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The '''Saatchi Gallery''' is a London [[art gallery|gallery]] for [[contemporary art]] and an independent charity<ref name="About - Saatchi Gallery">{{Cite web|title=About - Saatchi Gallery|url=https://www.saatchigallery.com/about|access-date=2021-09-29|website=www.saatchigallery.com}}</ref> opened by [[Charles Saatchi]] in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the [[Damien Hirst]]-led [[Young British Artists]], followed by shows purely of painting, led to Saatchi Gallery becoming a recognised authority in contemporary art globally. It has occupied different premises, first in North London, then the [[South Bank]] by the [[River Thames]], and finally in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], [[Duke of York's Headquarters|Duke of York's HQ]], its current location. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity and began a new chapter in its history. Recent exhibitions include the major solo exhibition of the artist [[JR (artist)|JR]], ''JR: Chronicles'', and ''London Grads Now'' in September 2019 lending the gallery spaces to graduates from leading fine art schools who experienced the cancellation of physical degree shows due to the pandemic.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Januszczak|first=Waldemar|title=Art review: London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London SW3|newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/art-review-london-grads-now-saatchi-gallery-london-sw3-kfmr73z5v|access-date=2021-09-29|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

The gallery's mission<ref name="About - Saatchi Gallery"/> is to support artists and render contemporary art accessible to all by presenting projects in physical and digital spaces that are engaging, enlightening and educational for diverse audiences. The Gallery presents curated exhibitions on themes relevant and exciting in the context of contemporary creative culture. Its educational programmes aim to reveal the possibilities of artistic expression to young minds, encourage fresh thought and stimulate innovation.

In 2019, Saatchi Gallery transitioned to becoming a charitable organisation, relying upon private donations to reinvest its revenue into its core learning activities and to support access to contemporary art for all.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Roehr|first=B.|date=2009-07-17|title=US legislation seeks to expand open access to all government funded research|journal=BMJ|volume=339|issue=jul17 1|article-number=b2902|doi=10.1136/bmj.b2902|pmid=19617265 |s2cid=7838113 |issn=0959-8138}}</ref>

==History==
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===Boundary Road===

====Opening and US art====
The Saatchi Gallery opened in 1985 in Boundary Road, [[St John's Wood]], London in a disused paint factory of {{convert|30000|sqft|m2}}. The first exhibition was held March—October 1985 featured many works by American [[minimalist]] [[Donald Judd]], American abstract painters [[Brice Marden]] and [[Cy Twombly]], and American pop artist [[Andy Warhol]]. This was the first U.K. exhibition for Twombly and Marden.

These were followed throughout December 1985 – July 1986 by an exhibition of works by American sculptor [[John Chamberlain (sculptor)|John Chamberlain]], American [[minimalism|minimalists]] [[Dan Flavin]], [[Sol LeWitt]], [[Robert Ryman]], [[Frank Stella]], and [[Carl Andre]]. During September 1986 – July 1987, the gallery exhibited German artist [[Anselm Kiefer]] and American minimalist sculptor [[Richard Serra]]. The exhibited Serra sculptures were so large that the caretaker's flat adjoining the gallery was demolished to make room for them.

From September 1987 to January 1988, the Saatchi Gallery mounted two exhibitions entitled ''New York Art Now'', featuring [[Jeff Koons]], [[Robert Gober]], [[Peter Halley]], [[Haim Steinbach]], [[Philip Taaffe]], and Caroll Dunham. This exhibition introduced these artists to the U.K. for the first time. The blend of minimalism and [[pop art]] influenced many young artists who would later form the [[Young British Artists]] (YBA) group.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}

From April to October 1988, featured exhibited works by American figurative painter [[Leon Golub]], German painter and photographer [[Sigmar Polke]], and American [[Abstract Expressionist]] painter [[Philip Guston]]. During November 1988 – April 1989 a group show featured contemporary American artists, most prominently [[Eric Fischl]]. From April – October, the gallery hosted exhibitions of American minimalist [[Robert Mangold]] and American conceptual artist [[Bruce Nauman]]. From November 1989 – February 1990, a series of exhibitions featured School of London artists including [[Lucian Freud]], [[Frank Auerbach]], [[Leon Kossoff]] and [[Howard Hodgkin]].

From January to July 1991, the gallery exhibited the work of American pop artist [[Richard Artschwager]], American photographer [[Cindy Sherman]], and British [[installation art]]ist [[Richard Wilson (sculptor)|Richard Wilson]]. Wilson's piece ''20:50'', a room entirely filled with oil, became a permanent installation at the Saatchi Gallery's Boundary Road venue.<ref name="Ina Cole">{{cite book |editor1-last=Cole |editor-first1=Ina |title="From the Sculptor's Studio", conversation with Richard Wilson, held in 2019 |year=2021 |publisher=Laurence King Publishing Ltd |page=256-269|isbn=978-1-913947-59-0 |oclc=1420954826}}</ref> September 1991 – February 1992 featured a group show, including American photographer [[Andres Serrano]].

====Young British Artists====
In an abrupt move, Saatchi sold much of his collection of US art, and invested in a new generation of British artists, exhibiting them in shows with the title ''Young British Artists.'' The core of the artists had been brought together by [[Damien Hirst]] in 1988 in a seminal show called ''[[Freeze (exhibition)|Freeze]]''. Saatchi augmented this with his own choice of purchases from art colleges and "alternative" artist-run spaces in London. His first showing of the YBAs was in 1992, where the star exhibit was a Hirst [[Display case|vitrine]] containing a cow's head eaten by flies. Brooks, Richard. "Hirst's shark is sold to America",<ref>''[[The Sunday Times]]'', 16 January 2005. Retrieved 14 October 2008.</ref> and the symbol of Britart worldwide.<ref name=davies>Davies, Serena. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/01/08/bapaint08.xml "Why painting is back in the frame"]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 8 January 2005. Retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref>

More recently Saatchi said, "It's not that ''Freeze'', the 1988 exhibition that Damien Hirst organised with this fellow Goldsmiths College students, was particularly good. Much of the art was fairly so-so and Hirst himself hadn't made anything much just a cluster of small colourful cardboard boxes placed high on a wall. What really stood out was the hopeful swagger of it all."

