Melanie Gerlis

Columnist
Financial Times, UK
The Art Newspaper, UK

Melanie Gerlis is a journalist and writer. She became the weekly art market columnist for the Financial Times in 2016. Prior to this, she was Art Market Editor for The Art Newspaper (2007-2016), before which she was a financial communications adviser at Finsbury in the City of London (1996-2005). She has a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MA in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art. Her books, Art as an Investment? (2014) and The Art Fair Story: A Rollercoaster Ride (2021), were published by Lund Humphries.

Melanie Gerlis visited Vienna for a curatorial research trip in 2019.

Melanie Gerlis. Photo: Courtesy of the journalist