Founder
Jamie Manné
In Private Hands is built by Jamie Manné, a Los Angeles-based arts professional, whose
twenty-year career in the art world has spanned gallery and museum leadership, private
collection management, curatorial projects, exhibition organization, publications,
and community-facing programming.
Manné completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at The George Washington University,
earning a master's degree in art therapy in 2006 while working concurrently for a major
private collector in Washington, DC. After relocating to Manhattan, she gained
gallery-floor experience at Jim Kempner Fine Art before spending several years at Paula
Cooper Gallery, one of the field's most respected programs, working as an assistant to both
the Director and to Paula herself.
After returning home to Los Angeles in 2010, a brief period at Margo Leavin Gallery preceded
a formative shift within the industry: nearly a decade as Collection Manager and Advisor for a
high-net-worth family whose collectors were named among ArtNews' Top 200 Collectors from 2012
through 2019.
In 2017, she was named Founding Director of the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, where
she oversaw a 100,000+ square foot public space and organized numerous large-scale installations,
rotating exhibitions, and site-specific projects. Following her resignation in early 2019, she
served as an advisor to newly appointed Director Klaus Biesenbach at the Museum of Contemporary
Art Los Angeles during his transition into the role.
From late 2019 through 2021, Manné served as Co-Director at the Los Angeles gallery Kayne Griffin
Corcoran, bringing her institutional and private-collection background into a commercial setting,
managing and supporting the gallery's roster, while expanding community outreach
and public programming.
She has since consulted for, advised, and contributed to a range of private and public collections,
institutions, artists, brands, media outlets, and nonprofits.