guided tour by jennifer flay
man on the moon exhibition
As part of the Antoine Semhoun aka Andy Santori exhibition, man on the moon, curator Jennifer Flay offers a 45-minute guided tour on Saturday, June 6th at 4 PM.
Jennifer Flay, born in New Zealand, is the Chair of the Art Basel Paris Advisory Board and advisor to the President of the Fiminco Foundation in Romainville. She served as the Director of FIAC from 2003 to 2021 and is recognized for her key role in the profound renewal and international recognition of the art fair.
With a degree in Art History, she worked from 1982 to 1991 for prestigious galleries: Catherine Issert in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, then Daniel Templon and Ghislaine Hussenot in Paris.
From 1987 to 1990, she assisted curators Lynn Gumpert and Mary Jane Jacobs with the traveling retrospective exhibition of Christian Boltanski in the United States, Lessons of Darkness.
From 1990 to 1991, she assisted curators Catherine Lampert, Jan Debbaut, and Serge Lemoine for the traveling retrospective exhibition Reconstitution of the Artist in London, Eindhoven, and Grenoble.
She is the author of a reference book on the work of Christian Boltanski, Christian Boltanski, Catalogue — Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera — 1966-1991, published by Walther König in Cologne in 1992.
In 1991, she founded Galerie Jennifer Flay, representing artists such as Claude Closky, John Currin, Michel François, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Karen Kilimnik, Liz Larner, Zoe Leonard, Christian Marclay, and Xavier Veilhan.
Jennifer Flay served on the board of directors of the Palais de Tokyo from 2015 to 2019 and on the board of directors of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2014 to 2024. She is a board member of the FRAC Île-de-France and the Fiminco Foundation. She has been named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and Knight of the Legion of Honor.