Hauser & Wirth will expand its West Coast footprint with a new gallery in Palo Alto, scheduled to open in spring 2026. The space will mark the gallery’s first location in Northern California and its third in the state, joining its existing two venues in Los Angeles.
The gallery will occupy a historic post office building at 201-205 Hamilton Avenue in downtown Palo Alto, a short distance from Stanford University. The early 1900s building features large ground-level windows and will house 2,600 square feet of exhibition space. It will also include a bookshop offering Hauser & Wirth Publishers titles and Ursula magazine.
“California—the defining role its artists, institutions, patrons, collectors, and geographic attributes have played in the evolution of modern and contemporary art—has been integral to Hauser & Wirth’s vision and program since our founding more than three decades ago,” said the gallery’s president, Marc Payot. “Perched in its prime spot on the edge of the Pacific Rim and populated by generations of astute and ambitious patrons of the arts, the Bay Area is a place where we are proud to be creating a new space, an energy center for our artists and the community.’
Architect Luis Laplace, who previously worked on Hauser & Wirth’s Paris location, will oversee the design. Laplace is known for repurposing heritage sites into cultural venues, and his firm has been a longtime collaborator with the gallery.
Program details and the opening exhibition are expected to be announced closer to the launch date. This expansion comes nearly a decade after it opened its major complex in downtown Los Angeles in 2016, followed by a second L.A. space in West Hollywood in 2023. Hauser & Wirth currently operates 17 gallery spaces worldwide, including spaces in Zurich, Hong Kong, New York, and London. This is the first time a mega-gallery has opened in the Bay Area since Pace Gallery closed its Palo Alto space in 2022 and Gagosian closed its San Francisco outpost in 2020.
