Elizabeth Dee

Elizabeth Dee is an American founder of Independent Art Fair, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and X Initiative, in New York City and Brussels.<www.independenthq.com>"The Power List | Artinfo". Artinfo. Retrieved 2017-08-25.</ref> The gallery has exhibited artists Alex Bag,[1] Mark Barrow,[2] Eric Baudelaire,[3] Miriam Cahn (United States debut),[4] Philippe Decrauzat,[5] Derek Jarman,[6] Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn (debut),[7] Jeff Keen (debut),[8] Miranda Lichtenstein,[9] Virgil Marti,[10] Ryan McNamara (debut),[11] Josephine Meckseper (debut),[12] Carl Ostendarp,[13] Adrian Piper,[14] Meredyth Sparks (debut),[15] and Ryan Trecartin (debut),[16] amongst many others. Elizabeth Dee has co-produced ten movies by Ryan Trecartin including I-Be AREA (2007) and the seven video cycle Any Ever (2007-2010) which includes: Trill-ogy Comp (2009): Sibling Topics (section a), K-CoreaINC.K (section a), P.opular S.ky (section ish), Re'Search Wait'S (2009-2010): Temp Stop (Re'Search Wait'S), Roamie View: History Enhancement (Re'Search Wait'S), The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S) and Ready (Re'Search Wait'S).[17] She has also co-published monographic publications on Josephine Meckseper (Sternberg Press),[18] Ryan Trecartin (Dee/Rizzoli Skira)[19] and Meredyth Sparks (Monografik Editions) and is the co-editor of the X Initiative Yearbook (Mousse Publishing, Milan).[20] Elizabeth Dee is the founder of X-Initiative, a nonprofit consortium of the global art community to present exhibitions and programming responding to the major philosophical and economic shifts in contemporary art.[21]

X Initiative took place in 2009-2010 at the former Dia Center for the Arts in New York. She is the co-founder of Independent, a hybrid collective exhibition forum highlighting international galleries and non-profit spaces which takes place annually.[22]