Saatchi's promotion of these artists dominated local art throughout the nineties and brought them to worldwide notice. Among the artists in the series of shows were [[Jenny Saville]], [[Sarah Lucas]], [[Gavin Turk]], [[Jake and Dinos Chapman]] and [[Rachel Whiteread]].

''Sensation'' opened in September at the [[Royal Academy]] to much controversy and showed 110 works by 42 artists from the Saatchi collection. In 1999 ''Sensation'' toured to the Nationalgalerie at the [[Hamburger Bahnhof]] in Berlin in the autumn, and then to the [[Brooklyn Museum]] of Art, New York, creating unprecedented political and media controversy and becoming a touchstone for debate about the "morality" of contemporary art.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}


====Neurotic Realism and philanthropy====
Meanwhile, other shows with different themes were held in the gallery itself. In 1998, Saatchi launched a two part exhibition entitled ''Neurotic Realism''. Though widely attacked by critics, the exhibition included many future international stars including; [[Cecily Brown]], [[Ron Mueck]], Noble and Webster, [[Dexter Dalwood]], [[Martin Maloney (artist)|Martin Maloney]], [[Dan Coombs]], [[Chantal Joffe]], [[Michael Raedecker]] and [[David Thorpe (artist)|David Thorpe]]. In 2000 ''Ant Noises'' (an [[anagram]] of "sensation"), also in two parts, tried surer ground with work by Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Jenny Saville, Rachel Whiteread, the Chapmans, Gavin Turk, Tracey Emin and [[Chris Ofili]].

During this period the Collection was based at '30 Underwood St' an artist Collective of 50 studios and four galleries, the gallery made several large philanthropic donations including 100 artworks in 1999 to the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]] Collection, which operates a "lending library" to museums and galleries around the country, with the aim of increasing awareness and promoting interest in younger artists; 40 works by young British artists through the [[National Art Collections Fund]], now known as the [[Art Fund]], to eight museum collections across Britain in 2000; and 50 artworks to the [[Paintings in Hospitals]] program which provides a lending library of over 3,000 original works of art to [[National Health Service|NHS]] hospitals, [[hospice]]s and health centers throughout England, Wales and Ireland in 2002.

After the Gallery moved from Boundary Road, the site was redeveloped by the [[Ardmore Group]] for residential use, under the name 'The Collection'.

===County Hall===
[[File:Saatchi Gallery.jpg|thumb|The Saatchi Gallery was based at [[County Hall, London|County Hall]] 2003–2005]]
In April 2003, the gallery moved to [[County Hall, London|County Hall]], the [[Greater London Council]]'s former headquarters on the [[South Bank]], occupying {{convert|40000|sqft|m2}} of the ground floor. 1,000 guests attended the launch, which included a "nude happening" of 200 naked people staged by artist [[Spencer Tunick]].

The opening exhibition included a retrospective by [[Damien Hirst]], as well as work by other [[Young British Artists|YBAs]], such as [[Jake and Dinos Chapman]] and [[Tracey Emin]] alongside some longer-established artists including [[John Bratby]], [[Paula Rego]] and [[Patrick Caulfield]].

[[File:Damien-Hirst-1 (2007).jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Damien Hirst]]]]
Hirst disassociated himself from the retrospective to the extent of not including it in his CV.<ref name=gibbons-buys>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/nov/27/arts.artsnews|title = Hirst buys his art back from Saatchi| work=The Guardian |date = 27 November 2003 | last1=Gibbons | first1=Fiachra }}</ref> He was angry that a [[Mini]] car that he had decorated for charity with his trademark spots was being exhibited as serious work.<ref name=gibbons-buys/> The show also scuppered a prospective Hirst retrospective at [[Tate Modern]].<ref name=gibbons-buys/> He said Saatchi was "childish"<ref name=jardine>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060615164326/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2004%2F07%2F26%2Fbahirst26.xml&sSheet=%2Farts%2F2004%2F07%2F26%2Fixtop.html "I Knew It Was Time to Clean up My Act" Daily Telegraph, 26 July 2004] Retrieved 14 October 2008</ref> and "I'm not Charles Saatchi's barrel-organ monkey ... He only recognises art with his wallet ... he believes he can affect art values with buying power, and he still believes he can do it." (In July 2004, Hirst said, "I respect Charles. There's not really a feud. If I see him, we speak, but we were never really drinking buddies.")<ref name=jardine/>

On 24 May 2004, a [[Momart#The 2004 warehouse fire|fire in the Momart storage warehouse]] destroyed many works from the collection, including the Tracey Emin work ''[[Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–95]]'' ("the tent"), and Jake and Dinos Chapman's tableau ''[[Hell (Chapman)|Hell]]''. A gallery spokesman said that Saatchi was distraught at the loss: "It is terrible. A significant part of the work in his collection has been affected." One art insurance specialist valued the lost work at £50m.<ref>Malvern, Jack; Nugent, Helen, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article432681.ece "Britart masterpieces feared lost in blaze"]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''[[The Times]]'', 26 May 2004. Retrieved 14 October 2008</ref>

In 2004, Saatchi's recent acquisitions (including [[Stella Vine]]) were featured in ''New Blood'', a show of mostly little-known artists working in a variety of media. It received a hostile critical reception, which caused Saatchi to speak out angrily against the critics.<ref>Clenell, Andrew. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/saatchi-returns-fire-at-pitiful-critics-of-new-blood-show-561405.html "Saatchi returns fire at 'pitiful' critics of New Blood show"]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''[[The Independent]]'', 27 April 2004. Retrieved 15 October 2008.</ref>

