JADA was started by Jônatas Chimen Dias DaSilva-Benayon, a Brazilian-American symbolist artist, academic, public speaker, and author; and Dana Blickensderfer, an international visual artist, editor, and entrepreneur. The pair met originally during Miami Art Week. They stayed in touch for several years, eventually coming together to collaborate on an artist salon in 2015. JADA formed a few years later and debuted its first official art fair during Miami Art Week in 2019.

Since then JADA continues to make its mark during Miami Art Week every year but recently in 2020 debuted an exhibition during Paris Art Week. Each art fair and exhibition features a diverse array of art spaces both on-site and online, including paintings, films, installations, performances, and NFTs from artists from the U.S., Paris, Brazil, Spain, Israel, Dubai, and Iran. Additionally JADA’s art fairs & exhibitions host an art conference, dubbed JadaTalks, that welcomes several hundred speakers — from journalists to artists and activists — to share their thoughts on art and social issues to an audience of thousands.

The following page is an archival chronicle of art fairs and exhibitions powered by JADA