Sep 17, 2021
Award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator Maria Brito
María Gabriela Brito is a Venezuelan-born curator, art advisor, and author based in New York City. Her published works include Out There: Design, Art, Travel Shopping, published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, and Greek Gotham, published in 2016.
A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first
monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was
the recipient of the Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design
Categories. In 2015 Brito was selected by Complex Magazine as one
of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named
by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art
world.
She has written for publications such as Entrepreneur,
Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine,
Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has
taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she
launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for
entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both
the areas of business and art.
She has worked on product collaborations with artists such as
Kenny Scharf, Erik Parker, Katherine Bernhardt, Assume Vivid Astro
Focus, Nir Hod and many more. In 2016, Maria curated “Greek Gotham”
presented at Dio Horia, Mykonos with the participation of sixteen
New York-based artists including KAWS, Austin Lee, Nina Chanel
Abney and Raul de Nieves. A full-color catalogue with an
introduction by Jeffrey Deitch was written and designed by Maria to
commemorate this exhibition. In 2019 she created and hosted "The
"C" Files with Maria Brito", a TV and streaming series for PBS's
new station "ALL ARTS". The same year she also curated two
exhibitions: “The Thousand and One Nights,” the inaugural show of
Artual Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon with seven American artists
including Holly Coulis, Allison Zuckerman and Rosson Crow and
"MUSE", Shona McAndrew's first New York City exhibition at CHART
Gallery in Tribeca.
Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in
national and international publications including The New York
Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall
Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine,
Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York
Observer, The Daily Beast, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE
Italia, VOGUE Mexico, VOGUE Latin America, VOGUE Brazil, VOGUE
China, VOGUE.com, ELLE Décor Spain, Departures, Forbes, Blouin
ArtINFO, Hamptons Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural
Digest, Modern Luxury, Refinery29, goop, Billboard, Marie Claire
Australia, Marie Claire Spain, Allure, The Coveteur, House
Magazine, House Beautiful, Buro 24/7, Latina, Modern Magazine, and
more.