Bingene Armenteros, Tory Barneson, Desiree L. Beebe, Panya Belton, Adam Berman, Ashley Bostrom, Tiziana Castelluzzo, Emily Chang, Liz Delorme, Gabrielle de Pooter, Emily Eerdmans, Anna Field, Amira Gad, Dieter Hammer, Elizabeth Kabler, Stephanie Kingpetcharat, Yuko Komiyama-Folan, Ying Lawrence, Davina Lee, Yifawn Lee, Andrew F. Littlejohn, Elizabeth Littlejohn, Abigail Manship, Elain McAlpine, Kerrie-rue Michahelles, Margo Moscou, Charlotte Mouquin, Adrienne Neff, Chien Ng, Blaise Niosi, Rachel Noel, Pazit Offner-Dines, Elizabeth Ogden, Amanda Oleson, Uma Parameswar, Mirela Pribac, Alexandra Reumert, Philippa Richardson, Felicia Rossomando, Steve Sabella, Diana Perry Schnelle, Natalie Popovic Schuh, Ala Sernetz, Alexander Slonevsky, Andre Escarameia Calha, Simmy Swinder, Pui Pui To, Erica Waldbaum, Briar Williams.

Bingene Armenteros
Semester Course, London, 1997
As well as having her own gallery Arte Berri, Bingene also directs an art school for adults and children and has a monthly column in a local magazine. She is also the proud mother of two children, ages six and one.
www.arteberri.com
www.artnet.com/arteberri.html

Tory Barneson
MA Contemporary Art, New York, 2008
Tory was recently appointed Project Manager to the Joan Mitchell Catalogue Raisonné of Prints. She will complete her Masters in Library and Information Science, with an advanced certificate in archives, from Pratt Institute this Spring.

Desirée L. Beebe
MA American Fine & Decorative Art, New York, 2009
Desirée currently works as the Development Coordinator at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She works closely with the Vice President of Development in managing and administering the fundraising campaigns of the Center which raises more than $60 million dollars annually. Prior to her current role, Desirée worked on the Corporate and Foundation Relations team at the Kennedy Center where she was responsible for the solicitation of corporate sponsorships, foundation, and government grants for the Center's ballet and theater seasons.

Panya Belton
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2006
Panya lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and has currently developed Puf-Art, an online magazine and resource about Scandinavian contemporary art and Photography. She also manages an art advisory service, Puf Art Advisory, which promotes exhibitions for emerging artists. Panya is pursuing her second Masters degree in Learning and Visitor Studies in Museums and Galleries from University of Leicester, London.

Adam Berman
MA Art Business, London, 2007
In the Spring of 2010, Adam founded the contemporary art gallery Volume Black. The gallery focuses on featuring emerging artists with recent MFA's. The gallery is located in the Financial District 89 Washington St. The most recent exhibit entitled “Triumph of Now” will be on display from October 22 to December 10, 2010.
www.volumeblack.com

Ashley Bostrom
MA Art Business, New York, 2009
Ashley Bostrom was awarded an artist in residency at Glacier National Park, at Sperry Chalet in West Glacier, MT, where she spent a few weeks this past summer. She recently relocated to Texas and has been showing her work in Dallas at a various galleries.
www.forsythestudiogallery.com

Tiziana Castelluzzo
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2006
After an internship at Sotheby's in the Contemporary Art department and at Phillips de Pury in the Photography department, Tiziana joined, as a consultant and then as the Managing Director, Quintessentially Art, a new art advisory company, part of Quintessentially Group. In July 2008, she moved back to Italy and started working for Zonca&Zonca, a historical gallery in Milan where she has overseen the exhibition programme of upcoming international artists. Tiziana has curated the shows: Between Red by Korean artist Sea Hyun Lee (September 2009), and Phonographicon by Russian artist Margarita Gluzberg (February 2010).

Emily Chang
MA East Asian Art, London, 2007
Upon graduating from Sotheby's Institute in 2007, Emily started at Christie's King Street under the graduate internship program in the Japanese department. At the end of her internship she worked in Special Events and the Books and Manuscripts department before moving to New York in October 2009 to take up the post of Junior Specialist in the Chinese Works of Art department.

Liz Delorme
MA Art Business, New York, 2009
Liz was recently appointed Development Coordinator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

Gabriëlle de Pooter
MA Contemporary Art, New York, 2009
Gabrielle is now working as a Booker for Matching Models in Amsterdam, a modeling agency for "beautiful talented people" on a wide variety of jobs worldwide. Matching Models delivers concepts to clients such as Renault Formula 1, Louis Vuitton, Heineken, Cannes Film Festival etc. Gabrielle’s job consists of scouting, casting and proposing models to clients. She recent coordinated her first even in Jimmy Woo, a well-known club in Amsterdam. Gabrielle believes her MA at Sotheby's is very significant in her current position, because it helps her with all the creative, visual and international aspects of the job.

