Bridget Finn Joins Reyes Projects as Managing Director

Reyes Projects has announced that Bridget Finn will join its team as Managing Director. After more than a decade of curatorial and directorial achievements in New York City, Finn returns to her hometown in Michigan. Finn will assume her position at Reyes Projects in November of 2017.

"We are thrilled to bring Bridget Finn's creative dynamism and expertise to the gallery," says Reyes Projects founder, Terese Reyes. "She has extensive experience working with both emerging and established artists, and is committed to making art accessible and participatory."

Finn led the contemporary arm of Mitchell-Innes & Nash as Director for the last five years, where she established programmatic strategy and bolstered the roster of contemporary artists. She was formerly the Director of Strategic Planning and ICI Projects at Independent Curators International (ICI), and is currently a member of ICI's Board of Trustees, serving on the Executive Committee and chairing the Board Governance & Nominating Committee. She co-founded Cleopatra's in 2008 with Bridget Donahue, Kate McNamara, and Erin Somerville, with Colleen Grennan joining the Project in 2011 - the noncommercial art space based in Brooklyn works collaboratively with artists and cultural producers to create projects that forge interdisciplinary dialogues between individuals, art practices, and institutions. Cleopatra's will conclude its programming in May 2018, in tandem with its ten year anniversary, celebrating a successful and innovative decade for the project.

Finn brings her strong curatorial instincts, and passion for community building, to Reyes Projects. "I am thrilled to re-engage with Detroit's creative community and help further foster Reyes Projects' innovative programming," says Bridget Finn. "I look forward to actively participating in the city's expansive cultural dialogue." In Michigan, Finn will continue to advance both individual and collective perspectives and ideas, disseminating them amongst the broad and diverse audience of arts patrons and creatives on the local, national, and international level.

Finn comes to Reyes Projects on the heels of a successful first year for the gallery, with a series of strong exhibitions that included Undercover Boss with Sadie Laska and Tony Cox, among others; solo exhibitions by Charles Andresen and Joe Roberts; and Something Green, a group show with Tony Matelli, Spencer Sweeney, and Scott Reeder, among others. Reyes Projects welcomes Finn as it prepares for its first solo exhibitions with Nancy Mitchnick and Marie Herwald Hermann this fall. The gallery will show Hermann's work at its inaugural presentation in NADA Miami 2017.

Bridget Finn led the contemporary arm of Mitchell-Innes & Nash as Director from 2013-2017, and worked as the Associate Director of Strategic Planning & ICI Projects at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York from 2010 to 2013. She co-founded Cleopatra's, a multi-use art space in Brooklyn, in 2008, and was a curator of the space. Prior to this, she liaised with and supported gallery artists at Anton Kern Gallery in New York from 2007-2010. Bridget Finn grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and received her BFA from The College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.

Established by Terese Reyes in 2017, Reyes Projects is a contemporary art gallery in Birmingham, Michigan. The gallery occupies a 4,600 square foot space in the newly renovated landmark Wachler Jewelry building on Old Woodward Avenue.

Reyes Projects mounts five exhibitions a year dedicated to emerging and mid-career artists. It is with such presentations that the gallery seeks to reveal a profile both internationally renowned and regional in dialogue. Collaborating with local patrons and institutions alike, the gallery hopes to continue to diversify and strengthen Detroit's burgeoning arts community.

Reyes Projects is located at 100 South Old Woodward Avenue in Birmingham, MI and open Tuesday- Saturday, 10AM- 6PM. For more information, visit www.reyesprojects.com or email info@reyesprojects.com.

Photo by Dustin Aksland

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