Category: Gallerist
Nationality: American
Last Year: 17

The always understated, ever-present and much-respected keeper of contemporary art’s precinct of high-seriousness, Marian Goodman weathered the economic tumult by watching her gallery’s artists rack up accolades for major institutional exhibitions. Steve McQueen’s Giardini reigned at the Venice Biennale: Jerry Saltz called the film ‘haunting’ and a ‘real Venetian death trip’. John Baldessari, whom Goodman scooped up only recently, is being honoured with a major exhibition at Tate Modern. Dan Graham got one that travelled from MOCA to the Whitney to the Walker, and Thomas Struth’s Old Master photographs found welcome walls at the Pulitzer in St Louis.