Emily Eerdmans
MA Fine & Decorative Art, London, 2000
Emily is pleased to announce the publication of her third book this Fall by Rizzoli: The World of Madeleine Castaing. She also recently left her position of 10 years as director of Hyde Park Antiques to focus on writing, researching and teaching design history at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Emily would love to hear from old classmates and can be contacted at emily.eerdmans@gmail.com
www.emilyevanseerdmans.com

Anne Field
MA Art Business, London, 2009
Anne has worked the Project Manager for The Threadneedle Prize one of the most valuable prizes for a single work of art in the UK with the second-largest submission rates for art prizes in the UK. She has also continued her work with publications and assisted with the upcoming book, Art & Patronage: The Middle East (Thames & Hudson /Transglobe Publishing) due for publication in December 2010.

Amira Gad
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2009
Amira is currently working as an assistant curator at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is also a contributing author for artist Edith Dekyndt's publication Source Book (Witte de With Publishers) which will be published in November 2011.

Dieter Hammer
Works of Art Course, London, 1991
In September 2010 Dieter gave a guest lecture on "Mediation - Effective Dispute Resolution in the Arts and Art Market" at Sotheby´s Institute, London. Apart from working as an independent commercial mediator, he is still active as an artist and some recent black and white silver gelatin prints will be shown in upcoming group exhibitions in November 2010 and in March 2011. His most important pictorial project in 2010 was the documentation of the making of custom boots by Michael Singer of Pfaffenhofen, Germany, and the commission of a large format triptych for Singer´s showroom.
Dieter Hammer Mediation & Consulting: www.dhmc.eu
www.hammerartforum.com

"Sewing the Welt" Triptych, 2010 by Dieter Hammer:

Elizabeth Kabler
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2007
Since completing her degree at Sotheby’s Institute, Elizabeth has worked at Phillips de Pury & Company in London and launched Innovative Art Consultancy in 2008. She works with private collectors in Europe and America. She organized one of the first Urban Art fairs in London in 2008 and again in 2009, and helped launch the hugely successful Museum of Everything in London.

Most recently she has launched her gallery, Skylight Projects, in NYC. Elizabeth is on the board of Creative Time, Serpentine Gallery (UK) and Artangel (UK). She is also a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation’s Sunnylands Trust.

• Skylight Projects
  Skylight Projects is a new gallery and artist project space opening Fall 2010. The space will be used for solo and group exhibitions with a focus on site-specific projects as well as more traditional shows. The gallery exhibits several genres of work including painting, drawing, photography, multimedia, and sculpture. The gallery directors specialize in contemporary art and work with artists from all over the world. Skylight Projects is based in New York City’s Chelsea area. www.skylightprojects.com

Stephanie Kingpetcharat
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2006
Stephanie recently joined The Museum of Modern Art as the Assistant to the Chief Curator of the Painting and Sculpture Department. The museum recently opened “Abstract Expressionist New York”, which runs through April 25th, 2011. Prior to her current position, Stephanie had been working for three years as an administrator to the Chinese Works of Art Department at Sotheby's New York.

Yuko Komiyama-Folan
MA Fine & Decorative Art, London, 2004
Yuko continues to work with artist Mark Alexander and is pleased to announce both the launch of his official website: markalexanderart.com and the extension of his exhibition Red Mannheim at St. Paul's Cathedral through the end of this year.

Ying Lawrence
MA Contemporary Art, Singapore, 2009
Ying recently joined ART HK as the Fair Director's Assistant. Prior to this she worked as Curatorial Assistant at Osage Gallery in Hong Kong

Davina Lee
MA Photography, London, 2007
Davina Lee’s latest project entitled "Simulated Alternate Realities" will be on view until November 10th 2010 at one of Hong Kong's most important alternative art spaces, 1a space. In addition to talks she has given on collecting photography and on the photography market in Hong Kong, Davina continues to curate an ongoing series of screenings of artists’ videos under the title Diorama Projects. Davina collaborates with former Sotheby’s student Pui Pui To who manages the gallery space where the screenings take place.
www.dioramaprojects.org

Yifawn Lee
MA East Asian Art, London, 2003
Yifawn was recently appointed to Publisher of Orientations Magazine which is based in Hong Kong. www.orientations.com.hk

Andrew F. Littlejohn
MA Art Business, London, 2003
In May 2010, Andrew joined the International Client Group at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Based in New York, Andrew and his team advise European and Middle Eastern individuals, family groups and family offices with global interests. In addition to offering comprehensive investment management and banking advice, Andrew has developed a unique art solutions platform to meet the needs of the most discerning collectors, art investors and art market practitioners. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Andrew founded and served as Managing Partner of Meridian Art Partners, an art investment and advisory business with affiliates in New York, London and Singapore. He also has worked with Phillips de Pury & Company and Christie's. Andrew is married to Elizabeth Littlejohn (née Old), a fellow alumnus.

