Beyond Basel Panelists

JESSICA KATZ
Senior Vice President, Southeast Regional Director, Christie's Auction House

Jessica Katz is a native Miamian, active in the art world and the Jewish community. She joined Christie's Auction House in 2007, where she heads the Miami office after spending five years in the Latin American department at Christie's New York. Her office oversees client relations in the Southeast United States and various Latin American countries, assisting with sellers, buyers, collectors and institutions in the region. Jessica earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. In the Miami Jewish community, she sits on the Greater Miami Jewish Federation Jewish Incubator Grants Committee. She is very active on the committee of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, and is the granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors.

MINDY SOLOMON
Gallery Owner, Mindy Solomon Gallery

Mindy Solomon has dedicated her life to the visual arts as a practicing artist, educator, advocate and collector. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Studio Art and Art Education from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, with additional course work at Ursuline College in Ohio, Lacoste School of the Arts in Lacoste, France, and the Tyler School of the Arts in Philadelphia. Mindy Solomon Gallery specializes in contemporary emerging and mid-career artists and art advisory services. Her gallery serves as an incubator for dynamic artists establishing their creative voices and exploring a broad range of exhibition possibilities. Solomon established her gallery in 2009. She is a founding member of PAB (Progressive Art Brunch) an association of a select group of Miami Art Galleries. She is active in the Miami art community and serves on the steering committee of the Women’s International Committee at the Perez Art Museum.

TYPOE
Artist

Typoe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice plays upon the constant tension between the dark recesses of the urban underground and the shimmering bling of celebrity. With both gravitas and irreverence, his work might be regarded as a contemporary memento mori with a smile. Typoe’s work evolves in response to a given situation or environment and he often works with gunpowder, fire, plastic, spray paint and found objects in the creation of his works and installations. Based in Miami, Typoe has participated in gallery and museum shows around the world and exhibited his work in Mexico City, Mexico, New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Basel, Switzerland. Typoe is cofounder and Creative Director of PRIMARY, an art collective and gallery in Miami.