Jack Chase, Head of Global Strategy and Logistics Operations Coordinator of U-Haul Gallery (top left), and James Sundquist, U-Haul Gallery Director (bottom right), doing their best Richard Nixon impression. Photo by Cade Ransom Callen.

The art world has long cast a shadow of inaccessibility. Can a U-Haul Gallery subvert the tools of the tastemakers? It’s time to ditch that stuffy turtleneck and meet James Sundquist, the Gallery Director of the U-Haul Gallery, who is democratizing the art world by the truckload. After debuting in Soho in May of 2024, Sundquist and his Head of Global Strategy and Logistics Operations Coordinator, Jack Chase, have traveled across the globe bringing daring exhibits and celebrations of creativity to a municipal parking space near you.

Even birds are flocking to the U-Haul Gallery! Photo by Cade Ransom Callen

The U-Haul Gallery arrives at a time when the city is facing a reckoning with sky high rents, “I went to an opening in Chinatown, and I was struck by the size of this gallery- this is the size of a U-Haul and they’re probably paying $5,000-$6,000 a month to rent this place,” Sundquist tells me in the streets of Chelsea. He is measuring gallery doors for an upcoming book with an idiosyncratic approach that involves a luggage scale, personal observation, and intuition. I think it might do us some good to reexamine the art world as Sundquist and Chase do: does the value of art merely come from the extravagant door that it lives behind? Or is it about fostering genuine connection with a community?

Neal Cashman
Sidewalk Perspective [pair], 2024
Graphite on Paper, Oak Frame
25 x 21 in at Uhaul Gallery August 21st, 2025. Photo by Cade Ransom Callen 

After wrapping up their inaugural U-Haul art fair in New York’s Chelsea– consisting of twelve trucks– they’ll be hitting the road once again. You can catch “the only gallery with a transmission” in London on October 16-19 and Miami on December 3-7. uhaulgallery.com, @uhaul.gallery