Lisa Cooley, Art Advisor

ABOUT

I'm Lisa Cooley, an art advisor dedicated to guiding you through the intellectual and aesthetic adventure of a lifetime - collecting art.

The art world can be complex and often opaque. As your advisor, I offer expertise, market access, and personalized guidance to help you build a collection that reflects your vision while making informed investment decisions, usually collecting artists at the forefront of art history, and thus, ahead of the market.

EXPERIENCE

I have twenty-five years of experience working for some of the best galleries in the world, including running my own eponymous gallery in downtown New York for almost 10 years. My gallery exhibitions were reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Frieze, and many others. I sold work to most major museums around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, among many other well known public and private collections.

My gallery career taught me the value of discretion, accountability, and integrity. I’m an incredible listener, an excellent art stylist, and an encyclopedia of art knowledge. I am especially skilled at installing work in your home and making it look amazing. I know everyone you’d want to meet, including the person who has that one impossible-to-find work.

Value

The art world has grown significantly in the last fifteen years, and prices for contemporary art have grown significantly as well. Even prices for young artists can be considerable and must be evaluated strategically. While works by canonical artists are likely to hold value, works by many others might not, and prices fluctuate, just as financial markets fluctuate. I can confidentially guide my clients between financial value and art historical value when making key decisions.

Collecting Art

I foreground education for my clients, regardless of their experience level, because there are infinite numbers of artists to learn about, techniques to understand, and art movements to explore. I enjoy creating itineraries, making introductions to key players, and guiding clients through landmark exhibitions in order to develop connoisseurship and understanding. Once I understand a client’s taste and goals, we can then create a long-term strategy together, and navigate an art world that grows exponentially more complex with each passing year.