Valeria Napoleone is an Italian collector, patron and philanthropist and lives in London with her family. Valeria studied in New York receiving a BA from New York University’s Journalism School and an MA in Art Gallery Administration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Valeria has established a strong collection that focuses on female contemporary artists working internationally. Forming an exceptionally close bond with artists, she has provided pivotal support to the careers of many of today’s most critically acclaimed artists including Phyllida Barlow and Margarita Manzelli.
In June 2015 Valeria launched ‘Valeria Napoleone XX’, an umbrella platform for projects and initiatives that work towards increasing the representation of female artists in major public institutions. Named to highlight both collaboration and the female chromosome, the platform launched with a partnership with the Contemporary Art Society. Their combined initiative is an on-going commitment to purchase and donate a significant work by a living female artist to a different UK museum each year.
Valeria is a patron to a select number of arts organisations; as Head of the Development Committee at London based not for profit gallery Studio Voltaire; a Trustee of the Contemporary Art Society; she sits on the Boards of the Institute of Fine Arts in NYC; and an Advisory Board member of the Association of Women in the Arts. She has also been an avid supporter of many UK based institutions such as; Camden Arts Centre, Nottingham Contemporary, ICA London, Milton Keynes Gallery and Chisenhale Gallery.
Valeria Napoleone is an Italian collector, patron and philanthropist and lives in London with her family. Valeria studied in New York receiving a BA from New York University’s Journalism School and an MA in Art Gallery Administration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Valeria has established a strong collection that focuses on female contemporary artists working internationally. Forming an exceptionally close bond with artists, she has provided pivotal support to the careers of many of today’s most critically acclaimed artists including Phyllida Barlow and Margarita Manzelli.
In June 2015 Valeria launched ‘Valeria Napoleone XX’, an umbrella platform for projects and initiatives that work towards increasing the representation of female artists in major public institutions. Named to highlight both collaboration and the female chromosome, the platform launched with a partnership with the Contemporary Art Society. Their combined initiative is an on-going commitment to purchase and donate a significant work by a living female artist to a different UK museum each year.
Valeria is a patron to a select number of arts organisations; as Head of the Development Committee at London based not for profit gallery Studio Voltaire; a Trustee of the Contemporary Art Society; she sits on the Boards of the Institute of Fine Arts in NYC; and an Advisory Board member of the Association of Women in the Arts. She has also been an avid supporter of many UK based institutions such as; Camden Arts Centre, Nottingham Contemporary, ICA London, Milton Keynes Gallery and Chisenhale Gallery.