""I didn't want to squash the rumors," Bao said from Barcelona, where he's been living-and eyeing a space to host apartment shows. "Which is actually how I started," he said. In 2009, while leading the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Bao created Second Guest, a residency that let artists occupy his spare East Village bedroom. Little record exists of the activities of its 12 participants. "We weren't clever enough to do a website," Bao said."
"Alas, Eng is ready to sell. "I was upset with him for like, four and a half hours," Bao said, but "I realized that it was his right, after everything he had done." Bao said he has done his best to relocate the shows he'd scheduled for 2026. "I'm sure some artists are mad," he said. "Money got messy." He plans to begin a residency for artists in Barcelona this fall."
1969 Gallery closed its Tribeca space after the building owner decided to sell, forcing founder Quang Bao to relocate scheduled 2026 shows. Bao lives in Barcelona and is eyeing a space to host apartment shows and plans to begin an artist residency there this fall. The gallery began on the Lower East Side in 2016 and moved to Tribeca in 2020 under a favorable five-year arrangement. Earlier projects included a residency called Second Guest that hosted artists in Bao's East Village bedroom. Bao intends to reopen 1969 in New York eventually and pursue collaborations over traditional gallery operations.
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