The Association of International Photography Art Dealers encourages public support of fine art photography by acting as a collective voice for the dealers in fine art photography and through communication and education that enhances the confidence of the public, museums, institutions and others in responsible fine art photography dealers.
Alteronce Gumby is an artist and local of New York City. His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation and performance. Gumby’s work has been exhibited at galleries such as Hauser & Wirth, Gladstone Gallery and Camden Arts Centre. Through Gumby’s fluorescent and chromatic spectrum of iridescent color, the artist engages the viewer and expands the notions through which we perceive form and color, the subjectivity on identity, the materiality on earth and cosmic space. He's represented by Nicola Vassell Gallery.
Antwaun Sargent is a writer, curator and a Director at Gagosian. His 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 and solo presentations of artists Rick Lowe, Tyler Mitchell, Awol Erizku, Amanda Williams, Virgil Abloh and Alexandria Smith.
Deeply connected to each site along the half-kilometer Science and Conservation Trail of El Portal de El Yunque visitor center, ArteYUNQUE is an installation housed within El Yunque, the only tropical rainforest in the US forest system, funcitoning as an opportunity to use art as a catalyst for human connections, address global environmental challenges and foster ties to our ancestral roots.
ArtPhilly amplifies Philadelphia as a unique crucible for arts and culture, connecting audiences to each other through ongoing artistic programming, commissions of original work and a recurring multidisciplinary city-wide festival.
Bernard I. Lumpkin is a contemporary art collector, patron and educator whose commitment to both emerging and established artists of African descent is part of a broader mission of institutional advocacy and support. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Committee. At the Museum of Modern Art, he serves on the Media & Performance Committee and is also the Vice-Chair of the Friends of Education patron group. He's advised public and private organizations on collecting and patronage and participated in discussion panels at art fairs, auction houses and universities. Mr. Lumpkin was educated at Harvard (A.M., Ph.D.) and Yale (B.A.), where he sits on the Dean's Council at the Yale School of Art. The Lumpkin Boccuzzi Family Collection is the subject of a bestselling new book - *Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists* (DAP, 2020) - and a nationwide traveling exhibition.
BlackStar creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black, Brown and Indigenous artists working outside of the confines of genre. The organization does this by producing year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, an annual film festival, a filmmaker seminar, a film production lab and a journal of visual culture. These programs provide artists opportunities for viable strategies for collaborations with other artists, audiences, funders and distributors. BlackStar prioritizes visionary work that's experimental in its aesthetics, content and form and builds on the work of elders and ancestors to imagine a new world. BlackStar elevate artists who are overlooked, invisibilized or misunderstood and celebrate the wide spectrum of aesthetics, storytelling and experiences that they bring.
Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Brendan’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Brendan’s projects take on hybrid forms: part ballet, part queer dance party, part political protest...always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity. Brendan's projects have shown at the 2019 Whitney Biennial (New York); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Getty Museum (Los Angeles); the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); MAC (Montreal); among a great many others. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University and is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and Susan Inglett Gallery in New York. Recent and upcoming projects include performances and solo presentations at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO; The MCA Denver, Denver, Colorado; The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA; Remai Modern, Saskatoon, CA; and Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Founded in 1977, the California African American Museum has a long and rich history. The first African American museum of art, history, and culture fully supported by a state, CAAM was the direct result of a sustained, multiyear campaign of activism undertaken by visionary founders and community members. Its creation was an early and tangible recognition by the State of California of the critically important role African Americans have played in the American West’s cultural, economic, and political development. The Museum’s permanent collection houses 5,000 objects that span landscape painting and portraiture, modern and contemporary art, historical objects and print materials, and mixed-media artworks. Though the collection emphasizes objects pertinent to California and the American West, it also houses a growing collection of artworks from the African diaspora as well as important works by African Americans from across the United States.
The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to convening the world to explore innovative ideas and bring people together to collectively imagine and shape the future of design. CAB’s programs are committed to producing opportunities to explore and address timely global issues through the lens of architecture and design, emphasizing community input, sustainability and equity. Free and open to the public, CAB stands as North America’s largest international survey of contemporary architecture and design. The signature program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial takes place every two years at the Chicago Cultural Center and sites across the city. CAB has hosted five editions since 2015: This is a Rehearsal (2023); The Available City (2021); …and other such stories (2019); Make New History (2017); and The State of the Art of Architecture (2015). CAB programming throughout the year engages global audiences in conversations exploring critical ideas and questions facing the field and beyond. Over the course of its internationally heralded editions, CAB has presented projects created by more than 400 architects, designers and artists from over 40 countries.
