Renée Riccardo

Born and raised in New York, Renée Riccardo is an independent curator, art advisor, and lecturer. A former Adjunct Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA P.S.1), she started organizing exhibitions in 1985 and opened ARENA gallery in SoHo in 1991. She co-organized the renowned Art Exchange Show, an art fair held across nine floors of two abandoned Wall Street office buildings in 1996 and 1997, while continuing to run ARENA as a salon in Cobble Hill and as galleries in Williamsburg and Chelsea, supporting many celebrated artists early in their careers. In 2011, she established ARENA at Suite 806, an alternative gallery space in her therapist’s office on Fifth Avenue in New York.