ACE Gallery

Ace Gallery

Ace Gallery Los Angeles occupies the 2nd floor of 5514 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, California
Industry	Art gallery
Founded	1986
Founder	Douglas Chrismas
Headquarters	Los Angeles, United States
Website	www.acegallery.net

Ace Gallery is an internationally recognized art gallery specializing in contemporary art. Ace Gallery Los Angeles is located in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles a few blocks east of Museum Row. Sam S. Leslie became the director of Ace Gallery in April 2016.

Since 1986, Ace Gallery Los Angeles has occupied the entire second floor of the Desmond’s Department Store building, an Art Deco structure that fills an entire block of Wilshire Boulevard’s Miracle Mile. The 11-story building, also known as the Wilshire Tower, first opened on March 15, 1929. Inside the Wilshire Tower, Ace has 30,000 feet of museum-quality gallery space.

In 2003, Ace Gallery opened an annex in Beverly Hills. The gallery's exhibition program balances a selection of emerging and established artists, and becoming the home of the bi-annual Concept Los Angeles Fashion Week event parading à l’avant-garde de la modernité fashion designers such as Curly-V, a FIDM alumni, and others alike. Ace Gallery Beverly Hills closed in November 2016.

In 1985, Ace Gallery launched an exhibition space in a 13,000 square feet warehouse with 25-foot ceilings at 5917 Burchard St. near Venice and La Cienega boulevards called the "Ace Museum." Incorporated in June 2009, Ace Museum became a separate and independent non-profit organization. The current museum is located at 400 South La Brea Avenue in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

According to its website, "Ace Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating through the exhibition of contemporary art. Ace Museum researches and executes unique exhibitions addressing a full range of artistic media, as well as exhibiting high caliber traveling exhibitions that may not otherwise tour to Los Angeles. Ace Museum is committed to providing Los Angeles with an alternative exhibition experience and dynamic programs focused on increasing the audience’s capacity to engage with significant and challenging works, while fostering relationships with partner institutions to expand local, national, and international contemporary art and culture."

As of the change of directorship in April 2016, Ace Gallery Los Angeles and Ace Gallery Beverly Hills have no relationship with Ace Museum.

Ace Gallery founder Douglas Chrismas opened his own frame shop and gallery in Vancouver at the age of 17. His gallery became known as a venue where Vancouver artists could show alongside major New Yorkers, and get the feeling of belonging to a bigger scene. In the 60s and early 70s he brought artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Donald Judd to Vancouver, Canada.