Founded in 1999 in response to the NEA discontinuing its grants to individual artists, Creative Capital’s mission is to advance artistic freedom of expression by funding underserved, risk-taking artists in the creation of new work. Known as the “gold standard in artist support,” Creative Capital awards grants via a democratic, national open call process, and provides grantees with professional development, peer mentorship and community building resources. To date, $55 million in grants and services have been awarded to over 950 artists to create radical new work in the visual arts, performing arts, film, technology, literature and multidisciplinary and socially engaged forms. More than 75 percent of Creative Capital awardees in recent years identify as artists of color, LGBTQIA+, women, and artists with disabilities. Its education programs and artist resources have served more than 250,000 artists globally.
Denniston Hill is a residency for artists and creative visionaries nestled inside 220 acres of land traditionally tended by the Esopus people of the Lenapehoking, now known as the southern Catskill mountains in Sullivan County, New York. Since 2004, their residencies have provided free room and board, private studios, a shared wood shop, a community garden, connections to local artists and farmers, and tools for communal living to over 200 artists from around the world. They pay residents a small stipend to help cover the costs of everyday life, and they cover roundtrip travel to our campus. Most importantly, Denniston Hill provides a sanctuary where artists can reconnect with nature, commune with each other, breath deeply, and just BE.
Diana Markosian is at the forefront of a new generation of photographers, pushing the boundaries of documentary storytelling. By encapsulating different styles and mediums, Markosian has created a unique approach to image making. Her first monograph, *Santa Barbara*, was published by Aperture in 2020 and selected as the top photo book of the year by MoMA and TIME Magazine. She's a regular contributor to Vogue, Vanity Fair and National Geographic Magazine. Her work is represented by Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris and Rose Gallery in Los Angeles. Markosian holds a masters degree from Columbia University.
Fernberger Gallery, founded by Emma Fernberger in January 2024, strives to exhibit an intergenerational program of artists who carry a global perspective, with an emphasis on women-identifying artists. Unifying the program is a sense of intensity and instantaneity. Fernberger is interested in “artists whose work elicits instant visceral reactions; high-impact yet thoughtful; historically-rooted works with sensitive and cerebral underpinnings. I think that art has transformative properties that can move and unite people.”
The Ford Foundation Gallery Opened in March 2019 at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York City. The gallery spotlights artwork that wrestles with difficult questions, calls out injustice and points the way toward a fair and just future, functioning as a responsive and adaptive space and one that serves the public in its openness to experimentation, contemplation and conversation. Located near the United Nations, the space draws visitors from around the world, addresses questions that cross borders and speaks to the universal struggle for human dignity.
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is one of the world’s most significant botanic and sculpture experiences. The permanent collection highlights hundreds of sculptures from internationally acclaimed artists Magdalena Abakanowicz, El Anatsui, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Marshall Fredericks, Henry Moore, Beverly Pepper, Jaume Plensa, Auguste Rodin, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare CBE and Ai Weiwei, among others. Indoor galleries with changing sculpture exhibitions have presented numerous solo shows, including artists Jonathan Borofsky, Edgar Degas, Jim Dine, Richard Hunt, Cristina Iglesias, Michele Oka Donor, George Segal, David Smith and others. In fall 2025 the Gardens unveiled its newest acquisition, the towering 26-foot sculpture Amalgam (Origin) by Nick Cave.
The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Cornell Capa founded ICP in 1974 to champion “concerned photography” - socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Through the museum's exhibitions, education programs, community outreach and public programs, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image.
Jack Shainman Gallery has been dedicated from its inception to championing artists who have achieved mastery of their creative disciplines and are among the most compelling and influential contributors to culture today. For nearly four decades, the gallery has earned a reputation for introducing international artists to American audiences and for promoting and developing young and mid-career artists who have gone on to gain worldwide acclaim, presenting the first New York exhibitions of artists including Nick Cave, Hayv Kahraman, Kerry James Marshall, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard Mosse, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Hank Willis Thomas and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among many others. Today, Jack Shainman Gallery is celebrated for its multicultural roster of emerging and established artists and estates who engage in the social and cultural issues of their time.
