Barbara Gladstone Biography

Barbara Gladstone, born as  Barbara Levitt is an American art dealer and film producer. She is the owner of Gladstone Gallery, a contemporary art gallery with locations at 515 W. 24th Street, 30 West 21st Street in New York City and at 12 Rue du Grand Cerf in Brussels, Belgium.

Before moving to Chelsea in 1996, Gladstone Gallery was located in Soho and on 57th Street in New York City.

Barbara Gladstone Married

Gladstone was married to the late Elliot B. Regen. She has two sons, David, and Richard Regen; her third son, Stuart Regen, died in 1998 at USC Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Barbara Gladstone Gallery 

In the early 1990s, Gladstone collaborated with Christian Stein, an Italian art dealer, on SteinGladstone.

Located in a renovated firehouse at 99 Wooster Street in Soho, the gallery concentrated exclusively on rarely seen installation works by both Italian and American artists.

Gladstone Gallery today represents many contemporary artists, including Ugo Rondinone, Shirin Neshat, Anish Kapoor, Sarah Lucas, Matthew Barney, Rebecca Quaytman, Victor Man and Andro Wekua. The gallery is also a prominent participant in many major art fairs.

Barbara Gladstone Film

Gladstone has produced many of Matthew Barney’s movies, including four films from The Cremaster Cycle and the 2006 movie Drawing Restraint 9, a collaboration between Barney and Björk. Gladstone appears in Drawing Restraint 13, a later film by Barney. Gladstone also produced the film Women Without Men.

Barbara Gladstone Visionaries

In 2008, Gladstone initiated the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the New Museum, established in honor of her late son and renowned art dealer Stuart Regen. The gift is meant to support a series of public lectures and presentations by cultural visionaries and debuted in 2009 with choreographer Bill T. Jones.

It has featured prominent international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design and contemporary culture. Past speakers have included Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia (2010), Alice Waters (2011) and Maya Lin (2013).

Barbara Gladstone Net Worth

Barbara has an estimated net worth of $17 million US dollars which she has earned from her successful career as an art dealer and filmmaking.

Barbara Gladstone Art

Barbara Gladstone is the owner of the renowned Gladstone Gallery and major art dealer.

An art history professor at Hofstra University, Gladstone put everything on the line when she opened her tiny, eponymous art gallery in 1980 at the age of forty. However, her keen eye for emerging talent clearly paid off, and she has since represented the likes of Matthew Barney, whom she gave his first New York show, Shirin Neshat, Anish Kapoor, and Carroll Dunham.

Riding high in the 80s, Gladstone eked her way through the 90s bust (all the more difficult having lost her son to a battle with cancer) and established her new gallery in Chelsea from its former Soho iteration in 1996. These days she’s considered a sort of industry matriarch with her no-frills attitude and strong moral code (her mantra: the artist always comes first).

Barbara Gladstone Artist Space

As Artists Space continues renovations on its new location at 80 White Street in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood, ahead of an expected spring 2019 opening, the 45-year-old downtown nonprofit gallery has seen two new developments. Veteran gallerist Barbara Gladstone recently joined the board, and Heather Harmon has been appointed as development director.

Gladstone has operated her eponymous New York gallery for nearly 40 years. Harmon previously worked as a longtime director of Regen Projects gallery in Los Angeles. (As it so happens, Gladstone Gallery and Regen Projects have a connection—the latter’s proprietor, Shaun Caley Regen, is Gladstone’s daughter-in-law; Stuart Regen passed away in 1998.) Harmon went on to become a director for the art adviser Kimberly Chang Mathieu, who helped oversee Guy Laliberté’s collection in Ibiza, Spain.

Artists Space executive director and chief curator Jay Sanders said of Gladstone joining the board, “2018 will be a big year building up to [moving into] the new building. Barbara comes at the perfect time. Her skill set and expertise in building careers and working with artists are so apropos to some of the things we are doing right now. She has immediately been incredibly helpful.”

Harmon said, “We are both thinking about different models for the future of how we can approach more adventurous thinking in terms of fundraising.” She said she is interested in, among other approaches, “activating strong bonds with artists’ foundations.” She is looking forward to a series of programming in the summer that will be centered around art spaces in Tribeca, from La Monte Young’s Dream House to commercial galleries like Bortolami.

Last May, a month after Sanders joined as executive director and chief curator, Artists Space announced that its new location will be an 8,000-square-foot, two-level space at 80 White Street. That new space is currently under renovation, and Sanders said the gallery plans to open in spring 2019. Artists Space moved out of its longtime home on Greene Street in SoHo in 2016 and is currently operating out of a second space—a bookstore and events venue—that it opened in 2012 at 55 Walker Street.