About JUPITER
JUPITER opened its doors in the Normandy Isles neighborhood of Miami Beach on March 5, 2022, with a solo presentation of new works by Marcus Leslie Singleton titled Diagrams and Dilemmas. Gallery founder Gabriel Kilongo said that "when presented with the opportunity to open a gallery in Miami, I began thinking of my experience in the United States. Jupiter is consequently how distant Miami is, or was, from the art capitals of the world, except during Art Basel in December. If New York is the Earth of the art world solar system, then Miami is Jupiter."
About Gabriel Kilongo
A native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabriel Kilongo was raised in Israel after fleeing the two Congo Wars of the ’90s and early 2000s. He was subsequently educated in the United States, where he studied art history at Bard College in Upstate New York. During this period, he worked for Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, and Rafael Viñoly on a number of architectural projects, before accepting a position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to work on the Kongo: Power and Majesty exhibition. This experience solidified his passion for art and its institutions and motivated his decision to serve as an art advisor in Los Angeles, before returning to New York to work for Brice and Helen Marden. Kilongo subsequently joined Mitchell-Innes & Nash in 2019 and has since managed the gallery’s Art Basel booth and pop-up exhibition space in Miami each winter, which fueled his interest in the Floridian locale as a burgeoning center of contemporary art.