Galerie Lelong

About the Gallery
Since 1991, Galerie Lelong, New York, has championed a diverse roster of contemporary artists from throughout the world. Led by Mary Sabbatino, Vice President and Partner, the gallery has pioneered the community both in presenting a balanced roster of male and female artists, and artists from the Global South. The gallery’s programming is noted for its political acuity and museum-quality exhibitions that include contemporary sculpture and installations, as well as its work with artists to help develop large-scale public art commissions beyond the gallery’s walls. In tandem with the gallery’s artists who present works that examine the human condition and collective consciousness, Galerie Lelong demonstrates its commitment to social justice and good citizenship through charitable initiatives and collaborations.

Founded in Paris in 1981 by Daniel Lelong, Jacques Dupin, and Jean Frémon, the gallery in New York opened in 1985 and moved to its present ground-floor location in Chelsea in 2001. Galerie Lelong is a member of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, the most esteemed organization of art galleries in the United States.

About the Presentation
Galerie Lelong, New York is proud to present a solo booth of paintings by Elda Cerrato at the 2025 edition of Independent 20th Century. The migrations Cerrato experienced throughout her life—from her native Italy to Brazil, then between Argentina and Venezuela—and the avant-garde groups, mystical teachings, and political atmospheres she encountered along the way had a profound influence on her art, merging with her early studies in biochemistry and broader intellectual inquiry to shape a practice defined by a search for heightened consciousness. The presentation will include works from the 1960s that are demonstrative of her “cosmovision” paintings, selections of which were recently included in the Bienal de São Paulo and La Biennale di Venezia. These compositions present geometric forms and biological forms together in bold experiments in color. Complementing these works will be selections from her Maps and Multitudes series, created the following decade, that depict maps of the Americas alongside images of ordinary people in response to the harsh political realities of Latin America at the time. In pairing these two bodies of work from different periods, the presentation underlines Cerrato’s interests in geometry, spirituality and political realities—concepts that continue to be important today.