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 is a trustee at CMCA (Center for Maine Contemporary Art) and a member of the Alumni Council Executive Committee at Princeton University, where she is also President of her 25th Reunion class. She 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. Kate has worked for 15 years on a project basis with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).

She serves as a Warden on the Vestry Board of St. George Summer Chapel in Tenants Harbor, Maine and has recently joined the Chairman's Council at Teaching Matters in New York. 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 in 2021, John Egner served as the Administrator of Photographs and Executive Assistant to the Worldwide Head of Photographs at Phillips, where he oversaw four successful auctions. He has also spent time at Christie’s in the American Paintings department, Independent Art Fair, and 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 and has a MA in Contemporary Art and Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute in New York City and London.