Tim Schneider is a writer, speaker, and private consultant specializing in the systems shaping the fine art and collectibles industries.

He is best known for The Gray Market, his conversation-starting newsletter about the art industry’s collisions with other cultural sectors and non-art businesses. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Business of Fashion, among other publications.

Before pivoting to media, Tim spent nearly a decade working in LA’s commercial gallery sector. His experiences included project managing site-specific installations by James Turrell, Ai Weiwei, and Mary Corse; coordinating a multimillion-dollar art program for the Fontainebleau Resorts; and once saving a parking space for an appreciative David Lynch. His last gallery role was as the director of research for Kayne Griffin Corcoran (which later merged with Pace).

Tim published his first book, The Great Reframing: How Technology Will—and Won’t—Change the Gallery System Forever, in 2017. He was the art business editor at Artnet News from 2018 to 2023 and spent the following year as the art market editor of The Art Newspaper, where he continues to write a monthly column. He lives in New York, vindicating everyone in LA who used to tell him that he had “an east coast personality.”.