Since 2007, James Fuentes has championed a gallery program that is led first by exceptional contemporary artists who are atypical from the conventions of their field. The gallery is known for its focus on humanity, history, and society with a non-exclusionary approach, positioning itself as a leader in the field as our contemporary institutions seek to do the same. Alongside its exhibition programming in New York and Los Angeles, the gallery produces original publications through James Fuentes Press.
Ja’Tovia Gary is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across documentary, avant-garde video art, sculpture and installation. She's deeply concerned with re-memory and employs a rigorous interrogation and apprehension of the archive in much of her work, seeking to trouble notions of objectivity and neutrality in nonfiction storytelling by asserting a Black feminist subjectivity and applying “an oppositional gaze” as both maker and critical spectator of moving image works. Intimate, often personal and politically charged, her works unmask power and its influence on how we perceive and formulate reality. \ \ Gary’s films and installations serve as reparative gestures for the distorted histories through which Black life is often viewed. Black spiritual technologies, ancestral legacies, and the interiority of Black life often pull focus in Gary’s multivalent works. Gary has exhibited at the Hammer Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Dallas Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Locarno Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Anthology Film Archives, Film at Lincoln Center and Harvard Film Archives, among other spaces.
Madison Square Park Conservancy is the nonprofit entrusted by the City of New York to operate Madison Square Park, a 6.2-acre public space in the heart of Manhattan. Our mission is to conserve, maintain, and program this historic green space, including raising 100% of the park’s operating budget. Our dedicated team takes great pride in caring for and shaping an urban oasis for all to enjoy.
Miles Greenberg is a New York-based performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive and often site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. His installations are activated with extreme durational performances that invoke the body as sculptural material; these performances are then captured in real time before the audience to generate later video works and sculptures. \ \ Rigorous and ritualistic in its methodology, Greenberg’s universe relies on slowness and the decay of form to heighten the audience’s sensitivities. The work follows self-contained, non-linear systems of logic that are best understood in relation to one another. At age seventeen, Greenberg left formal education, launching himself into four years of independent research on movement and architecture, which spanned a number of residencies in Paris, northern Italy, Beijing and New York. He’s worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson and Marina Abramović, and has since exhibited extensively internationally.
Founded in 1825, National Academy of Design is one of the leading honorary societies for artists and architects in the United States. An advocate for the arts as a tool for education, the National Academy promotes art and architecture in America through public programming, exhibitions, grantmaking, fellowships and research. The National Academy’s membership is made up of 450 artists and architects who have been elected by their peers in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to art and architecture in America; upon election, incoming National Academicians are invited to donate a representative sample of their works to the Academy’s collection, which today represents one of the most significant collections of American art and architecture ever assembled. For the past two centuries, the National Academy has celebrated the role of artists and architects in public life and served as a catalyst for cultural conversations that propel society forward.
Nicola Vassell Gallery is a contemporary art gallery committed to discourse that widens the lens of the history and future of art. Its focus is on developing an inter-generational, cross-disciplinary program of international artists and thinkers.
Housed in a Japanese modernist 1960s residence in the center of East Hampton, Onna House is a sanctuary filled with art, furniture, and objects by women artists and designers exclusively. With a dual mission to support and create visibility for these artists and provide a gallery space to display their work, founder Lisa Perry combines her passions under one roof to carefully curate the private home and studio. Onna House acts as a space for women artists to engage and collaborate and for collectors to discover new work.
Pioneer Works is an artist and scientist-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that fosters innovative thinking through the visual and performing arts, technology, music and science. The organization provides visual and performing artists, musicians, scientists, technologists, community organizers and educators the resources and platform they need to expand their practices. Pioneer Works has three floors of interconnected studio, performance, exhibition and multipurpose spaces, which cultivate collaborations past the boundaries of traditional institutions by placing makers and thinkers in proximity to each other. They support onsite production through our science, design, recording, and ceramics studios; media, virtual environment, and technology labs; darkroom; and garden. Multi-disciplinary programs, exhibitions, residencies and performances are presented to the public, of which the majority are free.
