The Art of the Book Fair

Sonel Breslav is an independent curator and the founder of Blonde Art Books, a Brooklyn based organization dedicated to promoting self-published art books through exhibitions, book fairs, talks, and online exposure. Breslav has organized exhibitions and events at venues such as Present Company, Brooklyn, NY; PS1, MoMA, Queens, NY; ICA, Philadelphia, PA; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Hyde Part Center, Chicago, IL; Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Dorsky Curatorial Programs, LIC, NY; and The Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY. The first book published under the Blonde Art Books imprint, Kitsch Encyclopedia by Sara Cwynar, was launched in April 2014. Breslav received her MA from UCL, London in 2010 and her BFA from University of Buffalo — State University of New York in 2005. She currently works at Murray Guy, New York.

Liz Nowell is an arts leader and curator with over ten years’ experience working in Australian and international contemporary art. Before joining the Institute of Modern Art in 2019, Liz was the founding CEO of Adelaide’s leading contemporary art space, ACE Open and Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. Previous to this she has held positions at Sydney College of the Arts, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, SafARI, Tandanya – National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and University of NSW Art and Design. Her curatorial projects include Invisible Border: Khadim Ali (2021); Next Matriarch, co-curated with Kimberley Moulton (2017); putsch: proppaNOW (2010) and The Violet Ballet by Sally Smart (2019).