May 6, 2020

Insider’s Picks: Dexter Wimberly

Dexter Wimberly, CEO of Art World Conference, shares his favorites from Future Fair 2020.

Sara Ludy, Untitled 2, 2019-2020, Archival digital pigment print on Belgian linen, 40 × 40 × 2 in, 101.6 × 101.6 × 5.1 cm. Courtesy of the artist and bitforms, New York, NY.

Dexter Wimberly
Dexter Wimberly

Dexter Wimberly is an independent curator and entrepreneur who has organized exhibitions and developed programs with galleries and institutions throughout the world including The Third Line in Dubai; Contemporary Art Museum CAM Raleigh in North Carolina; The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco; Koki Arts in Tokyo; and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, and Hyperallergic; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Wimberly has also served as Director of Strategic Planning at Independent Curators International in New York City. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art. He is also the founder of ART WORLD CONFERENCE, a business and financial literacy conference for visual artists. He and ART WORLD CONFERENCE co-organizer, Heather Bhandari were recently listed in the Observer's "Arts Power 50: Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019." Follow Dexter Wimberly @dexterwimberly, @artworldconference, and artworldconference.com.

bitforms: Sara Ludy, Untitled 2, 2019-2020, Archival digital pigment print on Belgian linen, 40 × 40 × 2 in, 101.6 × 101.6 × 5.1 cm
bitforms: Sara Ludy, Untitled 2, 2019-2020, Archival digital pigment print on Belgian linen, 40 × 40 × 2 in, 101.6 × 101.6 × 5.1 cm

Beers London: Adébayo Bolaji, The Girl Who Wouldn't Mind, 2019, Mixed media and collage on cotton canvas. 100 2/5 × 66 9/10 in, 255 × 170 cm
Beers London: Adébayo Bolaji, The Girl Who Wouldn't Mind, 2019, Mixed media and collage on cotton canvas. 100 2/5 × 66 9/10 in, 255 × 170 cm

Tatjana Pieters: Anneke Eussen, Rewind, 2020, 5 car panes, 34 3/5 × 37 in, 88 × 94 cm
Tatjana Pieters: Anneke Eussen, Rewind, 2020, 5 car panes, 34 3/5 × 37 in, 88 × 94 cm

El Apartamento: Ariel Cabrera Montejo, Immersion No. 3, 2020 Oil on canvas 66 × 66 in, 167.6 × 167.6 cm
El Apartamento: Ariel Cabrera Montejo, Immersion No. 3, 2020 Oil on canvas 66 × 66 in, 167.6 × 167.6 cm

ANNA ZORINA GALLERY: Nadine Faraj, John, 2020, Watercolor on paper, 15 × 11 in, 38.1 × 27.9 cm
ANNA ZORINA GALLERY: Nadine Faraj, John, 2020, Watercolor on paper, 15 × 11 in, 38.1 × 27.9 cm

Fabian Lang Gallery: Jessie Makinson, Once I was in the water, 2019, Ceramics and painted wood, 35 2/5 × 7 9/10 × 7 9/10 in, 90 × 20 × 20 cm
Fabian Lang Gallery: Jessie Makinson, Once I was in the water, 2019, Ceramics and painted wood, 35 2/5 × 7 9/10 × 7 9/10 in, 90 × 20 × 20 cm