Saatchi, said that most [[Young British Artists|YBA]]s would prove "nothing but footnotes" in history, and sold works from his YBA collection, beginning in December 2004 with Hirst's iconic shark for nearly £7 million<ref name=brooks-sell>Brooks, Richard. "Saatchi starts Britart sell-off", ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', p. 10. 28 August 2005.</ref> (he had bought it for £50,000 in 1991), followed by at least twelve other works by Hirst.<ref name=higgins-sells>{{cite news |last=Higgins|first= Charlotte |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/apr/21/arts.thesaatchigallery |title=Saatchi sells Britart classic for £1.5m | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date= 21 April 2005 |access-date= 14 October 2008}}</ref> Four works by [[Ron Mueck]], including key works ''Pinocchio'' and ''Dead Dad'', went for an estimated £2.5 million.<ref name=brooks-sell/> [[Mark Quinn]]'s ''Self'', bought in 1991 for a reported £13,000, sold for £1.5 million.<ref name=higgins-sells/> Saatchi also sold all but one work by [[Sam Taylor-Wood]] (he showed five in the ''[[Sensation (exhibition)|Sensation]]'' show).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Morrison |first1= James |last2= Costello-Dougherty|first2= Malaika |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/saatchis-new-art-row--this-time-its-personal-537978.html |title=Saatchi's new art row – this time it's personal | newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date= 4 May 2003 |access-date=14 October 2008}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The sale was compared to his sale in the 1980s of most of his postwar American art collection.<ref name=higgins-sells/> [[David Lee (art critic)|David Lee]] said: "Charles Saatchi has all the hallmarks of being a dealer, not a collector. He first talks up the works and then sells them."<ref name=brooks-sell/>

In 2005, Saatchi changed direction, announcing a year-long, three-part series (subsequently extended to two years and seven parts), ''The Triumph of Painting''. The opening exhibition focused on established European painters, including [[Marlene Dumas]], [[Martin Kippenberger]], [[Luc Tuymans]] and [[Peter Doig]], who had not previously received such significant U.K. exposure. Shows in the series were scheduled to introduce young painters from America like [[Dana Schutz]] and Germans such as [[Matthias Weischer]], as well as Saatchi's choice of up and coming British talent.

The gallery received 800,000 visitors a year. In 2006, 1,350 schools organised group visits to the gallery.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}

In 2006, a selection from ''The Triumph of Painting'' was exhibited in [[Leeds Art Gallery]] and ''USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' opened at the [[Royal Academy]]. This exhibition toured to The [[State Hermitage]] Museum, [[St. Petersburg, Russia]] in 2007.

====Court case====
The gallery's tenancy of County Hall had ongoing difficulties with Makoto Okamoto, London branch manager of the owners, who Saatchi complained had kicked artworks and sealed off the disabled toilets.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith|first= David |url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/news/story/0,11711,1081182,00.html |title=The ****ing row over Saatchi's vanishing art |newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |date= 9 November 2003 |access-date=15 October 2008}}</ref> On 28 September 2005, the gallery announced a move to new and larger premises in the [[Duke of York's Headquarters]], Chelsea, though Saatchi said it was "tragic" to leave.<ref>{{cite web |last=Higgins |first= Charlotte |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/sep/28/thesaatchigallery.arts |title=Saatchi blames 'malevolent' atmosphere and says sad goodbye to the South Bank | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date= 28 September 2005 |access-date= 15 October 2008}}</ref> On 6 October 2005, a court case began, brought by the owners and landlord of County Hall, the Shirayama Shokusan Company and Cadogan Leisure Investments, against Danovo (Saatchi was its majority shareholder), trading as the Saatchi Gallery,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/07/arts.thesaatchigallery|title=Saatchi in 'deep rage' during row over toilet|work=the Guardian|date=7 October 2005}}</ref> for alleged breach of conditions, including a two-for-one ticket offer in ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' magazine and exhibition of work in unauthorized areas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4315622.stm |title=Saatchi Gallery row at High Court |publisher= [[BBC]] |date= 6 October 2005 |access-date= 15 October 2005}}</ref> The judgment went against the gallery; the judge, Sir Donald Ratee, and ordered the gallery off the premises because of a "deliberate disregard" of the landlords' rights.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/21/thesaatchigallery.arts|title=Judge orders Saatchi out of County Hall|work=the Guardian|date=21 October 2005}}</ref>

On 8 October 2006, Danovo was forced into liquidation with debts around £1.8 million, having failed to pay the court-ordered penalty.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/09/arts.thesaatchigallery|title=Saatchi firm wound up with debts of £1.8m|author=Hugh Muir|work=the Guardian|date=9 March 2006}}</ref>

===Duke of York's HQ===
[[File:The Blessing Hand by Stepan Ryabchenko in Saatchi Gallery in London.jpg|thumb|The Blessing Hand by [[Stepan Ryabchenko]] in Saatchi Gallery]]
On 9 October 2008, the Gallery opened its new premises, described in ''[[The Observer]]'' as one of "the most beautiful art spaces in London",<ref name=cumming-home>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/oct/12/art-saatchigallery|title=The Revolution Continues: New Art from China, Saatchi Gallery|author=Laura Cumming|work=The Guardian|date=11 October 2008}}</ref> in the {{convert|70000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} [[Duke of York's Headquarters|Duke of York's HQ]] on [[Kings Road]], London, near [[Sloane Square]]. The building was refurbished by architects Paul Davis + Partners and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. It consists of 15 equally-proportioned exhibition spaces "as light, as high, and as beautifully proportioned as any in London".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/07/basaatchi107.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008005602/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2008%2F10%2F07%2Fbasaatchi107.xml|archive-date=8 October 2008|title=Culture, Arts and Entertainment|work=The Telegraph|access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>

The main opening exhibition was of new Chinese art, ''The Revolution Continues: New Art From China'', bringing together the work of twenty-four young Chinese artists in a survey of painting, sculpture and installation, including [[Zhang Huan]], [[Li Songsong]], [[Zhang Xiaogang]], Zhang Haiying<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/new_art_from-china.htm|title=Saatchi gallery|author=Saatchi Gallery}}</ref> and [[conceptual art]]ists [[Sun Yuan & Peng Yu]]. The show's focus was on political issues surrounding China's [[Cultural Revolution]] and also the contemporary political context.<ref>Adams, Stephen, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/06/basaatchi106.xml "Charles Saatchi's attention-grabbing new exhibition on Chinese art"]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 6 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.</ref><ref>[http://news.trendaz.com/?show=news&newsid=1314881&lang=EN "New Saatchi gallery in London puts China's artists on show"], Trend News, 9 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.</ref> The decision to open with ''The Revolution Continues'' was directly influenced by global interest in China as a result of the [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing Olympics]].<ref>Collet-White, Mike, [https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE4963IP20081007?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0 Reuters], 7 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.</ref> Jackie Wullschlager in the ''[[Financial Times]]'' said it was "the most persuasive showing of contemporary Chinese art yet mounted in this country", and, contrasting it with the "deadly" contemporaneous [[Turner Prize]] show, "Saatchi's collection of Chinese art is one that Tate would kill for, and could not begin to afford"; she said that it was "an example of a private museum grand and serious enough to compete with national institutions."<ref>Wullschlager, Jackie. [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/current/china_reviews_ft1.htm "The Stuff of People's Prayers and Dreams"], ''[[Financial Times]]'', 11 October 2008. Retrieved from saatchi-gallery.co.uk, 15 October 2008.</ref>

