Christine O'Donnell

Christine O’Donnell is the founder and Executive Director of ShowUp, a nonprofit contemporary art space in Boston, MA. She is also a curator, art writer and consultant. To all she does, O’Donnell brings her knowledge of the commercial art world (having been the founder and director of Boston’s Beacon Gallery), as well as her decade spent as an educator, her time working in advertising/marketing, and her 12 years living in France, Hong Kong and Singapore. A graduate of College of the Holy Cross) with a B.A in French, O’Donnell speaks fluent French and conversational Spanish. Additionally, she holds an M.A. in Teaching from Tufts University, and an M.A. in Art History from Open University (U.K.). Her Master’s thesis focused on artists’ grassroots organizations and American museum critique in the late 1960s and early 1970s. O’Donnell’s skills as an art management consultant are sought out from as near as the New England Sculptors Association and Temple Gallery NYC, and as far away as ArtsActivism Papua New Guinea and galleries in Melbourne, Australia. As part of O’Donnell’s international scope, she is a partner at Very Private Gallery in Madrid, Spain. She is also a member of the Association of Women’s Art Dealers (AWAD) and Boston Art Dealers Association (BADA). Additionally, she trained as an appraiser with the International Society of Appraisers. O’Donnell balances her career with an active family life in the Boston area, with her husband and two school-aged children.