Hales opened its first space in a basement beneath the Revival Cafe on Deptford High Street, South London, in 1992.
[2] In 1997 Hales added Hew Locke and Sebastiaan Bremer to their roster, and held exhibitions of Tomoko Takahashi and Spencer Tunick's work.
[2] In 2004 Hales moved to its current gallery space in the Tea Building in Shoreditch, London's East End.
The inaugural exhibition: Foundations, a solo presentation of works by abstract painter Virginia Jaramillo.
[5] In 2017, at Frieze New York, Hales presented three works by Virginia Jaramillo (artist) – painted in the 1970s, none of which had been shown in public for four decades.