Raised in Bordeaux and now based in New York, Muriel Quancard, AAA*, has 27 years of experience in the global art world.
Working as a curator, an appraiser and a strategic consultant, she is invested in helping artists, collectors and arts organizations define new paradigms.
Quancard has appraised hundreds of post-war and contemporary artworks for insurance, collection management, non-cash charitable contributions, equitable distribution, estate planning and estate tax filing purposes.
An early advocate of time-based media, transdisciplinarity and technology driven art practices, Muriel lectures and consults on the latest phenomena such as generative AI, blockchain and NFTs.
In recent years she commissioned numerous original multi-media artworks and performances for the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival.
* Muriel is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America in post-war, contemporary and emerging art.
Quancard performs appraisals and provides appraisal reports compliant with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and fiscal regulations. She is affiliated to the Appraisers Association of America (AAA), the premiere international professional organization with members across the United-States, Canada, Europe and Asia. A Certified member -the highest level of membership- in post-war, contemporary and emerging art, her expertise lies particularly in post-war abstraction, pop art, minimalism, conceptual and post-conceptual practices, performance, time-based media and new technologies including native digital artworks.
From its inception thru June 2018, she was Curator-at-Large of the SOLUNA Festival created in 2013 by music conductor Jaap Van Zweden and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO). She curated an inter-disciplinary program in partnership with the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Contemporary and the Crow Collection for Asian Art. Commissioned artists include Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Pharrell Williams, Kevin Beasley, Pia Camil, Antoine Ginzburg, Barbara Kasten, Gonzalo Lebrija, Ryan McNamara, Mai-Thu Perret, Paola Pivi, Pipilotti Rist, Naama Tsabar and Claude Rutault.
Quancard has long been working with collaboratively oriented artists. She curated multimedia exhibitions and produced participatory projects with such artists as Monte Laster and Caecilia Tripp for international institutions like the Palais de Tokyo and the Brooklyn Museum. Often developed over long periods, these projects have engaged numerous individuals from disciplines including film, music, performance, poetry, science and ecology, in social justice issues and settings ranging from small communities to large-scale urban territories.
In 2008, she co-founded the advisory firm, OPUS, with Delphine Perru. As Director of the US operation, she advised collectors with acquisitions and collection management. For OPUS, she also developed instructional services aimed at enhancing connoisseurship and led presentations in the corporate environment and trips to international events like the Venice Biennial and Documenta.
In 1999, she moved to New York and joined Casey Kaplan Gallery, working closely with some of the most significant artists of her generation, including Trisha Donnelly, Anna Gaskell, Liam Gillick, Carsten Holler, Jonathan Monk, and Simon Starling. Subsequently, she was appointed Director of the New York branch of France’s legendary Yvon Lambert Gallery. There, she continued to represent rising artists such as Carlos Amorales, Johan Grimonprez, Melik Ohanian, and Pedro Reyes, also working with luminaries of a previous generation, including Robert Barry, Joan Jonas and Lawrence Weiner until 2005.
She began her career handling communications for a consortium of successful parisian galleries -among them Air de Paris, Art:Concept, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Galerie Praz-Delavallade and Galerie Almine Rech.
Quancard graduated in Fine Arts from University Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux in 1995. She later attended the program for Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts at New York University.