Basel Miami Beach, The Armory Show and Expo Chicago with work by Helen Evans Ramsaran, Carl E. Hazlewood, and Oasa DuVerney.
