E2: Kenny Schachter: NFT Pioneer, great artist, OK market journalist and lousy art salesman

James coaches one of the biggest names in the art world: Kenny Schachter.

Described as “the art world's enfant terrible," Kenny has weaved his way through various roles as a self-taught artist, writer, curator, father and, most recently, NFT pioneer. Always on the outside, yet embedded within the inside, Kenny is a self-confessed walking contradiction. He is the ultimate disrupter and is full of generosity, always seeking ways to forge new paths for emerging artists.

The session covers:

Wanting to be taken seriously in the art world
NFTs
Rejecting goal setting
Living your passions
Life’s traumas as being part of life
Living the here and now

Links of things mentioned in this episode:

Art without Substance book

About Kenny:

Kenny Schachter has been curating contemporary art exhibits in museums and galleries and teaching (art history and economics) for more than thirty years; presently in the graduate department of the University of Zurich (appointed to advisory board January 2021) professorships at the School of Visual Arts (NY) and New York University. He has lectured internationally, been the recipient of a Rockefeller supported grant in Mexico, and contributed to books on Paul Thek, Zaha Hadid, Vito Acconci and Sigmar Polke/Gerhard Richter.

Schachter has a regular column on Artnet.com in addition to writing widely for various international publications, including most recently New York Magazine and The Times Magazine (UK). He had a retrospective of his art at Joel Mesler’s Rental Gallery in New York in the summer of 2018, curated an exhibit at Simon Lee Gallery in London, fall 2018 and a one-person show at Kantor Gallery, LA, February 2019. He recently participated in a two-person show with Eva Beresin at Galerie Charim in Vienna (both in May 2021). Schachter also participated in Art Basel 2021 in Switzerland and Miami with Nagel Draxler Gallery.

Schachter is presently the subject of a documentary being produced and directed by Chris Smith (Tiger King/Fyre Festival), and a Hulu/ABC NFT film, and has been profiled in The New York Times Magazine (cover story, September, 1996), and London's Observer, Independent and Telegraph. After having made digital art for decades, Schachter has spearheaded the traditional art world’s adaptation of Non-Fungible Tokens in 2020-1 by lecturing from Yale to the Hirschhorn Museum and written 12 feature articles for Artnet on the subject. In 2021, he curated wide-ranging NFTism exhibitions (a term he trademarked) at Nagel Draxler in Cologne, Institut in London. Kenny is currently based in New York.

About James:

James is a multipotentialite: a lawyer, executive coach, painter, music producer and podcaster. He studied at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art. He holds two board positions in Tokyo and also lectures law part-time in Japan’s top-ranking universities.

He is Senior Legal Counsel at one of Japan’s best-known institutions. He uses his fine art background to approach the corporate world through a creative corporate design lens. In the art world, he regularly holds exhibitions in Tokyo and London and you will often hear his music played on radio stations such as BBC Radio One.

James is accredited as an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation and a mediator by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

James is British and is of Trinidadian origin.

Connect with Kenny Schachter:

Website: https://www.kennyschachter.art/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/kennyschachter/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kennyschac?lang=en

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNrOkKYDvxkNVJx4ODz_Ew/videos

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