{"id":6780,"date":"2017-04-19T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/wp\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2017-05-04T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:00:56","slug":"introducing-the-new-global-fine-art-awards-judge-and-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/19\/introducing-the-new-global-fine-art-awards-judge-and-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the new Global Fine Art Awards Judge and Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am delighted to be part of the Global Fine Art Awards panel of judges. This is an organisation of truly international scope.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

Adding to its international panel of judges and advisory board, the Global Fine Art Awards (GFAA) program announces more global representation- with new team members from India, The Middle East, Ukraine and Italy.<\/p>\n

GFAA President and CEO Judy Holm states, “This is an exciting period of growth for our program, and I am honored to introduce an exceptional new Judge and launch the Executive Committee of our Advisory Board. The Executive Committee includes sixteen extremely diverse, talented and experienced individuals- ensuring the future success of GFAA”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Global Fine Art Awards<\/a>\u00a0program welcomes Savita Apte as a new GFAA Judge. She is an Art Historian specializing in Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art and has been actively involved in South Asian art since 1989. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Asian Art and a Masters in Post War and Contemporary Art and her doctoral thesis is on the Progressive Artists Group and Modernism in India. In 1995 she joined Sotheby\u2019s as their consultant expert for Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, for their auctions in London and New York and was instrumental in setting up the Sotheby\u2019s Prize for contemporary Indian art. In 2009, she was the co respondent for the 53rd Venice Biennale, responsible for curating South Asian and Middle Eastern artists at the Arsenale. Also in 2009 she was an associate of the Serpentine Gallery for the show Indian Highway that toured around Europe and China.<\/p>\n

Ms. Apte is a founder director of\u00a0Art Dubai<\/a>\u00a0and is on the advisory board of the Asia Art Archive, AlSerkal Avenue and Para Site; in addition to being on the board of Khoj. In 2009, Apte formulated\u00a0The Abraaj Group Art Prize<\/a>, which helped focus international attention on art production, curation and art writing from the MENASA region. Until 2016 she served as the Chair of the Prize.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s returning GFAA judges are Dean Phelus (American Alliance of Museums<\/a>, Washington, D.C.); James M. Bradburne (Pinacoteca di Brera and Biblioteca Braidense, Milan); Joe Lin-Hill (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo) and Gina Costa (independent art historian and curator, Director for marketing and public relations at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Chicago).<\/p>\n

To further the leadership scope of the GFAA Advisory Board, GFAA introduces its\u00a0Executive Committee<\/a>, comprised of sixteen distinguished individuals who are highly dedicated to the future growth of the program. New additions to the GFAA team, also serving key Committee Chair positions include:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kimberly Lin, GFAA Art Research Committee Chair
\nMs. Lin received a BA in Art History with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art from the University of California at Berkeley. In addition, she has a degree in fashion design from the Los Angeles campus at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and completed the program in Post War Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s in London.<\/p>\n

She worked at Art Network Services in Tokyo for Japanese corporate and private clients and helped to bring live art auctions to Tokyo via satellite.<\/p>\n

A native and current resident of Palo Alto, California, Ms. Lin also lived in New York, London and Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bill Peters, GFAA Finance Committee Chair
\nMr. Peters is Managing Director with\u00a0Jones Lang LaSalle<\/a>\u2019s New York Corporate Services group, previously Managing Director at the Staubach Company. He is a thirty year veteran of the financial and commercial real estate industries, with areas of expertise that include a focus on technology firms, and the financial services industry.<\/p>\n

Prior, Mr. Peters worked in the investment management sector, with positions as Financial Consultant at Merrill Lynch, Lebenthal & Co., and Drexel Burnham Lambert.<\/p>\n

He is a New York native, and holds a BA in Business and Economics from Gettysburg College.<\/p>\n

GFAA Advisory Board, Executive Committee<\/p>\n