Art to Zebras is what we can imagine it to be…Art from A to Z.
Focused on sharing our love for contemporary art, we bring a variety of voices to a global stage to illuminate, inspire and impact lives through arts initiatives.
About Anita Alvin Nilert:
Anita has been active in the international art world for almost 40 years; as art dealer, art consultant, editions publisher, collector, developer of online art initiatives, artist’s agent, advisor, and curator. Committed to bringing art and artists voices to bear on vital issues, through projects and dialogues across disciplines. Partnered with human rights lawyer, Alicia Ely Yamin as well as Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins founder of the NGO, Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) to shed light on what it means to be human and to have rights and others to be a catalyst for change in policy approaches in areas including women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health, race and gender issues, immigration and refugee crises.
Co-founder of dep,art,ment, leading Swedish art consultants, publisher of artist’s editions, and artists’ agency for over 10 years; working with international galleries, publishers, and artists including White Cube, Lehmann Maupin, Pace, Andréhn Schiptjenko, Magnus Karlsson, Wetterling Gallery, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Clay Ketter, Claes Oldenburg, Do Ho Suh, and the Yves Klein estate. Partner institutions and clients included Moderna Museet, Kulturhuset Stockholm, NCC Bygg, Investor, Carnegie, Lynx, Catella, and Hotel Diplomat.
Born and raised in NYC in a collector/artist/curator family, Anita holds an MBA from Columbia University, with a BSFS from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Anita turned to the art world after a marketing career at American Express; as Director of legendary Swedish/NY art dealership Jan Eric Lowenadler Fine Art, working with artists such as Basquiat, Haring, Warhol, Twombly, De Kooning, Chia, Clemente, and Kiefer.
She is a co-owner of Konstig Books, Scandinavia’s #1 art bookseller, where she spearheaded online e-commerce and crowdfunding campaigns. Board member of the American Scandinavian Society where she chairs art initiatives and the Elfi von Kantzow Alvin Art Award; board member of the Hans Christian Andersen Story Telling Society; Long time member of the American Friends of Moderna Museet, and AFSMK American Friends of Statens Museum for Kunst. Anita speaks 7 languages, and currently divides her time between Stockholm, New York and Palma.