Jeffrey Deitch

Deitch was born on July 9, 1952, and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, where his father ran a heating oil and coal company and his mother was an economist.Carl Swanson (January 13, 2014), [http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/jeffrey-deitch-returns-to-the-art-world.html Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World's Most Essential Zelig] New York Magazine. He attended public high school in West Hartford, Connecticut, from 1967 to 1970. He was an exchange student in Paris in 1968,[http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/10/art/jeffrey-deitch-with-david-carrier-and-joachim-pissarro JEFFREY DEITCH with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro] The Brooklyn Rail, October 3, 2013. and in Japan in 1969. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1974 and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1978.{{cite news |title=When Art Met Finance How Jeffrey Deitch, Citibank, and Christo created the art market as we know it |url=https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6345 |accessdate=March 11, 2020 |work=HBS Alumni |date=August 1, 2017}}

Deitch opened his first gallery as a college student in 1972 at the Curtis Inn, a rented hotel parlor in Lenox, Massachusetts, and sold out the first week. Fascinated by the work of Andy Warhol and other contemporary artists,{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jun-07-la-et-deitchonwarhol-20100607-story.html |title=His Pop idol |last=Finkel |first=Jori |date=June 7, 2010 |website=Los Angeles Times |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=}} he later moved to New York and worked as a receptionist at John Weber Gallery in SoHo.Randy Kennedy (June 30, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/arts/design/04deitch.html Museum Role Fits a Former Art Dealer] The New York Times. From 1979 to 1988, Deitch helped develop and co-manage the art advisory and art finance department at Citibank.{{Cite web |url=http://www.deitch.com/gallery/staff.html |title=Our Staff: Jeffrey Deitch |access-date=March 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830105558/http://www.deitch.com/gallery/staff.html |archive-date=August 30, 2013 |url-status=dead |website=deitch.com }}Cathleen McGuigan (February 10, 1985), [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/09/specials/basquiat-mag.html New Art, New Money] The New York Times. In this capacity, he lent money to major art collectors and facilitated loans to small galleries like Gracie Mansion for its 1984 renovation.{{cite news|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/sur-rodney-sur-freaking-out-art-world|title=Sur Rodney (Sur) on Freaking Out the Art World|last=Bourland|first=Ian|publisher=Frieze|date=8 July 2019}} Having become a regular at Warhol’s Factory, Deitch also introduced Warhol to a number of wealthy clients to draw their portraits. In 2022, he appeared in the documentary series The Andy Warhol Diaries to discuss their friendship.{{cite web |url=https://galeriemagazine.com/andy-warhol-netflix/ |title=Get a Rare Glimpse into Andy Warhol's Secret Inner Life with This New Netflix Show |last=Rees |first=Lucy |date=March 11, 2002 |website=Galerie |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=}}

Deitch was also a friend of and art dealer for Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was the first dealer to buy a work by the artist{{cite web |url=https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-angle-jeffrey-deitch-1932490|title=The Art Angle Podcast: Jeffrey Deitch on How to Succeed in the Art Industry|last= |first= |date=December 18, 2020 |website=artnet |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=Widely considered to be the first person who bought a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat (he was also the first to write about him in a 1980 essay for Art in America)}} and the first person to write about his work in print.{{Cite journal|last=Deitch|first=Jeffrey|date=September 1980|title=Report from Times Square|journal=Art in America|pages=61}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/a-fool-for-art|title=A fool for Art. Jeffrey Deitch and the exuberance of the art market|last=Tompkins|first=Calvin|date=November 5, 2007|magazine=The New Yorker}} He later delivered the eulogy at Basquiat's funeral{{cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/2008/11/jeffrey_deitch_wants_a_basquai.html |title=Jeffrey Deitch Wants a Basquiat in the White House |last=Goldstein |first=Andrew |date=November 13, 2008 |website=Vulture |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=}} and served on the artwork authentication committee for the artist's estate.

