Monya Rowe

Monya Rowe opened her first 200 square-foot contemporary art gallery on the south side of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2003. The first exhibition was reviewed in The New York Times by Roberta Smith where she called it "possibly the smallest white cube in the New York art world". In 2004, after 8 months in Williamsburg, Monya Rowe Gallery moved to West 26th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. In 2008, the gallery moved a few streets over to West 22 Street on the second floor of a small commercial townhouse. After 5 years in this location, the gallery moved to its final New York City destination on the Lower East Side

The gallery has given many up-and-coming artists their first New York solo exhibition. The list includes Larissa Bates, Angela Dufresne, Josephine Halvorson, Vera Iliatova, Jake Longstreth, Jacolby Satterwhite, Devin Troy Strother and Ann Toebbe. Guest curators have included Nayland Blake, Jose Lerma, Amy Sillman and the filmmaker Paul Schrader.

In 2015, Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic at New York Magazine, listed Ann Toebbe's solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery titled "Remarried" as one of "The 10 Best Art Shows of 2015" (December 9, 2015).

After 12 years in NYC, the gallery relocated to St. Augustine, Florida in 2015. The last exhibition in NYC, a solo show by Larissa Bates, was reviewed in The New York Times by Holland Cotter:

"...This month, after more than a decade in New York, Monya Rowe will close her gallery and move it to St. Augustine, Fla. Originally in Brooklyn, then in Chelsea, and most recently on the Lower East Side, her gallery is one of a handful of independent-minded, tight-budget commercial spaces that function as alternatives to a corporatized art world mainstream".

Monya Rowe Gallery received three consecutive New York Times reviews in 2015 for the exhibitions of Ann Toebbe, Vera Iliatova, and Larissa Bates.

The gallery continues to exhibit emerging artists in Florida.