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Anna Stothart is the co-founder of DVS. An art historian by training with particular expertise in contemporary art, Stothart specializes in institutional relations, market growth and sustainability, and studio management. She oversees projects related to institutional placement of historically significant works in support of artists’ legacy goals, strategic market guidance and planning, and the implementation of management best practices in the context of artists’ studios. She was Curatorial Director of Lehmann Maupin (2016–2020) where she provided curatorial support for the represented artists, organized group exhibitions, and was the museum liaison for the gallery. Previously Stothart served as the Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art (2015–2016) and Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (2009–2015) where she organized the solo exhibitions of Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Meleko Mokgosi, Mickalene Thomas, and Adriana Varejão, and was the presenting curator for exhibitions featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jim Hodges, Corita Kent, and Ragnar Kjartansson among others. She received her master’s degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University. Stothart served as a core seminar leader of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, New York, NY from 2020 through 2021.
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Ursula Davila-Villa is the co-founder of DVS. An architect and art historian by training with decades of curatorial work, she specializes in artistic legacy planning and stewardship, strategic guidance, and studio management support, with particular focus on archives and inventory management, as well as development of systems and operations to properly document and integrate artistic intent. She was a Partner at Alexander Gray Associates (2012–2017) where she directed the artistic and operational areas of the gallery. She was Associate Curator of Latin American Art at The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin from (2005–2012). In 2012 she was co-curator of El Panal/ The Hive: Third Poli/Gráfica Triennal of San Juan de Puerto Rico. In 2008 she curated a mid-career survey of Mexican artist Yoshua Okon at the Städtische Kunsthalle Munich, Germany. Previously, she worked with artist Cai Guo-Qiang at Cai Studio, at the Guggenheim Museum,  Art in General (all in New York), and Galería OMR (in Mexico City). She completed her M.A. in Museum Studies at New York University, and holds a BA in architecture and urbanism from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, and the Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands. She has served as a juror for United States Artists, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Artist Pension Trust, and the II Texas Biennale. She served on the board of VisualAIDS from 2019 to 2022 and is currently part of the board of Women's Studio Workshop (WSW).
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Miranda Samuels is director at DVS. Samuels specializes in artist relations, with a focus on expanded methods for preserving artistic intent related to artwork and its installation, preservation, and conservation. She also leads research and writing around artists and their works, and is engaged in the development of DVS academic projects. Her training was in fine arts and later in aesthetics and philosophy. Concurrently she is Program Manager and Core Seminar Leader at the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, and Co-editor of the Countess Report. She was External Project Researcher for Cecilia Vicuña’s Turbine Hall commission at the Tate Modern and has developed research and curatorial-education projects for organizations including Hermés. She has worked in museum education and public engagement for the Art Gallery of NSW and UNSW Galleries, and has initiated community art initiatives for non-profits such as Youth Off The Streets. As a Fulbright Scholar she completed postgraduate studies at the New School for Social Research focusing on aesthetics and political philosophy (2021), and has a degree in fine arts from UNSW Art and Design (2014).
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