Founded in 1924 and with over 500 English titles in print, Prestel Publishing is one of the world’s leading publishers in the fields of art, architecture, photography and design. The company has its headquarters in Munich, offices in New York and London, and an international sales network. \ \ Prestel is one of the world’s leading illustrated book publishers with a stunning list of beautifully crafted books on all aspects of art, architecture, photography and design. From the latest pop culture and fashion to major exhibition catalogues and a comprehensive selection of fiction and non-fiction for children of all ages, Prestel ensures that quality reigns throughout everything they publish. Prestel is the publisher for art lovers, designers and those with an eye for beauty - young and old alike, Prestel appeals to all those with a passion for visual culture. Since the very beginning, Prestel has emphasized quality. This has won the company wide recognition and numerous awards in the publishing world.
A non-profit organization, Print Center New York champions printmaking as an art form that drives invention, collaboration, and access and plays a vital role in society. Through exhibitions, public programs, education and artistic development, Print Center New York is a hub of exploration and inquiry for all those engaged with and new to prints. Print Center New York aspires to bring greater exposure, recognition, and opportunity to the field of printmaking through a Center exclusively focused on the art form, positioning itself as a welcoming space and essential destination for showcasing print in cross-disciplinary contexts while highlighting what sets printmaking apart: its experimental character and immense technical possibilities, its collaborative nature and collective ethos, its broad dissemination and democratic underpinnings and more. The organization actively expands the audience for art through programming that educates, inspires and builds community, creating bridges to enhance the vibrant ecosystem of artists, printers, museums, galleries, students, collectors and art enthusiasts both locally and the world over.
A vibrant center for contemporary performance in the Hudson Valley, PS21 “presents work that challenges and invites” (The New York Times). Their adventurous productions by leading and emerging American and international artists showcase what's new and thought-provoking in music, contemporary circus, dance, theater—and in entirely new genres. Largely supported by their generous donors, they're a must-see, must-experience destination for performances that you won't find anywhere else, at ticket prices that welcome all.
Founded by artist Theaster Gates in 2010, Rebuild Foundation is a nonprofit organization operating at the intersection of artistic production and expression, cultural development, dialogue and neighborhood transformation, strengthening creative communities through grants, classes, residencies, access to our collections and free public programs. Rebuild is grounded in three core values: Black people matter, Black spaces matter and Black objects matter. The foundation’s core values enrich its innovative and ambitious arts and cultural initiatives; each centered on amplifying the history, value and promise of Black creativity at local, national and global scales. Rebuild operates a constellation of sites on the South Side of Chicago, including the Stony Island Arts Bank, Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative, Kenwood Gardens and the forthcoming arts incubator at the former St. Laurence Elementary School. Through the foundation’s sites, Theaster constantly questions how space can be used to demonstrate commitment to Black archival care and preservation and to celebrate the vibrancy and joy rooted in past and present legacy. Gates founded Rebuild to extend beyond his own practice, and build a platform for creativity, community and care in his home city of Chicago while translating the intricacies of Blackness through space theory and land development.
Roberts Projects represents mid-career and established artists of international recognition as well as emerging artists. The gallery’s focus is to present a diverse and ambitious program emphasizing museum-quality, installation-based exhibitions. Roberts Projects showcases as well as commissions projects with artists who work using a variety of mediums including but not limited to drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film and performance.\ \ By exhibiting artists across multiple generations and continents, the gallery establishes a discursive critical voice in addressing diverse perspectives of art within a broader context of contemporary artistic practices. In keeping with its priority of championing the contributions of established artists and the potential of young artists alike, the gallery periodically mounts expansive survey shows of historical note. The gallery’s publication division produces books and catalogues focusing on exhibition surveys, contemporary artists and art historical monographs.
