Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst

Dent-Brocklehurst began her career in the mid-1990s at Sotheby’s London and then in New York. It was there that she joined the Gagosian Gallery, becoming a director in 1997. In 1999, Dent-Brocklehurst returned to London to orchestrate the opening of Gagosian’s first London Gallery where she became the first director until 2008.^[2][3] She worked alongside Dasha Zhukova to found The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow that same year.^[4] Parallel to this, between 2004 and 2008, Dent-Brocklehurst organized the reconstruction sculpture project at Sudeley Castle, her ancestral home.^[2][5][6] This project triggered a number of similar exhibitions, such as those at Chatsworth and Blenheim Palace, which brought monumental contemporary sculpture to Grade I listed grounds.^[7][8]

In 2010, she was appointed to set up the first branch of Pace Gallery in London,^[3] where she was the president from 2012 to 2017.^{[9][10][11][12]} In 2017, she joined the Founder of FutureCity, Mark Davy, in a two-year project named Future/Pace, which aimed to extend the reach of contemporary art beyond the conventional boundaries of gallery walls, bringing it into the public domain.^[13] Future/Pace delivered site-specific contemporary art projects by artists such as Leo Villareal and Studio Drift.^[14][15]

In 2020, she co-founded Superblue with Marc Glimcher and Laurene Powell Jobs.^[16][17] Superblue opened its first space in Miami in 2021 following delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[18][19] Superblue's emphasis on immersive and experimental art, together with its revenue-sharing model with artists, set it apart from other traditional museums and galleries.^[19] In September 2023, Dent-Brocklehurst was appointed chief creative officer of Superblue, and Marc Spiegler joined the Superblue board of directors.^[20]

Dent-Brocklehurst married Duncan Ward in 2002 and they have two children.^[2] They divorced in 2012.^[2]