kpe Arts: ABOUT

Kristin Peterson Edwards, is a twenty-five year veteran of the art world and an avid life-long traveler. She is a private art consultant whose concentration is in primary market contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. She has also coordinated visits to galleries, studios, private collections and museums in the New York area for individuals and groups. For a few years Kristin organized art tours in NYC for the Greenwich Arts Council in Greenwich, CT. Several years ago she began taking small groups of collectors to Art Basel Miami and out of this experience she developed an art centered travel business focused on providing unique and exclusive art and culinary excursions. She has curated group trips to cities including Berlin, Chicago, L.A., Miami, San Francisco. Kristin also arranged a trip to Buenos Aires in partnership with Studio Traveler. Together they led back to back visits to Berlin as well as to Munich and Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kristin’s love for art and travel was instilled by her parents at an early age. She has always travelled extensively in the United States, Europe and to other international destinations but still has a long list of places to be explored. Recently Kristin spent over a month in Spain and walked the 790 km of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago, Spain. Last summer she hiked the Tour de Mont Blanc through France, Switzerland and Italy.

Kristin received a BA in Art History and French Studies at Northwestern University and received a graduate diploma in Contemporary Art at Christie’s Education in London. After living in Paris and London, she established herself in New York at two of Manhattan’s finest galleries, Robert Miller Gallery and Cheim & Read. Prior to being in New York, Kristin spent time working at the Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Weatherspoon Art Gallery in Greensboro, NC and at Christie’s in Chicago. She is currently on the Board of the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Chicago, in addition to sitting on several local non-profit boards where she lives in Connecticut. Kristin is a member of the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts. And she is the proud mother of the three best teenagers ever.