RCAA

Rachel Cole Art Advisory is currently on an extended sabbatical and is not accepting new clients or projects. After more than a decade working in the art world and seven years leading RCAA, Rachel Cole has stepped away from her advisory practice to focus on her family and the next chapter. This website remains as an archive of the firm’s work and history.

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Rachel Cole Art Advisory (RCAA) was a New York–based advisory specializing in the acquisition, placement, and long-term stewardship of modern and contemporary art. The firm worked closely with collectors and family offices to build and refine significant collections, providing bespoke guidance tailored to each client’s collecting vision while facilitating acquisitions and placements across both private and institutional contexts. Operating at the intersection of the primary and secondary markets, RCAA sourced works directly from galleries, artists, estates, and private collections.

RCAA also collaborated with donors and museums to facilitate acquisitions and promised gifts, supporting placements with institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. The advisory worked across emerging, mid-career, and established artists, with a particular focus on practices receiving increasing institutional recognition and curatorial attention.

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RACHEL COLE

Rachel Cole is an art historian and the Founder of Rachel Cole Art Advisory, which she established in 2019. Prior to founding RCAA, Cole worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Christie’s Auction House before becoming Director of a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles.

Cole was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Art & Style, and she holds a dual BA in Psychology and Art History from the University of Michigan and an MA in Art History from Hunter College.