Mar 8, 2018 | Official After-Party for the 4th Annual GFAA Award Ceremony
You are invited!
Please join us on Thursday March 8 as we celebrate all Nominees and announce the 2017 Award Winners.
Official GFAA Award Ceremony After-Party | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South | 10:30 pm to 12:30 am
Black Tie (optional)
Reservations required, tickets available online now
Be part of one of the most exciting and important events of the year in art.
This official GFAA event, organized by the Young Visionaries Committee, takes place at the (private and very exclusive) National Arts Club directly overlooking Gramercy Park, and provides the unique opportunity to meet and mingle with the GFAA art-stars, gallerists, major art collectors and VIPs from GFAA’s cultural collaborator – The Armory Show, New York’s premier art fair and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art.
Guests will enjoy open bar, light bites, art videos of our Award Nominees and curated DJ dance music – The venue features a billiard room, two art galleries and a dance floor. The event is organized by our YV Committee, chaired by Desiree Moore; vice-chair Marta Nowakowski; event chair Remi Koukou; New York YV team leaders are Daniel Albarran, and Pergrin Pervez.
Party with some of the newly crowned award winners, and enjoy the company of GFAA Nominees and Cultural Partners, including VIPs from The Armory Show. Award Ceremony guests include Shirin Neshat, Nominee for the Global Humanity Award, accompanied by curator Thomas Kellein; Berlin-based artist Slater B. Bradley, nominated in the Best Public Art category for his installation Sundoor at World’s End at Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena during the Venice Biennale, accompanied by Chloe Sevigny; London’s Royal Academy of Arts Curator Edith Devaney, nominated for Abstract Expressionism, which later travelled to the Guggenheim Bilbao; Museum Director Erlend Hoyersten and curator Jacob Vengberg Sevel, nominated for Best Public Art Award for the Triennial at ARos Aarhus Kunstmuseum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Deputy Director of Exhibitions, Quincy Houghton, spokesperson for the five nominations for The Met; Met Nominees Dr. Maxwell (Mike) K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman of Asian Art, and Dr. Jason Sun, Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art; Nominees from the Getty Museum, Co-Curators Dr. Kristen Collins and Dr. Kenneth Lapatin; Hirshhorn Museum Director Melissa Chiu for the nominated Yayoi Kusama exhibition Infinity Mirrors; Mark Lubell, Executive Director, and Erin Barnett, Director of Exhibitions and Collections from the International Center of Photography (ICP); Asia Society Nominee Dr. Adriana Proser; Nominee Dr. Catherine Whistler, Curator from the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University; Diane Tuft, Nominated photographer for the show Arctic Melt, represented by Marlborough Gallery in New York; Ruya Foundation’s Directors and Co-Curators of the Iraq Pavilion from the Venice Biennale, Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Columbo; Nominee Baiqu Gonkar, Director of Art Represent; Kris Callens, Director of the Fries Museum (Netherlands), which organized the Lawrence Alma-Tadema exhibition seen at three museums across Europe; Susie Guzman, Director at Hauser & Wirth for Nominees Philip Guston and Lygia Pape; Galerie Lelong & Co.’s Mary Sabbatino for nominated artists Jaume Plensa, Andy Goldsworthy and the late Ana Mendieta; Gallerist Alison Jacques also for the late Ana Mendieta; Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, niece and film archivist of Nominated artist Ana Mendieta for the premier GFAA Global Humanity award; Munich-based curators Sam Bardouil and Till Fellrath, whose exhibition Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and concludes at the Tate Liverpool.
Eleven galleries exhibiting at the concurrent Armory Show, a cultural collaborator of GFAA, represent more than fifteen 2017 GFAA Nominees including: Yayoi Kusama, Kerry James Marshall, Andy Goldsworthy, Jaume Plensa, Ana Mendieta, Wifredo Lam, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Irving Penn, Ai Weiwei and William Eggleston.
In addition to the award ceremony and the after-party, GFAA is holding a series of three panels, hosted by corporate sponsor, K&L Gates LLP. These panels, taking place the morning of March 8, will be moderated by Dean Phelus, Senior Director of Leadership Programs at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and GFAA Judge; and by Desiree Moore, Partner at K&L Gates and member of the GFAA Executive Committee, Chair of Young Visionaries Committee.
Thank you to our partners and sponsors!
Corporate Sponsors
ARIS Title Insurance Corporation, Baccarat Hotel, Crowell & Moring LLP, Galerie LeLong & Co, K&L Gates LLP, Liberty International Underwriters, Louis Xlll Cognac, Pryor Cashman LLP, Wiggin and Dana LLP
Media, Arts, Educational and Cultural Partners
Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), American Alliance of Museums (AAM), Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), De la Cruz Collection (Miami), DSL Collection (Paris), Family Office Elite magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, Fractured Atlas, Leighton House Museum, Mapme, Mars Dreams Agency, National Arts Club, Paddle8, Traveling Exhibits Network, Vastari, White Rabbit Collection (Sydney), world red eye productions