ABOUT

Jack Bell is a contemporary art dealer and advisor based in Sydney, Australia. He founded JB Art Advisory in 2024 to assist private collectors, corporations and institutions in creating and developing their collections. Offering guidance on market research and analysis, Bell works with clients to source and acquire pieces internationally. Alongside the advisory, he also consults with interior designers and curates exhibitions. Bell specialises in building careers for and encouraging interest in talented emerging artists.

HISTORY

With over 17 years experience in the art market, Jack Bell has worked with contemporary artists, collectors and museums from all over the world.

He founded Jack Bell Gallery in London in 2010. The gallery exhibited and represented international contemporary artists, with a focus on new emerging art from Africa and the diaspora. The program included twelve shows a year as well as participating at art fairs in London, New York, Miami, Singapore and Taipei.

Over the course of fourteen years, the gallery was central in building the careers of now well-established artists Aboudia (Ivory Coast), Lavar Munroe (Bahamas), Marc Padeu (Cameroon), Ajarb Bernard Ategwa (Cameroon), Goncalo Mabunda (Mozambique) and Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (Benin).

Gallery artists were included in exhibitions at Tate Modern, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; Camden Art Centre, London; Venice Biennale; Seattle Art Museum; Seoul Museum of Art; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; and the Guangdong Times Museum, China, among others. Acquisitions were made by the Minneapolis Institute of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Art Gallery of Ontario; National Gallery of Canada; Musee du Quai Branly, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Jack Bell Gallery also collaborated with leading commercial galleries including Peres Projects, Berlin / Seoul / Milan; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; and De Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong; as well as Louis Vuitton for a campaign with Virgil Abloh. The gallery featured regularly in press articles including the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Art Newspaper and The Guardian, among others.