Jennifer Flay
French art dealer (Born 1959)
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Jennifer Flay is the director of the Fiac (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain).[3]
Board of Directors Fiminco Foundation.
Curator & writerEarly life
Career
Flay opened a gallery in 1991 in the Marais district, rue Debelleyme. She has represented the artists 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, Xavier Veilhan among others. In 1997 she moves her gallery to the 13th art district rue Louise-Weiss in Paris.[5]
She was named Artistic Director of the Fiac in 2003,[6] and General Director of the art fair from 2010[7] to 2021.[8]
In 2022 she has curated the first exhibition at the Fiminco Foundation[9] in Romainville. The exhibition named De toi à moi brings together the work of ten young artists based in France: Elsa Werth, Liv Schulman, Sara Sadik, Myriam Mihindou, Randa Maroufi, Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, Neila Czermak Ichti, Mégane Brauer and Bianca Bondi.[10][11]
She is appointed in 2023 President of the Advisory Board Paris + Art Basel.[12]
Honours
- Legion of honour Officer (2015)[13][14]
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Commander (2020)[15]
