Shruti Belliappa is an art historian and advisor specialising in twentieth and twenty-first century art. For over fifteen years, she has worked on collection building, commissions and strategic acquisitions for noted private art collections and foundations globally. Her projects are particularly attuned to modern and contemporary artists with a profound material and historical sensitivity, such as Agnes Martin, Sol Lewitt, Cy Twombly, Raymond Pettibon, Julie Mehretu and others.
Maintaining a scholarly and conceptual commitment to thinking through artistic processes, she has long engaged with leading artists and their studios, expanding the scope of their work and introducing it to site specific and intellectual contexts. Having frequently collaborated with the American artist Raymond Pettibon both in publishing and on major private commissions, she is currently the Creative director and Commercial Advisor for his art practice.
A proponent of the historic crossovers of literature and the visual arts, she is also the Founding Editor and Publisher of Hanuman Editions, writings by a transnational artistic and literary avant-garde, orienting from the 20th century legendary and cult series, Hanuman Books. Since its inception in 2023, Hanuman Editions has gone on to become a globally distributed small press, with a notable catalogue of writers and a staunch following worldwide.
Alicia Norman-Butler has spent nearly two decades at the forefront of the post-war and contemporary art market, holding positions at Christie’s and Hauser & Wirth in London, and Magazzino d’Arte Moderna in Rome. Before co-founding the advisory, she was a partner at the London-based private art dealership, Lindon & Co.
Alicia advises key art collections spanning Europe, United States, Middle East and Africa. In recent years, she has collaborated on an ambitious program of commercial exhibition making, drawing from expansive curatorial and historical lineages featuring David Hammons, Andy Warhol, Lubaina Himid and Per Kirkeby.
She is known for sourcing rare and difficult to access blue chip and contemporary art works, and has a strong record of identifying emerging talent early on. Artists such as Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jadé Fadojutimi, Issy Wood and Louis Fratino, placed at the outset of their careers, have since gone on to international gallery representation, and have been acquired by major museums.