Rob Fields brings a rich and varied career to his work as an art advisor and curator, connecting collectors, institutions, and ideas.

His art advisory practice focuses on investment-grade work from the African diaspora and Global South, and he has facilitated client acquisitions of work by artists such as Malick Sidibé, Mickalene Thomas, Joana Choumali, and Jamel Robinson, as well as many emerging talents.

With a career spanning decades, he’s led cultural institutions, represented artists, and produced events and indie film. Through it all, he has built relationships with institutions, artists, and communities nationally and internationally.

He is the former director of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. Prior to Sugar Hill, Rob was the president and executive director of Weeksville Heritage Center, and led that organization’s turnaround and secured its designation as the first new member of the NYC Cultural Institutions Group in over 20 years.

From 2007–2017, Rob published Bold As Love, an online magazine that covered left-of-center music and culture. In 2011, he produced the NBI Festival, a TED-inspired celebration of the Black people and ideas that are driving culture forward. He has been a cultural programmer, and has written about the connection between business and contemporary culture for Forbes.com and the Huffington Post, among the several outlets where his work has been published.

Rob holds a BA in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and currently serves on the US Advisory Board of Volta Art Fair and is a member of the Board of Trustees for UnionDocs, the Queens, NY-based center for documentary art.

He is an avid photographer who lives in Brooklyn with his wife, author and filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis, and their family.