ArtTable invites you to the 2026 Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony, celebrating the organization’s essential work advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts.
ArtTable’s Annual Benefit is our one moment each year to come together as a community and invest in the future of women and nonbinary leadership in the arts. Your support—whether through tickets, sponsorship, or a donation—directly fuels the programs, mentorship, and advocacy that make lasting change possible.
Join us for a celebratory reception featuring cocktails, hors d’oeuvres,
and inspirational words from this year’s honorees.
Honoring
Bonnie Brennan
Chief Executive Officer, Christie’s
Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award
and
Marcela Guerrero
DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
New Leadership Award
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
6:30 PM
Christie’s
20 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10020
Benefit Program
6:30 PM
Networking, Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00 – 7:30 PM
Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts and New Leadership Awards Ceremony
7:30 – 8:30 PM
Cocktails, Hors D’oeuvres and Dessert
8:30 PM
Event Concludes
This program is a standing cocktail reception with refreshments, light bites, and remarks from our honorees. Limited seating will be available (reserved seating during remarks is included with select Host Committee ticket levels). ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email [email protected] if you would like to request an accessibility accommodation.
About the Honorees
Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee
Bonnie Brennan
Chief Executive Officer, Christie’s
Bonnie Brennan has been Chief Executive Officer of Christie’s since February 1, 2025, leading the world’s leading auction house with a focus on strengthening its heritage while advancing innovation, global reach, and engagement with new audiences.
A native of Michigan and a proud alumnus of Northwestern University (B.A. in Art History & Communications), Bonnie brings more than 28 years of experience in the art and auction world. Before joining Christie’s in 2012, she held senior leadership roles at Sotheby’s, working extensively in business development, trusts & estates.
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At Christie’s, Bonnie has held several senior positions. She served as Chairman of Business Development for Christie’s Americas, then as President of the Americas beginning in 2021, during which time the Americas region grew to account for nearly half of Christie’s auction sales. She played instrumental roles in landmark auctions, including major estate sales such as those of Jayne Wrightsman, Barney Ebsworth, Paul Allen, Ann and Gordon Getty, and the non-profit Cleveland Clinic.
As CEO, Bonnie continues to guide Christie’s toward its future: preserving its legacy, while amplifying digital innovation, expanding into new markets, and diversifying its collector base.
Outside of the business, Bonnie is committed to philanthropic and educational causes. She serves on various non-profit boards and advisory councils, including those focused on arts, education, and medicine.
New Leadership Awardee
Marcela Guerrero
DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Marcela Guerrero is the DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Alongside Drew Sawyer, Guerrero is the co-curator of the eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States. At the Whitney, Guerrero also curated no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria and Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy in 2022-23, among other exhibitions. From 2014 to 2017, she was the Curatorial Fellow for Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 organized at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Guerrero’s writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and in art journals. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero holds a PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
About the Event
ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony was launched in 1993, 13 years after the organization was initially founded. The inaugural event honored actress, singer, television personality, spokesperson for the arts, and then Chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, Kitty Carlisle Hart, with the first ever Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award. In following years, the event would go on to honor trailblazers and powerhouse women in the arts, including Agnes Gund, Marcia Tucker, Yoko Ono, Thelma Golden, Lowery Stokes Sims, and many more.
In 2005, the New Leadership Award was introduced to honor and celebrate emerging women leaders in the arts. Twelve honorees were selected by twelve past DSVA award recipients, reinforcing the idea of “Looking Back, Moving Forward,” the theme of ArtTable’s 25th Anniversary year.
This annual event continues to honor two extraordinary arts professionals each year, saluting the important work done in the past, advances being made in the present, and the potential for the future.
Annual Awards
Louise Bourgeois
EYE, 2003
Cast bronze, silver nitrate, polished patina
ArtTable’s Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award acknowledges and celebrates remarkable leadership in the arts. Its recipients exemplify ArtTable’s dedication to the lasting impact of the visual arts on our shared cultural life. In 2003, as a special gesture to ArtTable and the leading women it honors, Louise Bourgeois created an unnumbered, cast bronze edition to represent the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts award. EYE is cast each year in commendation to our awardee.
Click here to view a list of all past Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardees.
Maya Lin
Seven Square Inches of Water, 2014
Cast and polished glass
ArtTable’s New Leadership Award recognizes an emerging professional who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and made considerable contributions to the visual art field in the earlier stages of their careers. This award was first introduced as part of ArtTable’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2005. This past year’s award was Seven Square Inches of Water, a limited-edition artwork by Maya Lin created to benefit the “What Is Missing?” project.
Click here to view a list of all past New Leadership Awardees.
ArtTable Day
Celebrate with us annually on April 7!
In 2005, the Mayor of New York City declared April 7 as ArtTable Day, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of ArtTable’s founding. We continue to celebrate our incredible community of professional women and nonbinary professionals in the arts on this day every year!
Celebrate ArtTable Day year round!
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