Learn what you need to include in a Résumé for an Artist
|
The Artist Résumé is an abbreviated document - usually one to four pages long - which is used for:
This section includes:
|
|
What is an Artist Résumé?
"The artist resume provides a selected overview of your artistic and professional accomplishments, education, affiliations, and hints at future aspirations. It usually accompanies your artist statement for exhibitions, proposals, and portfolios."
Karen Atkinson
|
The artist résumé is the 'short version' of your CV.
This abbreviated document is used when:
REMEMBER - This is about your life as an artist - not every job you've ever had! From a gallery perspective, if a resume is to be used in a catalogue then it needs to be
If you are using a resume to try and become a gallery artists, then it needs to be
The College Art Association suggests that it is typically one to four pages in length. |
Typical contents include the following:
|
How to write an Artist Résumé
|
Careful with juried shows. They're a good thing early in your career when you're building your resume and looking for exposure.... By midcareer, however, you should be off and running in academic galleries, libraries, co-ops, non-profits and, ideally, in commercial galleries. |
- Standards and Guidelines | College Art Association - Artist Résumé: Recommended Conventions - The artist résumé conventions presented here are designed primarily for use with commercial galleries. While its length, one to four pages, is similar to the "short curriculum vitae," or "short cv," it is not intended for academic situations. Artis
- Joanne Mattera Art Blog: Marketing Mondays: The Résumé - Guidance on the structure and content of a standard Artists Résumé
- Writing an Artist Résumé - Feature GALLERY DIRECT Article - WRITING AN ARTIST RESUME By Margaret (Maggie) Brezden An artist resume is an absolute necessity for every professional artist. Although an artist bio may contain similar information it is presented in a different format than the artist resume.
- Artist, Emerging: Writing an Artist's Résumé - Being an artist means not only making your art but of course promoting your art. But some would argue that you're really promoting yourself. Regardless, you need to have a good resume.
- Docstoc - How to write Your Artists Resume by Annie Strack - downloadable document by author Annie Strack
- How to Write a CV Resume for an Artist | eHow.co.uk
How to Write a CV Resume for an Artist. The main difference between a CV and a standard résumé is that the CV is much longer and more detailed. Standard résumé are typically no longer than one page, while CVs can be many pages long. - Getting a leg up | Robert Genn - The Painter's Keys - Considers the role of resumes for the non-credentialed artist in relation to getting into art shows
- Writing for Artists: The Resumé: Formatting | The Artists Advisor - Your Résumé is the most important marker of your experience that you may have. Getting the grammar absolutely perfect is a mark of your professionalism. This post will show you how to outline your résumé . What goes in what order. I will create a list
- Writing and Formatting an Artistic Resume | ArtJob - Regular contributor Karen Atkinson gives advice on résumé creation.
- 10 Weeks to Improve your Artistic Career – Week 6 | The Practical Art World - Week 6: Get your paperwork in order. If you have ever submitted your artwork to an exhibition, gallery or contest, you probably already know that beyond your artwork, you are also 'responsible' for providing specific paperwork relating to your artist
- How to Write a Resume, Part I | The Norwegian Artist - Writing a résumé doesn't have to be a moanfully dreadful task, but it will take work and thought. Regardless of whether you are writing it for a specifically art-related event or for a job in general, the resume's central purpose is to tell a lot abo
- How to Create an Artist Resume | Artpromotivate - An artist resume is different from a regular employment/work resume. A resume is valuable for applying for a grant, residency, art gallery show, and more. It may also be attached to an art portfolio, and on your art website.
'Ask Harriete' on How to Write a Resume & Looking for a JobHarriete Estel Berman periodically provides advice to artists on "how to get on" - including how to get a job and how to write a resume
|
Alyson Stanfield on developing a resumeIt's tough to put together a resume when you're just beginning. If you find yourself in this situation, follow these two pieces of advice: Alyson B. Stanfield peridocally writes about how to tailor your Resume as an artist to what people want to see and read. She's strong on looking at how to format and present your information
|
What Galleries and Art Dealers expect from an Artist Resume
Do NOT forget to think about what an art gallery or art dealer WANT TO KNOW rather than what you would like to tell!
KEY TIPS:
KEY TIPS:
- Assume your prospective gallery or dealer is a busy person and make sure your resume answers all the key questions.
- Lean towards "less is more". Providing people with too much information can mean they just skim and give up.
- The fact that something exists in your background isn't a good reason for including it in your CV.
|
"What Art Dealers Expect From Your Artist Resume"
- Advice from the Fine Art Views Blog (2012)
|
Advice from Gallerists
|
Generic advice about writing CVs and resumes
|
This covers the more generic advice relating to a wider field of employment or endeavour
|
Sample Artists' Resumes
|
|
ADVERTISEMENT
|