Jennifer Flay

Jennifer Flay
Portrait of Jennifer Flay by Pascal Ferro (2013)
Born	1959 Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation	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 (since 2003) [1]

Jennifer Flay is the director of the Fiac (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain). ^[2]

Early life

Flay was born in Auckland in 1959. She came to France in 1980 to study art history at the University of Nice. ^[3]

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. ^[4]

She was named Artistic Director of the Fiac in 2003, ^[5] and General Director of the art fair from 2010 ^[6] to 2021. ^[7]

In 2022 she has curated the first exhibition at the Fiminco Foundation ^[8] in Romainville. The exhibition named De toi à moi brings 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. ^{[9] [10]}

She is appointed in 2023 President of the Advisory Board Paris + Art Basel. ^[11]

Honours

• Legion of honour Officer (2015) ^{[12] [13]}
• Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Commander (2020) ^[14]

References

1. Azimi, Roxana (2018-10-15). "La renaissance de la FIAC, l'œuvre de Jennifer Flay". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-25.
2. Harris, Gareth (2019-10-11). "Fiac art fair director Jennifer Flay on the challenges ahead". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
3. Autet, Pauline. "Jennifer Flay-FIAC2". contemporary-hum. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
4. 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.
5. "Jennifer Flay Named New Artistic Director". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
6. "Expat Jennifer Flay making art world waves at FIAC in Paris". RNZ . 2018-06-24. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
7. 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.
8. "Fondation Fiminco". World Art Foundations. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
9. Donnadieu, Marc (2022-11-09). "De toi à moi". artpress (in French). Retrieved 2022-11-11.
10. 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.
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.
12. "Artforum.com". www.artforum.com. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
13. "Jennifer Flay Awarded France's Legion of Honour - Arts, News, Visual Arts". NZEDGE. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
14. "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres - hiver 2020". July 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.