Salon 94

About the Gallery
Salon 94 and RYAN LEE Gallery are two of New York's leading contemporary art galleries, each with a distinct program and long track record of supporting artists across generations, disciplines, and cultural backgrounds. Together, they bring decades of combined expertise to exhibiting innovative work — from post-war to contemporary — and to building lasting artistic legacies through scholarship, institutional collaboration, and a deep commitment to diverse voices in art.

Salon 94 was founded by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn in 2002 and is located in a historic 17,500-square-foot building along New York's Museum Mile. Built by architect Ogden Codman, the landmark space at 3 East 89th Street formerly belonged to arts philanthropist Archer Huntington and sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, before housing The National Academy of Design from 1940 to 2019. In 2021, the gallery launched its current headquarters following restorations completed by the late architect Rafael Viñoly. Over more than two decades, Salon 94 has grown from presenting artists' projects in a non-traditional domestic setting to supporting an expansive international roster united by a passion for innovation and a commitment to breaking hierarchies between art and design. Represented artists include Karon Davis, Raven Halfmoon, Kennedy Yanko, Magdalene Odundo, Ruby Neri, Marilyn Minter, and Takuro Kuwata, among others. Its complementary S94 Design program, launched in 2017, highlights the work of leading global designers including Max Lamb, Donald Judd Furniture, Rick Owens, and Jay Sae Jung Oh. Beyond exhibitions, Salon 94 actively builds platforms for talks, performances, videos, and ongoing scholarship, and collaborates with galleries worldwide to curate special programming.

About the Presentation
Salon 94 and RYAN LEE Gallery will present work by Emma Amos, Ed Clark, Norman Lewis, Camille Billops, David Hammons, and Vivian Browne in a group presentation at Independent 20th Century. BLACK SOHO brings together landmark works by Emma Amos, Ed Clark, Norman Lewis, Camille Billops, David Hammons, and Vivian Browne, six artists whose practices defined the cultural life of downtown New York from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. Many of these artists were central figures in the Just Above Midtown (JAM) gallery scene, which gave Black artists a platform outside an otherwise exclusionary art world. The presentation unites rare and museum-quality paintings, sculpture, and works on paper including Amos's woven canvases, Clark's push-broom abstractions, Lewis's gestural oils, Billops's glazed earthenware, and Hammons's early body prints. Complementing the artwork, our digital assets will also feature rare ephemera from the renowned Artist and Influence journal, including photographs, that bring this extraordinary moment in New York's cultural history vividly to life.