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.