Founded in 1998 by Stuart Shave, Modern Art is a contemporary art gallery in London representing over thirty artists. The gallery programs ten to fourteen exhibitions per year of diverse media and scale.
The gallery represents established and highly influential artists such as Richard Tuttle, Mohammed Sami, Pope.L, Jacqueline Humphries, Eva Rothschild and Sanya Kantarovsky, as well as a younger generation including Yngve Holen, Nicolas Deshayes, Francesca Mollett and Joseph Yaeger. Modern Art’s programme has contributed to the reintroduction of seminal historical figures such as Forrest Bess, René Daniëls and Karlo Kacharava.
Over the past twenty-five years the gallery has operated in various locations around London, beginning in the East End before moving to the West End in 2008. In 2014, Modern Art opened a converted pre-war industrial building on Helmet Row in Clerkenwell with a show by Eva Rothschild, and in Spring 2020, a second gallery opened on Bury Street in St James’s, Mayfair. In October 2023, the gallery opened a third location on Place de l'Alma in Paris.
