Duffy and Sons Ltd., which he ran until 1977. In 1970 he established his own SoHo gallery, J.H. He also represented Abstract Expressionist Ray Parker. He gave American artists Hannah Wilke, John Baldessari, Stephen Mueller and Billy Sullivan their first solo exhibitions in New York. The second show held at the downtown gallery, from October 12–November 16, 1968, featured the work of John Baldessari, Carol Brown, David Milne, Ralph Pomeroy. On September 3, 1968, Findlay launched Feigen Downtown, one of the first contemporary art galleries to open in SoHo, at 141 Greene Street, with a group show of American and European artists. He curated major exhibitions in its uptown galleries, first at 24 East 81st Street, then at 27 East 79th Street, including 'The Artists Collect' in 1964, a group show featuring Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, John Willenbecher, Lee Bontecou, George Segal, Roy Lichtenstein, Jack Youngerman, Jasper Johns, Arman, Marisol, Robert Bücker, and Ellsworth Kelly a 1965 display of Bridget Riley's Op Art paintings, coinciding with the Museum of Modern Art's show The Responsive Eye and “Words” in 1967, a thematic show of text-based art, which featured the work of Joseph Cornell, Enrique Castro-Cid, Marcel Duchamp, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson (who helped organize the show), Paul Klee, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Peter Saul, and Kurt Schwitters.

Early career (1964-1984) įindlay was a Director of Richard Feigen Gallery from 1964–1971. Findlay has lived in New York City since 1964. George's College, Weybridge, England and York University, Toronto. Michael Findlay was born in Dunoon, Scotland. Findlay is also the author of two books, The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty (2012) and Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art (2017). Findlay is a Director of Acquavella Galleries, which specializes in Impressionist and Modern European works of art as well as Post-War American painting and sculpture.

Michael Alistair Findlay (born 1945) is an art dealer and author residing in New York City.

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