Bridget Finn has been appointed Director of Art Basel’s Miami Beach show, and will begin in September this year.

Based in New York, Finn will steer the American edition of Art Basel, overseeing the team, managing and expanding the fair’s network of galleries, collectors, and artists in the Americas, and working with Miami and South Florida’s museums, institutions, and cultural partners.

Before joining the eponymous Detroit - her home town - gallery Reyes | Finn, Finn directed the contemporary art program at Mitchell-Innes & Nash and worked at Anton Kern Gallery. She also co-founded the Detroit-wide exhibition platform Art Mile Detroit in 2020, serving dozens of local galleries, institutional non-profits, museums, and artist-run spaces

As part of a gallerist collective, she established the collaborative curatorial project space Cleopatra’s in New York, which later operated a Berlin location, working collaboratively with hundreds of artists and cultural producers for a decade. Before that, Finn served as the Director of Strategic Planning & Projects at Independent Curators International, developing projects and formats in partnership with leading galleries, museums, auctions houses, corporations, and philanthropic organizations to deliver contemporary art programs to broad public audiences.

Finn will lead the 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. She joins Art Basel alongside the recently appointed Maike Cruse, Director, Art Basel in Basel; Clément Delépine, Director, Paris+ par Art Basel; and Angelle Siyang-Le, Director, Art Basel Hong Kong.

photo: Nick Hagen