The people who move the art world.
Every panelist on the GloryLand 2026 stage, who they are, what they have built, and why they belong in the room. More names revealed in the weeks ahead.
Tanya Weddemire
Founder of an independent, Black woman-led gallery in Brooklyn, Tanya Weddemire champions emerging and mid-career artists whose practices explore identity, heritage, and contemporary narrative. Her collector-first eye, honed over 25 years in luxury and design, places their work in private, corporate, and institutional collections, and opens rooms long closed to Black artists.
- EXPO Chicago
- SCOPE
- 1-54
- Atlanta Art Fair
- Art on Paper
- Affordable Art Fair
Anwarii Musa
Anwarii Musa is an Art Advisor and Curator serving on the Board of Trustees at the Queens Museum. With over a decade of experience in the contemporary art market, he is recognized for his discerning eye and trusted counsel, advising distinguished private collections and guiding acquisitions for an elite clientele across the country.
- Cultured Power Advisor, 2024
- Cultured Power Advisor, 2026
- Observer Business of Art Power List
- ARTnews Top 45 Art Advisors
- ARTnews Top 145 Art World Professionals
- Queens Museum, Board of Trustees
Dexter Wimberly
Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions at galleries and institutions worldwide. An alumnus of Hauser & Wirth's International Curatorial Residency Symposium in Somerset, England, Wimberly has had his exhibitions reviewed in The New York Times and Artforum and supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. He serves on the board of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and is the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency and The Kyoto Retreat in Japan.
- Ford Foundation Gallery
- Museum of Arts and Design
- ICA/Boston
- Harvey B. Gantt Center
- Lehmann Maupin, London
- Efie Gallery, Dubai
Temi Coker
Temi Coker is an absolute force of creativity, depicting layers of his Nigerian heritage through color, pattern, dimension, and texture. Raised in Lagos and now based in Dallas, he channels his upbringing into work that fuses photography and design into something bolder than either alone. His art creates powerful experiences that move people and challenge conventional standards of beauty. It's a movement.
- Nike
- Adobe
- Audible
- The Oscars
- Lincoln
Ryan N. Dennis
Ryan N. Dennis is Co-Director and Chief Curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). Across her career, Dennis has remained committed to advancing contemporary art and its capacity to shape civic and cultural life, with a particular emphasis on supporting Black artists, institutional building, and elevating communities of color.
- A Movement in Every Direction
- Theaster Gates · The Gift and The Renege
- Rebirth in Action, CAMH
- Project Row Houses
- Leonardo Drew · Betye Saar
- Warhol Foundation, Board Member
Lindsay Adams
Lindsay Adams is a writer and painter working across traditional mediums. Employing her foundation as a social scientist, with a background in foreign relations, sociology, and cultural anthropology, her work serves as a reflection of self, exploring personal and collective histories and the role imagination plays in mining the complexities and nuances of life. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Obama Presidential Center · Weary Blues
- Helen Frankenthaler Award, 2024
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Johns Hopkins University
- New Artist Society Merit Award, 2023
Hassan K. Smith
Hassan K. Smith is an entrepreneur, investor, advocate, mentor, and visual art enthusiast with a longstanding commitment to investing in the communities that have embraced him. He is the founder and lead strategist of Ellaby Holdings LLC, a family office spanning visual art, community development, youth advocacy, children's animation, and community healthcare, and he has built a distinguished collection focused on artists of the African diaspora. For the last two decades he has been a key member of John Legend's management team and currently serves as his Senior Advisor.
- Board Chair · NXTHVN
- Trustee · Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- Trustee · High Museum of Art
- Founder · Ellaby Holdings
- Senior Advisor · John Legend
- Collection · African diaspora
Jessica Phifer
Jessica Phifer is a native Houstonian and fine arts professional with twenty years of experience in the art market. She consults with the international art advisory firm The Fine Art Group as Director of Business Development and Art Advisory, alongside her own independent practice, partnering with new and established collectors on key sales and acquisitions. She previously served as Senior Director with the London-based advisory Murphy and Partners, following fifteen years with Christie’s, where she represented the Southwest United States on behalf of the house internationally — advising private clients, estates, advisors, and institutions across the full spectrum of collecting categories.
- The Fine Art Group
- Independent Art Advisory
- Murphy and Partners, London
- Christie’s · 15 years
- Southwest US representation
- CAM Houston · Trustee
MR. TOMONOSHi!
MR. TOMONOSHi!, an American Negro Philosopher, documents the full spectrum of the American Negro experience. For twenty years he has produced work that records its complexity, beauty, and brilliance with disciplined precision. His work centers American Negro life as the primary site of an excavation of the past and an archaeology of the American Negro future — a continuous record that preserves what occurred, defines what exists, clarifies what is, and imagines what comes next. His practice engages literature, illustration, animation, design, and performance, each medium a precise instrument inside a unified documentation system.
- Literature
- Illustration
- Animation
- Design
- Performance
- A twenty-year record
Sean Green
Sean Green is the Co-Founder and CEO of ARTERNAL, the AI-native gallery management platform serving galleries, auction houses, and art advisory firms. Since founding the company in 2017, he has led its vision and growth, shaping how some of the art world’s most demanding businesses adopt AI in their daily operations. With roughly fourteen years at the intersection of art, technology, and capital, Sean brings an operator’s understanding of how the art market actually runs. He is also a General Partner at Black Operator Ventures, backing founders who apply AI to complex problems, and hosts Step Into the Art World, a YouTube series of intimate conversations with collectors in their homes.
- ARTERNAL · Founder & CEO
- Founded 2017
- Galleries · Auction houses · Advisories
- Black Operator Ventures · GP
- Step Into the Art World · Host
- ~14 years · art × tech × capital
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