The art gallery SIXSPACE opened in Chicago (July 1999) with the Fuck You All exhibition by seminal photographer Glen E. Friedman. The attitude to provoke and inspire expressed in this exhibition would be the foundation for the gallery’s mission during its eight year existence: to champion emerging artists with the goal to challenge, excite, and inform audiences.
SIXSPACE cemented this position by relocating to Los Angeles in 2002 (downtown) and Culver City (2005) as a commercial space, showing artists including Invader, Shepard Fairey, Chad Robertson, Heather Cantrell, Russell Nachman, Sean Higgins, Karin Weiner, and Seonna Hong, Dalek, Richard Coleman, and many others. Throughout the years the gallery would host a benefit for the West Memphis Three, Sent: America’s first camera phone show, participate in international art fairs, and be featured in publications such as Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Weekly, Elle, Artweek, Frieze, Artnet.com, Magazine, People Magazine, Anthem, Wired, and more.
SIXSPACE was owned and operated by Sean Bonner & Caryn Coleman and officially closed at the end of 2007.