Elizabeth Littlejohn
MA in Art Business, London, 2003
Since 2007, Elizabeth has been directing Littlejohn Art Management, an independent collection management and appraisals firm. Andrew and Elizabeth celebrated the birth of their first son, Drew, in April.

Abigail Manship
MA American Fine & Decorative Art, New York, 2007
After working for Lark Mason at iGavel Auctions for 2 1/2 years, Abigail recently accepted a position as a Registrar in Central Receiving at Sotheby's Auction House, New York.

Elain McAlpine
Works of Art, London, 2000

Since leaving Sotheby's Institute in 2000, Elain has worked at Christie's and Yale University Press, and is an editor for architecture and design at Thames & Hudson, in London.
www.thamesandhudson.com

Kerrie-rue Michahelles
MA Fine & Decorative Art, London, 1998
In 2008 Kerrie-rue Michahelles received the degree of M.Phil. in the History of Art through Sotheby’s Institute and and the University of Manchester, England. Kerrie-rue continues to work as an art advisor, historian, and critic for various publications. Her pending article for the London-based journal “Furniture History” presents her archival research of the inventories of movables Christine de Lorraine brought with her to Florence upon the occasion of her marriage to Ferdinando de Medici in 1589. Kerrie-rue is developing a unique blog, Kerrie-rue.com, to share her insight on the international art world, including auctions, exhibitions, and art fairs, in addition to her own research.

Margo Moscou
MA American Fine & Decorative Art, London, 2003
Margo will be speaking at the Louisiana State Museum’s inaugural Winter Art and Antiques Show in New Orleans, December 3-5. She will be speaking on the topic of nineteenth century New Orleans’ free-men-of-color cabinetmakers. Margo’s dissertation, New Orleans' Free-Men-of-Color Cabinet Makers in the New Orleans Furniture Trade 1800-1850, was published as a book by Xavier University Press in November 2008.

Charlotte Mouquin
MA Contemporary Art, New York, 2008
Charlotte Mouquin continues to curate in New York City. She is also continuing her artist career and will be showing her work at several locations soon.
www.charlottemouquin.com

Adrienne Neff
American Art Course, New York, 1995
Adrienne continues to run her own design firm and is pleased to share the recent news that Wallpaper Magazine recently showcased her wallpaper pattern, Jagged Agate, from the new Uzu Wallpaper collection. The papers are available to the Trade in Holland & Sherry showrooms in New York, Paris, and London.
www.adrienneneff.com


Chien Ng
MA East Asian Art, London, 2005
Chien Ng has been a dealer in Chinese antiques in Hollywood Road, Hong Kong since graduating from Sotheby’s Institute in 2005. He participates in most international Asian art auctions as both a buyer and a vendor and recently started teaching a certificate course on Chinese ceramics at the Open University of Hong Kong.

Blaise Niosi
MA Art Business, New York, 2006
In 2010, Blaise founded Blaise + Co. Contemporary Art, after having worked for two years in the Client Development department at Sotheby’s Auction House. Blaise + Co. is a career-management agency for emerging contemporary artists who want to launch their careers while bypassing the traditional gallery sector. The firm has produced one exhibition a month either in alternative spaces or in collaboration with a commercial business including fashion designers, nightlife purveyors and private clubs. As a representative of emerging artists, Blaise + Co. has also become a hub for budding collectors looking to discover the latest talent. November's event will team a Blaise + Co. photographer with a London-based fashion house for their New York debut. To learn more about Blaise + Co artists and upcoming events visit www.BlaiseandCo.com

Rachel Noel
MA American Fine & Decorative Art, New York, 2007
Rachel was recently promoted to Assistant Manager of Special Events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Rachel manages the planning and execution of high profile events for various departments of the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra with a concentration on development and donor events including board meetings, cultivation, and fundraising events ranging in size from 200 to 1200 people annually.
http://www.kennedy-center.org

Rachel Noel with Desiree Beebe.

