Kate Bellin

Founder and Principal Kate Bellin has contributed several years of research to the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, and she has worked for institutions such as Acquavella Galleries in New York City and the Parrish Museum in Southampton, New York. Kate works on a project basis with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and is a member of the Alumni Council Executive Committee at Princeton University, where she is President of her class. She also serves as a Vice Chair for Princeton Internships in Civic Service (PICS), which provides Princeton Undergraduates paid summer internships in nonprofit organizations throughout the country.

She serves as a Warden on the Vestry Board of St. George Summer Chapel in Tenants Harbor, Maine. Kate is a founding member of MoMA’s Family Council, a member of the Guggenheim Museum's Learning Through Art Leadership Committee, and a Contributing Editor at Domino magazine. She received her MA in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and the History of the Art Market at Christie’s New York where she was Valedictorian of her class. She is the winner of the Thesis Prize for Comparative Literature and graduated cum laude from Princeton

John Egner

Director + Principal

Before joining Kate Bellin Contemporary, John Egner served as the Administrator of Photographs and Executive Assistant to the Worldwide Head of Photographs at Phillips Auctioneers, where he oversaw four successful auctions. He has also spent time at Christie’s in the American Paintings department, Independent Art Fair, and at the Brant Foundation, as a lead tour guide for the acclaimed Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition.

He received his BA in Art History at Colby College, writing his thesis on the fusion of social practice, high-art aesthetic, and post-black ideology within the work of Theaster Gates and Mark Bradford. He has a MA in Contemporary Art and Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute in New York City and London. While at Sotheby’s he curated an exhibition of emerging, contemporary artists exploring the reinterpretation of canonical aesthetics. He also completed his Master’s dissertation on the provocative postmodern practice of Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland.