MARIA BRITO

Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There”, published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories.
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In 2015 Brito was selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world. She has written for publications such as Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art.
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ERIC SHINER

Eric Shiner was most recently the executive director of Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. He was formerly artistic director of White Cube, New York and senior vice president of contemporary art at Sotheby’s. Prior to this, Shiner was the director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh from 2010 to 2016, and was the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Warhol from 2008 to 2010. A leading scholar on Andy Warhol and Asian contemporary art, Shiner lived and worked in Japan for a total of six years and was assistant curator on the inaugural Yokohama Triennale in 2001.

Shiner has curated dozens of contemporary art exhibitions in cities around the globe and was the team leader on The Warhol Museum’s major Warhol retrospective that traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo between 2012 and 2014. Notable exhibitions include Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei in 2015/16, Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After in 2012, Armory Focus: USA at the Armory Show in 2013 and Armory Platform in 2017.

He is the President of the board of Visual AIDS, a NYC-based nonprofit promoting the artistic legacy of those artists lost to and living with AIDS. He lives in Lansing, Michigan and upstate New York with his partner, Dr. Ishaan Kumar, and their long-haired dachshund, Juno.

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FADI BRAITEH

Fadi Braiteh, MD is a practicing physician and cancer clinical researcher based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He grew up in Beirut, Lebanon during the 1975-1990 civil war and dedicated himself to reading. Almost exclusively versed in science and history; he was introduced to architecture and the visual arts on a trip to Italy and Spain with his parents at age 13, where a visit to El Prado ignited his interest and understanding of art as a medium for expression and a means for universal communication across time, space and cultures.

Fadi and his spouse started collecting years after settling in Las Vegas, immediately after getting married (their self-dedicated wedding gift was a monumental art work). Initially the interest was almost exclusively for abstraction and sculpture, and a passion for contemporary Asian art, followed thereafter by a spike for Urban Art. Traveling extensively allowed to explore galleries, studios, and the-after art fairs with a new-born affinity for figurative art.

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ELIOT GREENWALD

Eliot Greenwald is a self-taught artist currently living and working in the woods of the northeastern United States. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Eliot is represented by Harper’s in New York City.

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