From 1988 to 1996, Deitch was a successful private dealer and art adviser to a number of collectors,Calvin Tomkins (November 12, 2007), [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/12/071112fa_fact_tomkins#ixzz2NA2qy3WT Onward and Upward with the Arts] The New Yorker, p. 65. including Jose Mugrabi. {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/magazine/01Brothers-t.html |title=Is Anybody Buying Art These Days? |last=Konigsberg |first=Eric |date=February 27, 2009 |website=The New York Times |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=}} {{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119940749725466431 |title=The Man With 800 Warhols |last=Crow |first=Kelly |date=January 4, 2008 |website=The Wall Street Journal |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=}} As advisor to Goldman Sachs for the public art in its 200 West Street New York headquarters in 2006, Deitch helped to realize Julie Mehretu's 80-foot-long work "Mural",Calvin Tomkins (March 29, 2010). "[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/29/100329fa_fact_tomkins Big Art, Big Money: Julie Mehretu's 'Mural' for Goldman Sachs]". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-08-04. described by one critic as "one of the largest and most successful public art works in recent times".{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/julie-mehretu-sfmoma-howl-commission-harlem |title=Julie Mehretu Started Her Majestic New Paintings Right After the Election |last=Kazanijan |first=Dodie |date=September 4, 2017 |website=Vogue |publisher= |access-date=8 August 2023 |quote=}}

In 1989, he bid US$10.5 million and paid $11.55 million for Jackson Pollock's silvery No. 8, 1950, then a record at auction for a work by the artist and the second-highest price at auction for a work by any contemporary artist.Rita Reif (May 3, 1989), [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/03/arts/pollock-price-among-records-at-sotheby-s.html Pollock Price Among Records at Sotheby's] The New York Times. In 2006, he bought Bridget Riley's Untitled (Diagonal Curve) (1966), at Sotheby's for $2.1 million, nearly three times its $730,000 high estimate and also a record for the artist.Carol Vogel (June 26, 2006), [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/design/26auct.html Prosperity Sets the Tone at London Auctions] The New York Times.

Over his career, Deitch has crafted for himself a unique role that merges curatorial profile with the business side of art.{{Cite web|url=https://flash---art.com/article/jeffrey-deitch/|title=Jeffrey Deitch|last=Grau|first=Donatien|date=October 3, 2014|website=Flash Art}}

Since 1975, Deitch has curated exhibitions internationally. Among his most celebrated projects are Lives (1975),{{Cite web|url=https://deitch.com/about/curatorial/lives|title=Lives|website=Jeffery Deitch}} Born in Boston (1979),{{Cite web|url=https://deitch.com/about/curatorial/born-in-boston|title=Born in Boston|website=Jeffery Deitch}} New Portrait (1984) at Moma PS1,{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4363|title=New Portrait|website=The Museum of Modern Art}} and Form Follows Fiction (2001) at Castello di Rivoli, Turin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/mostra/form-follows-fiction-forma-e-finzione-nellarte-di-oggi|title=Form Follows Fiction. Forma e Finzione dell'Arte di Oggi|website=Castello di Rivoli}}

Between 1988 and 2008, Deitch curated numerous shows at Deste Foundation, Athens, including:

• Cultural Geometry (1988){{Cite web|url=https://deste.gr/exhibition/cultural-geometry/|title=Cultural Geometry|publisher=Deste Foundation}}
• Psychological Abstraction (1989){{Cite web|url=https://deste.gr/exhibition/psychological-abstraction/|title=Psychological Abstraction|publisher=Deste Foundation}}
• Artificial Nature (1990){{Cite web|url=https://deste.gr/exhibition/artificial-nature/|title=Artificial Nature|publisher=Deste Foundation}}
• Post Human (1992){{Cite web|url=https://deste.gr/exhibition/post-human/|title=Post Human|publisher=Deste Foundation}}
• Everything that’s Interesting is New (1996) {{cite web |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/1996/01/01/major-greek-collector-dakis-joannou-reveals-ten-years-worth-of-buying-for-the-first-time-in-everything-thats-interesting-is-new |title=Major Greek collector Dakis Joannou reveals ten years' worth of buying for the first time in 'Everything That's Interesting is New' |last=Bevan |first=Roger |date=December 31, 1995 |website=The Art Newspaper |publisher=|access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}} {{cite journal |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/everything-thats-interesting-new-dakis-joannou-collection |title=Everything that's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection |last=Janus |first=Elizabeth |date=September 6, 1996 |journal=Frieze |issue=29 |access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}}
• Fractured Figure (2007-2008){{cite web |url=https://deste.gr/exhibition/fractured-figure/ |title=Fractured Figure |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher=Deste Foundation |access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}}

