
Daniel Cassady - Senior Writer, ArtNews
Daniel Cassady is a reporter covering the business practices, money, and machinations of the art world. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Post, Forbes, and The Art Newspaper. He welcomes good conversation and heated debates. You can reach him at dcassady@artnews.com and on Twitter @danielcassady.

Adam Peacock - Artist, Researcher, and Creative Director
Adam Peacock is a London-based artist, researcher, and creative director, recognised as a leading voice at the intersection of technology, identity, and culture. He founded IDENTITY MECHANISMS, a research-led consultancy that partners with institutions, brands, and cultural platforms worldwide to explore how emerging technologies and shifting social dynamics are reshaping identity and consumer behaviour. The consultancy bridges speculative research with applied innovation, equipping clients to translate complex social and technological change into actionable strategies. With over 15 years’ experience delivering strategy and creative direction for clients including Stella McCartney, Audi, NEOM Saudi Arabia, and the Science Gallery Network, Adam’s work has been exhibited internationally, published by Bloomsbury, and recognised with awards including the S+T+ARTS Prize and the Lumen Prize.

Jonathan Carver Moore - Founder, Jonathan Carver Moore Gallery
Jonathan Carver Moore is the founder and director of Jonathan Carver Moore, a San Francisco based contemporary art gallery that specializes in working with emerging and established artists who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and women in San Francisco. Operating through a Black queer lens, Moore is dedicated to advocating for the arts and creative community. Both Jonathan and the gallery have been featured in Cultured Magazine, The New York Times, Essence Magazine, The Observer, Art News, The San Francisco Chronicle, Travel + Leisure and more. Moore has written for Frieze Magazine and Juxtapoz. Moore's gallery has participated in art fairs globally including; Untitled, EXPO CHICAGO, FOG Design+Art, Cape Town Art Fair and more. Moore is the Development Chair at arts education non-profit Root Division, serves on the advisory board at Black [Space] Residency, and Recology.

Naomi Rea - Editor-in-Chief, Artnet News
Naomi Rea has helmed the award-winning Artnet News editorial team since 2023, bringing a bold and strategic vision to one of the leading voices in the art world. Widely regarded as a trusted authority on the intersection of art, technology, and data, Naomi is known for her sharp cultural insight and forward-thinking approach to journalism. She holds master’s degrees in Arts and Lifestyle Journalism from the London College of Communication and in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin. In addition to her work at Artnet News, Naomi’s reporting has appeared in major publications including The Guardian, Los Angeles Magazine, and other top-tier outlets.

Tim Schneider - Founder, The Gray Market
Tim Schneider is the founder of the Gray Market, the conversation-starting art-industry newsletter, and a private consultant for artists and businesses in the cultural field. Following nearly a decade working in the commercial gallery sector, he spent a combined seven years as the art market editor for The Art Newspaper and the art business editor for Artnet News. His work assesses the art trade through the lenses of economics, technology, data analysis, law, and adjacent markets such as film, music, and fashion. His past speaking engagements range from Art Basel’s Conversations series and the Talking Galleries symposium to lectures at Yale University and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. In 2017 he published his first book, The Great Reframing: How Technology Will—and Won’t—Change the Gallery System Forever.

Bethany Woolfall - Vice President, Arcarta
A leading voice at the intersection of art, technology, and regulation, Bethany advises galleries, dealers, and collectors on client due diligence, AML, and KYC. At Arcarta, she helps art market professionals worldwide navigate compliance, protect reputations, and build lasting client trust—bridging legal obligations with commercial opportunities. Previously, as Account Director at Artlogic, she transformed how galleries use technology to connect with collectors and grow. Passionate about transparency and innovation, she champions solutions that help art businesses thrive while safeguarding the integrity of the trade.

Arimeta Diop - Writer, Editor, and Artist
Arimeta Diop is a writer, editor, and artist based in Brooklyn. A longtime Vanity Fair staff member, they have contributed to Untitled Art Fair, Vogue, New York Magazine, Highsnobiety among other titles where they primarily cover art and culture.

Davida Nemeroff - Founder, Night Gallery
Davida Nemeroff is a visionary force in the contemporary art world—founder and owner of Night Gallery, one of Los Angeles’s most influential platforms for emerging artists. With over 15 years of leadership, she has shaped the gallery into a dynamic cultural hub that champions diverse voices and fosters innovative artistic practices. Known for her keen eye for talent and unwavering commitment to artists’ careers, Davida has built a reputation for nurturing creative risk and bridging local energy with international recognition. Her work extends beyond gallery walls, contributing meaningfully to the broader discourse around contemporary art and its place in society. Through her leadership, Night Gallery has become a beacon of cultural influence and a vital bridge between artists, collectors, and institutions worldwide.

