He lived and worked in New York and rose to prominence in the 1980s and '90s through his promotion of graffiti pioneers and, later, of British art.
[1] He had a reputation for being quixotic, brilliant and stylish ("more worthy of a novel than a brief obituary," per The Independent),[2] and played a role in the careers of significant artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Stan Peskett and Steven Sykes.
In the mid-1980s Gallozzi diversified into representing Italian Futurists, the Hudson River School and British surrealists, and mounted notable exhibitions until 1988, when the Gallozzi-La Placa Gallery ceased active operations.
The only criticism leveled at Gallozzi during the final few years of his life is that his tastes had become, if anything, too sophisticated, or "decidedly récherché" as The New Yorker put it.
[2] Gallozzi died in Paris on Christmas Day, 1995, aged 37, having fought brain cancer for five years.