Elizabeth Dee


Elizabeth Dee is an American founder of Independent Art Fair, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and X Initiative, in New York City and Brussels. The gallery has exhibited artists Alex Bag, Mark Barrow, Eric Baudelaire, Miriam Cahn, Philippe Decrauzat, Derek Jarman, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Jeff Keen, Miranda Lichtenstein, Virgil Marti, Ryan McNamara, Josephine Meckseper, Carl Ostendarp, Adrian Piper, Meredyth Sparks, and Ryan Trecartin, amongst many others. Elizabeth Dee has co-produced ten movies by Ryan Trecartin including I-Be AREA and the seven video cycle Any Ever which includes: Trill-ogy Comp : Sibling Topics , K-CoreaINC.K , P.opular S.ky , Re'Search Wait'S : Temp Stop , Roamie View: History Enhancement , The Re'Search and Ready . She has also co-published monographic publications on Josephine Meckseper, Ryan Trecartin and Meredyth Sparks and is the co-editor of the X Initiative Yearbook. 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. 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.