Aspen Art Fair : Hotel Jerome
Set against the dramatic backdrop of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, the Aspen Art Fair takes place each summer during Aspen Art Week—an essential moment on the international art calendar that draws artists, curators, gallerists, and collectors from around the world to this storied mountain town.
The third edition, taking place July 29 – August 1, 2026, will be overseen by The Aspen Art Fair Co-founder Bob Chase, owner of Aspen’s Hexton Gallery and a 17-year Aspen resident, together with newly appointed director Kelly Cornell.
Presented at the historic Hotel Jerome, the Aspen Art Fair is an intimate, boutique fair and immersive cultural takeover. International galleries are presented across purpose-built booths and hotel rooms, creating a uniquely social and experiential approach to the art fair format.
The fair has rapidly become a fixture of Aspen Art Week and the global art circuit, welcoming more than 7,000 collectors, curators, artists, and cultural leaders to its first two editions. With over 35 influential international exhibitors and specially curated projects, the Aspen Art Fair offers a refined yet dynamic platform for both established and emerging voices in contemporary art.
The fair is complemented by a robust program of talks, performances, screenings, prizes and residencies, private collection tours, and site-responsive experiences that engage Aspen’s natural landscape and cultural energy. Through collaborations with Aspen’s world-class institutions, the Aspen Art Fair contributes meaningfully to the city’s cultural fabric and is now recognized as a premier destination for contemporary art and culture.
Palo Gallery (New York) is delighted to announce their return to Aspen Art Fair for the third edition of the fair. The selection will include a dynamic group of works by Xanthe Burdett, Lewinale Havette, Chad Murray, Malù dalla Piccola, Danny Sobor, Allegra Toran, and Leda Tsoutreli. The booth will build upon previous exhibitions by represented artists while also showcasing artists featured in past group exhibitions. Featuring painting and sculpture, the presentation reflects the gallery’s commitment to artists who actively engage with distinctive visual and historical source material. This rigorous approach to art history takes many forms, from Chad Murray’s exploration of Frederic Edwin Church's rendering of natural power to Leda Tsoutreli’s ongoing engagement with Kandinsky’s color theory.
In more naturalist works, Allegra Toran's surreal and pulsing Birthright and Xanthe Burdett's When It Blooms Beneath Our Skin share a deep reverence to the earth and its synergies, yet Allegra's soft hazy brushworks contrast directly with Burdett's delicate and precise marks. Whereas Danny Sobor’s paintings move from the surreal into the uncanny, the ambiguous and voyeuristic, each composition only revealing a glimpse of a scene, leaving the rest to be uncovered. In bold juxtaposition, the more emotive and gestural language of Lewinale Havette, will make its second appearance at Aspen Art Fair where Havette’s composition balances on the delicate line between figuration and abstraction. Complimenting these paintings is Malù dalla Piccola's cast aluminium Supposons Qu'il y Ai Une Frontière Ici. Featured in her recent exhibition at Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, this elegant sculpture of discarded and old boots extrapolates on key questions of her practice; how and where humans ascribe meaning and how our abstract thoughts manifest physically.
