Lucy Mitchell-Innes co-founded Mitchell-Innes & Nash in 1996 with her husband, David Nash, with a gallery on Madison Ave. In 2005, Mitchell-Innes & Nash opened a second space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. Prior to opening the gallery, Lucy Mitchell-Innes worked at Sotheby’s from 1981 to 1994, where she served as head of the Contemporary Art Department in Europe, then in New York as worldwide director of the Contemporary Art, Latin American Art and Contemporary and Modern Print departments. Ms. Mitchell-Innes served as President of the Art Dealers Association of America from 2009 until 2012. She was a member of the selection committee of Art Basel from 2012–2022, and she previously served on the selection committee of Art Basel Miami Beach from its inception in 2001 until 2009.
Charles Moffett is the founder and owner of Charles Moffett, a contemporary art gallery based in New York City. Previously a contemporary art specialist at a major auction house, Moffett launched his eponymous gallery in 2018. The gallery recently moved to a new space in the heart of Tribeca.
Kendra Jayne Patrick is an art dealer and gallerist whose program straddles Bern, Switzerland and New York City, USA. She is a champion of the contemporary avant-garde, placing artists with whom she works into many institutional and highly-regarded private collections. At its inception, her eponymous gallery was itinerant, staging its exhibitions at prominent New York galleries. Its first brick and mortar is located in the Längasse neighborhood of Bern, having opened in late 2022. Patrick graduated from Georgetown Law School and Spelman College prior to her life in art, hailing from Cleveland, Ohio.
Chris Sharp is a former art critic and curator, Sharp co-founded the Mexico City-based project space Lulu, which he ran for almost ten years, before founding his own gallery in Los Angeles in 2021. He has since created two micro-boutique art fair alternatives, Place des Vosges, Paris and Post-Fair, Los Angeles as a response to the relative unsustainability of current art fair practices.
Marion Maneker was previously the President of the art publications at Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of HarperBusiness and a features editor at New York Magazine. He founded Art Market Monitor which produced the Artelligence conference, podcast and newsletter. He has covered the art market for more than 25 years.