Sara Meltzer founded the contemporary art gallery Sara Meltzer’s On View in SoHo in 1998. The gallery functioned as an experimental project space offering emerging artists their first solo shows.
In 2000, the gallery expanded and relocated to a large ground floor space in Chelsea as Sara Meltzer Gallery. Housed in a former parking garage, the innovative and cutting-edge exhibition space was designed by LOT-EK Architecture. In 2005, the gallery relocated again to an extraordinary penthouse duplex space, also in Chelsea. In addition to representing a core group of New York- based and national artists, the gallery had a strong focus on international artists from Austria, Brazil, China, Cuba, Germany, Mexico, Sweden and Scotland. Meltzer had the pleasure of representing artists Roger Andersson, Felipe Barbosa, Lee Boroson, Andrea Bowers, Sarah Cain, Margarita Cabrera, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Stephen Dean, Moyna Flannigan, Francesca Gabbiani, Nina Katchadourian, Gabriel Kuri, Lovett/Codagnone, Luo Brothers, Jason Middlebrook, Edgar Orlaineta, Jude Tallichet, Julia von Eichel and Anna Von Mertens, among others.
A strong champion of contemporary artists since college, Meltzer was a longtime board member of Artists Space, a non-profit alternative space in New York, where she served as President from 2006-2009.