Nino Mier Gallery opened with a solo show of paintings by Jan-Ole Schiemann, a young artist who, like Jana Schröder, Andreas Breunig, and Thomas Wachholz, and other early additions to the gallery’s program, studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. After meeting with initial success, Mier expanded his roster to include Anke Weyer, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, André Butzer, and Louise Bonnet. 

The great success Mier found with his first exhibition space led to the inauguration of a new gallery in 2016, located on the same intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Greenacre Avenue in West Hollywood.  Mier transformed the former Actor’s Circle Theater into a 1,200 square foot gallery, crowned by its iconic marquee.  With the addition of the larger space, the gallery was able to present twelve additional exhibitions per year, allowing the program to expand further to represent artists such as Polly Borland, Alessandro Pessoli, Jansson Stegner, Peter Bonde, Tomasz Kowalski, and Jon Pylypchuk. 

In 2018, the gallery announced the opening of a new 5,000 square foot gallery in an iconic ivy-covered bow and truss landmark located directly across the street from the existing galleries. The neighborhood, the gallery’s home base, is at the center of a constellation of new and established galleries that have shaped the art scene over the last few decades and will continue to do so in the coming years.

Mier continued his expansions in Europe with the opening of two galleries in Brussels, Belgium in 2021 and 2022.  The outposts are in the heart of the capital and its historic gallery district, Sablon. The first exhibition space occupies approximately 450-square meters across four stories. The historic red brick townhouse also features a 150-square-meter sculpture garden. Its first exhibition, which ran in early 2021, was a group presentation of works by thirty artists, including Ethan Cook, Anna Fasshauer, Kareem-Anthony Ferreira, Georg Karl Pfahler, and Cindy Phenix, among many others. The second annex space was inaugurated with a show of new paintings by Jake Longstreth, introducing the accomplished California-based artist to a broader European public.

In January 2023, Mier opened a gallery in New York’s Soho neighborhood, a 4,500 square-foot, ground-floor space designed by architect Markus Dochantschi of StudioMDA that marked Nino Mier Gallery’s New York debut. The Soho gallery, a large and versatile exhibition space with high ceilings and iron columns original to the building, allowed Nino Mier Gallery to expand the scope of its exhibitions and to provide new opportunities to present a wider breadth of the gallery’s artists to different audiences. The gallery continues to focus on its program of painting, photography, and sculpture, while also having the space to feature larger-scale installations. In May 2023, Mier inaugurated his second New York space in the TriBeCa neighborhood with a solo exhibition of new photographs and sculptures by Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja. The opening of the TriBeCa space reflects an expansion of the gallery’s purview and a shift in focus to have a more equal presence on both coasts.

Committed to finding and representing artists who have not yet found the platform they deserve, Mier has been instrumental in launching the careers of a number of young artists and creating global recognition for them over the course of just a few years. Mier gave first solo exhibitions to Louise Bonnet and Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, and has continued to bring greater attention to the work of Stephanie Temma Hier, Jake Longstreth, Rafa Macarrón, Nikki Maloof, Cindy Phenix, and Jansson Stegner among many others. 

Nino Mier Gallery’s ambitious program provides balance for his artists, giving them diverse opportunities to exhibit in different locations, while also allowing them ample time between exhibitions to create new work. The gallery now represents artists from around the world, including the Estate of William N. Copley, Jorge Galindo, Joanne Greenbaum, Mindy Shapero, and Nicola Tyson. Mier has placed works by these artists in major institutions from LACMA to the Whitney, SFMOMA and the Hirschhorn, among many others, and in seminal exhibitions from the Venice Biennale to the Whitney Biennial.