Main gallery in Walter Wickiser Gallery Ralph Wickiser Four Seasons Series featuring the painting Summer, 1972, Oil on Linen, 60” x 72”

The Walter Wickiser Gallery was established in 1992 in Soho, New York. As the son of American artist and art educator Ralph Wickiser - who was the former Chairman of the graduate Fine Art program at Pratt Institute from 1962-1978 - Walter Wickiser was born and raised in the American art world amongst internationally renowned modern artists including Barnett Newman,Phillip Guston, Jacob Lawrence, George McNeil, Stephen Pace and Phillip Pearlstein. Friendship, at a very early age, with the Milton Avery and Yasuo Kuniyoshi families provided a special mentoring and education which proved very beneficial to his career as an art dealer. 

Wickiser's career as an art dealer formally began in 1990 in Soho, NY, when he became the first director of the first gallery to be established in the United States from mainland China. This led to establishing his primary direction as a gallery director to exhibit work by American and Asian-American painters, as well as artists from China, Japan and Korea. It has always been the focus of the Wickiser Gallery to create a visual dialogue between various cultures, and simultaneously reminds us of the ability of art to transcend cultural boundaries. Today the focus has shifted to midrange and Post War international artists. 

Since 1993 Wickiser Gallery has worked with the United State State Department and Art for Embassy's Program. Wickiser's artist’s have exhibited in United States Embassy's in Seoul, Korea, Moscow ,Manila, Philippines Qatar, Bucharest, Romania and Cypress, to name a few. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations invited Wickiser to the White House for Art for Embassy's events.

Since 2003 The Wickiser has exhibited at dozens of International Art Fairs including Art Aspen, Art Busan, Art Hamptons,Art Miami , Art on Paper Art Toronto, Houston Fine Art Fair ,LA Art Show, and the Seattle Art Fair to name a few.

Clients and visitors to the gallery have included Will Barnett, Leo Castelli, Michael Douglas, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Phillip Pearlstein, Sally Avery, Sarah Kuniyoshi, Ted Koppel, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sam Lefrak and Paul Volker.

The Wickiser Gallery has received numerous reviews in Artnews, Art In America , Art and Antiques  ,the Washington Post ,Tampa Bay Times and many other internationally recognized publications.  The Wickiser has had many online reviews in publications such as the. Huffington Post. Work by many of the Wickiser’s artists have been exhibited at American museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the High Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the New Britain Museum of American Art. 

Main gallery in Walter Wickiser Gallery Ralph Wickiser Four Seasons Series featuring the painting Winter, 1972, Oil on Linen, 60” x 72”