MENTOR

Kelly Cahn

Areas of Expertise

  • Fine Art Consulting
  • Sales
  • Art History
Kelly Cahn

Biography

Kelly Cahn is the Senior Curator and Director of Sourcing at On Approval, an online platform and corporate advisory for fine art subscriptions and sales. She has worked in the art world since 2005. She was a Partner and the Head of Research and Gallery Outreach at The Heller Group, a leading art advisory firm curating and managing art collections for hedge fund, institutional, and private clients from 2006 to 2017 and advised independently from 2017 to 2019. She was a Director of Private Sales at Sean Kelly, an art gallery representing artists including Antony Gormley. Marina Abramovic, and Kehinde Wiley (2019 – 2021). She was a Vice President, Sales Director at LiveArt, an online private sales platform for artworks competing with major auction houses from 2021 – 2022. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans and a Master of Arts in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and the History of the Art Market from Christie’s Auction House in New York.