In addition to Deste, Post Human was presented at five venues, including the Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), and The Israel Museum (Jerusalem).Martin, Nadia. "Post human (1992-1993): New social imaginaries of the body among art, science and technology." Revista de Ciencias Humanísticas y Sociales (ReHuSo). 2021, vol.6, n.2, pp.1-19. Epub 01-Ago-2021. ISSN 2550-6587. Philosopher Rosi Braidotti and others credit the show with introducing the term "posthuman" into the popular consciousness.Braidotti, Rosi. Feminismo posthumano. Spain, GEDISA, 2022.{{cite book |last=Aloi |first=Gregory |author-link= |date=2020 |title=Posthumanism in Art and Science |url= |location= |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=iii |isbn=}}

In 1995, he wrote the strategic plan for the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.Carol Vogel and Randy Kennedy (January 11, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/arts/design/12moca.html Los Angeles Museum Taps Dealer as Director] The New York Times. His other curatorial projects have included the Venice Biennale's Aperto (1993),Carol Vogel (June 12, 1993), [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/12/arts/the-venice-biennale-an-art-bazaar-abuzz.html "The Venice Biennale: An Art Bazaar Abuzz"], The New York Times. City as Studio (K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2023), {{cite web |url=https://artreview.com/picturing-the-urban-landscape-city-as-studio/ |title=Picturing the Urban Landscape: City as Studio |date=April 28, 2023 |website=ArtReview |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023 }} and Confluence (Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai, 2023), collaborating with poet Ranjit Hoskote on the latter.{{cite web |url=https://www.news18.com/photogallery/lifestyle/nmaccs-dedicated-visual-art-space-art-house-inaugurated-with-the-exhibit-sangam-confluence-7448605.html |title=NMACC's Dedicated Visual Art Space, Art House, Inaugurated With The Exhibit 'Sangam/ Confluence' |last=Vyasan |first=Navneet |date=April 2, 2023 |website= |publisher=News18 |access-date=August 10, 2023}}

Deitch is known as an advocate for street art and has headed several influential public art projects with street artists. {{cite web |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/wynwood-walls-have-shaped-miamis-art-scene |title=

How the Wynwood Walls Have Shaped Miami's Art Scene |last=Laster |first=Paul |date=October 3, 2019 |website=Architectural Digest |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023}} He initiated Wynwood Walls with Tony Goldman in Miami in 2009 {{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/theresachristine/2019/11/25/the-woman-behind-the-wynwood-walls-celebrating-10-years-of-miamis-thriving-art-scene/?sh=42706a2f7681 |title=The Woman Behind The Wynwood Walls: Celebrating 10 Years Of Miami's Thriving Art Scene |last=Christine |first=Theresa |date=2019 |website=Forbes |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023}} and Coney Art Walls on Coney Island in New York in 2015. {{cite web |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/jeffrey-deitch-will-bring-street-art-show-to-coney-island/ |title=Jeffrey Deitch Will Bring Street-Art Show to Coney Island |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=April 29, 2015 |website=The New York Times |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023}}

In 1980, he became a regular columnist of Flash Art and the first U.S. editor of Flash Art International. His writings have appeared in numerous international magazines, including Art in America, Artforum, Garage, Interview magazine, Kaleidoscope, Paper magazine, and Purple magazine.

In 1996, Deitch opened Deitch Projects in SoHo in New York City. He stated in a later interview that he was inspired by the example of Warhol's Factory to try to "create space for another generation of misfits." His first shows included works by Vanessa Beecroft, Jocelyn Taylor, Nari Ward, Yoko Ono, and Mariko Mori.Roberta Smith (May 26, 1996), [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/26/arts/art-view-the-gallery-doors-open-to-the-long-denied.html The Gallery Doors Open to the Long Denied] The New York Times. {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/15iht-yokoprofile.3910357.html |title=Yoko Ono's double life |last1=Feuer |first1=Alan |last2=Pogrebin |first2=Robin |date=December 15, 2006 |website=The New York Times |publisher= |access-date=August 20, 2023 |quote=}} Soon after, he bought the building housing Canal Lumber, a bigger space around the corner on Wooster Street. The first major exhibition project there was of a Barbara Kruger video-and-slide-projection show in 1997.

