“French Artists in the US: Current Trends and Future Perspectives”

Julia Halperin is a journalist and art critic, currently editor-at-large for CULTURED.

She writes a monthly column for The Art Newspaper on American museums and contributes to major publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Financial Times. In 2020, she co-authored the Burns Halperin Report with Charlotte Burns, the largest study tracking equity and the representation of women in the art world, which has since become a key indicator of inclusivity. Julia Halperin previously served as the museums editor for The Art Newspaper and was editor-in-chief of Artnet News from 2017 to 2022.

Thomas Hirschhorn is a Swiss artist living and working in Paris.

Hirschhorn rejects exclusive and elitist aesthetic criteria, such as quality, in favor of dynamic principles like energy and coexistence. He creates sprawling installations from ordinary materials that engage the senses, raising questions about aesthetic value, moral responsibility, political engagement, consumerism, and media spectacle. He is particularly known for a series of monuments dedicated to great philosophers such as Spinoza, Bataille, Deleuze, and Gramsci. Among his many accolades are the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2000), the Joseph Beuys Prize for Research (2004), the Dutch International Association of Art Critics Prize (2007), and the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2011).

Mariane Ibrahim is an international gallerist.

She founded her eponymous gallery in Seattle in 2012 before relocating it to Chicago in 2019. Continuing her global expansion, Ibrahim opened a European space in Paris in 2021, followed by another in Mexico City in 2023. The gallery has hosted acclaimed exhibitions, highlighting both established and emerging artists, with a significant focus on the African diaspora, including artists such as Amoako Boafo, Yukimasa Ida, Peter Uka, Zohra Opoku, and Raphaël Barontini. In 2021, she was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Among her notable distinctions and roles are the Prize for the Presents Section at The Armory Show in 2017, her current position as a member of the selection committee for The Armory Show, her involvement with the Visionaries Council of Performa Arts, and her membership in the Art Dealers Association of America.

Stephanie Seidel is Monica and Blake Grossman curator, ICA Miami (Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami). 

Since joining ICA Miami in 2016, Seidel has curated a number of exhibitions, including the survey “Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight” in collaboration with 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, the co-curation of solo presentations “Judy Chicago: A Reckoning” and “Chakaia Booker: The Observance” as well as major retrospectives for Thomas Bayrle and Allan McCollum. Additionally, she has curated the first museum solo exhibitions for artists Tomm El-Saieh, Diamond Stingily, and Janiva Ellis, and organized exhibitions for Ellen Lesperance, Anthea Hamilton, Claudia Andujar, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Edward and Nancy Kienholz, and William N. Copley. In 2019 she organized the symposium “They Failed to Remember Us: Expanding Intersectional Feminisms.”  

Rafaël Pic is the editor-in-chief of Quotidien de l’Art.

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics, Rafael Pic has worked in publishing at Masson and in consulting at DAFSA. He became the editor of Muséart before contributing to the creation of the print weekly and the website Artaujourdhui.info with Jacques Dodeman in 2001. Since 2006, he has coordinated over a hundred special issues for Beaux-Arts.