More recent exhibitions include the London-leg of the touring show ''Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Curtis|first=Nick|date=2019-10-29|title=Egyptomania returns with Tutankhamun's treasures at Saatchi Gallery|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tutankhamun-exhibition-saatchi-gallery-egyptomania-a4273151.html|access-date=2021-09-29|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref> the solo exhibition of the artist [[JR (artist)|JR]], [https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/jr__chronicles ''JR: Chronicles''], and ''[https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/london_grads_now London Grads Now]'' in September 2019 lending the gallery spaces to graduates from leading fine art schools who experienced the cancellation of a physical degree show due to the pandemic (described by critic [[Waldemar Januszczak]] in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' as "a good idea. Saatchi Gallery deserves a slap on the back for organising this selection of work from grads shows, a highlight of every art student's education".<ref name=":0" /> The Gallery also hosts the annual ''[[Carmignac Photojournalism Award]]'' and various art fairs and global events including music group [[Bicep (band)|BICEP]]'s live global stream of their new album in March 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-06|title=Bicep: Live Global Stream II review – 90 minutes of pure throwback pleasure|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/06/bicep-live-global-stream-ii-2-live-stream-saatchi-gallery-london-review-isles|access-date=2021-09-29|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>

====Philosophy====
Saatchi Gallery's goal is to show contemporary work that would otherwise not be seen in London institutions such as [[Tate Modern]].<ref>Ward, Ossian, [http://www.timeout.com/london/art/features/5876.html Charles Saatchi: Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115030611/http://www.timeout.com/london/art/features/5876.html |date=15 January 2009}}, TimeOut.com, 7 October 2008</ref> The gallery's ex head of development, Rebecca Wilson, said, "The gallery's guiding principle is to show what is being made now, the most interesting artists of today. It's about drawing people's attentions to someone who might be tomorrow's Damien Hirst."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/dec/14/saatchi-revolution-continues-china-art London's New Saatchi Gallery Looks to China's Emerging Artists], ''The Guardian''</ref> The gallery's aim is to make art more accessible to the mainstream, rather than an exclusive artworld pursuit.<ref>Smith, Matt, [http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Saatchi-Gallery-New-Exhibition-Of-Modern-Wacky-Art/Article/200810115114544?lpos=Showbiz_News_Third_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15114544_Saatchi_Gallery%3A_New_Exhibition_Of_Modern_Wacky_Art Saatchi Gallery: A new exhibition of modern wacky art], Sky News, 7 October 2008</ref>

==Timeline==
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1985 – {{convert|30000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} Saatchi Gallery opens at Boundary Road, London NW8, featuring works by [[Donald Judd]], [[Brice Marden]], [[Cy Twombly]] and [[Andy Warhol]]. This was the first UK exhibition for Twombly and Marden.

1986 – Exhibits [[Anselm Kiefer]] and [[Richard Serra]].

1987 – The New York Art Now show introduces American artists including [[Jeff Koons]], [[Robert Gober]], [[Ashley Bickerton]], Carroll Dunham and Phillip Taaffe to the UK.

1988–1991 ¬– Introduces artists including [[Leon Golub]], [[Phillip Guston]], [[Sigmar Polke]], [[Bruce Nauman]], Richard Artschwager and [[Cindy Sherman]] to London.

1992 – Curates its first Young British Artists show [[Damien Hirst]], [[Marc Quinn]], [[Rachel Whiteread]], [[Gavin Turk]], [[Glenn Brown (artist)|Glenn Brown]], [[Sarah Lucas]], [[Jenny Saville]] and [[Gary Hume]] were all presented in these exhibitions.

1996 – Sixth Young British Artists show featuring [[Dan Coombs]]

1997 – Opens ''[[Sensation exhibition|Sensation]]: Young British Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' at the [[Royal Academy]] featuring 42 artists including The [[Chapman Brothers]], [[Marcus Harvey]], [[Damien Hirst]], [[Ron Mueck]], [[Jenny Saville]], [[Sarah Lucas]] & [[Tracey Emin]]. Sensation attracted over 300,000 visitors, a record for a contemporary exhibition.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=While|first=Aidan|date=2003|title=Locating Art Worlds: London and the Making of Young British Art|journal=Area|volume=35|issue=3|pages=251–263|doi=10.1111/1475-4762.00174|jstor=20004319|bibcode=2003Area...35..251W |issn=0004-0894}}</ref>

1999 – ''Sensation'' at the [[Hamburger Bahnhof]] in Berlin.

1999 – ''Sensation'' tours to [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]].

1999 – Donates 100 artworks to the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]] Collection, which operates a 'lending library' to museums and galleries around Britain.

2000 – Donates 40 works through the [[National Art Collections Fund]] to eight museums across Britain.

2000 – Begins a series of one person shows of major international figures mostly new to Britain, including [[Duane Hanson]], [[Boris Mikhailov (photographer)|Boris Mikhailov]] and [[Alex Katz]]. Shows entitled ''Young Americans'' and ''Eurovision'' introduce artists including [[John Currin]], [[Andreas Gursky]], [[Charles Ray (artist)|Charles Ray]], [[Richard Prince]], [[Rineke Dijkstra]], [[Lisa Yuskavage]] and [[Elizabeth Peyton]].

2001 – ''I am a Camera'' exhibition opens at the Gallery, showing photography and other related works where traditional boundaries are blurred as photographs influence paintings, and paintings influence photographs. The show included work by many other artists new in the UK.

