Staff
Michael Barraco
Gallery Director
Lilly Gummerson
Gallery Assistant / Educator
Elisabeth Morocho
Facilities Manager
Tunyaluck Phuttal
Graphic Designer
Hana Thompson
Gallery Assistant / Coffee Bar Manager
Board of Directors
Left to right: Joshua Cohen, Mikiko Ino, and Sarah Strauss
Joshua Cohen
Secretary, and Director
Joshua Cohen is a writer and cousin of the late dancer/choreographer Eva Maier, who was Saito’s first wife. His books include the novels The Netanyahus, for which he earned the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto. He has also published the short fiction collection, Four New Messages, and non-fiction collection, Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Josh has been recognized as “a major American writer” by The New York Times.
Mikiko Ino
President, Director, and Chairperson
Mikiko Ino was born in Japan and established the fashion buying consulting company, LLJ USA Inc. there in 1990. She later moved to New York City where she continued to work with high-end designers like Jason Wu and Oscar De La Renta and introduced them to Japanese retailers. In 2007, Mikiko met and later married Kikuo Saito. Following Saito’s death in 2016, she founded KinoSaito in 2018 while continuing to work in fashion merchandising and managing her late husband’s NYC studio/estate.
Sarah Strauss
Vice President, Director and Treasurer
Sarah Strauss is a Registered Architect in New York State and Puerto Rico, performer, and former student and studio assistant of Saito’s. She founded XS Architect in 2015 as a practice dedicated to tropical architecture and new ornament, and co-founded Bigprototype LLC in 2004. Sarah is also a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in NYC. She earned her Master of Architecture at Yale School of Architecture and B.A. in Art History, Fine Arts, and Chemistry at Duke University.
Advisory Board
Talia Cohen
Steve Gianakouros
Mark Golden
Holly S. Hobart
Jane Johnson
Katrin Lewinsky
Kristin Larkin LoGerfo
Tommy Mathew
William Noland
Ben Wizner