Clandestina was founded by Nuria Richards in 2019 as a collateral art initiative and is a channel of participation for artists, galleries, and independent projects. We partner with the local and international community to create ecosystems that promote curatorial opportunities and cultural exchange. Clandestina started as an exhibition space in an apartment in Midtown, Miami. Collectors, artists, curators, and friends were welcome at any time to see the exhibitions and share a cup of coffee. With the many world changes after 2020, Clandestina had to change and face the new needs of challenging standards for an independent exhibition space. In 2020 Clandestina moved her operations to the Knoxon Hotel in MiMo, with a group project showcasing and the installation Victory Over The Sun 13 by Monika Bravo and a hybrid show with twenty local, national, and international artists.

In 2021 Clandestina started collaborating with the historic 7 Seas Motel, first hosting Collabo Seven along with Philip Lique, Lauren Shapiro, and Javier Hernandez; and inaugurating the first edition of Feria Clandestina in 2022.

Clandestina aims to create a new art market that nurtures curatorial value, engage the curiosity of new and old art members.

Through exhibitions, conversations, and Feria Clandestina, she brings together artists, galleries, collectors, curators, and cultural projects around the conviction of sustaining an art market incubator. Under her direction, Clandestina has grown into a working ecosystem designed to open accessible routes into collecting while advancing curatorial experimentation and cultural exchange.

Nuria builds Clandestina from inside the market she is helping to expand. She is an art collection strategist, cultural producer, and founder of Nuria Richards Art Agency, a Miami-based advisory serving collectors, families, and wealth-management professionals across the full life of a collection — acquisitions, stewardship, sales, transfers, donations, legacy planning, and philanthropy. That practice began as RICHARDS & Co. and, as its reach and vision expanded, was rebranded as Nuria Richards Art Agency. The proximity to seasoned collectors is what allows Clandestina to connect emerging artists and galleries with buyers invested in art collecting.

Her career spans private advisory, gallery operations, museum relations, nonprofit development, fundraising, institutional strategy, and national arts governance, with leadership roles at Oolite Arts, Locust Projects, ArtTable, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, and Ascaso Gallery. She studied Fine Arts at UNAM and International Business at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and completed graduate training in Art Business through Sotheby's Institute of Art and the Drucker School of Management.

Working across Miami, the United States, and Mexico, Nuria treats Clandestina as a long-term project of community building — a platform where artists find their first collectors, galleries find their next chapter, and audiences find a way in.