Art Dealer Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels Reflects on Her Influential Project Space

The following is one of several extended looks into figures and institutions selected for “The Deciders,” a list of art-world figures pointing the way forward developed by ARTnews and special guest editor Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean. See the full list in the Winter 2020 issue of the magazine and online here.
In spring 2017, Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels took over an empty storefront in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and made it home to a project independent o