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Studio Art - Curriculum Vitae
Recommended Conventions
Note: The complete cv guide (with commentary) can be viewed by asking an assistant with the Career Development Workshop. In the near future it will be listed on the CAA Web-site (www.collegeart.org). These conventions have been approved by the CAA Board of Directors.
The headings and terms may be adjusted as needed but we recommend the sequence listed below.
Main Headings
Name:
Mailing address
Phone Numbers
E-Mail
Personal Web-site (if appropriate)
Education.
Professional Experience (Academic Appointments)
Grants, Fellowships, Awards, Honors
Exhibition Record Exhibitions, Performances, Screenings, etc) recommended: For those just starting out, solo shows and group shows should be grouped together by years. As your cv grows, it may be appropriate to separate solo from group shows.
Bibliography (reviews, articles, catalogues, interviews)
note: this heading is for material published about you
Publications (reviews, articles, essays, etc.)
note: this heading is for material you have published
Conference Presentations, Workshops, Symposia
Visiting Artist Lectures
Other Possible Categories:
Gallery representation
Artist residencies / colonies
Professional Service
Technical abilities (processes, equipment, etc.)
Exhibitions juried/curated
Collections which include your work
Commissions (can be listed with exhibition record)
Website(s)
Foreign Languages Read/Spoken
Travel
ARTIST RESUME
RECOMMENDED CONVENTIONS
General Comments
The artist resume, 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," is not intended for academic situations.
Avoid making the artist resume' complicated. It is meant to be short and simple to review. Galleries may receive dozens of applications per week so you will want to make it easy on the eye. Select fonts and font sizes that facilitate reading. Use the white spaces well. Do not submit your artist resume on a computer disk or CD-ROM unless it is specified.
SAMPLE ARTIST RESUME
(with commentary)
1. Name (in bold or 1arger font)
Preferred mailing address:
Phone Number(s):
Work:
Studio:
Home:
Fax:
E-mail:
Personal Web Site: (if appropriate)
Comments: If a gallery gives you a show or takes you in as a stable artist, they may eliminate much of the information in this category. They will probably remove your address, phone numbers, etc.., and provide your date or place of birth. This is a common practice because the gallery wants the client to contact them directly regarding any inquiries about your work.
2. Education
M.F.A. 1998 Sculpture University of Kansas
B.F.A. 1995 Studio Art University of Oklahoma
B.A. 1992 French Southern Methodist University (cum laude)
Comments: List all of the academic degrees you have earned (noting honors). It is not uncommon to have studied art at a university without completing the degree. You may want to list these periods of study after the list of degrees earned.
3. Grants/Awards (Grants/Fellowships, Awards/Honors,. etc.)
1998 New York Council for the Arts Fellowship
4. Solo Exhibitions (One-Person Shows, Solo Shows, etc.)
1998 New Work,, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, University of Kansas
Comments: As your career progresses it is likely that you will use the heading"Selected Solo Exhibitions."
For artists in certain time-based media an exhibition might be referred to as a."Screening." In that case, the heading might read "Exhibitions/Screenings" or "Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances" instead of "Exhibition Record." For performance artists the heading-"Performances" may be adequate. Others may require the heading "Exhibitions/Commissions."
For those doing digital or technological art as well as video or performance art, please note whether or not the work is collaborative. If it is, develop a simple method for identifying individual contributions.
5. Group Exhibitions (Group Shows)
1998 New York Fine Arts Association National Competition, Utica, NY Sculpture Carved and Forged, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1997 They Landed in Lawrence, Lawrence Art Association, Lawrence, KS
Comments:
6. Commissions (if applicable)
7. Collections (Public, Private, Corporate)
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
Comments: In the case of private collectors, be sure to have permission to list their name(s). Some private collectors like to keep a low profile because of security reasons.
8. Bibliography (Selected Bibliography)
Diane Terrel, "New Work in Central New York," Sculpture, Vol. 16, January, 1998, 63.
Comments: If you are in need of a style guide for listing articles and reviews about you, you might consider using the style guide of the Art Bulletin which is included on CAA's web site (www.collegeart.org).
Comments: The inclusion of your work in books, magazines, major newspapers, and important catalogues is important for major galleries. Exhibition announcements and reviews in newspapers of smaller communities are less important.
9. Current Employment
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Comments: It is not necessary to list your entire employment history. In the case of an individual who has taught at several major art institutions it may be useful.
10. Current Gallery Representation
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