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'''Envoy Enterprises''' (stylized as '''envoy''') was a contemporary art gallery located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.walkernewyork.com/gallerywire/category/event/ |title=event : Gallery Wire<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=February 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070815044912/http://www.walkernewyork.com/gallerywire/category/event/ |archive-date=August 15, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Envoy Enterprises was founded by Jimi Dams in 2005 and was the first gallery to abandon its prime location in Chelsea for the Lower East Side in 2007.{{fact|date=August 2018}}

Artists represented here included Gary Indiana,<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Cowan|first1=Sarah|title=Gary Indiana’s Art Recasts Voyeurism as Wonder|magazine=The Paris Review|date=March 24, 2015|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/24/too-complicated-for-human-brains/#more-83965|language=en}}</ref> Michael Lazarus, Narcissister, and Alex Rose.

Aside from the exhibitions in its gallery space, Envoy Enterprises featured video and performance artists as well as emerging bands both in the gallery and previously at Home Sweet Home, which was located at their 131 Chrystie Street location. Envoy Enterprises relocated to 87 Rivington Street in 2012.

Envoy Enterprises showcased two different kinds of exhibitions: one extended show for represented artists that changed every six weeks and a "One Day At A Time" exhibition that presented emerging, unrepresented artists on a daily basis.

Dams announced that the gallery would close in August 2017.<ref>[http://www.artnews.com/2017/06/20/it-is-not-fun-anymore-envoy-enterprises-closes-after-a-decade-on-the-lower-east-side/ ArtNews]</ref>

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==External links== * {{official website|www.envoyenterprises.com}} * [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/people/barone/barone9-14-07.asp Artnet]

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Category:Event venues established in 2005 Category:Defunct art museums and galleries in Manhattan Category:Art museums and galleries established in 2005 Category:2005 establishments in New York City Category:Lower East Side