Petra Bibeau has spent two decades working in the art world in the capacity of an art dealer, gallery owner, and as the director of a New York-based art advisory. Her work with founder-led businesses during critical periods of growth and transition has refined her expertise in developing operational frameworks, managing artists’ careers, and seamlessly aligning gallery and artist objectives with market trends and client engagement.

She began her career at Stephen Wirtz, one of the earliest conceptual photography programs in San Francisco. She worked with Fraenkel Gallery to establish a satellite location, expanding the gallery’s footprint by co-facilitating exhibitions guest curated by John Waters, Miguel Abreu, Richard T Walker, David Benjamin Sherry and others.

Thereafter she was the Director of Casemore Gallery in San Francisco and developed the gallery’s initial participation in Paris Photo and Frieze New York through presentations of historical works by Steve Kahn, Jim Goldberg, and Sonya Rapoport. During her tenure she curated several large-scale exhibitions integrating artists from beyond the West Coast into the programming, providing many artists with their first exhibition in San Francisco resulting in institutional acquisitions. Recently she held the position of director at Anne Bruder Art in New York where she managed and expanded large-scale, multi-city corporate collections while advising in depth on the emergent segment. 

She was a founding partner at Bibeau Krueger, a contemporary art gallery in New York City (2020-2024), providing many artists with their first solo exhibition in New York. In January 2025, the program transitioned to an itinerant model under Petra Bibeau, collaborating globally with artists, institutions, collections, and publishers.

Bibeau holds a BA in Liberal Studies from the New School for Public Engagement and an Art Business and Administration Certificate from New York University.

As a writer and curator Bibeau has organized multi-generational exhibitions that follow specific social narrative arcs including: Austerity (2023), Prescribed Liberalism (2022), Time of W (2022), Considered Interactions (2022), As Far As You Can, Tell the Truth (2021), Handless Operative (2019), A Broken Frame (2019), and Option to the Death of Freedom (2017).