An early advocate of graffiti art in the 1980s, he later introduced New York to the style of street art which had originated in San Francisco in the 1990s among artists on the fringe of the skateboard scene.Roberta Smith (January 11, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/arts/design/12muse.html A New Boss, and a Jolt of Real-World Expertise] The New York Times. Deitch became well known as a supporter of young artists like Kehinde Wiley and Cecily Brown, while also representing the work of more established artists like Keith Haring and Jeff Koons. In the 1990s, Deitch helped fund Koons' expensive “Celebration series” and also organized the artist’s 50th birthday party at his gallery.Alexandra Peers (January 20, 2010), [http://www.vulture.com/2010/01/how_jeffrey_deitchs_moca_appoi.html How Jeffrey Deitch's MOCA Appointment Changes the Art World] New York Magazine.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/07/koons-at-fifty |title=Koons at Fifty |date=January 30, 2005 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=August 8, 2023 }}

In conjunction with Creative Time and Paper Magazine, Deitch Projects also organized SoHo's annual Art Parade, with over 1,000 participants from 2005 to 2008. {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/arts/design/10para.html |title=The Creative Spirit, Strolling Through SoHo With Its Fringe Flying |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=September 10, 2007 |website=The New York Times}}

In 2010, Jeffery Deitch was appointed Director to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), which was seeking to recover from low attendance and a near-bankruptcy following the Great Recession. Before stepping into the new role, Deitch closed Deitch Projects and also resigned from the Basquiat authentication committee.

During his three-year tenure, Deitch advised and curated seminal exhibitions such as Dennis Hopper: Double Standard (2010),{{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/chalmers/dennis-hopper-double-standard-moca7-12-10.asp |title=Hopper's Big Show |last=Chambers |first=Tiff |date=August 8, 2023 |website=artnet |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=}} The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol (2012){{Cite web|url=https://www.moca.org/exhibition/the-painting-factory-abstraction-after-warhol|title=The Painting Factory|website=MOCA}} and Art in the Streets (2011), the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moca.org/exhibition/art-in-the-streets|title=Art in the Streets|website=MOCA}} In 2013, he helped organize a show by Urs Fischer in which the artist collaborated with 1000 LA residents to fill an exhibition space with clay figures.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2013-apr-14-la-et-cm-urs-fischer-moca-20130414-story.html |title=Urs Fischer and 1,000 volunteers go big — and messy — at MOCA |last=Finkel |first=Jori |date=August 8, 2023 |website=The Los Angeles Times |publisher= |access-date=August 8, 2023 |quote=}} Additionally, Deitch conceived MOCAtv, the first original YouTube channel dedicated to fine art.{{Cite news|last=Appleford|first=Steve|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-mocatv-20130728-story.html|title=MOCA tuned in to arts programming on its YouTube channel|date=July 27, 2013|work=Los Angeles Times}} Deitch donated his after-tax salary back to the museum throughout his tenure.{{cite web |url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/inside-and-out-jeffrey-deitchs-life-in-the-art-world |title=Inside and Out: Jeffrey Deitch's Life in the Art World |last=Williams |first=Maxwell |date=August 10, 2023 |website= |publisher=KCET |access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}}

By 2012, Deitch's directorship led to what one commentator called a "cultural collision" between Deitch's more popular art tastes and MOCA's previous interests.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/fashion/jeffrey-deitch-faces-critics-at-moca.html |title=The Lives of Jeffrey Deitch |last=Trebay |first=Guy |date=October 19, 2012 |website=The New York Times |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}} {{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/07/downfall-mocas-jeffrey-deitch/325335/ |title=The Downfall of MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch |last=Wagner |first=David |date=July 27, 2012 |website=The Atlantic |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-deitch-moca-20130725-story.html |title=Jeffrey Deitch resigns as head of L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art |last=Boehm |first=Mike |date=July 24, 2023 |website=The Los Angeles Times |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}} Though Deitch was acknowledged to have boosted museum attendance to record levels, critics charged that MOCA's shows sometimes prioritized popular exhibits over artists who were well-known in the LA art scene or over more traditional scholarly concerns. In 2012, as the conflict grew, MOCA's board of trustees unanimously voted to ask for the resignation of its longtime chief curator Paul Schimmel, leading to the resignation of four artists on MOCA's board in protest.{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/03/problem-moca-la-jeffrey-deitch|title=How Do You Solve a Problem Like MOCA?|first=Bob|last=Colacello|website=Vanity Fair |date=February 5, 2013 }} Deitch resigned from MOCA the following year.

