New York, NY & Virtual | Sustaining Success: Perspectives from Visual Arts Professionals

Baseera Khan is a New York-based visual artist interested in materials, color, and their economies. From public art installation to sculpture, painting to performance and music, Khan collages the effects of these relationships to labor and family structures, religion, and spiritual well-being. Khan has performed and exhibited at several locations in the past years, sharing this diverse practice. “Painful Arc II, Shoulder High,” a public art commission for High Line Art, NYC, was installed from 2023-24, and “New Leaf,” a permanent public art commission for Help USA, Brooklyn, NY, was installed in 2025. Khan has had several solo institutional exhibitions such as Mass Art Museum, Boston, Massachusetts (2026), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2023), Brooklyn Museum, NY (2021-22), and a solo touring exhibition at Moody Arts Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, and Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH (2022-23). Khan mounted recent international solo exhibitions at Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, U.K. (2025), and 10 & Zero Uno in Venice, Italy (2024). Several recent group exhibitions are the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2026), Sargent’s Daughters, NYC (2026), Paul Robeson Gallery at Rutgers University, NJ (2025), 12 Gates, Philadelphia, PA (2025), Patel Brown, Toronto, Canada (2025), Ruttkowski;68, NYC (2025), North Carolina Museum of Art, NC (2024).

Lisa Kim is the inaugural director of the Ford Foundation Gallery. She has led the development of the gallery’s exhibitions and public engagement programs since 2018. Prior to her appointment, Kim was director of cultural affairs at Two Trees Management Company, where she fostered artistic and creative community development. She also served as the director of the New York City Percent for Art Program and oversaw the exhibitions, collections, construction, and expansion for Gagosian Gallery in New York. Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Barnard College and a Master of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. She serves on the advisory board of A.I.R. Gallery and is a member of the board of directors of ICOM-US.

Judith Pineiro is a cultural strategist, recruiter and search leader, and certified transformational leadership coach with more than 30 years of experience across the nonprofit and for-profit arts sectors. As Founder of Judith Pineiro Consulting, she helps cultural organizations strengthen structure and strategy, lead recruitment and hiring searches for executive, curatorial and development roles, and advance leadership and career development.

Previously, she served for over a decade as Executive Director of the Association of Art Museum Curators and its Foundation, where she led two strategic plans, increased funding sixfold, expanded international engagement, and elevated the organization’s policy and advocacy voice. Her earlier leadership roles at Christie’s, Affordable Art Fair U.S., and the Museum of Arts and Design reflect deep experience at the intersection of market and mission.

She holds an MA in Art History and dual BAs in Art History and Journalism from Rutgers University, is an ACC-certified Transformational, Career, and Leadership Coach (ICF), and holds a SHRM Talent Acquisition certification.

Jessica L. Porter (she/her) joined ArtTable in July 2018 as the executive director after a 4 year term on the Board of Directors and 8 years of membership. Prior to this role she was the executive director of New York Artists Equity Association, Inc (NYAEA) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1947 by artists and art patrons with the mission to promote opportunities for artists. It operates Equity Gallery, an art space located on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Since 2001, Porter also maintained Porter Advisory, working with organizations and other galleries as an independent curator, creating exhibitions in alternative spaces and exposing emerging artists to unique opportunities. From 2006 to 2017, Porter founded and directed Porter Contemporary, a Chelsea art gallery, where she was responsible for the overall strategy, business development and market growth, marketing and communications as well as talent acquisition and development of the gallery.

Lise K. Ragbir has dedicated her 20-year career to creating access to a range of art experiences. She has worked with corporate and public collections, non- and for-profit organizations, and organized exhibitions featuring artists Dawoud Bey, Genevieve Gaignard, Jacob Lawrence, and Deborah Roberts, among others. She is the co-editor of Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture (2020), and her essays about race, identity, immigration, and cultural representation have appeared in Hyperallergic, Frieze, Artnet, The Guardian, Time Magazine, USA Today, The Boston Globe and other publications. Lise is a graduate of Harvard University’s Museum Studies program.