Alaina Simone Incorporated (ASI) is an art gallery and artist liaison consultancy focused on internationally recognized emerging and established artists.
ASI is the founding producer for two distinct new curatorial platforms. Take FIVE (T/5) is a site-specific exhibition series, an immersive multi-venue installation and performance series in the Caribbean. ASI's project, PRVT VW (Private View), is a nomadic pop-up exhibition that launched its first iteration in SoHo (New York, NY) in 2018. This traveling series features a myriad of program initiatives, educational programs, and an artist residency designed to create new platforms for the diaspora and women with a curated roster of international interdisciplinary artists, galleries, and institutions.
ASI's exhibitions have appeared in leading publications, including The New York Times, Art in America, Modern Painters, Art Forum, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Artsy, The New Yorker, Whitehot Magazine, Art Newspaper, and significant international contemporary art media outlets.
ASI has placed work in prominent public and private institutions such as The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art (Washington D.C.), National Museum of African American History & Culture (Washington, D.C.), Duke University, Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project (Durham, NC), Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (Philadelphia, PA) among others. In addition, she has led initiatives to raise millions of dollars for international non-profit arts and educational programs.
Selected Public Collections:
National Museum of African Art (Washington, D.C)
National Museum of African American History & Culture (Washington, D.C)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Duke University, Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project (Durham, NC)
TIME Studios, Netflix, (New York, NY)
Selected Lectures and Panels:
2022 Elizabeth Foundation For the Arts,(New York, NY), Juror
2022 Enlighten Peekskill, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art
(Peekskill, NY), Juror
2021 Untiled Art (Miami, FL), Panel discussion
2021 Residency Unlimited, (Brooklyn, NY), Juror
2021 CADAF Crypto and Digital Art Fair (Paris, FR), Moderator
2021 BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn, NY), Panel discussion
2021 Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA, Moderator
2021 Yale University (New Haven, CT), Lecturer
2020 Untiled Art (San Francisco, CA), Co-Moderator
2020 Spelman College (Atlanta, GA), Lecturer
2017, 2021 Pratt University (Brooklyn, NY), Lecturer
2016 IESA / Institut d'Etudes Supérieures des Arts (Paris, FR), Lecturer
2015 National Arts Club, Young Members Committee, (New York, NY), Panel discussion
Board Member:
2011 Present Verbier 3-D Sculpture Park and Artist Residency (Verbier, Switzerland)