Eli Klein Gallery

Eli Klein Gallery Eli Klein Gallery has an international reputation as one of the foremost galleries specializing in contemporary Asian art.

Eli Klein Gallery has an international reputation as one of the foremost galleries specializing in contemporary Asian art and continues to advance the careers of its represented artists and hundreds of other Asian artists with whom it has collaborated. The Gallery has been instrumental in the loan of artworks by Asian artists to over 100 museum exhibitions throughout the world. It has published 40

books/catalogues and organized more than 75 exhibitions of Asian contemporary art at our prestigious venues in New York City. Eli Klein’s gallery artists have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Artforum, Newsweek, and ARTnews and have been on CNN and countless other international broadcasts, publications, and online critical reviews. Located at 398 West Street (between Charles and West 10th) in the trendiest part of the West Village, Eli Klein Gallery is just a few blocks from the new Whitney Museum and the commencement point for the High Line. In a landmarked Federal-style row house that enjoys special cultural, historical and aesthetic value to the City of New York, Eli Klein Gallery occupies 3 levels of the building, boasting 13-foot ceilings on the ground floor. The Gallery was founded by Eli Klein in 2007. During these formative years, it established a reputation for introducing fresh, contemporary, and often challenging works by rising Asian talents to the western audiences. Now, as the leading dealer of Asian contemporary art outside of China, Eli Klein actively promotes cross-cultural awareness and investment at the highest level amongst some of the world’s most influential nations. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KleinSunGallery

Andrius Alvarez-Backus, I’ll Be Well Soon Enough, 2025-2026. Reclaimed textiles, acrylic, tempera70 x 32 inches (178 x 8...
03/14/2026

Andrius Alvarez-Backus, I’ll Be Well Soon Enough, 2025-2026. Reclaimed textiles, acrylic, tempera
70 x 32 inches (178 x 81 cm).
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Andrius Alvarez-Backus, Where Are You In Me?, 2025-2026. Reclaimed textiles, acrylic, tempera
70 x 32 inches (178 x 81 cm).
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solo show “I Want to Know, I Need to Know” is now on view.
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Andrius Alvarez-Backus, You Know His Name and I Do Too, 2026. Epoxy, acrylic, plexiglass, taxidermied cicada, ceramic ti...
03/07/2026

Andrius Alvarez-Backus, You Know His Name and I Do Too, 2026. Epoxy, acrylic, plexiglass, taxidermied cicada, ceramic tile, colored pencil, wood, 11 x 31 x 22 1/2 inches (28 x 79 x 57 cm).
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Andrius Alvarez-Backus, I Was Softer Then, 2025-2026. Epoxy, acrylic, resin, colored pencil, ceramic tile, wood, mirrore...
03/03/2026

Andrius Alvarez-Backus, I Was Softer Then, 2025-2026. Epoxy, acrylic, resin, colored pencil, ceramic tile, wood, mirrored glass tiles, foam. 16 x 36 x 23 inches (41 x 91 x 58 cm).
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Thank you everyone for joining us at the opening of  _
02/25/2026

Thank you everyone for joining us at the opening of
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We wish you a Happy Year of the Horse! _ solo exhibition “I Want to Know, I Need to Know” opens this Saturday 6-8pm. _An...
02/18/2026

We wish you a Happy Year of the Horse!
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solo exhibition “I Want to Know, I Need to Know” opens this Saturday 6-8pm.
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Andrius Alvarez-Backus, Are You Still Strong Enough?, 2025. Reclaimed Wonder Horse toy, bronze, stainless steel butcher hook, epoxy, twine, manila rope, 42 x 32 x 18 inches (107 x 81 x 46 cm).
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 solo exhibition “I Want to Know, I Need to Know” opens February 21. Opening reception with the artist: Saturday, Februa...
02/09/2026

solo exhibition “I Want to Know, I Need to Know” opens February 21. Opening reception with the artist: Saturday, February 21 | 6-8 pm.
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Eli Klein Gallery is honored to present “Andrius Alvarez-Backus: I Want to Know, I Need to Know,” the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, debuting six major multimedia sculptures and a series of works on panel. Emerging from a series of health incidents experienced by the artist and his family over the past year, the exhibition examines the intersection of the artist’s primal pursuit of self-knowledge and the denial of a fully transparent answer in its process. To Alvarez-Backus, knowing begins with urgency and does not end in absolutes—ambiguity is a form of truth.

Born to a family of Filipinx medical practitioners, Alvarez-Backus’ pursuit of ancestral and family connection is not only the passing down of cultural heritage, but also a flesh-bound visceral kinship, with his contemporary art practice deeply informed by the study of surgical medicine. This brand-new body of work, created during his current residency at Smack Mellon , is driven by extrapolated and translated surgical gestures: dissection and resection, incision and excision. These decisive cuts signal a yearning to reveal the subcutaneous, even when what is revealed ultimately produces more questions.
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’s “Gun No. 1” is included in “Shared,” ’s 50th year anniversary exhibition. _To commemorate this milestone, “Shared” at...
01/14/2026

’s “Gun No. 1” is included in “Shared,” ’s 50th year anniversary exhibition.
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To commemorate this milestone, “Shared” at MRAG is an exhibition of special works from the Collection that have been Prized, Gifted, Collected and Shared by the Gallery across that time.
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The exhibition is now on view and will run through Feb 8th, 2026.
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Images courtesy of Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Australia.
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Ling Jian, Elegant Kasaya, 2024. Oil on canvas, 74 3/4 x 55 1/8 inches (190 x 140 cm). _“Ling Jian: Between Figure and F...
01/13/2026

Ling Jian, Elegant Kasaya, 2024. Oil on canvas, 74 3/4 x 55 1/8 inches (190 x 140 cm).
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“Ling Jian: Between Figure and Fracture” is currently on view at Eli Klein Gallery
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Thank you everyone for joining ’s opening. _Photos by
12/19/2025

Thank you everyone for joining ’s opening.
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Photos by

We are pleased to share that  has acquired Liu Bolin’s Hiding in New York No. 5 – Tiles for America (2011)._The work joi...
12/18/2025

We are pleased to share that has acquired Liu Bolin’s Hiding in New York No. 5 – Tiles for America (2011).
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The work joins the museum’s permanent collection and reflects ’s sustained engagement with visibility, urban space, and the politics of presence through his “Hiding in the City” series, which has been widely exhibited internationally. Traversing performance, photography, and social practice, Liu Bolin dissects the tense relationship between the individual and society by ‘disappearing’ into environments that are sites of intrigue, contention, and criticism.
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We thank the West Virginia University Museum of Art for their care and stewardship of this work.
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’s latest collaboration with  is featured in , highlighting his artistic residency at The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Is...
12/17/2025

’s latest collaboration with is featured in , highlighting his artistic residency at The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands, which celebrates the connection between nature, culture, and craftsmanship.
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“The artistic residency culminated in a sunset performance: the artist’s body was meticulously painted to blend into the shifting horizon of the Indian Ocean, during the resort’s daily “Defining Moment” ceremony, thus giving birth to the 11th work in the Ruinart x Liu Bolin collection: ‘Elements.’”
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Maison Ruinart x Liu Bolin took place November 2025 at .

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