Art and Photography Curators

Role Title: Art and Photography Curators

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: $55 to $100 per hour

Location: Fully remote, worldwide

You’ll need: Professional experience curating, acquiring, cataloguing or attributing art or photography for a museum, gallery, auction house, archive or collection

Your tasks: Review works and image sets, judge attribution, context and presentation, and explain your decisions in writing

You’ll review artworks and photographs and judge them: what they are, where they come from, how they should be shown and described. This is a good fit if you work as a curator, collections specialist, gallery or auction specialist, or photo archivist and make decisions about what to acquire, show or attribute.

Scope of Work

- Look at works or sets of works and decide which fit a given theme, show or collection.

- Judge attribution, date, medium, edition and print type (for example, vintage vs. later print) from what is shown and described.

- Flag provenance gaps, doubtful attributions and condition or display risks.

- Check that titles, labels and descriptions are accurate and fair to the work.

- Flag rights, consent or ownership issues.

- Write a short explanation for each decision so a reviewer can follow your reasoning.

What we’re looking for

- Professional work as a curator, assistant curator, collections or exhibitions specialist, gallery director, auction house specialist, art or photo archivist, or registrar.

- Experience with real decisions: selecting works, attributing them, planning displays or handling loans and acquisitions.

- For photography: familiarity with prints, editions and photographic processes.

- Comfort explaining why a work belongs in a show or why an attribution is doubtful.

- Clear written English.

How the selection process works

- Apply with your resume and a short profile.

- Complete the curation interview. It is a short conversation about your experience with exhibitions, collections and attribution. You don’t need to prepare, look at anything or write anything. Finishing it is what moves your application forward.

- Review. We check your experience against what the project needs.

- Onboarding and first task. If selected, you get the guidelines and start with an initial task, which is reviewed before you continue.

Originally posted on Himalayas