ARTSTAR CURATORS

Michelle Pobar is the director of Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles. For a number of years Ms. Pobar worked for Gagosian Gallery in New York until 2008 when she relocated to Los Angeles to work at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. She has been the director of Honor Fraser since 2009 and works with a number of international, local, emerging and established artists including Rosson Crow, Kenny Scharf, Alexandra Grant, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Robert Lazzarini and the Jeremy Blake Estate. Receiving her BA in Art History from the University of Minnesota, Ms. Pobar then went on to receive her masters degree in Modern Art History, Connoisseurship and the History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education in New York. With work experience at contemporary art galleries, museums and the auction house, she has had her hand in nearly every aspect of the art world and has curated and managed a number of noteworthy exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles.

2004 BA, Art History University of Minnesota; 2006 MA, Modern Art History, Connoisseurship and the History of the Art Market Christie’s Education, New York