MARIA BRITO: Art Advisor & Author

Creativity in Captivity

Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, entrepreneur, author and curator. Her bestselling book How Creativity Rules The World was released in March of 2022. In 2015 Brito was selected by Complex magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named by ARTnews as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph Out There was the recipient of UA Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories. She has written for the Huffington Post, ElSle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched Jumpstart, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs. She has worked on product collaborations with artists such as Kenny Scharf, Erik Parker, Katherine Bernhardt, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Nir Hod and many more. In 2016, Maria curated “Greek Gotham” presented at Dio Horia, Mykonos with the participation of sixteen New York-based artists including Kaws, Austin Lee, Nina Chanel Abney and Raul de Nieves. A full-color catalogue with an introduction by Jeffrey Deitch was written and designed by Maria to commemorate this exhibition. In 2019 she created and hosted The "C" Files with Maria Brito, a TV and streaming series for PBS's new station ALL ARTS. The same year she also curated two exhibitions: The Thousand and One Nights, the inaugural show of Artual Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon with seven American artists including Holly Coulis, Allison Zuckerman and Rosson Crow and MUSE, Shona McAndrew's first New York City exhibition at CHART Gallery in Tribeca.