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Jennifer Flay is the director of the Fiac ( Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain).


Early life

Flay was born in
Auckland Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and ...
in 1959. She came to France in 1980 to study art history at the University of
Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one millionMarais district, rue Debelleyme. She has represented the artists
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, John Currin, Willie Doherty, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Karen Kilimnik, Sean Landers, Liz Larner,
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, Rei Naito,
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among others. In 1997 she moves her gallery to the
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art district rue Louise-Weiss in Paris. She was named Artistic Director of the Fiac in 2003, and General Director of the art fair from 2010 to 2021. In 2022 she has curated the first exhibition at the Fiminco Foundation in
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. The exhibition named ''De toi à moi'' brings together the work of ten young artists based in France:
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, , , Myriam Mihindou, , Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, Neila Czermak Ichti, Mégane Brauer and Bianca Bondi. She is appointed in 2023 President of the Advisory Board Paris + Art Basel.


Honours

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Legion of honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...
Officer (2015) *
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The Order of Arts and Letters () is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant ...
Commander (2020)


References

Living people 1959 births People from Auckland French art dealers {{France-bio-stub Officers of the Legion of Honour Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 21st-century French women