{{Short description|Spanish art dealer}} {{for|the Cuban handball coach|Jorge Coll (handballer)}} {{Infobox person | name = Jorge Coll | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |39|2017|09|07}}<ref name="apollo-magazine.com" /> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = | occupation = Art dealer | known for = | title = CEO, Colnaghi | term = | predecessor = | successor = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | website = }}
'''Jorge Coll''' (born 1977/1978) is a Spanish art dealer, and the CEO of Colnaghi, one of the world's oldest art galleries and dealerships.
==Early life== The son of a Spanish art dealer,<ref name="fadmagazine.com">{{cite web |date=4 July 2017 |title=Jorge Coll, Colnaghi Gallery CEO talks to FAD about London Art Week |url=https://fadmagazine.com/2017/07/04/jorge-coll-colnaghi-gallery-ceo-talks-to-fad-about-london-art-week/ |accessdate=31 December 2017 |website=FAD Magazine |publisher=}}</ref> Coll grew up in Barcelona and after finishing his studies spent four years working in his family's art dealing business.<ref name="apollo-magazine.com">{{cite web |date=7 September 2017 |title=Jorge Coll - Apollo 40 Under 40 Global |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/jorge-coll-apollo-40-under-40-global-the-business/ |accessdate=31 December 2017 |website=Apollo Magazine |publisher=}}</ref>
==Career== In 2005, in partnership with Nicolas Cortés, he founded Coll & Cortés, an art dealership based in Madrid. In 2012 they expanded and opened a gallery in London's Mayfair district.<ref name="apollo-magazine.com" /> In October 2015, Coll and Cortés merged with Colnaghi, one of the world's oldest art galleries, and Jorge assumed the role of CEO.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brady |first=Anna |date=5 November 2015 |title=Colnaghi: a new gallery and succession plan |url=https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2015/colnaghi-a-new-gallery-and-succession-plan/ |access-date=2018-10-09 |website=Antiques Trade Gazette |language=en}}</ref> Coll and Cortés had already sold works of art to more than 40 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre and the Prado.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytartleadersnetwork.com/ALN2018/speaker/17177/jorge-coll|title=Speaker Details: Art Leaders Network 2018|website=www.nytartleadersnetwork.com|language=en-AG|access-date=2018-10-11|archive-date=2018-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014539/https://www.nytartleadersnetwork.com/ALN2018/speaker/17177/jorge-coll|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Colnaghi has since moved into a new custom-built gallery in St. James's in London and opened a gallery space in a townhouse in New York’'s Upper East Side led by Carlos A. Picón, formerly the curator in charge of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/former-met-curator-joins-colnaghi-to-launch-new-york-gallery|title=Longstanding Met curator moves to Colnaghi to launch New York gallery|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|date=25 September 2017 |access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref>
In October 2017, Coll and his business partner Nicolas Cortés established the Colnaghi Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation aiming to promote historic art to a 21st-century audience.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gerlis |first=Melanie |date=6 October 2017 |title=Rebellious female artists at Frieze |language= |website=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/0fb84d80-a9b4-11e7-ab66-21cc87a2edde |access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref>
Coll is on the board of trustees of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), and also serves on the boards of the International Council of the Wallace Collection, London Art Week<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytartleadersnetwork.com/ALN2018/speaker/17177/jorge-coll|title=Speaker Details: Art Leaders Network 2018|website=www.nytartleadersnetwork.com|access-date=2019-05-16|archive-date=2018-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014539/https://www.nytartleadersnetwork.com/ALN2018/speaker/17177/jorge-coll|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the International Advisory Council of the Hispanic Museum and Library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hispanicsociety.org/about-us/internationa-advisory-board/|title=International Advisory Council|date=2015-06-19|website=Hispanic Society of America|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-16}}</ref> In 2017, he was listed in 40 Under 40 feature in Apollo Magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/jorge-coll-apollo-40-under-40-global-the-business/|title=Jorge Coll {{!}} Apollo 40 Under 40 Global {{!}} The Business|date=2017-09-07|website=Apollo Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-15}}</ref> In 2018, Coll was a speaker at ''The New York Times''' Art Leaders Network Conference in Berlin.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2018-05-01 |title=Excerpts From the Art Leaders Network Conference |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/arts/excerpts-from-the-art-leaders-network-conference.html |access-date=2019-05-16 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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