Nicole Bray, Founder of Mercer Contemporary, is a respected and trusted art professional in New York. Mercer Contemporary is an Art Advisory, Appraisal, and Legacy Planning firm based in Manhattan and the Hamptons.

 

Nicole advises multiple clients in the U.S. and Europe on acquiring, selling, managing, and displaying their collections. She specializes in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Fine Art, and has extensive experience in Prints and Multiples, Photographs, 20th Century Furniture, and Southeast Asian and Himalayan art.

 

Nicole was awarded the Emerging Curator Fellowship by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2014. In 2016, she was awarded a Curatorial Residency in Mexico by the Curatorial Program for Research.

 

Nicole worked for Phillips Auction House, and a distinguished private collector before starting her business. Nicole completed her Masters of Arts (Hons) in Art History at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, and her undergraduate degree is in Modern History and Political Science. She has also gained various certificates through Christie’s Education, New York University, and the Appraisers Association of America.

 

Nicole started working with Really Cool Art in 2018 at the start of the art program and has successfully advised and sourced art for the collection since then. Nicole is USPAP certified and an Accredited Appraiser with the American Appraisal Association.

 

She lives in New York with her husband and two children.