Brett William Schultz
Born in Chicago, 1978 and lives in Mexico City
Brett William Schultz is a cultural entrepreneur and community builder based in Mexico City.
Schultz is the co-founder and creative director of Material, a mission-driven organisation dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary art in Mexico. Its principal activities include the international contemporary art fair Feria Material; its nationally focused sister fair, Estación Material; and Proyectos, a two-year incubator programme for emerging arts organisations in Mexico.
Other projects have included BWSMX, an office for collaborative activities in contemporary art; Ruberta, a shared exhibition space in Los Angeles co-organised with Galería Agustina Ferreyra (San Juan), Lodos (Mexico City), Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala City), and CARNE (Bogotá) during 2017 and 2018; and Yautepec, a contemporary art gallery he co-directed in Mexico City from 2008 to 2017.
Schultz received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations cum laude from the University of Southern California in 2000. In 2005, he earned a Master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Programme at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
His work has been featured in a wide range of international publications, including The New York Times, The Financial Times, Monocle, The Paris Review, Artforum, Frieze, Mousse, Art Review, ARTnews, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, Art+Auction, L’Officiel, and Flash Art, among others.
