Meet Janice

Janice “Janina” Bond is a cultural strategy executive and private advisory principal operating across the United States and Europe, with primary bases in Chicago, Portugal, and Houston. Her work centers on the stewardship, governance, and placement of cultural capital assets including art, design objects, architecture, real estate–embedded collections, and public works for private principals, estates, institutions, and aligned partners.

She is the founder of JANINA BOND PRIVATE OFFICE, a governance-led platform designed to function more like a family office or cultural trust than a traditional gallery or consultancy. The Private Office serves a limited roster of clients through retainer-led advisory, integrating long-horizon strategy with disciplined market execution, institutional alignment, and discreet relationship infrastructure. The model prioritizes continuity, discretion, and risk-managed growth over transactional activity or public visibility.

Bond currently serves as Executive Director of the Chicago Public Art Group, a nationally recognized public art institution with a multi-decade legacy in civic-scale commissions, preservation, and cultural stewardship. This role provides institutional authority and public trust credibility that directly inform her private advisory work, while operating within clear structural and ethical separation between nonprofit and for-profit activity.

Across her career, Bond has worked at the intersection of private collecting, public art, and the built environment. Her experience spans collection strategy, acquisitions and placements, secondary market transactions, exhibition and program development, fabrication and installation oversight, contract negotiation, and cross-sector partnership structuring. She is particularly known for helping clients move from collecting to governance, aligning assets with long-term legacy, institutional relevance, and appropriate market pathways.

The Private Office operates through a single integrated platform expressed via distinct vehicles, including a retainer advisory practice, a selective primary and secondary market placement arm, cultural programs and editions, and a public art and preservation practice delivering commissions and immersive cultural infrastructure. Convening across the platform is unified under a discreet salon structure designed to support trust-based alignment rather than event monetization.

Bond’s work responds directly to current market conditions shaping private wealth and cultural assets: accelerated intergenerational transfer, increased scrutiny around provenance and governance, the institutionalization of art and cultural property as balance-sheet and reputational capital, and growing investment in public art, preservation, and place-based cultural infrastructure. Her advisory approach emphasizes judgment, structure, and cross-border fluency rather than volume or speculation.

Geographically, the platform is structured to operate with clarity across Chicago, Portugal, and Houston. Chicago serves as the institutional and civic anchor, Portugal as a European advisory and residency hub, and Houston as a collector and capital nexus supporting placements, programs, and real estate-adjacent cultural strategy.

Janice Bond is known for a lean, execution-focused operating philosophy. The platform is designed to scale through trust, governance frameworks, and institutional partnerships, with controlled exposure and low fixed overhead. Her work is grounded in the belief that cultural capital, when stewarded with discipline and intent, can generate enduring value across private portfolios, public institutions, and the built environment.