CEO & Founder

team@tribecadistrict.com

Tribeca is a neighborhood I am greatly passionate about. I've worked and lived in different locations in Tribeca (and Soho) for the last 7 years.

I've spent my life bringing together diverse local entities and driving shared communal goals, both Tribeca and Paris.

Over the last half a decade, I've been focused on developing Tribeca's attractivity through Arts + Culture, namely by building from scratch the community Tribeca Arts District and the free local quarterly festival Tribeca Art+Culture Night.

Since its inception in 2016, the festival has featured over 1000 artists, 180 exhibitions and 80 special events and serves approximately 10,000 people a year.

This has led me to collaborate and partner with over 80 local art and cultural entities as well as small businesses. This project also involved working with various actors in hospitality, real estate, wellness as well as large corporations.

Previously, I was an independent curator and art dealer at Allouche Gallery (f/k/a Opera Gallery) in New York. Prior to this, I was a business and strategy consultant at BearingPoint (f/k/a Anderson Consulting). Before consulting, I was a counselor in the cabinet of the Mayor of Paris - 9th District for 4 years in charge of the neighborhood's economic development, urban planning, cultural projects, financial affairs and sanitary operations.

Head of Operations

I work as a professional artist, crafting intricate networks in pen and watercolor that are inspired by the visual language of cartography as well as the fractal similarity that cities share with biological patterns like cells and neurons.

I'm passionate about bringing people together around the arts. Before working on Tribeca Art+Culture Night, I ran a citywide community art event in the Boston area, and I currently facilitate and orchestrate a monthly mixer to connect scientists and artists that draws creative people from around the globe.

Having been here through the pandemic, creating community in this local area is particularly critical to me.

I grew up in Tribeca, walking to elementary school on Greenwich Street and playing in Washington Market Park. This neighborhood has shaped my identity and I'm enthusiastic about continuing its history.

Curator

David Xu Borgonjon is a writer and curator who works on economic practices and cultural objects. He has written for The New York Times, Rhizome and the Journal for Chinese Contemporary Art, among others. He curated Really, Socialism?! (Momenta Art, 2015), The Visible Hand (CUE Art Foundation, 2017) and In Search of Miss Ruthless (Para Site, 2017) with Hera Chan. He cofounded Admin, a platform for arts administrators working on new cultural institutions, and SCREEN, a bilingual platform for media art criticism. In addition to teaching in RISD’s Painting department, he is completing his PhD at Columbia University, writing a media history of Chinese capital in Southeast Asia.

Curator

Omar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of UNTITLED. since its founding in 2012. As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Founder and Executive Director of Residency Unlmited (RU) in New York

Nathalie Anglès is founder and Executive Director of Residency Unlmited (RU) in New York, a non profit arts organization that fosters customized residencies for local and international artists and curators at all stages of their career. She studied history and political science and is a graduate of the École du Magasin Independent curatorial program (Le Magasin – (CNAC Grenoble, France) . Between 2000-2008 she was Director of the International residency program at Location One (New York). Previous positions include: Sotheby’s (London), American Center in Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), Paris, Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD). In 2008, Nathalie received the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.