Overview

• Brent Sikkema, founder of the New York gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co., was found dead in his Rio de Janeiro residence on Monday, January 15.
• Sikkema was found with stab wounds and the homicide department of Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police is investigating.
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co. represents artists including Kara Walker, Sheila Hicks, Jeffrey Gibson, as well as Brazilians Vik Muniz and Luiz Zerbini.
• Sikkema began his career working in galleries 1971 as director of exhibitions at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.
• Sikkema is survived by his husband and 12-year-old son.