Founded in 1987 as Art Waves/Ethan Cohen in SoHo, New York City, the Ethan Cohen gallery made its name with contemporary Chinese art, the first gallery to present the Chinese Avant Garde of the ’80s to the United States, including the works of now celebrated artists such as Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Gu Wenda, Wang Keping and Qiu Zhijie. Ethan Cohen Fine Arts today represents a diverse global mix of art, including contemporary American, African, Iranian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Turkish Pakistani and Thai, with a continuing focus on emerging as well as established artists.