Juno Youn is a South-Korean native Canadian, who has been in the gallery game for a quartercentury. 1999 was the year this Ontario College of Art and Design graduate crossed the rubicon as an art gallerist with SPIN Gallery, Toronto. After shaking up the local art scene with cutting-edge style, and legendary parties, including performances by Diplo, Chromeo, and Peaches, Juno moved to Montreal. There, Galerie Youn was born in 2013 and has been showcasing emerging artists to international acclaim ever since. Galerie Youn was awarded Best of the City from Time Out Montreal in 2021, and Juno was honored on The Globe and Mail’s List of Canada’s Best Dressed in 2018.

Spencer Walker has been art-adjacent his entire life coming from a family of artists and collectors.Previously, an animation writer and creative executive at Nickelodeon, Disney, and CartoonNetwork, a blogger turned author of “Cook To Bang”, published by St Martin’s Press, a children’sbook author, a restaurant reviewer for New York Magazine, and the mastermind of renegade NYCpop up Rooftop Supperclub. Spencer’s background is vast and eclectic. Life changed when Spencer fell in love with a humanitarian he met producing a TV pilot in Bangladesh, then followed her to the Philippines and Yap Island, Micronesia for five years, where he was a freelance writer, and learned how to spearfish. Spencer returned to LA with his wife and feral island dog just in time for Covid, and they had a pandemic baby.