Pazit Offner-Dines
MA Contemporary Design, London, 2009
Soon after graduating from the MA in Contemporary Design in 2009, Pazit delivered a paper at the Museums and Galleries History Group Annual Conference on Museums and the Market held in Leeds on September 10th and 11th. Her paper was based on her MA dissertation and examined the relationship between market value and cultural status in terms of contemporary design, using key designs by Tejo Remy, Jeroen Verhoven and others in the V&A collection as case studies. She works as a market and culture consultant and researcher for 20th century and contemporary design objects. pazitod@gmail.com

Elizabeth Ogden
MA Art Business, New York, 2007
Elizabeth Odgen works as a researcher and docent at The Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum an research facility for the city and the region. Recently, Elizabeth helped to complete the collection’s latest publication, Furnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735-1835, which will be available in December. Elizabeth is always pleased to announce the arrival of a baby boy, Henry Janke.

Amanda Oleson
MA Art Business, New York, 2008
After graduating from the New York MAAB program in 2008, Amanda began interning at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM. Shortly thereafter, she was promoted to Administrator and then to Manager of the gallery, in charge of all operations. Just shy of her one-year anniversary with the company, she has been selected to begin the transition to Gallery Director. Amanda also received an appointment to the Executive Board of the New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts, and she founded the founded the Railyard Arts District organization that includes ten high-end contemporary art galleries, as well as SITE Santa Fe. The organization hosts seminars with local groups, participates in group advertising and branding, organizes art-walks and generally works toward raising awareness of the contemporary arts in Santa Fe. In her spare time, she continues her research and study of 19th-century British and French fine art and plans to begin the Ph.D. program at the University of New Mexico in 2011.

Uma Parameswar
MA Art Business, Singapore, 2009
In continuation of her dissertation on Public Museums in India: A review of the National Museum, New Delhi, Uma authored a report titled Towards Profitable Public Sector Museums in India which details an in-depth study on the current state of public sector museums in India and opportunities for growth. The Public Sector report has garnered tremendous interest from various private and public sector organizations in India including civil servants of the government of India, and conglomerates like GMK instrumental in semi-privatizing the international airports in India. An abstract of her report can be found here.


Mirela Pribac
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2007
After completing the Contemporary Art programme, Mirela moved to Rome where she has been working as Curator of Contemporary Art for the Romanian Academy in Rome. She has been curating and coordinating catalogues for the annual summer show, Spazi Aperti, a collaboration with international academies and cultural institutes. She also acts as a visiting art critic and curator for Cornell University and is a foreign correspondent of Flash Art International.
www.spaziaperti.org

Alexandra Reumert
MA Art Business, London, 2000
Alexandra continues to work as Director and Curator for Galerie Reumert in Notting Hill. She is pleased to announce the current exhibition of German artist Javis Lauva’s oil painting and watercolors, on display from October 14th through November 18th. It is his first solo show in the UK.
http://www.galeriereumert.com/

Philippa Richardson
BA Fine & Decorative Art, London, 1999
Philippa Richardson (nee Patrick,) continues to work from her home studio as a self employed artist in Haslemere. This year she took part in the fourth year of the De'Longhi Art Auction which is now a highly anticipated event in London's art calendar. The Auction raises crucial funds and awareness for MacMillan Cancer support and serves as a source of support and a force of change. Her painting 'Landscape Palette' raised nearly £3,000. All proceeds were donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. Philippa has work in exhibitions at The Wey Gallery in Godalming and Red Biddy Gallery in Guildford, Surrey.
www.philipparichardson.co.uk

Felicia Rossomando
MA Art Business, New York, 2009
Felicia is an Assistant Registrar in the Registrar’s Department at Andrea Rosen Gallery. This year an abridged version of her thesis on Blockage Discounts was published as an article in the Journal of Advanced Appraisal Studies. An excerpt and blog post review of her article can be seen here.

Steve Sabella
MA Art Business, London, 2009
Steve Sabella had his first major New York show “The Interrupted Image” at the Nicholas Robinson Gallery early this Fall. From October 23rd- November 30th he is part of an exhibition in Dubai called “Borderlines, Denconstructing Exile” at the Green Art Gallery. Sabella was invited to present his work as part of the State of the Art - Middle East: The Future of the Middle East conference organized by ArtInsight & ArtTactic in London. He was also in a discussion panel with Dr. Venetia Porter from the British Museum who announced the recent addition of Sabella's artwork Till the End 2004 to their permanent collection. Sabella's Sotheby's dissertation Reconsidering the Value of Palestinian Art and its Journey into the Art Market is now published in two parts in the journal Contemporary Practices Art (vol 7). The next major show for Sabella is the international inaugural exhibition for the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar that opens this December and runs until May 2011.
www.stevesabella.com

