Harry Blain

Who is Harry Blain?

Harry Blain is an English art dealer, gallery owner and founder of Sedition art, an online resource where editioned, digital artworks by the world's leading contemporary artists can be bought and traded.

In 1992 Blain opened Blains Fine Art, which specialised in the private placement of works of art by a wide range of contemporary artists.

In 2002 he started Haunch of Venison gallery with Graham Southern. Southern had been a Founding Director of Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Department, which he ran until 2001.

The gallery represented Turner Prize winners Richard Long and Keith Tyson, as well as Bill Viola and Mat Collishaw.

Together with Southern, Blain staged many acclaimed exhibitions at Haunch of Venison, including major surveys of Abstract Expressionism and late twentieth century Russian art in New York and London respectively; in 2010 they put on an exhibition with Damien Hirst and Michael Joo in Berlin

In 2007 Blain and Southern sold Haunch of Venison to Christie's International plc. However, they remained within the business and continued to run the gallery until they both departed to launch a new gallery, BlainSouthern, in 2010. Blain|Southern was originally based at 21 Dering Street, but moved to 4 Hanover Square in October 2012.