In 2014, Deitch published Live the Art on the 15-year history of Deitch Projects.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/jeffrey-deitch-live-the-art-book-interview|title=Jeffrey Deitch on Living the Art, the New New York, and His Next Big Project|last=Andersen|first=Kristin|date=September 22, 2014|website=Vogue}}{{Cite news|last=Swanson|first=Carl|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/01/jeffrey-deitch-returns-to-the-art-world.html|title=Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World's Most Essential Zelig|date=January 12, 2014|work=Vulture}} In 2015, he began hosting shows at 76 Grand Street in New York, one of his former gallery spaces. In July 2016, he reopened his Lower Manhattan gallery at 18 Wooster Street, the space he ran from 1996 to 2010 and rented out to the Swiss Institute for the following five years.Dan Duray and Gareth Harris (July 8, 2016), [http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/jeffrey-deitch-makes-soho-comeback-/ Jeffrey Deitch makes SoHo comeback] The Art Newspaper. Deitch now runs the two spaces under Jeffrey Deitch Inc. Since reopening the gallery, Deitch has organized exhibitions by Ai Weiwei, Kenny Scharf, Austin Lee, Bisa Butler, {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/special-series/quilting-textiles-bisa-butler.html |title=Hip-Hop's Next Takeover: Quilts |last=Needelman |first=Joshua |date=May 15, 2023 |website=The New York Times |access-date=August 10, 2023}} Kenturah Davis,{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2021-05-26/kenturah-davis-interview-on-black-art-and-the-world-of-los-angeles-that-cannot-be-known |title=What exists at the edge of our perception? Artist Kenturah Davis is here to show you |last=Blair |first=Ian F. |date=August 10, 2023 |website=The Los Angeles Times |publisher= |access-date=August 10, 2023 |quote=}} Sasha Gordon, {{cite web |url=https://ocula.com/advisory/picks/sasha-gordon-jeffrey-deitch/ |title=Sasha Gordon's Bold Canvases Explore Identity at Jeffrey Deitch |last=Mitchell |first=Rory |date=July 24, 2022 |website=Ocula}} Kennedy Yanko, {{cite web |url=https://galeriemagazine.com/kennedy-yanko/ |title=Meet the Buzzy Brooklyn Artist Creating Powerful Sculptures out of Found Materials |last=Loos |first=Ted |date=March 17, 2023 |website=Galerie |publisher= |access-date=March 17, 2023 |quote=}} and Walter Robinson, among others.{{Cite web|url=https://deitch.com/new-york|title=Jeffery Deitch Inc. New York|website=Jeffrey Deitch}}

Every year, during Art Basel Miami Beach, Deitch's gallery collaborates with art dealer Larry Gagosian on a thematic exhibition. From 2015 to 2021, the exhibitions were housed in The Moore Building of Miami's Design District. {{cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/11/art-basel-miami-beach-is-roaring-back-with-a-vengeance |title=Art Basel Miami Beach Is Roaring Back—With a Vengeance, and Without an Apology |last=Freeman |first=Nate |date=November 24, 2021 |website=Vanity Fair |publisher= |access-date=August 20, 2023 |quote=}}

In 2018, Deitch opened a new {{convert|15000|sqft|m2|abbr=off|adj=on}} space in Hollywood, designed by Frank Gehry, specifically to mount what he described as "museum-level" exhibitions.Laura van Straaten (October 25, 2018), [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/arts/art-galleries-add-amenities.html A Gallery by Any Other Name, Size and Shape?] The New York Times. The gallery was inaugurated with a solo exhibition of Ai Weiwei, followed by shows by Urs Fischer, Judy Chicago, {{cite web |url=https://lamag.com/featured/judy-chicago-los-angeles |title=At 80, Judy Chicago Is Claiming Her Rightful Place in L.A. Art History |last=Slenske |first=Michael |date=September 10, 2019 |website=LA Magazine |publisher= |access-date=August 20, 2023 |quote=}} Robert Longo, {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/arts/design/art-galleries-real-estate-pandemic.html |title=With Galleries Closed, Art Dealers Rethink Their Real Estate Needs |last=Reyburn |first=Scott |date=February 26, 2021 |website=The New York Times |access-date=August 20, 2023 }} Nadia Lee Cohen, {{cite web |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nadia-lee-cohen-profile-2159081 |title=Meet Nadia Lee Cohen, an Artist Whose Astounding, Shape-Shifting Self-Portraits Are Drawing Crowds in Hollywood |last=Plejko |first=Jennifer |date=August 12, 2022 |website=The New York Times |access-date=August 20, 2023}} George Clinton,{{Cite web |last=Amadour |date=2022-12-16 |title=15 Minutes with George Clinton |url=https://lamag.com/art/15-minutes-with-george-clinton |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=LAmag - Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles |language=en}} and Refik Anadol, among others. {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-02-18/refik-anadols-ai-generated-living-paintings-frieze-2023 |title=Why everyone is talking about Refik Anadol's AI-generated 'living paintings' |last=Vankin |first=Deborah |date=February 18, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times}} The gallery has also organized large-scale thematic exhibitions such as Shattered Glass (curated by AJ Girard and Melahn Frierson, {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/arts/design/deitch-black-artists-los-angeles.html |title=A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=May 11, 2021 |website=The New York Times }} 2021), Clay Pop (curated by Alia Dahl, 2022), {{cite web |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/clay-pop-at-jeffrey-deitch-2017643|title=See How a New Generation of Ceramic Artists Is Pushing the Medium Into Strange Dimensions in Jeffrey Deitch's 'Clay Pop' |last=Goldstein |first=Caroline |date=October 6, 2021 |website=ArtNet }} {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-07-20/clay-pottery-artists-los-angeles-jeffrey-deitch-craft-contemporary |title=How pop culture and climate anxiety have galvanized a new generation of clay artists |last=Recinos |first=Eva |date=July 20, 2023 |website=The Los Angeles Times |publisher= |access-date=August 22, 2023 |quote=}} and Wonder Women (curated by Kathy Huang, 2023).{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/wonder-women-exhibition-ny-asian-artists/index.html |title=Tired of being 'fetishized and invisible,' Asian artists are changing the narrative |last=Binlot |first=Ann |date=May 23, 2022 |website=CNN|accessdate=August 22, 2023 }}

