Destinee Ross-sutton,

born 1995 in Harlem, New York. Hailed as a visionary international art curator, advisor, gallerist, artist manager and advocate and art muse. Already as a small child engaged with art through her Waldorf School from Kindergarten to a teenager at the Rudolf Steiner School in NY she went on to study journalism and photography. Frustrated with journalism at the time of the last presidential election in 2016, Destinee began to work as a volunteer at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MOCADA), mainly working on exhibitions. Got to know several artists then started as an independent art consultant which led her to many trips to international fairs from London to the Venice Biennale. Spring 2020 her first major international exhibition the groundbreaking BLACK VOICES / BLACK MICROCOSM opened in the middle of the pandemic in Stockholm, Sweden at CFHILL. 31 artists from the African diaspora, from Amoako Boafo to Otis Quaicoe. After the success followed “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” a selling exhibition at the renowned auction house Christie’s in New York, the second edition will follow this year in August. This past December she opened her namesake Ross-sutton gallery in Soho with what is said to have been the largest exhibition for contemporary art by African and Afro-american artists, 40 artists, 71 works. Destinee is also known for her “Ross-sutton contract” which prevents speculators from selling a work at auction for 3-5 years and asks that the artist receive 15% of the profit from a sale. Artists like Obama portraitist Kehinde Wiley or Amoako Boafo and several others have immortalized her in portraits.