Jennifer Flay - Wikiwand

French art dealer (Born 1959)

Born1959 (age 66–67)

OccupationsPresident of the Advisory Board Paris + Art Basel.

Board of Directors Fiminco Foundation.

Curator & writer

KnownforArt gallery owner in Paris (1991-2002), Fiac director (2003-2021)^[1]^[2]

Jennifer Flay
Portrait of Jennifer Flay by Pascal Ferro (2013)
Born	1959 (age 66–67) Auckland, New Zealand
Occupations	President of the Advisory Board Paris + Art Basel. Board of Directors Fiminco Foundation. Curator & writer
Known for	Art gallery owner in Paris (1991-2002), Fiac director (2003-2021)^[1]^[2]

Jennifer Flay is a Paris-based art dealer and curator. From 2003 to 2021 she was the director of the FIAC (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain) art fair.^[3]

Flay was born in Auckland in 1959. She came to France in 1980 to study art history at the University of Nice.^[4]

Career

In 1991 Flay opened a gallery on rue Debelleyme in the Marais district. She has exhibited many international artists, including Richard Billingham, Claude Closky, Melanie Counsell, John Currin, Willie Doherty, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Karen Kilimnik, Sean Landers, Liz Larner, Lisa Milroy, Rei Naito and Xavier Veilhan among others. In 1997 she moved her gallery to the 13th art district rue Louise-Weiss in Paris.^[5]

In 2003 she was named Artistic Director of FIAC,^[6] and General Director of the art fair from 2010^[7] to 2021.^[8]

In 2022 she curated the first exhibition at the Fiminco Foundation^[9] in Romainville. The exhibition named De toi à moi brought together the work of ten young artists based in France: Elsa Werth, Liv Schulman [fr], Sara Sadik [fr], Myriam Mihindou, Randa Maroufi [fr], Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, Neila Czermak Ichti, Mégane Brauer and Bianca Bondi.^[10]^[11]

IN 2023 shw was appointed President of the Advisory Board of Art Basel in Paris.^[12]

Honours

Legion of honour Officer (2015)^[13]^[14]
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Commander (2020)^[15]

References

↑ Azimi, Roxana (2018-10-15). "La renaissance de la FIAC, l'œuvre de Jennifer Flay". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
↑ Pigeat, Anaël. "« Donner à voir l'art d'aujourd'hui » : rencontre avec Jennifer Flay". Art Basel (in French). Retrieved 2025-08-05.
↑ Harris, Gareth (2019-10-11). "Fiac art fair director Jennifer Flay on the challenges ahead". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
↑ Autet, Pauline. "Jennifer Flay-FIAC2". contemporary-hum. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
↑ Huitorel, Jean-Marc (2014-11-15). "A Crisis – A Period – A Gallery. The archives of the Jennifer Flay gallery join the Archives de la critique d'art". Critique d'art. Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l'art contemporain (43). doi:10.4000/critiquedart.15370. ISSN 1246-8258.
↑ "Jennifer Flay Named New Artistic Director". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
↑ "Expat Jennifer Flay making art world waves at FIAC in Paris". RNZ. 2018-06-24. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
↑ Pic, Rafael (2021-10-20). "Jennifer Flay : « C'est la FIAC la plus diversifiée de l'histoire »". Le Quotidien de l'Art (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-24.
↑ "Fondation Fiminco". World Art Foundations. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
↑ Donnadieu, Marc (2022-11-09). "De toi à moi". artpress (in French). Retrieved 2022-11-11.
↑ Krief, Pascale (2022-11-03). "Gigantism in Paris and Other Considerations: A Glance at Institutional Exhibitions in Paris during Paris + par Art Basel". Flash Art. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
↑ Ghezlane-Lala, Donnia (2022-04-12). "La nouvelle foire d'art parisienne d'Art Basel aura une direction française". Konbini - Musique, cinéma, sport, food, news : le meilleur de la pop culture (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-24.
↑ "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
↑ "Jennifer Flay Awarded France's Legion of Honour - Arts, News, Visual Arts". NZEDGE. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
↑ "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres - hiver 2020". July 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

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