About

In 2022, Stephen Truax created Truax Art Advisory to work directly with private collectors, artists, museums, and philanthropic organizations.

Stephen has independently organized numerous exhibitions on Queer art and its history for the RISD Museum of Art and Yossi Milo Gallery, and contributed to Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters at The Frick Collection, for which he co-edited and contributed to the catalog. His art market insights have been discussed in ArtNews, The Art Newspaper, Artnet News, and Frieze. His writing on contemporary art has been published in Hyperallergic and The Brooklyn Rail, and his 2017 essay, “Why Young Queer Artists Are Trading Anguish for Joy,” was commissioned by Artsy.

Stephen brings a unique perspective as a working artist to the business of contemporary art. He presented a solo exhibition of his own work at Fernberger in Los Angeles in 2026, and his work has been exhibited recently at The FLAG Art Foundation and the Tang Teaching Museum. It is in the public collections of the Tang and the Art Museum at West Virginia University, and has been discussed in The New York Times, ARTFORUM, and Fire Island Art: 100 Years (Phaidon, 2026).

Prior to founding his advisory, Stephen was a director at Cheim & Read from 2015 to 2022, where he specialized in Modern and contemporary art from 1958 to the present. He earned his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.