Jonathan Ferrara Gallery

History:

Jonathan Ferrara Galley is a collective environment of creative visions. A commercial gallery with a public conscience. Artist, activist, and entrepreneur Jonathan Ferrara opened the gallery in 1998 to give emerging artists a voice. Since its inception, the gallery has focused on cutting edge works by local, national and international artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and message.

The gallery is known for its stimulating and provocative exhibitions in a wide variety of media. Painting, sculpture, mixed media and installation are the current focus of the gallery's exhibitions. As a curator, producer and promoter, Ferrara has had much success with exhibitions being featured in The New York Times, Time magazine, Art In America, ARTPAPERS, ART News, The Associated Press, ELLE Magazine, NPR and on ABC’s Good Morning America and in numerous other local, national and international publications.

Based in New Orleans, the gallery owes its creative stimulus to its environment, but ever strives to spread its message across the country and the world. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery regularly produces traveling exhibitions and brings its unique brand of creative talent on the road. The gallery has produced exhibitions Hungary, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Wisconsin and St. Louis. Jonathan Ferrara has also been an active dealer in Cuban art and maintains strong connections with artists in Cuba, having produced two major exhibitions of Cuban art; 2002's "Made In Havana" and 2004's "Havana: Inside Out".