HARRY BLAIN
Harry Blain is founder and director of Blain.
Over the course of more than thirty years, Harry has worked with artists, collectors, curators, and institutions, starting from his initial 1992 gallery Blains Fine Art in London’s Bruton Place through to galleries Haunch of Venison and Blain|Southern, with locations in London, New York, Zurich, Berlin, and Moscow. Haunch of Venison, which represented a collective of artists, estates and contemporary designers, was named “London’s most exciting and prestigious private gallery” by AnOther Magazine. Critically acclaimed exhibitions include “100 Spaces” by Rachel Whiteread; Dan Flavin’s “Works from the 1960’s”; “Abstract Expressionism” curated by David Anfam, New York; and Bill Viola’s permanent installation of “Martyrs” and “Mary” at St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
Other artists represented, exhibited or collaborated with include Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Marc Rothko, Andy Warhol, the Estate of Lynn Chadwick, Richard Long, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Adrian Ghenie.
Harry overturned traditional separations between artists, galleries, auction houses and museums when in 2007, he sold Haunch of Venison to Christie’s and partnered with London’s Royal Academy of Art to secure museum-quality exhibition spaces in Burlington Gardens. From 2007 until 2010, Harry was responsible for running Christie’s global private sales business. He founded one of the world’s first digital art businesses in 2011, a forerunner of its time.
Blain was established in 2020 to meet the multi-dimensional requirements of today’s collectors and artists including sales, advisory and philanthropy.
