Bruce Lazarus
Vice President of Marketing
Bruce brings together three of his passions in life - art, travel and Asia - to his role as Director of Marketing for Remote Lands. Many of our clients are avid art collectors who wish to visit world-class artists, curators and collectors in the rapidly evolving Asian art market. Bruce's expertise and global network of influential contacts in the art world allow us to create unique and inspired art-focused itineraries. He is particularly excited about the emerging contemporary Asian art scene developing in China, India, Thailand and Vietnam.
After earning a B.A. in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Bruce joined Sotheby's auction house in New York where he specialized in decorative arts. He went on to Hirschl & Adler Galleries, a leading Manhattan gallery, where he bought and sold American 18th- and 19th-century decorative arts, curated special exhibitions and organized the gallery's art stand at the prestigious Winter Antiques Show and International Decorative Arts Fair, both in New York. He later started his own business as an art consultant and private dealer in American and European decorative arts, working with leading collectors, corporations and museums.
A seasonal resident of Nantucket, Bruce created the Seven Seas Gallery, Nantucket's first luxury concept store featuring antiques and paintings as well as fashion, jewelry and accessories. The Seven Seas also held a series of highly successful exhibitions of the work of emerging painters and sculptors. Bruce's travels to Asia and Europe inspired and provided the collection sold in the gallery each season.
Bruce was a founding member and the first President of the Metropolitan Society for the Arts, a group of prominent young New Yorkers who organized cultural events and raised funds to sponsor specific projects for emerging fine and performing arts companies in the New York area. In addition, Bruce also founded Laurier New York, reviving the concept of the French 18th century cultural salon. Laurier was a place to experience and discuss the work of emerging fine and performing artists. The salon blurred the line between the audience and the artist and provided enjoyable dialog and feedback for both sides.
Bruce has traveled extensively around the world, including most of Asia, and some of the Stans of the Old Silk Road, including the legendary and historical cities of Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand.