Holly Baxter

Education

We believe education is essential to fostering a deeper connection to art. Collecting art is both a pleasurable and aesthetic pursuit that requires specialized knowledge, market insight, and dedicated time to cultivate connoisseurship and make informed decisions.

HBA guides clients through galleries, artist studios, art fairs, biennales, and auctions, providing insight into the global art market and identifying emerging trends. We demystify the art world, assisting clients in navigating its complexities while facilitating meaningful relationships with artists, institutions, and art venues.

Acquisition

Navigating the art market can be complex, but at HBA, we provide expert guidance to help clients acquire exceptional works from leading galleries, auctions, and private collections. With more than 20 years of experience, long-standing relationships, and in-depth industry knowledge, we assist in acquiring significant works of art with unparalleled expertise.

Our strategic approach ensures every acquisition aligns with your collection philosophy, goals, and investment strategy. We offer objective advice on market analysis, value assessment, provenance, authenticity, and condition for every purchase. Transactions are handled with complete discretion and transparency.

Collection Management

We offer comprehensive collection management, ensuring that your art is expertly cataloged, insured, and maintained. From logistics and installation to conservation and storage, we protect your investment and its enduring legacy.

Our firm assists in all aspects of caring for our clients’ art collections including shipping, insurance, storage, framing, installation, archiving, documentation and conservation. We manage museum and other institutional artwork loans, donations, and private resale/deaccessions.

Collections management is crucial for ensuring the proper care and management of the artworks, as well as for facilitating the asset focused growth and development for the collection over time. HBA’s collection services go hand in hand with the advisory and acquisition process.

Our team is trained in the museum standards of database collections management software in terms of the processing of documentation, location, and provenance. When it comes to these details of collections information and upkeep of asset documentation, our expertise is crucial.

A core feature of our collections management services,is our use of a highly secure best-of-class cloud-based collection management system for our clients geared toward providing centrally accessible collection management for personally owned art pieces. With robust and sophisticated features, the program is not only straightforward to operate but allows for easy accessibility from any internet-enabled computer, tablet, or smartphone. It includes precise location records for each art piece and the accurate date and time stamps for each location update to establish proper logs and chronological location histories, ensuring the highest security standards to ensure privacy.

Our firm offers customized solutions and private collection managment profiles for our clients to ensure that each piece of art is thourougly documented and accessible.

Art Experiences

Explore the world through art with our bespoke travel experiences, designed to inspire and immerse clients in the extraorindary. We curate tailored itineraries to site-specific installations, major art events, and cultural landmarks, promoting meaningful encounters and fostering a sense of community.

These experiences include guided previews of international art fairs, visits to distinguished private art collections and artist studios, gallery, museum and auction previews, art biennales, site specific art installations, foundations, collections, and special art events worldwide.

Each destination and program is hand-selected and designed to align with your interests, offering an immersive, informative, and unique experience that deepens your connection to the art world.

Credentials

Holly Baxter is the Founder and Principal of HBA Art Advisory and also serves as Executive Director for the Human Rights Foundation’s international art program, Art in Protest. Previously, Ms. Baxter held leadership roles, including as a Board Member at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and SF Camerawork, a member of the SECA Committee at SFMOMA, and on the National Advisory Board of Artadia.

Ms. Baxter created, launched, and directed RH Contemporary Art (RHCA), the contemporary art division of RH (NYSE: RH). Under her leadership, RHCA brought international artists to a global audience through an innovative web-based platform, a 28,000-square-foot gallery in New York City, and an elite artist residency program in Brooklyn.

Holly’s commitment to connecting clients with the art world’s most compelling artists and opportunities reflects her passion for fostering meaningful and culturally enriching collections.