The 2025 Future Fair Curatorial Committee
FUTURE FAIR ANNOUNCES
2025 Curatorial Committee
Future Fair introduces its Curatorial Committee for 2025, welcoming Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa, Eden Deering, and Jenée-Daria Strand.
Future Fair 2025 Curatorial Committee (left to right): Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa, Eden Deering, and Jenée-Daria Strand.
Future Fair is excited to announce its fifth-anniversary in-person show, coinciding with Frieze New York in May 2025. Heralded for ushering in fresh voices into the contemporary art market, Future Fair will return to Chelsea Industrial (535 W 28th St, New York, NY 10001). The event will commence with a VIP Preview on Wednesday, May 7, and be open to the public from May 8 to May 10, 2025.
Building upon the momentum introduced by 2024’s first Curatorial Committee, the upcoming council provides the fair with strategic curatorial guidance maintaining the highest standards of excellence in the selection of participating galleries.
The 2025 committee members include Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa, Historian, Art Critic and Independent Curator; Eden Deering, Director, PPOW; and Jenée-Daria Strand, Assistant Curator, Public Art Fund.
“We are proud to collaborate with Dr. Margarita, Eden, and Jenée, who have demonstrated a genuine commitment to helping artists and small business galleries thrive in their careers. They possess the experience to understand the art industry from nuanced perspectives, recognizing what "New" means in today's New York while maintaining a global outlook. This ethos aligns with our Future Fair community and will define the anniversary edition.” Rachel Mijares Fick & Rebeca Laliberte, Future Fair Founders
About the Curators
Margarita Lila Rosa is a Harlem-based public scholar specializing in Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Black Atlantic history and contemporary art. Dr. Rosa is a Lecturer in the Department of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College. She has been a visiting critic at several residencies and MFA programs, including the Pratt Forward Residency and the Mason Gross MFA Program at Rutgers University. In 2024, she was part of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Arts Leadership Praxis. Rosa has written for the Museum of Modern Art and has art history essays in The Brooklyn Rail, i-D, and Frieze, among others. Rosa’s curatorial focus is modern and contemporary Afro-diasporic, Latin American art, and global contemporary feminist art.
Eden Deering is a New York City based curator and director at P·P·O·W. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A in Art History in 2014. Deering has worked closely with artists such as Anton van Dalen, Portia Munson, and Judith Linhares as well as championed the careers of a new generation of artists such as Kyle Dunn, Grace Carney, Gerald Lovell, and Erin M. Riley. Deering has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions with the gallery including Anton van Dalen: Junk Culture, 2019; Do You Love Me?, 2019; Noplace, 2020; Recovery, 2021; I’m Not Your Mother, 2022, and Airhead, 2024. Deering has co-run the curatorial project DUPLEX since 2016, which has collaborated with organizations such as Visual AIDS and Planned Parenthood. Deering was featured in The New York Times style column ‘Up Next’ in 2022 and in Cultured Magazine in 2023. Her next major group exhibition with P·P·O·W, Hope is a Dangerous Thing, will open June 2025.
Jenée-Daria Strand is a curator, writer, and native Brooklynite. In 2022, she was appointed as the Assistant Curator at Public Art Fund where she develops new commissions by contemporary artists in New York City and beyond. Prior to, she was a Curatorial Associate at the Brooklyn Museum. She has curated independent projects for NADA Miami/TD Bank, ISCP, White Columns, amongst others, and has contributed written work to publications by the Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Lehmann Maupin, SEEN Journal, and more. Jenée received a Masters Degree in Museum Studies from NYU, where her research centered on Black feminist scholarship and institutional critique through modern and contemporary art. She also holds a Bachelor chof Fine Arts in Dance/Performance Studies from Florida State University. Jenée is currently an inaugural member of the Studio Museum's curatorial fellowship, Arts Leadership Praxis.
Future Fair returns to Chelsea Industrial (535 W 28th St, New York, NY 10001), May 8 - May 10, 2025. A VIP Preview will be held on Wednesday, May 7. For more information on the 2025 fair, please email hello@futurefairs.com.