A.I.R. Gallery

A.I.R. Gallery (Artists in Residence) is the longest running all female artists cooperative gallery in the United States. It was founded in 1972 with the objective of providing a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists during a time in which the works shown at commercial galleries in New York City were almost exclusively by male artists. A.I.R. is a not-for-profit, self-underwritten arts organization, with a board of directors made up of its New York based artists. The gallery was originally located in SoHo at 97 Wooster Street, and was located on 111 Front Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn from 2008 until 2015. In May 2015 the gallery moved to its current location in DUMBO at 155 Plymouth Street.

A.I.R. is a non-profit organization that aims to show the diversity and artistic talent of women and non-binary artists, to teach, to challenge stereotypes of female artists, and to subvert the historically male-dominated commercial gallery scene, with the overall hope to serve as an example for other artists who wish to realize their own art cooperative endeavors.

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