2002 – Donates 50 artworks to the Paintings in Hospitals program which lends over 3,000 originals to NHS hospitals, hospices and health centers throughout England, Wales and Ireland.

2003 – Moves to [[County Hall]], the [[Greater London Council]]'s former headquarters on the [[South Bank]], creating a {{convert|40000|sqft|m2}} exhibition space. The opening show included a Hirst retrospective as well as works by other [[Young British Artists|YBA]]s such as the [[Chapman Brothers]], [[Tracey Emin]], [[Jenny Saville]] and [[Sarah Lucas]].

2004 – A fire in the [[Momart]] storage warehouse destroyed many works from the collection, including the major [[Tracey Emin]] work ''Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–95'' ("the tent"), and [[Jake and Dinos Chapman]]'s tableau ''Hell''.

2005 – Launches a year-long, three-part series exhibition, ''The Triumph of Painting''. The opening exhibition focuses on influential European painters [[Marlene Dumas]], [[Martin Kippenberger]], [[Luc Tuymans]], [[Peter Doig]], [[Jörg Immendorff]], and followed with younger painters including [[Albert Oehlen]], [[Wilhelm Sasnal]] and [[Thomas Scheibitz]].

2005 – Expanded into the [[Duke of York's Headquarters]] building in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]]. This put a halt to London shows while the new premises were being prepared.

2005 – Exhibited a selection of works from ''The Triumph of Painting'' in [[Leeds Art Gallery]].

2006 – During the period between premises, the Saatchi Online website began an open-access section where artists could upload works of art and their biographies onto personal pages. The site currently has over 100,000 artist profiles and receives over 68 million hits a day, ranking at 316 in the Alexa Top 50,000 World Websites.

2006 – In association with [[the Guardian]] newspaper, opened the first ever reader-curated exhibition, showing the work of 10 artists registered on Saatchi Online. In November launched a new section within Saatchi Online exclusively for art students, called Stuart. Art students from all over the world were able to create home pages with images of their art, photos, lists of their favorite artists, books, films and television shows, and links to their friends' pages. Other sections on Saatchi Online include; chat, a daily art magazine, a forum, written and video [[blogs]], as well as sections for [[street art]], photography and illustration.

2006 – ''USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' opens at the [[Royal Academy]].

2007 – Added a new online feature called "Museums around the World" hosting over 2,800 museums, showing collection highlights, exhibitions and other relevant information. 2,700 Colleges and Universities from around the world also offer their profiles, enabling potential students to examine their prospectuses.

2007 – ''USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery'' toured to The [[State Hermitage]] Museum, [[St Petersburg]], Russia.

2008 – Reopens on the 9 October in the entire {{convert|70000|sqft|m2}} [[Duke of York's Headquarters]] building on [[Kings Road]] in [[Chelsea, London]],<ref name="test">[http://www.londonvenues.london/item/saatchi-gallery/ Saatchi Gallery], London Venues.</ref> with ''The Revolution Continues: New Art from China''.

2014 – Saatchi Online sold to [[Demand Media]] for $17 million and rebranded as SaatchiArt.com.<ref name=lat>[http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-demand-saatchi-art-20140811-story.html "Demand Media buys Saatchi Art, names Sean Moriarty as CEO"], ''[[LA Times]]'', retrieved from the LA Times, 25, August 2014.</ref>

2019 – Saatchi Gallery transitioned to becoming a charitable organisation <ref name=":1" />

==Saatchi Online==
[[File:Tracey Emin 104 0035.JPG|thumb|Portrait of [[Tracey Emin]] by Irish artist [[Reginald Gray (artist)|Reginald Gray]].]]
In 2006, during the period in limbo between premises, the gallery's website began an open-access section, including Your Gallery,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saatchigallery.com/yourgallery|title=saatchigallery.com Saatchi Gallery|author=Winston Chmielinski|access-date=10 October 2006|archive-date=9 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709055809/http://www.saatchigallery.com/yourgallery/}}</ref> where artists can upload up to twenty works and a biography to a personal page. Over 100,000 artists had done so as of 2010, and the site receives an estimated 73 million hits a day. Your Gallery was later rebranded as Saatchi Online. In September 2008, [[Alexa Internet]] ranked Saatchi Gallery among the leading 300 websites in the world. In March 2012, Alexa ranked Saatchi Online's position at 30,454. In November 2007, it was estimated that professional artists registered sell over $100 million of art directly from the site annually.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}} In 2008, Saatchi Online launched a saleroom section that hosts over 84,000 entries from artists wishing to sell their work. For original work, Saatchi Online takes a 30% commission on the final sale price. If a Promotional discount code is offered, SO and Artist will split it equally. For prints, artists are entitled to 70% of the profit on each sale. Artists are also responsible for the costs of print production.

In October 2006, the Saatchi Gallery in association with ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper opened the first ever reader-curated exhibition, showing the work of 10 Saatchi Online artists. Users may also be featured in the Saatchi Online stall at various art fairs. In November 2006 the gallery launched a new section exclusively for art students, called Stuart.<ref>[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/ Saatchi Online Art Students], The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.</ref> Stuart also hosts an annual competition, ''4 New Sensations'', in association with [[Channel 4]].

Other spaces on Saatchi Online including a forum, live chat, [[blogs]], videos, [[photography]] and [[illustration]]. The site also publishes grant and funding opportunities. A daily magazine features 24-hour news updated every 15 minutes, as well as articles and reviews by art critics such as [[Jerry Saltz]] and [[Matthew Collings]]. The site recently began broadcasting an online television channel with video access to art openings, artists' studios, performances and interviews.

Interactive features include the weekly Showdown competition, where users can win an exhibition spot, the Online Studio for creating art (each month a critic selects a winner in whose name a £500 donation is made to a children's charity) a Crits section in which artists can comment on each other's work, and the Street Art section for graffiti, murals, and performance art.

"Museums around the World" features over 3,300 museums. These include the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], The [[Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Tate]], the London [[National Gallery (London)|National Gallery]], the [[Louvre]], and the [[State Hermitage]], as well as small museums.

