Myrtis Bedolla is the owner and founding director of Galerie Myrtis, an emerging blue-chip gallery
and art advisory specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century American art, focusing on primary
and secondary works created by African American artists. Bedolla possesses over 30 years of
experience as a curator, gallerist, and art consultant. She provides professional curatorial services,
lectures, and educational programming to corporate, civic, and arts organizations.
Bedolla established Galerie Myrtis in 2006 to utilize the visual arts to raise awareness for artists who
deserve recognition for their contributions in artistically portraying our cultural, social, historical,
and political landscapes; and to recognize art movements that paved the way for freedom of artistic
expression.

As a curator, Bedolla made her first international debut in 2019 during the 13th Havana Biennial in
Havana, Cuba. Bedolla and Ana Joa co-curated Building Bridges II: The Politics of Love, Identity, and
Race, which featured works by African American and Afro-Cuban artists. Explored was the
convergence of perspectives through works that addressed experiences lived under contradicting
political systems.

For Bedolla’s second international appearance, she curated The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness
Reimagined for the 59th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, in 2022. The exhibit, hosted by Personal
Structures, pays tribute to the resiliency, creativity, and spirituality that have historically sustained
Black people. In 2023, the exhibition traveled to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland’s
African American History and Culture and the James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA) in Baltimore,
Maryland.

In September 2022, Bedolla collaborated with Christie’s NY to bring diversity and equity to the art
world. The relationship is highlighted in the NY Times article Christie’s and a Baltimore Gallery to Sell
Work by Black Artists by Robin Pogrebin and Artnet News editorial A Black-Owned Baltimore Gallery
Aims to Change the Game by Partnering Directly with Christie’s by Vittoria Benzine.
In June 2020, Bedolla gained national press in the New York Times article Black Gallerists Press
Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back, by Robin Pogrebin and the self-authored article
Why My Blackness is not a Threat to your Whiteness for Cultured Magazine in July 2020. Past
coverage also includes being voted Best Gallery by the Baltimore Sun in 2017; Black Art in the
Spotlight, Baltimore Magazine, September 2018; Living with Art: Myrtis Bedolla Builds a Home and
Gallery in Old Goucher, BMORE Art, Issue 3; Women in the Arts, which honored women at the helm
of the Baltimore art scene, Baltimore Style Magazine, October 2013.