Discover Highlights from the 2025 Aspen Art Fair
Returning to the iconic Hotel Jerome for its second year, the event features more than 40 exhibitors from over 15 countries
With more art collectors per capita than most other small cities worldwide, Aspen is the ideal location for a mid-summer art fair. Returning to the city’s iconic Hotel Jerome for its second year, the 2025 Aspen Art Fair, running through August 2, features more than 40 exhibitors from over 15 countries, along with specially curated projects, conversations, and cultural programming. What began as a small boutique art fair, occupying hotel rooms and a few additional booths on the ground floor in 2024, has grown into a bigger and better event this year.
“Aspen’s collector base is rare in its capacity and international perspective and is unmatched in its deep cultural engagement and loyalty to artists and community,” Bob Chase, owner of the city’s Hexton Gallery and co-founder of the Aspen Art Fair, told Galerie. “It goes back to the alpine enclave’s founding as a center for artistic practice and inquiry, which continues today. There’s a continuing passion for thoughtful, high-caliber programming among collectors and the arts and cultural institutions they support, and this provides a perfect foundation for a fair here.”
Participating in the annual Aspen Art Week—which includes the Aspen Art Museum’s ArtCrush Gala and Auction, Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s summer art conversations, an art walk visiting city galleries, and the presentation of public art projects—the Aspen Art Fair offers a curated selection of local, national, and international galleries to the city’s thriving cultural community and summer visitors from around the world.
“For our second edition of the Aspen Art Fair, we are pleased to be presenting 44 galleries — more than double in size from our inaugural edition,” added Becca Hoffman, founder and director of 74thArts and co-founder of the Aspen Art Fair, while sharing her picks. “From the dipped photographs by Oliver Jeffers at Praise Shadows to the contemporary Japanese ceramics at Ippodo Gallery to the survey of American greats at Galerie Gmyrzynska to the miniature Haas Brothers lamps at Marianne Boesky and the magical curated room by Wendy Cromwell inspired by Miranda July’s All Fours, there truly is something for everyone to discover from new and emerging artists to established and secondary-market pieces.”
Scroll through to see our curated selection of outstanding artists and their works—from prime pieces in portrait, still life, and landscape genres to excellent examples of current trends in figurative and abstract art—on view at this year’s Aspen Art Fair.
1. Marc Dennis | Harper’s
Examining the memento mori and vanitas works of the Dutch Golden Age, Marc Dennis creates realistic oil paintings with a modern twist. Weaving pop imagery and contemporary events into his inspired canvases, he visualizes stories based on revered works of art. The gallery presents a solo exhibition of recent paintings by the Boston-born, New York-based artist in one of the hotel’s decorative rooms. It features works from his series of interior scenes that depict missing paintings, which were removed from their frames during the infamous 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, alongside intricately detailed still life paintings inspired by the Baroque era.
2. Marjorie Strider | Galerie Gmurzynska
One of the few notable women artists who made a significant contribution to the Pop Art movement, the late Marjorie Strider is known for famously expanding the picture plane into the third dimension with her colorful relief paintings of pin-up girls. Over the past decade, Galerie Gmurzynska has worked diligently and successfully to reintroduce her work into the contemporary art canon. Her relief paintings were featured in the museum exhibitions “Amazons of Pop!” at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunsthaus Graz, and MAMAC Nice in 2020-21, as well as Germano Celant’s critically acclaimed “New York: 1962-64” at the city’s Jewish Museum in 2022. Now, Strider’s 2010 masterpiece Yellow Rose, featuring a cartoon-style depiction of a fashionable girl seductively clenching the colorful flower between her teeth, is prominently displayed in the gallery’s collection of modernist works at the fair.
3. Lucy Mackenzie | Nancy Hoffman Gallery
A painter renowned for her striking still lifes, Lucy Mackenzie crafts postcard-sized canvases with carefully arranged objects she collects from her local English specialty shops. Realistically portraying the timeless genre with oil on board, she beautifully depicts settings with shirts and books on chairs, ornate household objects—both old and new—on tables, and groups of shells on shelves. At the fair, the gallery showcases several still lifes by the Gloucestershire artist as part of its collection of finely crafted realistic and abstract artworks. These include Mackenzie’s paintings of a coral-patterned teacup and saucer paired with a similarly colored porcelain greyhound figurine, a ripe mango on a plate, a vividly wrapped and plated La Zagara lemon, and a stunning arrangement of Sweet Williams in an ornate pewter vase.
