Hales Gallery opened in 1992 in a basement beneath the Revival Café on Deptford High Street, South London. Paul Hedge and Paul Maslin founded it and still own it.
The early programme showed Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mike Nelson and Sarah Jones near the start of their careers. Hew Locke and Sebastiaan Bremer joined in 1997, and later exhibitions included Tomoko Takahashi, Spencer Tunick, Jeff Keen and Frank Bowling.
The Tea Building
In 2004 the gallery moved to the Tea Building on Bethnal Green Road, at the edge of Shoreditch. It opened a viewing room on New York’s Lower East Side in February 2016, which became the Hales Project Room in 2017, and a Chelsea gallery in October 2018 with a solo show by Virginia Jaramillo.
The gallery shows emerging artists alongside historically significant figures. Works by its artists are held by Tate, the V&A, the Whitney, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Hales is a founding member of the Society of London Art Dealers.
Staging Resistance, with Tessa Boffin, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Sunil Gupta in 1980s London, closed on 17 October 2026. Dialogues: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham x Haroun Hayward opens in London on 5 November.
Location: Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
Address: The Tea Building, 7 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA, United Kingdom
Website: halesgallery.com
Instagram: @halesgallery
