December 9, 2021

Holiday Market 2021 Insider's Picks: Eric Shiner

Collector and Curator Eric Shiner selects his favorites from Future Fair's 2021 Holiday Market.

WENDELIN WOHLGEMUTH, Red Flowers, 2020. Oil on canvas, 26in x 26in. Courtesy of the artist and GEHEIM GALLERY.

Eric Shiner. Photo by Walker Olesen. Courtesy White Cube.

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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RACHEL HAYDEN presented by 5-50 GALLERY

RACHEL HAYDEN,  Two Entangled Rose Stems at Sunset, 2021. Acrylic and Flashe on Panel, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of the artist and 5-50 GALLERY

SABRINA BOCKLER presented by ANDREW SALGADO (INDEPENDENT CURATOR)

SABRINA BOCKLER, The Clock Strikes Five, 2021. Acrylic on linen over panel, 61 x 91cm. Courtesy of the artist and ANDREW SALGADO (INDEPENDENT CURATOR).

ERIC HIBIT presented by DEANNA EVANS PROJECTS

ERIC HIBIT, Pumpernickel and Green Butter, 2020. Acrylic on canvas over panel, 24 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the artist and DEANNA EVANS PROJECTS.

JEN DWYER presented by DINNER GALLERY

JEN DWYER, Great Creatures from Safe Spaces, No.1 , 2021. Faux fur, velvet embroidery, and rhinestones, 22 x 21 x 15 inches.. Courtesy of the artist and MARISA NEWMAN PROJECTS.

WENDELIN WOHLGEMUTH presented by GEHEIM GALLERY

WENDELIN WOHLGEMUTH, Red Flowers, 2020. Oil on canvas, 26in x 26in. Courtesy of the artist and GEHEIM GALLERY.

JESSE WRIGHT presented by LATCHKEY GALLERY

JESSE WRIGHT, Hattie And Carly Crossing Top Road, 2021. Acrylic, posters, paper on paper, 24" x 18". Courtesy of the artist and LATCHKEY GALLERY.

KHATIA ESARTIA presented by MARISA NEWMAN PROJECTS

KHATIA ESARTIA, Layaway, 2021. Oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the artist and MARISA NEWMAN PROJECTS.

JORDAN EAGLES presented by NEW DISCRETIONS

HAN BING presented by SUBURBIA CONTEMPORARY

HAN BING, Untitled (You Have Never Been to Singapore), 2021. Painted and sewed fabric, 97x160 cm. Courtesy of the artist and SUBURBIA CONTEMPORARY.

JULIAN ALEXANDER presented by SWIVEL GALLERY

JULIAN ALEXANDER, Atlantic, 2021. Graphite and Acrylic on Bristol and Toned Paper, 12”H x 9”W. Courtesy of the artist and SWIVEL GALLERY.

DESTINY BELGRAVE presented by THE PROPOSITION

DESTINY BELGRAVE, Daddy Says They're Called Ackee, 2021. Papercuts, Paint, Colored Pencil, 25" x 19".  Courtesy of the artist and THE PROPOSITION.