Lance Fung Gallery was established at 537 Broadway in New York City

New York City

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 in 1996 and shared an exhibition space with Emily Harvey Gallery. It closed its doors in 2003. Previously, Lance Fung

Lance Fung

Lance Fung is an art curator who has been responsible for several major exhibitions including "Snow Show" at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.In 1999 Fung founded Fung Collaboratives, an inter-disciplinary arts organization.-External links:*...

 had been the director of Holly Solomon Gallery for several years. The venue emerged when Lance Fung and artist Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....

 approached Emily Harvey suggesting the two galleries cooperate in the space. The result was a schedule of exhibitions important in the New York art scene during its functioning years.

Lance Fung Gallery opened its doors in 1996 with an exhibition by Shigeko Kubota

Shigeko Kubota

is a visual and performance artist born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1937. She studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education, and completed her studies at New York University and at the New School for Social Research in the early 1960s. She became vice chairman of the Fluxus...

, to showcase this artist’s work. Going forward the gallery built a reputation as an innovative venue for Intermedia, site-specific

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 and process based art and installation. The gallery encouraged experimentation with ideas and materials, allowed an artist run layer to dialogue within its overall process and introduced chosen emerging artists in context with highly established artists.

Among many artists who showed at Lance Fung Gallery, permanent artists of the first five years include Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's...

, Gema Alava

Gema Alava

Gema Alava is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work, in the form of installation, drawing, photography and art projects, deals with what she calls "contradictory truths", and the capacity to "create a maximum by reversing a minimum." She has received a M.F.A. from the San...

, Joshua Selman, Tristano Di Robilant, Jessica Higgins, Suzanne Harris, Lars Chellberg, Richard Humann

Richard Humann

Richard Humann is a contemporary conceptual American artist who was born and raised in Stony Point, New York. He is a graduate of the art school at Harriman College in New York. He lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Woodstock, New York. He is married to the contemporary vocalist Susan...

, Top Changtrakul, Anthony Sorce, Erika Knerr, LG Williams and John Roloff. The gallery website later featured a final list of artists which also included Peter Hutchinson

Peter Hutchinson

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 and Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....

.