Diana Perry Schnelle
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2006
Diana Perry Schnelle has enjoyed an exciting autumn at Thames & Hudson, where she continues to work as an editor, and a number of her books have recently been published. In September, Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and was chosen as the Guardian book of the week. Martin Creed's first monograph, Martin Creed: Works, was a major project throughout most of 2010, and was published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery. The House has also published Auto-Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography, the second book with T&H by Susan Bright, former MACA lecturer and Director for the Sotheby’s MA in Photography programme.

Natalie Popovic Schuh
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2008
Natalie has been working as Associate Director at The Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, where she co-curates all gallery shows. In July, Natalie solo-curated two separate shows of works by Brandon Anschultz and Nicole Mauser.

Ala Sernetz
MA Contemporary Art, London, 2006
Since leaving the Institute, Ala moved from Sao Paulo to Berlin where she is the Director at Galerie Max Hetzler. She is pleased to be working with many exciting artists including Mona Hatoum, Monica Bonvicini, Albert Oehlen, Ernesto Neto, and Thomas Struth, among many others.

Alexander Slonevsky
MA Art Business, New York, 2009
Alexander recently co- founded Rooster Gallery with Andrea Escarameia Calhia on New York’s Lower East Side and serves as a Principal. Trained as a designer, Alexander has worked for several advertising agencies and design companies in New York and Boston. In addition, he worked as a designer at Sotheby's NY and as the Assistant Director of Janos Gat Gallery on the Bowery. He is currently employed as a freelance designer while continuing to work on Rooster Gallery.

André Escarameia Calha
MA Art Business, New York, 2009
Andre has brought his knowledge of the contemporary Portuguese and European art worlds to the Rooster Gallery which he co-founded and serves as Principal with Alexander Slonevsky. André graduated in with a degree History of Art from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Masters in History of Contemporary Art from Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. André interned in a Portuguese national museum, and worked for private dealers and galleries, both in Portugal and in New York.

• Rooster Gallery
  Occupying two floors at 190 Orchard Street (between Houston and Stanton), Rooster Gallery will focus its attention on both up-and-coming New York and U.S.-based artists, as well as artists working abroad. Among the artists highlighted will be a select cadre of Portuguese artists with growing European credentials, who are little known in New York art circles. Principals in Rooster Gallery are contemporary art specialists Alexander Slonevsky and André Escarameia. Both are graduates of the Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York – Art Business program. Their objectives are to showcase the current artists from both sides of the Atlantic while creating a space for dynamic, multidisciplinary dialogue that both stimulates experimentation and attracts new audiences. These objectives will be reinforced by the periodic participation of guest curators.
  www.roostergallery.com
  Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art Opens

Simmy Swinder
MA Art Business, New York, 2009

Since graduating from Sotheby’s Institute Simmy been working as Fair Manager of photo l.a., artLA and photoNY. She is responsible for re-branding the fairs by employing her knowledge of design, advertising, arts marketing and social media to rouse new interest and make LA a necessary destination for anyone in the art world. Simmy co-founded a curating team, TS+ Projects. T+S Projects has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, and written numerous blog articles, which can be found on their Forum. Simmy has published “The Looting of the Iraq Museum: Curbing the Trade in Illicit Iraqi Patrimony” in Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Journal, Fall/Winter 2009; and “The Looting of the Iraq Museum: An Examination of Efforts to Protect Universal Cultural Property” in Journal of Art Crime, Arca Publications, Spring 2010. Simmy also continues to contribute to Gallery Crawl, an online exhibitions review blog.

Pui Pui To
Art Business, Semester, London, 2006
Pui Pui To is the Director of 2p Contemporary Art Gallery, an exhibition space in Hong Kong.
www.2p-gallery.com

Erica Waldbaum
MA Art Business, New York, 2006
Erica has been working as an Associate at Artvest Partners LLC since March 2010. She is pleased to announce that Artvest Partners recently published its inaugural Art Market Analysis - a periodic review of the current art market with focused commentary and a forecast for the fall 2010 season. The review can found here. Additional information is available at the Artvest Partners website: www.artvest.com.

Briar Williams
Works of Art, London, 2002
After working in art galleries in New Zealand and Melbourne, in 2007 Briar moved to Leonard Joel Auctioneers and Valuers, one of Australia’s oldest auction houses, to work in the art department. He is now Head of Art overseeing 50 auctions a year.

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