Chris Sharp - Founder, Chris Sharp Gallery
Chris Sharp opened his gallery in Los Angeles in January 2021. Before that, he worked as a curator, art critic and editor, and co-founded the Mexico City project space, Lulu (2013-2023). In 2024, he initiated the art fair alternative, Place des Vosges, in Paris, coinciding with Art Basel, Paris. And in 2025, he initiated the boutique art fair, Post-Fair, in the old Santa Monica Post Office, which coincides with Frieze, LA and Felix.

Anwaun Sargent - Writer, Curator and Director, Gagosian
Antwaun’s recent books are The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (2019) and Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (2020). His recent exhibitions include the group show series Social Works; Social Abstraction; and solo presentations of artists Virgil Abloh, Derrick Adams, Awol Erizku, Cy Gavin, Lauren Halsey, Rick Lowe, Tyler Mitchell, and Amanda Williams.

Rand Suffolk - Director, High Museum of Art
Rand Suffolk is the Director of the High Museum of Art. Since his arrival in 2015, he has championed a renewed commitment to community engagement, placing emphasis on collaboration, inclusivity and access. To support these objectives, the museum has reduced admission fees, greatly diversified its exhibition schedule, added more than 4,000 objects to the collection, worked collaboratively with nearly 30 community partners annually, and developed a variety of new programming to serve its increasingly diverse, multi-generational audience. In 2018, Suffolk led a sweeping reinstallation of the museum’s collection galleries. He has been recognized as one of the Art World’s Most Influential People (The Observer); one of the Top 200 Industry Influencers of Georgia’s Creative Economy (Georgia Entertainment Creative Economy Journal); named one of Atlanta’s 25 Most Influential People (The Atlantan Magazine) and perennially included among The Atlanta 500: Our City’s Most Powerful Leaders (Atlanta Magazine).

Esther Kim Varet, Founder of Various Small Fires and Candidate for California’s 40th Congressional District
Esther Kim Varet, founder of the contemporary art gallery Various Small Fires (VSF), is a cultural leader and community advocate running for Congress in California’s 40th District. Raised in Southern California by Korean immigrant parents, she built VSF into an internationally recognized platform with locations in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Seoul, dedicated to amplifying diverse voices and fostering dialogue on justice, identity, and equity. With degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, Esther brings both academic rigor and entrepreneurial spirit to her work. Now, as a congressional candidate, she is committed to expanding economic opportunity, protecting reproductive rights, strengthening public education, and tackling the climate crisis with bold, community-driven solutions. A mother of two, Esther believes in the power of creativity, diversity, and civic engagement to shape a more just and vibrant future for all Californians.

Elizabeth Dee - Founder, Creative Director & CEO of Independent
Elizabeth Dee is the Founder, Creative Director and CEO of Independent, a mission driven organization serving galleries, collectors and institutions, established in 2010 with a critically acclaimed art exhibition at the former Dia Center for the Arts; Independent produces two landmark shows (Independent and Independent 20th Century), publishes editorial features and scholarship, and creates content programming on research based initiatives. For twenty years, Dee ran a New York gallery representing John Giorno, Miriam Cahn, Adrian Piper and Ryan Trecartin; curated and published historical surveys of the 20th Century; and co-produced ten films with Trecartin. From 2020 to 2022, she launched and directed the John Giorno Foundation, establishing its endowment. Her publications include The New York Art Market Report, Ryan Trecartin, Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment, and With the Eyes of Others. Dee has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue, and has curated more than 25 art fairs and 250 exhibitions.

Alison Gass - Founding Director & Chief Curator, ICA San Francisco
Alison has led museums with a commitment to globally minded, community-focused programming and diversifying collections, staff, and audiences. She has served as Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Chief Curator at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, Assistant Curator at SFMOMA, and Founding Chief Curator of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Holding Art History degrees from Columbia University and NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, Alison now leads ICA SF’s move from Dogpatch to The Cube in downtown San Francisco. Partnering with Vornado Realty Trust, she is reimagining exhibitions that leverage the building’s distinctive architecture to push boundaries in contemporary art. As a free museum at the city’s core, ICA SF is pioneering new models for philanthropy, funding, collecting, and transparency while fueling downtown’s cultural revitalization.

