Galería Cayón was founded in December, 2005. The inaugural exhibition, “Picasso. Monotypes and Printmakings from the 20s, 30s and 40s”, which included exceptional works from the artist’s Estate, demonstrated from the outset the gallery’s seriousness of purpose and intention to hold groundbreaking and unconventional exhibitions.
The widely acclaimed historic and thematic exhibitions “Diagonal” and “Actual Size” followed. Galería Cayón works with living artists and artist’s estates as well as material from the secondary market.
First exhibition by Eduardo Chillida “Alabastros” took place in 2010, in collaboration with the artist´s Estate.
In 2011, in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives in Paris, Galería Cayón mounted the significant exhibition “Yves Klein. Video and Performances”, the first exhibition ever held dedicated to Klein’s most ephemeral works.
In 2013 the gallery showcased “Double Look to Spain: Spanish Photographs of Josef Albers and Robert Rauschenberg”, the first exhibition of photos taken by Albers and Rauschenberg in Spain. The Galería Cayón worked with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to realize this project. A catalogue was published with a text written by Mimi Thompson.
In 2013, the gallery opens a new space at Blanca de Navarra 7 and Enrico Castellani joined the gallery, with an exhibition in the same year curated by Bruno Corà, who also authored the exhibition catalogue. Cayón is the exclusive representative of the Estate of José Guerrero , Fernando Zóbel or Donald Judd+Alejandro Otero.
In 2016 Cayón presents a Josef Albers exhibition, in collaboration with the The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. On April 2016 a new space was opened located at Calle Blanca de Navarra, 9. This new gallery that used to be an old little theater for the convent adjacent is 6 m. high and opened its doors with the third exhibition devoted to Eduardo Chillida at the Gallery. The show titled “Eduardo Chillida; the concave curve” was a reflection on the importance of the concave in Eduardo Chillida’s work.
Also in 2016, Cayón exhibits Bernar Venet and David Magán, in this new space, whose facade was intervened by Cruz-Diez the very same year.
In 2017 Galería Cayón expands internationally opening an office at the new space in the central neighborhood of Makati, Manila (The Philippines). This year also presents “Lucio Fontana/Fred Sandback”, show that, for the very first time, conveys a dialogue between two of the most important artists from the second half of the XX century.
In July 2018, Cayón celebrates the opening of a new space in Mahón (Menorca), located in an old 19th Century theatre. The first exhibition is dedicated to Fred Sandback, showing his minimalistic works in a 12 m high ceiling space.
In summer 2019, the gallery at Menorca, held “Yves Klein/Stanley Whitney; This Array of Colors” focusing on the exploration of color through the works of Stanley Whitney and Yves Klein.
In the summer of 2021, Cayón Menorca has the immense pleasure of presenting the fifth solo exhibition of Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1923-Paris, France, 2019) at the gallery. This is undoubtedly the most special show since Cayón began representing the artist nearly a decade and a half ago as it is the first after his death in the summer of 2019 at the age of 95.
Subsequently, in September, Cayón hosted in its two Madrid spaces “Cruz-Diez. El color como acción”, a careful selection of works from the recent exhibition held in our space in Mahón.
At the end of 2021 and during the first months of 2022, Cayón will host an exhibition by Mitsuo Miura in its two Madrid spaces. It presents works created between 2001 and 2021, and will therefore cover the last years of Miura’s intense production, considered one of the most personal, unique and, at the same time, influential artists of the Spanish art scene.
In February, the gallery presents “Gustav Klimt, nudes and portraits on paper” and “Joan Miró/Al Taylor, on paper”, two exhibitions of three of the most influential artists of the last century.
In March, our space in Manila, Philippines, exhibited “Fernando Zóbel: the 1970s. A Homage to Rafael Pérez-Madero”, an exhibition that, first of all, is a tribute to Rafael Pérez-Madero, the artist’s right-hand man since 1967, and the greatest connoisseur of Zóbel’s pictorial work.
In April, PERCEPCIÓN./ opens, a careful exhibition that brings together a group of artists from different generations who, in a varied but complementary way, have proposed different ways of approaching the perception of a work of art.
In the summer of 2022, Joel Shapiro comes to our space in Menorca, with his latest sculptures, pastels on paper and an installation that will occupy the immense main hall of the old theater that is today the exhibition space of Cayón in Mahón.