Location
2021 – present
On December 15, exactly 20 years to the day after opening its 6,000 sq. ft. gallery in Harlem, Triple Candie opens a 22 sq. ft. gallery in the window and doorway of an abandoned hamburger restaurant. The gallery is located on a busy stretch of Pennyslvania Avenue SE, one block from Bancroft's and Nesbett's residence, and six blocks from the U.S. Capitol building, which was stormed several weeks later. The exhibitions are presented as "riddles."
In 2022, Bancroft and Nesbett move their residence from DC to the bayside town of Annapolis, 30 miles away. Triple Candie maintains the DC space, changing exhibitions every five weeks.
2015 – 2021
Triple Candie is still nomadic. Its home base is rented, two-story rowhouse on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. It produces exhibitions in Graz, Austria; Portland, Oregon; Prague; and Savannah, Georgia.
2011 – 2015
Triple Candie is nomadic, based out of a rented, two-story rowhouse in Center City Philadelphia but realizing projects almost exclusively outside of the city — Brussels, Detroit, Paris, Salt Lake City.
Triple Candie constructs a glass vitrine in an overgrown alley behind its house, changing the exhibitions monthly without notice.
2008 – 2010
Triple Candie is located in a storefront on a residential block at 500 West 148th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues. The gallery is within five blocks of the Hispanic Society, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Dance Theater of Harlem, and 8 blocks from City College. Demographically, the block had been historically African American, though following 9/11, the new residents are increasingly of Domenican and Mexican descent. However, our landlord is from India; our super from Belize; and the guys who ran the bodega next door are from Yemen.
2001– 2008
Triple Candie opens in a ground-floor warehouse space in a former brewery at 461 West 126th Street. The gallery is in walking distance of the Studio Museum of Art, the Project (an art gallery run by Christian Haye that has already launched the careers of Julie Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer, and many others), and Columbia University's MFA Program studios. The immediate neighborhood belongs to neither Central nor West Harlem. The block consists of abandoned warehouses, car repair shops, and a handful of city-subsidized apartment buildings. La Granja, a live poultry market, is directly across the street. Demographically speaking, the warehouse is situated in a void. Two blocks east is Central Harlem, which is, at the time, over 90% African and African American. To blocks to the west and north is West Harlem, which is primarily Domenican. Two blocks south is Columbia University.
