Featuring emerging artists, both domestic and international, that Kilongo has met over the course of his travels and varied experiences in the art world, JUPITER will hold approximately nine exhibitions per year, mostly in the form of solo presentations. Kilongo was drawn to Miami because of the growing enthusiasm he has observed over the last ten years amongst local collectors, gallerists, and the viewing public for bridging the gap between the work they have been exposed to locally and that which is being made elsewhere in the world. Forging a richly diverse union of the regional and the global is, as such, the mission of JUPITER. The gallery's Normandy Isles location affords correspondence with the city's thriving arts community, which is home to storied institutons both large and small. The internationally-attended Art Basel fair takes place on the southern end of Miami Beach every December; and just across the Biscayne Bay are a host of private and public institutions including the Institute for Contemporary Art Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Rubell Museum, and Perez Art Museum.

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 accep,ng a posi,on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to work on the Kongo: Power and Majesty exhibi,on. This experience solidified his passion for art and its ins,tu,ons and mo,vated 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 in Miami each winter, which fueled his interest in the Floridian locale as a burgeoning center of contemporary art