With a global perspective and an emphasis on scholarship, connoisseurship and discretion, Cristin Tierney has run a contemporary art gallery in New York since 2010. She is active in both the primary and secondary markets and she has also served as an advisor to private collectors and institutions since 2000. During her years as a gallery owner and private advisor, she has hosted and curated nearly seventy exhibitions, including presentations of work by Victor Burgin, Joe Fig, Helen Lundeberg, Jorge Tacla, and Dread Scott in addition to five gallery exhibitions with groundbreaking video artist peter campus (who styles his name as such). Cristin Tierney Gallery supports a robust program of educational events and scholarly endeavors, with special attention on the creation of artist exhibition catalogues. Prior to founding her advisory firm, Tierney was a consultant at Christie’s Auction House for many years and co-authored the MA curriculum for the Christie’s Education program. She has taught graduate level seminars on the history of the art market as well as undergraduate art history at New York University. Tierney has served on the boards and committees of numerous non-profit organizations including Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Wake Forest University, the Association of Art Museum Curators, and the Lower East Side Printshop. Nearly twenty years ago, I had the pleasure of working for Tierney to lead a collectors seminar and it was a joy to catch up with her during this interview last month.
December 5, 2023