Founded in 2007 in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, with a second space in Los Angeles since 2019, Louise Alexander Gallery works in photography, painting, sculpture, and video, and is the exclusive representative of the Guy Bourdin Estate.
Louise Alexander Gallery was founded in 2007 in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, as the first contemporary art space within the resort designed under the Aga Khan's architectural vision — a deliberately remote starting point that shaped the gallery's way of working from the outset: a permanent program anchored in Sardinia, extended through projects and exhibitions organised with partner venues and institutions internationally.
The program is defined less by a house style than by sustained commitments to distinct practices. It spans Marco Tirelli's metaphysical painting, Alejandro Cartagena's documentary photography examining urbanisation and society in Latin America, Folkert de Jong's sculptural installations, Enrique Martínez Celaya's painting and writing-driven practice, and Barry X Ball's sculpture, which joins digital technologies to traditional stone carving. The gallery is also the exclusive representative of the Guy Bourdin Estate, and has spent over a decade researching and organising the archive, developing chronological exhibitions and institutional collaborations that have brought previously unseen bodies of work into public view.
Alongside these long-term representations, the gallery has consistently worked to introduce or re-situate artists ahead of wider recognition — exhibiting Rick Lowe's paintings at a moment when his studio practice was still overshadowed by his reputation in social practice, before his subsequent institutional and market recognition. This attention to artists at points of transition — early in their careers, or at moments when an established figure's work is being reconsidered — runs through the program in both locations.
In 2019, the gallery opened a second space in Los Angeles. The move followed years of projects in the city and formalised existing relationships with its artists, collectors, and institutions rather than opening a new market cold.
Across both locations, the gallery works in photography, painting, sculpture, and video, with a focus on developing artists' careers over the long term — from first exhibitions through institutional placement.
The program is defined less by a house style than by sustained commitments to distinct practices. It spans Marco Tirelli's metaphysical painting, Alejandro Cartagena's documentary photography examining urbanisation and society in Latin America, Folkert de Jong's sculptural installations, Enrique Martínez Celaya's painting and writing-driven practice, and Barry X Ball's sculpture, which joins digital technologies to traditional stone carving. The gallery is also the exclusive representative of the Guy Bourdin Estate, and has spent over a decade researching and organising the archive, developing chronological exhibitions and institutional collaborations that have brought previously unseen bodies of work into public view.
Alongside these long-term representations, the gallery has consistently worked to introduce or re-situate artists ahead of wider recognition — exhibiting Rick Lowe's paintings at a moment when his studio practice was still overshadowed by his reputation in social practice, before his subsequent institutional and market recognition. This attention to artists at points of transition — early in their careers, or at moments when an established figure's work is being reconsidered — runs through the program in both locations.
In 2019, the gallery opened a second space in Los Angeles. The move followed years of projects in the city and formalised existing relationships with its artists, collectors, and institutions rather than opening a new market cold.
Across both locations, the gallery works in photography, painting, sculpture, and video, with a focus on developing artists' careers over the long term — from first exhibitions through institutional placement.
