EST. 2019
A synthesis of the directors’ backgrounds in performing arts (Carvalho) + architecture (Park) informs a distinct point-of-view that shapes the gallery’s cross-disciplinary program, privileging the sensorial experience of the art object and space. CARVALHO PARK features international emerging and mid-career artists whose practices reconsider the distinctions between increasingly fluid categorization – of the visual art, performing art, and craft realms, through meticulous dedication to materials and process. Exhibitions work to activate the viewer’s environment, expanding space for engagement and discourse between disciplines.
In November 2023, CARVALHO PARK expanded its galleries into the adjacent building at 110 Waterbury Street in Brooklyn, doubling its exhibition space and program, on the cusp of its five-year anniversary. The new gallery focuses on sculpture, installation, and performance, echoing the founders' foundations and areas of focus.
CARVALHO PARK is a proud member of the New Art Dealers Alliance.
Gallery Co-founders Jennifer Carvalho + Se Yoon Park
JENNIFER CARVALHO
The rigors of Carvalho’s formal education began at the School of American Ballet in New York, where she trained in a strict discipline of line and form, in a concentrated, cross-pollinated environment of works and ideas by prominent post-war and contemporary artists.
After transitioning from the performing to visual arts, she worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, and Christie’s before founding her first gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which she helmed for three years. In 2017, Carvalho founded Prelude Projects + The Prelude Projects Fund in New York, which facilitates new and necessary ideas between the visual and performing art disciplines, by way of commissioned works, special projects and artist residencies. 2019 brought the founding of Carvalho Park.
Carvalho holds a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art from Christie's. She has served on the Young Patrons fundraising auxiliary boards of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young Museum + the Legion of Honor) and the Museum of Art and Design in New York.
Her singular point-of-view when curating exhibitions and supporting artist practices is informed by the standards of her classical foundation. A partnership with sculptor Se Yoon Park was catalyzed by an alignment of cross-disciplinary pursuits that holds value in the execution of the idea.
SE YOON PARK
Park, born in South Korea, launched his professional career in the realm of architecture, working for leading firms - Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), led by Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Fernando Romero Enterprise (FR-EE), and REX in New York, led by Joshua Prince Ramus, the designer of the Seattle Library, which first inspired Park to become an architect.
Drawing upon his architectural design sensibilities, Park began his exploration of light and shadow in his own work as a sculptor, setting out in 2014 to found his own design studio in Brooklyn.
In 2016, Park discovered an old laundry warehouse “with an elegant roof profile” at 112 Waterbury Street in Brooklyn and took on the task of building out a space that houses his sculpture studio and the gallery. There, out of a desire to provide a conduit between artists and the public, Park founded John Doe gallery. Programming revolved around the relationship between making and perception, in the work of New York and internationally based contemporary artists. It was also a space that existed to actualize curatorial pursuits, and one such curator whose program he was especially taken with was The Prelude Projects Fund’s director Jennifer Carvalho, which led to the next edition of the gallery.
Park conducted his undergraduate studies in architecture at the department of Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University in Seoul, and holds a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University in New York. As a sculptor, his work has been shown in solo and two-person gallery exhibitions in New York and Seoul, as well as at Palazzo Mora in Venice, in tandem with the 57th Venice Biennale, and the 13th UNCCD exhibition at the United Nations.