In 2019, Deitch edited Unrealism, a publication on new figurative painting featuring the most groundbreaking contemporary artists and their important predecessors.{{Cite web|url=https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/unrealism-new-figurative-painting|title=Unrealism: New Figurative Painting|publisher=Cooper Union}} The following year, he conceived the creation of the Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA), to "generate excitement about the L.A. gallery scene" and shared his idea with a group of gallerists in Los Angeles.{{Cite news|last=Finkel|first=Jori|date=April 23, 2020|title=Los Angeles Dealers Create Their Own Virtual Gallery|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/arts/design/los-angeles-galleries-coronavirus.html}} In May 2020, GALA launched galleryplatform.la, an online platform that serves the dynamic Los Angeles art community with editorial content and rotating online viewing rooms.{{Cite news|last=Miranda|first=Carolina A.|date=April 20, 2020|title=Painful closures lie ahead for L.A. galleries. How 35 are bracing for the worst|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-20/coronavirus-effect-los-angeles-galleries-pandemic}} In 2022, Deitch opened a second location in a historic building on Santa Monica Boulevard, the former home of Radio Recorders, a studio that recorded Elvis Presley and Billie Holiday, among others. {{cite web |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/16/wheeling-and-dealing-los-angeles-galleries-move-into-old-car-showrooms |title=Wheeling and dealing: Los Angeles galleries move into old car showrooms |last=Finkel |first=Jori |date=February 16, 2023 |website=The Los Angeles Times |publisher= |access-date=August 20, 2023 |quote=}}

Periodically, Deitch hosts artisan marketplaces in the back courtyard of his flagship Los Angeles location.{{Cite web |date=2024-07-26 |title=The Three Jeffrey's |url=https://theweeklyfootnote.com/2024/07/25/the-three-jeffreys/ |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=The Weekly Footnote |language=en-US}}

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• Maxwell Williams, [https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/inside-and-out-jeffrey-deitchs-life-in-the-art-world "Inside and Out: Jeffrey Deitch's Life in the Art World"], KCET Artbound, 2019.
• Deborah Vankin, [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-jeffrey-deitch-new-gallery-20180919-story.html "Jeffrey Deitch left MOCA amid controversy. Now he's returning to L.A. to launch a gallery on his own terms"], Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2018.
• Anna Louie Sussman, [https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-jeffrey-deitch-citibank-christo-created-art-market "How Jeffrey Deitch, Citibank, and Christo Created the Art Market as We Know It"], Artsy, July 30, 2017
• Donatien Grau, [https://flash---art.com/article/jeffrey-deitch/ "Jeffrey Deitch"], Flash Art International, October 3, 2014.
• Carl Swanson, [https://www.vulture.com/2014/01/jeffrey-deitch-returns-to-the-art-world.html "Jeffrey Deitch Curates Jeffrey Deitch: The Return of the Art World's Most Essential Zelig"], New York Magazine, January 12, 2014.
• Calvin Tomkins, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/a-fool-for-art "A Fool For Art. Jeffrey Deitch and the exuberance of the art market"], The New Yorker, November 5, 2007.

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