Art Basel has announced Bridget Finn as new director of the Miami art fair. The veteran dealer and gallerist will assume her new role in September.
Finn will “steer the direction of the Miami Beach edition as it continues to innovate, overseeing the team staging the fair, cultivating and expanding Art Basel’s network of galleries, collectors, and artists in the Americas, and working in concert with Miami and South Florida’s world-class museums, institutions, and cultural partners,” according to a statement from the fair. She will focus on strengthening Art Basel’s position as “the premier Modern and contemporary art fair in the Americas.”
Based in New York, Finn will report to Vincenzo de Bellis, director of fairs and exhibition platforms, and will work closely alongside Maureen Bruckmayr, head of business and management, Americas.
Before joining the Detroit-based gallery Reyes | Finn directed the contemporary art program at Mitchell-Innes & Nash for four years, and held several roles at Anton Kern Gallery in New York. In 2008, as part of gallerists collective, she established the collaborative curatorial project space Cleopatra’s in New York, which later expanded to Berlin, working collaboratively with hundreds of artists and cultural producers for a decade.
Earlier, Finn also served as the director of strategic planning and projects at Independent Curators International (ICI) from 2010 to 2013.
Speaking of her vision for as the new Miami Beach fair director, Finn said in her email, “Of course the first step will be to intake before I can dig my heels in in the Director role. I am excited to work closely with our team and our many collaborators in Miami Beach, as we look to continue to build on the show and its offering for our galleries, collectors, partners, and local and international audiences now and in the future.
“Delivering the best art fairs globally is our primary mission,” Horowitz added. “We are firmly committed to exploring how to grow our brand through compelling value propositions to both existing and new audiences.”