As of July 2008, 4,300 art dealers and commercial galleries have profiles on the site. Over 2,800 universities and colleges have uploaded prospectuses and student information, including [[Yale]], [[Harvard]], the [[University of Cambridge]] and the [[University of Oxford]], as well as local art colleges. Over 1,500 schools have uploaded pupils' work. Schools range from [[Eton College]] to small Primary and High schools. The Portfolio School Art Prize<ref>[http://www.artsaward.org.uk/news/viewarticle.php?id=130 New Portfolio School Art Prize] [http://www.artsaward.org.uk/ Arts Award], UK.</ref> is open to schools with pupils between 5 and 17.

A [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] version allows Chinese artists to upload their profiles in Chinese and translates them into English. There is also a Chinese language chatroom, forum, and blog. The site provides automated translations into many languages; Russian, Spanish and Portuguese versions of the site are planned.<ref>Helmut K Anheier, Yudhishthir Raj Isar Cultures and Globalization: Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance – 2012- Page 263 "In summary, Saatchi Online did not sell enough art, or the work of well-known artists, so did not seriously threaten the commercial galleries. By December 2010 the Saatchi Online Saleroom was gone. The entire Saatchi Gallery website was franchised out to a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, Bruce Livingstone, who, in January 2011, said he planned to "</ref>

Saatchi Online was sold to [[Demand Media]] in August 2014, and was rebranded as [[Saatchi Art|SaatchiArt.com]].<ref name=lat /> The old Saatchi Online website now redirects there. [[Saatchi Art]] is an online marketplace where artists can go to sell originals and prints of their artwork to users of the site, with the website handling the details of the transaction and taking a 30% cut.

==Controversies==
*Artists such as [[Sandro Chia]] and [[Sean Scully]], to whom Saatchi had been a patron in the late 1970s and early 1980s, felt betrayed by him when their work was sold in bulk from his collection, and Saatchi was accused of destroying Chia's career.<ref name=anqa>[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/charlesqa/qa.htm "Art Newspaper readers' questions"], ''[[The Art Newspaper]]'', retrieved from the Saatchi Gallery, 17 October 2008.</ref> Saatchi said that the matter only became an issue because Chia "had a psychological need to be rejected in public" and is now "most famous for being dumped", but that he had only ever owned seven Chias, which he sold back to Chia's two dealers, who re-sold them easily to museums or notable collectors.<ref name=anqa/> Saatchi claimed that a sale of strong work can help to galvanise the market for them.<ref name=anqa/>

[[File:Burlington House.jpg|thumb|The [[Royal Academy]], London, where ''[[Sensation (exhibition)|Sensation]]'' opened.]]
*In 1997, in ''[[Sensation (exhibition)|Sensation]]'', London, [[Marcus Harvey]]'s [[Myra (painting)|giant painting]] of [[Myra Hindley]] made from children's hand prints was attacked by two men with ink and eggs, and picketed by the Mothers Against Murder and Aggression protest group, accompanied by Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's [[Moors murders]] victims.<ref>
Blanchard, Tamsin. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n14133675 "Arts: Sensation as ink and egg are thrown at Hindley portrait"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 19 September 1997. Retrieved from findarticles.com, 17 October 2008.</ref> The work was restored and exhibited.<ref name=storm>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/455902.stm "Sensation sparks New York storm"], [[BBC]], 23 September 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008.</ref>

*The ''Sensation'' show in New York offended [[Rudy Giuliani|Mayor Rudolph Giuliani]], because of [[Chris Ofili]]'s painting, ''[[The Holy Virgin Mary]]'', which incorporates elephant dung.<ref name=storm/> Giuliani, who had seen the work in the catalog but not in the show, called it "sick stuff" and threatened to withdraw the annual $7 million City Hall grant from the [[Brooklyn Museum]] hosting the show, because "You don't have a right to government subsidy for desecrating somebody else's religion."<ref name=storm/> John O'Connor, the Cardinal of New York, said, "one must ask if it is an attack on religion itself", and the president of America's biggest group of Orthodox Jews, Mandell Ganchrow, called it "deeply offensive".<ref name=whiff>Davies, Hugh; Fenton, Ben. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040925004233/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1999%2F10%2F02%2Fwsen02.html "Whiff of sensation hits New York"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 2 October 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008.</ref> William A Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said the work "induces revulsion".<ref name=storm/> Giuliani started a lawsuit to evict the museum, and Arnold Lehman, the museum director, filed a federal lawsuit against Giuliani for breaching the First Amendment.<ref name=whiff/>

:[[Hillary Clinton]] and the New York Civil Liberties Union spoke up for the museum.<ref name=storm/> The editorial board of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said Giuliani's stance "promises to begin a new Ice Age in New York's cultural affairs."<ref name=nat>Rapp, Christopher. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_20_51/ai_56220691 "Dung Deal – Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Sensation" exhibition"], ''[[National Review]]'', 25 October 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008.</ref> The paper also carried a petition in support signed by 106, including [[Susan Sarandon]], [[Steve Martin]], [[Norman Mailer]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Kurt Vonnegut]] and [[Susan Sontag]], saying that the mayor "blatantly disregards constitutional protection for freedom of the arts."<ref name=whiff/> Ofili, who is Roman Catholic, said, "elephant dung in itself is quite a beautiful object."<ref name=whiff/> The museum produced a yellow stamp, saying the artworks on show "may cause shock, vomiting, confusion, panic, euphoria and anxiety."<ref name="whiff" /> and Ofili's painting was shown behind a Plexiglass screen, guarded by a museum attendant and an armed police officer.<ref name="nat" /> Jeffrey Hogrefe, ''[[New York Observer]]'' art critic, said, "They wanted to get some publicity and they got it. I think it was pretty calculated."<ref name="storm" /> The editor-in-chief of the New York ''[[Art & Auction]]'' magazine, Bruce Wolmer, said: "When the row eventually fades the only smile will be on the face of Charles Saatchi, a master self-promoter."<ref name="whiff" /> Giuliani lost his court case and was forced to restore funding.<ref name="vogeloz">Vogel, Carol. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E5DA1E3FF932A35751C1A96F958260 "Australian Museum cancels controversial art show"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 1 December 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008.</ref>