4. Gregor Hildebrandt | Perrotin
Celebrated for his distinctive artworks that creatively incorporate elements of music and movies, Gregor Hildebrandt intriguingly blends aspects of conceptual and minimal art with his personal life and pop culture experiences. Since the late 1990s, the Berlin-based German artist has been incorporating appropriated audio and film media into his practice. He produces portraits with inkjet prints and music cassette tapes displayed on shelves; abstract paintings with canvases covered in VHS tapes; colorful columns of stacked bowls shaped from molded vinyl records; and dynamic installations that blur the boundaries between audio and visual media. Occupying a lively corner of Perrotin’s booth, two of Hildebrandt’s cassette shelf portraits of women from different eras flank Esben, a multicolored totemic sculpture that strikingly replicates his signature stacked bowls in powder-coated bronze on a marble plinth.
5. Taylor Marie Prendergast | Carlye Packer
A multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video, and performance, Taylor Marie Prendergast is best known for her monochromatic, gestural drawings and paintings of animals that offer direct depictions of her subjects. Exploring themes of peril—both domestic and psychological—the Los Angeles-based artist’s work evokes a complex response. Her solo show at the fair, displayed on the dark decorative wallpaper in the gallery’s hotel room, features a series of grisaille paintings and charcoal drawings of biblical cherubs and beasts mingling in nature. Most often tenderly, but sometimes hauntingly, her symbolic creatures and beings drift through their dreamlike and nightmarish realms, reflecting the calm and turbulence of the times with a sense of uncertainty.
6. Math Bass | Vielmetter Los Angeles
Over the past decade, Math Bass has created a series of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations called Newz!. An ongoing exploration of semiotics and visual perception, the series features a recurring set of symbols and a constantly evolving visual language where tensions grow between language and meaning. Using vivid shapes and highly stylized images, the series ranges from instantly recognizable to charmingly abstract and ambiguous. In Vielmetter’s group show of abstract paintings and sculptures at the fair, the Los Angeles artist displays four playful canvases, including Scottie Cloud (yellow), which suggest representational subjects through abstraction, along with a sculpture of an apple linked to a title that amusingly appears abstract.
7. Dominic Chambers | Luce Gallery
Dominic Chambers creates vibrant paintings that combine art historical influences, such as color-field painting and gestural abstraction, with contemporary themes like race, identity, and leisure. He investigates how art can help us understand, reframe, or renegotiate our relationship with the world, seeing painting as both a critical, intellectual pursuit and an aesthetic practice. Born in St. Louis and based in New Haven since earning an MFA from Yale in 2019, Chambers views color as a key element in his paintings, equally important as his subjects for revealing their meaning. His expert management of the tension and interplay between contrasting colors infuses his work with an elusive, animated energy. His two recent paintings in the gallery’s room at the hotel depict metaphysical scenes of people within natural, starry realms, with Of Stars and Clouds (Apparition Image) featuring simulated canvases of people, birds, and nature scenes surreally floating in its nighttime skies.
8. Nathalie Khayat | Marianne Boesky Gallery
The subject of a solo exhibition currently on view at the gallery in New York, ceramicist Nathalie Khayat creates sculptural forms that blend architectural precision with organic fragility. Through these forms—evoking the body, domestic remnants, and hidden stories of labor—the artist examines how materials reveal traces of touch, time, and change. Born and based in Beirut, she operates between the coastal city and the mountainous area to its north. Informed by her environment, her sculptures draw inspiration from organic motifs. She explores the poetic tension between structure and fluidity, engaging intuitively with clay through extrusion, throwing, and hand-building. “My practice is rooted in a deep respect for process,” says Khayat. “I rarely begin with a fixed plan. Instead, I allow the clay to guide me—to crack, resist, collapse, and reveal,” which is evident in her piece EMBED, as well as another work that the gallery brought to the fair.