Farideh Cadot is a private art advisor specializing in international contemporary art, with an emphasis on post-1970s to the present. She serves as curatorial advisor to individual collectors and institutional collections which benefit from her privileged connections in the art world: artists, museums, dealers, collectors, private foundations and non profit organizations. Her vast multicultural knowledge of art as well as her experience, integrity and stature in the global art industry are today at the service of like-minded collectors to build significant collections.

Farideh Cadot opened her first gallery in 1976, at rue du Jura, with exhibitions of painting, installations, performance and photography. Since the very beginning of her activity Farideh Cadot is working with women artists, namely Pat Steir, Meret Oppenheim, Eve Sonneman, Connie Beckley, Michelle Stuart, Nancy Bowen and many others we hear about till today.

Since her first years as a gallerist Farideh Cadot is participating in art fairs, starting with Art Basel and other well-known international art fairs like ARCO, FIAC, art Paris, Art Chicago etc.

In 1980 Farideh Cadot is one of the pioneer galleries to move to Marais where she starts to show more European artists. Same year she meets Markus Raetz and Joel Fisher. The first exhibition of Markus Raetz at the gallery located at rue des Archives gave a start to a fruitful collaboration and a friendship that lasted almost 40 years, till the decease of the artist in 2020. Later in the 80s Farideh Cadot also introduces public to the artists like François Boisrond, René Blanchard, Daniel Tremblay, Françoise Vergier, Georges Rousse et Denis Laget. She as well exhibits such Swiss and Austrian artists as Günter Brus, Siegfried Anzinger, Alois Mosbacher, Josef-Felix Mülller, Luciano Castelli et Salomé.