Claire Breukel

South African-born, Claire was introduced to Miami in 2003 through the Rubell Family Collection. She was the first Executive Director for the renowned non-profit Locust Projects, before becoming nomadic in her role as Curator of PUMA.Creative for Sportslifestyle brand PUMA, working on arts sponsorships and partnerships. Following this Claire became a project-based art practitioner, most notably co-producing the 2013 (RED) Design Auction at Sotheby’s New York curated by Jony Ive and Marc Newson, and the 2018 (RED) Auction curated by Theaster Gates and Sir David Adjaye in the Miami Design District. She co-founded public art programs Fringe and Art Days for the Miami Downtown Development Authority and in 2012 the public art program Unscripted for Bal Harbour Village bringing notable artists and creative speakers to Miami for over 7 years. Claire also worked with The Robert S. Wennett and Mario Cader-Frech Foundation for 9 years as Director to establish Y.ES Contemporary, dedicated to advancing contemporary artists in and from El Salvador, a program of which she remains a councilmember, and worked as curator for Dacra and the Craig Robins Collection.

Currently, she works on private art and design collections, and as senior advisor for the Global Council and American Friends for Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. She also writes for Miami Modern Luxury Magazine, among others. Previously, she has written for Harvard’s Revista, Whitewall, Arte Aldia, Eikon, ArtPulse, Wynwood magazine, Women’s Review, Function and Modernity online and Hyperallergic.com, and co-edited the publication, Y.ES Collect Contemporary El Salvador with Mario Cader-Frech and Simón Vega. Claire has curated exhibitions in Cape Town, Prague, Paris, New York, Miami, San Salvador and 8 exhibitions in Vienna with her longtime friend gallerist Ernst Hilger.