"Fazakas is the pre-eminent Indigenous contemporary art gallery in Canada," Higgs said, noting the growing attention at American museums on Native artists in the last five years. "Trying to identify the Fazakases of the world - galleries that are doing really prescient, necessary work, and then helping them to amplify that work to new audiences - we feel is critical to our claiming to be 'independent.'"
The Independent Art Fair Looks Back in a Special Exhibition
The art fair has a history of helping artists get discovered — and rediscovered. A show at the heart of this year’s fair spotlights that power.
Hilarie M. Sheets, The New York Times, May 3, 2024