Randall Hixenbaugh is the owner and director of Hixenbaugh Ancient Art Ltd, a New York gallery founded in 2003 specializing in ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern antiquities. He has been involved in ancient art for over 30 years. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh in 1993 and a Master of Arts degree in Classical Archaeology from Florida State University in 2002. From 1992 to 1997 he participated in the excavation of Roman and Punic archaeological sites in Tunisia. From 2000 to 2005 he was the assistant Director of Royal-Athena Galleries in New York and the Assistant Editor of Minerva Magazine, the International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology. 

Mr. Hixenbaugh, a recognized expert in the field of ancient art, is an accredited member of the Appraisers Association of America and is qualified to perform appraisals of antiquities, including: ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Pre-Columbian Art and ancient coins. Over the last twenty years, Mr. Hixenbaugh has appraised thousands of antiquities worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He has written appraisals for America’s most prominent museums, universities, private collectors and government agencies including for US federal courts and for US Customs detentions and seizures. His appraisals have been submitted as evidence in several legal cases. He has testified on the stand as an expert witness regarding the authenticity and value of ancient art. Notably, in 2024, Mr. Hixenbaugh appraised the Ancient Cycladic Art Collection of Mr. L. Stern that he donated to the Hellenic Ancient Culture Institute, Inc. This important collection, valued at over $150 million, has been placed on long term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museums of the Hellenic Republic of Greece. This was the largest charitable donation of antiquities ever made. 

Mr. Hixenbaugh has participated in a number of public discussions relating to matters associated with the antiquities trade. In March of 2016, he spoke at the Committee for Cultural Policy's panel at the Cardozo Law Firm in New York entitled, "Rethinking Antiquities: Restitution and Collecting in the Time of Isis." In May of 2016, he was invited to speak at the University of Chicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society conference as part of a panel of experts in a public discussion entitled, "Dealing with Heritage: New Policy Approaches," which sought to clarify the relationship between recent destruction of ancient cultural sites in the Near East and the international antiquities trade. In October of 2016, Mr. Hixenbaugh spoke on a panel entitled, "A New Normal for Collecting Antiquities in a Post-Loot Culture," at TEFAF, New York. In all cases, he advocated for responsible collecting and philanthropy as necessities to the long-term preservation and study of ancient art. In 2019 he wrote, “The Current State of the Antiquities Market, an Art Dealer’s Perspective," for the academic peer reviewed International Journal of Cultural Property, in a special issue entitled, "New Insights into the Antiquities Market," published by Cambridge University Press. 

Mr. Hixenbaugh has a particular specialty in ancient arms and armor, having handled hundreds of ancient weapons and helmets over the years through his gallery. He is the author of Ancient Greek Helmets: A Complete Guide and Catalog, (2019), the most exhaustive study ever produced on the subject and now considered a standard reference work.