Fine Art Advisory and Appraisal
About the Founder
Juliette Yuan was born in Beijing to a ballerina and a university science professor who had a passion for photography, literature, Western opera, and sports. She earned her undergraduate degree in French and then worked as a C-level Executive Assistant for Air France for two years. After that, she pursued a Master's degree in French literature in Paris.
Yuan entered the art world by working at an Asian antique gallery in Paris, where she spent four years gaining valuable knowledge and hands-on experience in high-end art gallery management. During this time, she organized gallery exhibitions and auction sales while serving professional dealers and high-net-worth clients from Europe and North America. Inspired by a group of influential French artists and architects, she eventually discovered her true passion for modern and contemporary art.
Yuan began her journey in the international contemporary art world by promoting the works of European contemporary artists to mainland China. Working as an independent curator enabled her to collaborate extensively with museums, academies, governmental institutions, foreign embassies, and local and international art festivals, biennales, art fairs, and various industries. Notable experiences include:
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Photo credit JY&A New York @ 2024
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Managing and consulting 70 Asia-Pacific art galleries and ten Asian and Middle Eastern curators' projects at the ShContemporary Art Fair, one of the key investments of Italy's top exhibition company, BolognaFiere Group in Shanghai;
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Planning and executing the British telematic art pioneer Roy Ascott's first China retrospective at the 9th Shanghai Biennial;
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Promoting Asian contemporary artists' works through exhibitions and educational programs at the New York Electronic Art Festival;
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Strategizing the promotion of Postmasters Art Gallery (New York) and its artists in mainland China through collaboration with ShanghArt Gallery and the Westbund Art & Design Fair (Shanghai).
Her roles in the art world provided unique connections and insights into the policies of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan regarding Western art, along with a strong understanding of their cultures and business practices.
Juliette Yuan & Associates Fine Art Advisory and Appraisal was founded in 2018 with an innovative business model that combines a home-based art gallery with private property rentals to promote contemporary art, especially works incorporating cutting-edge technology. Located in a pre-war apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Yuan collaborated with both emerging and established Chinese and American artists to create unique interior designs as exhibitions featuring art+tech installations. Over the past six years, including three years during the pandemic, Yuan has organized thirteen art exhibitions, both physical and online, which attracted over one hundred international art buyers and travelers, all drawn in her distinctive art+tech interior design projects. She completed nineteen sales, including two acquisitions by Chinese private museums. Despite global challenges, Yuan transformed her experimental business into a well-functioning venture and managed to increase the nightly room rate by 3.5 times in one year after the pandemic. Additionally, she earned USPAP-compliant Fine Art Appraiser qualifications with an Accredited Membership at the Appraisers Association of America, which now enables her to focus on offering professional fine art consultancy and appraisal services to a global clientele.
Yuan has also worked as an editor and guest editor for international publications in China and the UK. She has published articles in esteemed art and architecture magazines, and lectured at top universities such as New York University, the School of Visual Arts, the University at Buffalo in the USA, and the Central Academy of Fine Art in China. Yuan holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature from La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III University in France and completed six years of Ph.D. coursework in Arts, Humanities, and Business at the University of Plymouth in the UK. Additionally, she was a visiting scholar at New York University's Steinhardt School in the USA.