Daniel Templon

Daniel Templon is a French contemporary art dealer born in 1945. In 1966, he founded his first contemporary art gallery in Paris. In 1972, he co-founded the bilingual contemporary art magazine art press with art critic and erotic biographer Catherine Millet.

Templon played a key role to introduce in France international artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat (first show in 1987), Ellsworth Kelly, Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Jörg Immendorff, Roy Lichtenstein, Wolf Vostell, Helmut Newton, Richard Serra (first show in 1977) and Andy Warhol among many others.

He started his first gallery at the age of 21 and worked with French avant-garde artists like Christian Boltanski, neo-dadaist Ben or abstract painters like Martin Barré . He also started working with a few foreigners. Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt are among them. He was a close friend and business partner of famous art dealer Leo Castelli.

Daniel Templon soon became a permanent fixture of the French art establishment adding Arman, Daniel Buren, and Jean-Marc Bustamante to the community of artists he represents- his gallery (see Art Museum, notable galleries list) moved close to the Pompidou Center, 30, rue Beaubourg. Today he represents around 40 artists among them alphabetically Franz Ackermann, Larry Bell, Ben, Anthony Caro, Jim Dine, Jan Fabre, Gérard Garouste, Raymond Hains, Jitish Kallat, David LaChapelle, Jonathan Meese, Ivan Navarro, Joel Shapiro, Chiharu Shiota, Frank Stella, support-surface leader Claude Viallat and young afro-american artist Kehinde Wiley.

The gallery has been participating in the most prestigious artfairs including FIAC since 1974 and ARTBASEL since 1978.

Carl Andre, 1972, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1989

Arman, 1974, 2000, 2011

Martin Barre, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1989

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1987

George Brecht, 1972

Daniel Buren, 1985, 1988

César, 1970, 1979, 1996

Francesco Clemente, 1980, 1982, 1991, 1996

George Condo, 1990, 1996

Gregory Crewdson, 2005, 2009

Richard Deacon, 2005

Olivier Debré, 1979

Dan Flavin, 1972, 1978, 1984, 1987

Keith Haring, 1986

Peter Halley, 1986, 1999

Jörg Immendorff, 1982, 1989, 1993

Michel Journiac, 1969, 1970

Donald Judd, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1987, 1988

Alex Katz, 1988

Mike Kelley, 2002

Pierre Klossowski, 1982

Willem de Kooning, 1977, 1984

Joseph Kosuth, 1970, november 1970, 1974

Yayoi Kusama, 2005

Jasper Johns, 1987

Robert Longo 1987, 1990, 1991, 2006

Sol LeWitt, 1972, 1984, 1987

Roy Lichtenstein, 1979, 1983, 1988, 1991

Robert Mapplethorpe, 1985

Manfred Mohr, 1968

Malcolm Morley, 1997

Helmut Newton, 1981, 1987, 2003

Kenneth Noland, 1973, 1976

Jules Olitski, 1978, 1980, 1984

Jaume Plensa, 1995, 1998, 1999

Robert Rauschenberg, 1979, 1985, 1995

Ed Ruscha

David Salle, 1985, 1992

Richard Serra, 1977

Frank Stella, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1988, 1991, 2002, 2005

Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2004

Jaume Plensa, 1995, 1998, 1999

Wolf Vostell, 1971

Andy Warhol, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982

Lawrence Weiner, 1984, 1987, 1989

Kehinde Wiley 2012