INTRODUCTION
Mary Rinebold is Executive Director at Cubitt Artists, a long-running artists’ studios provider and exhibition gallery in London. Mary is also a Consultant at Canvas Art Law, a boutique law firm specialising in Art and Cultural Heritage Law. Between 2009 and 2014, Mary co-founded and co-directed Kunstverein NY, and has continued working in both the institutional and commercial sides of the art world through events and panels, at institutions such as the Fales Library, New York University; Goldsmiths, University of London; the ICA, London, with continued curation of the Artists Talks series with the Art Business and Law LLM at Queen Mary.
Mary also runs a parallel creative practice in writing, curating, and art bookmaking, having contributed art criticism to magazines including Artforum, Flash Art, and Art in America, and fictive essays for artists’ exhibitions and monographs internationally.
Compelled by ecological values, since 2011 Mary has collaborated closely with artists and curators involved in environmental justice, having written about artists working with ecology, hosting connected leaders for conferences, and serving across sectors in promoting more sustainable modes of community and art practice.