*''Sensation'' was scheduled to open in June 2000 at the [[National Gallery of Australia]], but was cancelled. Director Brian Kennedy said that, although it was due to be funded by the Australian government, it was "too close to the market", since finance for the Brooklyn exhibition included $160,000 from Saatchi, who owned the work, $50,000 from [[Christie's]], who had sold work for Saatchi, and $10,000 from dealers of many of the artists.<ref name="vogeloz"/> Kennedy said he was unaware of this when he accepted the show; Saatchi's contribution, the largest single one, was not disclosed by the Brooklyn Museum until it appeared in court documents.<ref name="vogeloz"/> When the show opened in London at the Royal Academy, there had been criticisms that it would raise the value of the work.<ref name="vogeloz"/>

[[File:2005 Saatchi Gallery demo.jpg|thumb|The Stuckists picket the opening of ''The Triumph of Painting'' at the gallery]]
*In 2004, media controversy arose over two paintings by [[Stella Vine]]. One was of [[Princess Diana]] called ''Hi Paul Can You Come Over'', showing the Princess with blood dripping from her lips. The other was of drug user [[Rachel Whitear]], whose body was being exhumed at the time; Whitear's parents and the police appealed for the painting to be withdrawn,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/saatchi/story/0,13010,1187874,00.html|title=Saatchi urged not to show Whitear piece|website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=16 March 2004}}</ref> but it was not.
*In 2004, the [[Stuckism|Stuckists]] reported Saatchi to the [[Office of Fair Trading]] alleging unfair competition.<ref>Stummer, Robin. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040328/ai_n12753219 "Charles Saatchi 'abuses his hold on British art market'"], ''[[The Independent on Sunday]]'', 28 March 2004. Retrieved 17 October 2008.</ref> The complaint was not upheld. They also picketed the opening of ''The Triumph of Painting'' claiming that Saatchi had stolen their ideas.<ref>Hermione Eyre, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20050130/ai_n9697646 "Talk of the Town"], ''[[The Independent on Sunday]]'' 30 January 2005.</ref><ref>Nigel Reynolds, [https://archive.today/20120914061822/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1473165/Saatchi%27s-latest-shock-for-the-art-world-is---painting.html "Saatchi's Latest Shock For The Art World Is Painting"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 4 October 2004</ref> (Vine had previously been involved with the Stuckists.)
*In 2006, "USA Today" provoked controversy in the media and among some Royal Academicians who called for certain works to be installed in an 'adult-only' room. A notice advising 'parental guidance' before viewing the work of [[Dash Snow]] and [[Gerald Davis (American artist)|Gerald Davis]] was posted by the Royal Academy,<ref>[http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/usatoday royalacademy.org.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926080243/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/usatoday/ |date=26 September 2006 }}</ref> on a wall outside the room in which the controversial works were hung. These were Dash Snow's 'Fuck the Police', in which newspaper cuttings relating to police corruption are smeared with the artist's own semen, and a painting titled ''Monica'' by Gerald Davis in which a young woman engages in fellatio.