Julia Halperin - Arts & Culture Journalist
Julia Halperin is an arts and culture journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world. She is a contributor to the New York Times, the Financial Times, and W magazine, among other publications. She also serves as editor at large of CULTURED magazine and a contributing editor to The Art Newspaper, where she writes a column about changes and challenges in American art museums. From 2017 to 2022, she was executive editor of Artnet News.

Joe Elliott - President and CCO, Artlogic
Joe Elliott is President and Chief Commercial Officer at Artlogic, where he leads with the belief that technology should support and amplify the creative and human forces that shape the art world. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of innovation and artistry, Joe has helped develop tools now used daily by galleries, artists and collectors around the globe.

Brian Boucher, Art & Culture Journalist
Brian Boucher is a journalist and critic whose writing about art, music and other subjects has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Artnet News, New York Magazine, CNN, Art in America, Cultured, and ARTnews. He studied art history and Vassar College and the Williams College graduate program.

Yng-Ru Chen, Founder and CEO, Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Yng-Ru Chen (she/her) is the Founder and CEO of the Boston-area-based Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and is a co-founder of the new Arrival Art Fair taking place in 2025 in North Adams, MA. She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. She previously worked at MoMA P.S.1, Sotheby's, Asia Society, and Tattly. www.praiseshadows.com

Eric Crosby, Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art
Eric Crosby was appointed the Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art in 2019. He initially joined the museum in October 2015 as the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, becoming senior curator in 2018. Driven by a philosophy that museums are facilitators between art and communities, Crosby is charting a new course for the 125-year-old institution that focuses on creating an artistic program that presents art within the context of modern-day issues and concerns, both local and global. Crosby oversees the entire museum’s operations and is currently directing the prestigious Carnegie International, one of the world’s largest exhibitions of contemporary art, as the museum prepares to open its 59th edition in May 2026.

Rose Easton, Founder, Rose Easton Gallery
Rose Easton is the founding director of Rose Easton, London. As part of the gallery’s ethos to curate beyond the gallery walls, Rose hosts the podcast Vinyl Glossolalia, in which she interviews contemporary artists through music. Past guests include Martine Syms, Issy Wood, Jenkin van Zyl and Nikita Gale. Additionally, Rose leads the book club for Worms, a print publishing platform dedicated to amplifying the voices of writers marginalised within the literary world

Gabrielle Essers, Commercial Director, Goodman Gallery
Gabriel Essers grew up in South Africa and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte & Touche. He emigrated to London and spent 18 years in Structured Finance and Trading. In 2017 Gaby helped Liza Essers found and set up Goodman Gallery UK, which eventually opened in 2019 and remained on the board. He joined the business operationally in 2022 and is Commercial & Sales Director.

Steve Fuller, Head of Operations, Pilar Corrias
I’m Head of Operations at Pilar Corrias, where I specialise in navigating the art world’s trickiest intersection: where exciting practice meets logistical, operational, and compliance hurdles. Over the past seven years, I’ve steered complex projects across the globe, built systems to an operational standard befitting the works we are privileged to engage with, and implemented compliance frameworks that stand up to the toughest scrutiny. As the gallery’s Nominated Officer for Anti-Money Laundering and Senior Registrar, I’ve worked at the frontline of evolving regulations, turning red tape into workable solutions for artists, collectors, and institutions alike. I’m passionate about demystifying operations and compliance for the art world, helping people understand that it’s not about slowing things down, but about ensuring incredible works of art can move freely and securely, enriching institutions, collections, and public discourse

Eric Gleeson, Eric Gleason, Co-Founder, Olney Gleason
Eric Gleason is Co-Founder of Olney Gleason, a new contemporary art gallery opening in New York in fall 2025, alongside Nicholas Olney.
Gleason was previously Head of Sales at Kasmin where he worked closely with Olney who acted as President. Since 2013, Gleason played a key role in the gallery’s expansion, including the opening of its flagship gallery and rooftop sculpture garden in New York in October 2018. Eric worked closely with a number of the prominent contemporary artists at Kasmin, including Diana Al-Hadid, Judith Bernstein, Lyn Liu and Emil Sands, and was the primary representative for several historical artists, notably, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock. Olney Gleason’s team will establish its headquarters in Chelsea, highlighting their commitment to the time-honored gallery model which holds artist representation and exhibition-making as central tenets.

Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director, Holt/Smithson Foundation
Lisa Le Feuvre is a curator, writer, and editor. In 2018 she became inaugural Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, the artist foundation dedicated to the legacies of artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-1973). From its home base in New Mexico, USA the Foundation collaborates with artists, writers, thinkers, and institutions to realize exhibitions, publish books, initiate artist commissions, program educational events, encourage research, and develop collections across the world. Le Feuvre has curated more than seventy exhibitions as an institutional and independent curator, edited over thirty books and journals, spoken at 150 museums and universities across the world, and has published more than 125 essays and interviews with artists. Her recent curated exhibitions include For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 at The Warehouse, Dallas, (curated with Thomas Feulmer); Robert Smithson / Teresita Fernández at SITE SANTA FE, New Mexico (curated with Fernández); at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio Nancy Holt: Power Systems and Maria Hupfield: The Endless Return of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan) and the just opened Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels: Echoes & Evolutions at Sprüth Magers, New York. Le Feuvre’s recent publications include the introduction to the compendium Great Women Sculptors (Phaidon Press) and texts on the artists Kapwani Kiwanga, Delcy Morelos. Charlotte Moth Lucia Pizzani, Robert Rauschenberg and Medardo Rosso. Previously based in the UK, Le Feuvre led the Henry Moore Institute from 2010 through 2017, the center for the study of sculpture; directed the contemporary art program at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich from 2005 to 2009; and was an academic based in the graduate Curatorial Program at Goldsmiths College and Course Director of the graduate program in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck College, University of London

Dr. Natasha Vita-More, Creative & Futurist

Adam Lindemann, Collector
Adam Lindemann is a prominent New York City collector, writer, and internationally recognized tastemaker. In 2012, he founded the gallery Venus Over Manhattan. During its 13-year run, Venus garnered critical acclaim for its dynamic program and dedication to pathbreaking artists such as Peter Saul and Richard Mayhew. This past July, Lindemann announced Venus' closure, choosing to recenter his focus on collecting (read more here). As a collector, Lindemann has assembled one of the world’s foremost collections of edge-defining 20th and 21st century art and design. Lindemann is also a writer, and has published two Taschen Books’ best-selling art volumes, Collecting Contemporary and Collecting Design.

Rick Lowe, Artist
Rick Lowe was born 1961 in Russell County, Alabama, and lives and works in Houston. He pairs works in painting, drawing, and installation with collaborative, community-based initiatives developed in the tradition of Joseph Beuys’s concept of “social sculpture.” Beginning with his cofounding of Project Row Houses (1993–2008) in Houston’s Third Ward and continued through other enterprises across the United States and internationally, Lowe aims to catalyze sustainable change, harnessing creativity to promote understanding, equity, and justice. In his studio-based practice, Lowe combines painting and collage to develop works—often at an expansive scale—that are partially inspired by patterns of domino games that he plays with community members. Noting correspondences between the dense, layered patterns of these games and maps of urban districts, his vibrant abstractions suggest the configurations and transformations of civic structures and relationships over time.

Jeffrey Magid, Writer, Cultural Theorist & Art Collector
Over the past 13 years Jeff has built a collection that spans from emerging artists to old masters, has served on museum boards and committees and co-founded the Vanguard Council at the Metropolitan Museum. Recently he has been sharing stories of art, collecting and culture on social media @magideye. His public art collection in Mexico City, Cuernavaca Tres opens in 2026.

Sebastian Gladstone, Founder, Sebastian Gladstone Gallery

Nolan Feng, Secretary, Tom of Finland Foundation

Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, Founder, Gladwell Projects
Before founding Gladwell Projects, Boyle held senior leadership roles at both Pace Gallery and CANADA. At Pace, she served as Senior Director and Global Head of Online, where she expanded the gallery’s program by bringing on painter Kylie Manning in 2022 and worked closely with artists including Lynda Benglis and Hank Willis Thomas. She also advanced the gallery’s digital strategy by founding Pace Verso, a pioneering platform that engaged new audiences and broadened the gallery’s global reach.
Her curatorial debut at Pace, Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious of Body Work, paired 17 intergenerational artists from the program with others in her network, presented both at Pace New York and online. Before Pace, Boyle was Senior Director at CANADA, where she oversaw sales strategy, developed digital initiatives, and organized her first curatorial projects, including Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm.
Boyle’s practice reflects her commitment to fostering inclusivity, supporting underrepresented voices, and cultivating dynamic collector communities. Her perspective as a young art dealer continues to shape her vision of transforming the contemporary art landscape with intention and equity.

Nina Johnson, Founder & Director, Nina Johnson Gallery