Lina Hargrett

LINA HARGRETT is a freelance art writer and consultant. She was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in San José, Costa Rica. From the University of Costa Rica she received a Bachelor degree in Art History and quickly moved to New York. She interned at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and at New York Arts Magazine and was Assistant Director at the I-20 Gallery where she worked directly with the artists coordinating exhibitions and art fairs. In 2007, she received a Master in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and she returned to her hometown of Miami where she worked as Assistant Director at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery. In 2011, she founded “The Auction Project,” an outlet that represents emerging artists in an auction catalogue format. Lina Hargrett currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.