Established in 2008 by Trevyn and Julian McGowan, Southern Guild represents contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora. With a focus on Africa’s rich tradition of utilitarian and ritualistic art, the gallery’s program furthers the continent’s contribution to global art movements. Southern Guild’s artists explore the preservation of culture, spirituality, identity, ancestral knowledge and ecology within our current landscape. In the true spirit of a guild, the gallery was founded on the principles of community and collaboration, and grew out of a desire to provoke new work, facilitate alliances between differing disciplines and articulate what it means to be human. Having pioneered the collectible design category on the continent, the gallery showcases excellence across both functional and contemporary art. Southern Guild partners meaningfully with artists through artwork production and exhibition-making to foster their careers and propel their capacity for creative evolution. The gallery nurtures new talent through educational projects, talks, mentorship initiatives and its own GUILD Residency, an international studio program for artists seeking to engage with the local context.
Stylus is an acoustic salon for cultural exploration in the heart of the Lower East Side. Conceived as a world class sonic environment, it is home to ephemeral artistic experiences that will foster conversation, contemplation and connection. With an architectural space both intimate and adaptive, Stylus will bring together thought-leaders and innovators from the worlds of performance, science, technology, music, film and food. It is designed for those seeking a respite from the cacophony of contemporary life.
The Center for Art and Advocacy (The Center) is a nonprofit organization that supports artists directly impacted by the criminal legal system across the United States. Through fully funded fellowships, residencies, exhibitions, mentorship and professional development, The Center works to empower the justice-impacted creative community to both challenge and change existing narratives around incarceration.
The FLAG Art Foundation is a non-collecting, nonprofit exhibition space that mounts solo, two-person and thematic group exhibitions centering on emerging and established artists from around the globe. Organized by a diverse community of curators and thinkers within and beyond the art world, FLAG opened to the public in 2008 and has staged over 100 exhibitions celebrating the work of nearly 1,000 artists. Committed to providing education and resources for its surrounding community, and across New York City, all exhibitions and programs - including artist talks, artist-led workshops and guided tours for school and museum groups - are free and open to the public.
Founded in 1971 as an artist-driven collective, The Kitchen today reaffirms and expands upon its originating vision as a dynamic cultural institution that centers artists, prioritizes people and puts process first. Programming in a kunsthalle model that brings together live performances, exhibition-making, and public programming under one roof, The Kitchen empowers its audiences and communities to think creatively and radically about what it means to shape a multivalent and sustainable future in art. The Kitchen seeks to cultivate and hold space for wild thought, risky play and innovative and experimental making, encouraging artists and cultural workers alike to defy boundaries and sending them into the world to remake art history and catalyze creative change.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is a must-see New York destination. As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and exhibiting American art, and its collection - arguably the finest holdings of twentieth-century American art in the world - is the museum’s key resource. The Museum’s flagship exhibition, the Biennial, is the country’s leading survey of the most recent developments in American art.
Tyler Mitchell is renowned for his vibrant, playfully theatrical compositions that foreground the style and beauty of Black subjects, often within pastoral landscapes and familiar domestic settings. He draws from portraiture, fine-art photography, fashion and filmmaking to create photographs and videos that offer utopian visions of empowerment, self-determination, tenderness and camaraderie. Mitchell was born in Atlanta in 1995 and grew up in Marietta, Georgia. He took up the camera at an early age to document local youth culture and in 2017, he graduated with a BFA in film and television from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied photography with Deborah Willis. Mitchell achieved global prominence when he photographed Beyoncé for the September 2018 issue of American *Vogue*, becoming the first Black photographer to shoot the magazine’s cover in its then 126-year history. Mitchell has also collaborated with the brands Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Ferragamo, JW Anderson, Wales Bonner and Marc Jacobs.
WORTHLESSSTUDIOS a New York not-for-profit 501(c)3 providing essential resources to emerging epoch-making artists who are producing ambitious artwork. The organization dreams up and execute projects in collaboration with our community partners and resident artists. In producing art rooted in artistic activation, community engagement and education, they believe that we must go beyond simply making artwork.
Founded in 1995, Yancey Richardson represents artists working in photography, film and lens-based media. The gallery is committed to working with museums, private institutions, leading art collectors and other galleries to advance the careers of the artists that they represent. Their current program includes emerging photographers as well as critically recognized, mid-career artists such as John Divola, Mitch Epstein, Ori Gersht, Anthony Hernandez, Laura Letinsky, Andrew Moore, Zanele Muholi, Mickalene Thomas and Hellen van Meene. Additionally, the gallery has presented exhibitions of historically significant figures such as Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Ed Ruscha, August Sander and Larry Sultan.