Two Senior Pace Gallery Figures Depart Amid Restructuring

Pace Gallery, one of the world's largest commercial art galleries, has seen two senior departures as part of what the gallery has called a restructuring. Amelia Redgrift, a senior director who led global communications and content, and Dani Forest, a sales director, have both left the gallery, ARTnews reported on 14 August 2026.

Pace operates exhibition spaces in New York, London, Hong Kong, Geneva, Palm Beach and East Hampton, and represents dozens of artists across painting, sculpture and photography. The gallery was founded in Boston in 1960 by Arne Glimcher, who remains its chairman.

Redgrift joined Pace in 2019 as Senior Director, Global Communications & Content, according to the gallery's own announcement at the time. Forest's role centred on sales — the commercial engine of any gallery, where directors manage relationships with collectors and negotiate private and auction-bound sales.

The departures come during a period of contraction at Pace. In June 2026, ARTnews reported that the gallery planned to cut roughly 50 artists from its roster amid layoffs. Artist rosters — the group of artists a gallery formally represents, exhibiting and selling their work — are a gallery's core asset; trimming one is a signal of retrenchment, not expansion.

This is not the first time Pace has parted ways with senior executives. In March 2021, Artnet News reported that two top executives left the company amid a broader restructuring, and that those individuals had been accused of abuse. Those departures were separate from the current exits, and there is no indication in the reporting that Redgrift or Forest face similar allegations.

The gallery has not publicly detailed the scope of the current restructuring beyond confirming the departures. What happens to Pace's communications and sales operations in the wake of losing two senior directors — and how the roster cuts land on the artists affected — will be watched closely across a market that pays attention to every move from its biggest players.