Earlier this month, the Hamptons Fine Art Fair concluded its 2024 edition, which ran from July 11 to 14 in Southampton Village. The event brought together more than 60 cultural partners, the most the fair has attracted in its history, and saw an incredible range of displays across the fair’s 70,000-square-foot pavilion complex situated on 17 acres just minutes from some of the Hampton’s most prestigious areas.
Cognizant of the artists that have called the East End home—which include Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, both of whom the fair has name pavilions after—the fair presented its second iteration of the Hamptons Artists Hall of Fame. With the aim of recognizing and promoting East End artists that are poised for rediscovery, the 2024 edition saw six new awardees: Herman Cherry, Connie Fox, sculptors William “Bill” King, William “Bill” Tarr, Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas, and Amy Zerner.
Photo: Adam D. Smith. Courtesy of Hamptons Fine Art Fair.
The VIP Opening Preview benefiting Guild Hall and the later VIP Evening benefitting the Parrish Museum saw roughly 4,500 attendees join the festivities, which included performances by contemporary dance company Parsons Dance. The Saturday public day of the fair’s run, an attendance record was set as 5,500 guests descended upon the fair to explore the presentations of 150 international exhibitors and gallerists featuring over 600 artists across mediums. Across the four day event, roughly 13,000 visitors attended—setting an all-time high record for the fair.
Photo: Adam D. Smith. Courtesy of Hamptons Fine Art Fair.
The 2024 edition also saw robust sales, and fair Founder and Executive Director Rick Friedman said, “This is an open minded, sophisticated art community in our little corner of the world. We wanted to provide our art savvy attendees a well curated selection, in a wide range of prices, ranging from $5,000 to the $6 million Frank Stella masterpiece in the Omer Tiroche booth. Most pieces are within the $10,000 to $30,000 range and happy to report, many transactions were made. Red dots appeared everywhere, and many dealers reported their total weekend transactions surpassed six figures.”
Photo: Adam D. Smith. Courtesy of Hamptons Fine Art Fair.
Ultimately, over $4 million of art was sold over the course of the fair, with gallerists such as Taya Weddemire Gallery and Green River Fossil Company reporting their inventory was completely sold out. Prints and works on paper as well as photography were noted as popular collecting categories, with works by Alexander Calder, David Hockney, Frank Stella, and Alex Katz (to name just a few) being snapped up.
Produced by Showhamptons, the next edition of the Hamptons Fine Art Fair is slated to take place July 10–13, 2025, at the Southampton Fairgrounds.
Learn more about the Hamptons Fine Art Fair here.
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