==Artists shown at the Saatchi Gallery==
===Boundary Road===
'''1985'''
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*[[Donald Judd]]
*[[Brice Marden]]
*[[Cy Twombly]]
*[[Andy Warhol]]
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'''1986'''
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*[[Carl Andre]]
*[[Sol LeWitt]]
*[[Robert Ryman]]
*[[Frank Stella]]
*[[Dan Flavin]]
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'''1987'''
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*[[Anselm Kiefer]]
*[[Richard Serra]]
*[[Jeff Koons]]
*[[Robert Gober]]
*[[Philip Taaffe]]
*[[Carroll Dunham]]
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'''1988'''
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*[[Leon Golub]]
*[[Philip Guston]]
*[[Sigmar Polke]]
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'''1989'''
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*[[Robert Mangold]]
*[[Bruce Nauman]]
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'''1990'''
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*[[Leon Kossoff]]
*[[Frank Auerbach]]
*[[Lucian Freud]]
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'''1991'''
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*[[Richard Artschwager]]
*[[Andreas Serrano]]
*[[Cindy Sherman]]
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'''1992'''
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*[[Damien Hirst]]
*[[Rachel Whiteread]]
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'''1993'''
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*[[Sarah Lucas]]
*[[Marc Quinn]]
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'''1994'''
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*[[Jenny Saville]]
*[[Paula Rego]]
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'''1995'''
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*[[Gavin Turk]]
*[[Glenn Brown (artist)|Glenn Brown]]
*[[Gary Hume]]
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'''1996'''
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*[[Janine Antoni]]
*[[Tony Oursler]]
*[[Richard Prince]]
*[[Charles Ray (artist)|Charles Ray]]
*[[Kiki Smith]]
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'''1997'''
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*[[Duane Hanson]]
*[[Andreas Gursky]]
*[[Martin Honert]]
*[[Thomas Ruff]]
*[[Thomas Schütte]]
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'''1998'''
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*[[David Salle]]
*[[Jessica Stockholder]]
*[[Terry Winters]]
*[[John Currin]]
*[[Tom Friedman (artist)|Tom Friedman]]
*[[Josiah McElheny]]
*[[Laura Owens]]
*[[Elizabeth Peyton]]
*[[Lisa Yuskavage]]
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'''1999'''
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*[[Alex Katz]]
*[[Martin Maloney (artist)|Martin Maloney]]
*[[Dexter Dalwood]]
*[[Ron Mueck]]
*[[Cecily Brown]]
*[[Noble and Webster]]
*[[Michael Raedecker]]
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'''2000'''
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*[[Boris Mikhailov (photographer)|Boris Mikhailov]]
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'''2012'''
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*[[Igor Kalinauskas]]
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'''2013'''
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*[[Karen Heagle]]
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'''2018'''
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*[[Philip Pearlstein]]
*[[Sara Barker (artist)|Sara Barker]]
*[[Maria Farrar]]
*[[Kirstine Roepstorff]]
*[[Juno Calypso]]
*[[Gavin Turk]]
*[[Pussy Riot]]
*[[Pyotr Pavlensky]]
*[[Oleg Kulik]]
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'''2019'''
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*[[Johnnie Cooper]]
*[[Richard Billingham]]
*[[Aleksandra Mir]]
*[[Simon Bedwell]]
*[[Aleksandra Mir]]
*[[Michael Cline]]
*[[Jessica Craig-Martin]]
*[[Valerie Hegarty]]
*[[John Stezaker]]
*[[Marianne Vitale]]
*[[Philip Colbert]]
*[[Mao Jianhua]]
*[[Kate Daudy]]
*[[Ibrahim El-Salahi]]
*[[Nancy Cadogan]]
*[[James Alec Hardy]]
*[[Vinca Petersen]]
*[[Conrad Shawcross]]
*[[Dave Swindells]]
*[[Seana Gavin]]
*[[Cleo Campert]]
*[[Toby Mott]]
*[[Marshmallow Laser Feast]]
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'''2020'''
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*[[Khushna Sulaman-Butt]]
*[[Jahnavi Inniss]]
*[[Francesca Mollett]]
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'''2021'''
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*[[JR (artist)|JR]]
*[[Ben Turnbull]]
*[[Dominic Beattie]]
*[[Tommaso Protti]]
*[[Will Cruickshank]]
*[[Alice Wilson (artist)|Alice Wilson]]
*[[Laura White (artist)|Laura White]]
*[[Neil Zakiewicz]]
*[[Stella McCartney]]
*[[Isabel + Helen]]
*[[Sara Dare]]
*[[Tim Ellis (artist)|Tim Ellis]]
*[[Jo Hummel]]
*[[Anna Liber Lewis]]
*[[Anisa Zahedi]]
*[[Dan Rawlings]]
*[[Joakim Allgulander]]
*[[Jake & Dinos Chapman]]
*[[Morag Myerscough]]
*[[Sara Pope]]
*[[Anthony Burrill]]
*[[Chris Levine]]
*[[Jess Wilson (artist)|Jess Wilson]]
*[[Ally McIntyre]]
*[[Andrew Millar (artist)|Andrew Millar]]
*[[Dan Hays (artist)|Dan Hays]]
*[[Faye Bridgwater]]
*[[Heath Kane]]
*[[Joanna Ham]]
*[[Mimei Thompson]]
*[[Realf Heygate]]
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===County Hall===
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*Damien Hirst
*The Chapman Brothers
*New Blood
*Galleon & Other Stories
*The Triumph of Painting
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===Duke of York's HQ===
*The Revolution Continues: New Art From China
''forthcoming'':
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*Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East
*The Triumph of Painting
*Out Of Focus: Photography Now
*The Power Of Paper
*Black Mirror
*Penumbra
*Sweet Harmony: Rave Today
*Kaleidoscope
*JR: Chronicles
*London Grads Now
*In Bloom
*RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2021
*Right Here Right Now
*Carmignac Photojournalism Award
*Antisocial Isolation
*TUTANKHAMUN
*We Live in An Ocean of Air
*Johnnie Cooper: Throe on Throe
*Philip Colbert: Hunt Paintings
*Known Unknowns
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==Publications==
*The Revolution Continues: New Art From China
*[[Sarah Kent]], "Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s", Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 2003, {{ISBN|0-85667-584-9}}.
*Rita Hatton and John A. Walker, "Supercollector, a Critique of Charles Saatchi", The Institute of Artology, 3rd edition 2005, paperback, {{ISBN|0-9545702-2-7}}
*USA Today
*The Triumph Of Painting
*The Triumph Of Painting, Supplementary Volume
*The Triumph Of Painting, Supplementary Volume
*100 The Work That Changed British Art
*Hell, Jake & Dinos Chapman
*Paula Rego
*Young Americans
*Stephan Balkenhol
*Fiona Rae & Gary Hume
*Duane Hanson
*Shark Infested Waters, The Saatchi Collection Of British Art In The 90's
*Young German Artists 2
*Sensation
*Alex Katz: 25 Years Of Painting
*Young Americans 2
*Neurotic Realism
*Eurovision
*Ant Noises 1
*Ant Noises 2
*The Arts Council Gift
*I Am A Camera
*New Labour
*Young British Art
*Saatchi Decade
*Boris Mikhailov: Case History
*Damien Hirst

==Notes and references==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/leesharrock/2025/11/16/the-long-now-at-saatchi-gallery-a-daring-40th-anniversary-exhibition-redefines-contemporary-art/ The Long Now At Saatchi Gallery: A Daring 40th-Anniversary Exhibition Redefines Contemporary Art t]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sharrock |first=Lee |title=The Long Now At Saatchi Gallery: A Daring 40th-Anniversary Exhibition Redefines Contemporary Art |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/leesharrock/2025/11/16/the-long-now-at-saatchi-gallery-a-daring-40th-anniversary-exhibition-redefines-contemporary-art/ |access-date=2025-11-19 |work=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> [https://www.forbes.com/sites/leesharrock/2025/11/16/the-long-now-at-saatchi-gallery-a-daring-40th-anniversary-exhibition-redefines-contemporary-art/ 16 November 2025 Forbes]
*{{Official website}}
*[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/virtual-tour.htm Virtual tour of the gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128081402/http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/virtual-tour.htm |date=28 January 2012 }}
*[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/charlesqa/qa_sunday_times.htm Sunday Times Q&A with Charles Saatchi, 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227122159/http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/charlesqa/qa_sunday_times.htm |date=27 December 2009 }}
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7656552.stm BBC video coverage of ''The Revolution Continues'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081008005602/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2008%2F10%2F07%2Fbasaatchi107.xml Video review of ''The Revolution Continues'' from The Daily Telegraph]
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7656280.stm ''The Revolution Continues'' in pictures, from the BBC]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/0,,928861,00.html Pictures of the gallery at County Hall] [https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/0,,928862,00.html highlights of the collection]
*[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/charlesqa/qa.htm Charles Saatchi, Readers Q&A, The Art Newspaper]
*[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/charlesqa/qa_ind.htm Charles Saatchi, Readers Q&A, The Independent]
*[http://www.stuckism.com/Saatchi/index.html The Stuckists' criticisms]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071009230920/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2027070.ece STUART in The Independent 30 November 2006 ]
*[https://archive.today/20070208074925/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2517822,00.html STUART in The Sunday Times 24 December 2006]
*[http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/current/newyork_times.htm STUART in New York Times 18 December 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629003633/http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/current/newyork_times.htm |date=29 June 2010 }}

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