Full time/Exempt /40 hours a week, Monday through Friday incorporating occasional evenings and weekends as needed. The Museum is an EOE.

The Nevada Museum of Art is committed to serving a statewide community with a priority being the inclusion of diverse ideas and voices in its exhibitions, publications, collections and education programs. The Museum seeks a nationally-recognized Curator of Contemporary Art to join an innovative and award-winning team of art museum professionals in Nevada. The successful candidate must be ambitious and thrive on public engagement, networking, collaboration, experimentation, and working with living artists, while advancing the Museum’s thematic mission. This position reports to the Andrea and John C. Deane Family Chief Curator.

ABOUT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART

Established in 1931, the Nevada Museum of Art (the Museum) is the only art museum in Nevada accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Co-founded in 1931 by Dr. James Church, an early climate scientist, humanist, and lover of art, the Museum in its early days was run by a small group of outdoor landscape painters. The Museum has long understood the importance of examining how humans interact with their surroundings. Designed by internationally renowned architect Will Bruder, the present Museum facility opened in 2003 at the heart of Reno’s downtown Liberty district. The four-level, 70,000-square-foot building is inspired by geological formations in northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and serves as a visual metaphor for the institution’s scholarly focus on art and environment. A capital campaign is currently underway for a 50,000 square-foot expansion.

The institution’s identity continues to be shaped by the geographic location and environment. The proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the surrounding Great Basin places it at the nexus of both awe-inspiring scenery and a rapidly changing landscape. It is an ideal place for dynamic conversations about the ways that humans creatively interact with environments. This idea is reflected in the Museum’s permanent collection, which is divided into five thematic focus areas: the Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Art of the Greater West Collection, the Carol Franc Buck Altered Landscape Photography Collection, the Contemporary Art Collection, the E. L. Wiegand Work Ethic in American Art Collection, and the Center for Art + Environment Archives and Special Collections.

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR ART + ENVIRONMENT

The Center for Art + Environment was formally established in late 2008 and is an internationally recognized research center that supports the practice, study, and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natural, built, and virtual environments. Housed at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Center is home to a focused research library with archive collections from over 1,000 artists and organizations working on all seven continents. These include extensive materials by Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, Lita Albuquerque, Judy Chicago, Trevor Paglen, Burning Man, Andrea Zittel’s High Desert Test Sites, Center for Land-Use Interpretation, Great Basin Native Artists Archive and Directory, Cape Farewell, Amy Franciscini, and Helen and Newton Harrison, among others.

Through the Center the Museum has commissioned several high profile artworks including, Helen and Newton Harrison’s climate change project, Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation (2011); Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s Las Vegas installation, Seven Magic Mountains (2016); and Trevor Paglen’s non-functional satellite sculpture, Orbital Reflector (2018).

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITES

• Conceive, plan, and realize exhibitions with a focus on contemporary art, artists, and themes.
• Assure that exhibition programming meets the diverse needs of regional, national, and international audiences
• Research, write, and publish original scholarship on contemporary art and issues broadly related to the Museum’s thematic mission
• When appropriate, serve as spokesperson and staff liaison for guest-curated or rental exhibitions with a focus on contemporary art.
• Guide strategic contemporary acquisitions and sources of support for contemporary collections.
• In collaboration with Advancement Department, identify, participate, and assist with writing grants for contemporary exhibitions and projects
• Actively participate on the Museum’s triennial A + E Conference and A + E Exhibition Season planning team https://www.nevadaart.org/conference2021/
• Collaborate with Education Department to develop and organize interpretive materials, public programs, and speakers for exhibitions
• Cultivate selected trustees, collectors, donors, and artists for major support and participate strategically in museum fundraising events
• Lecture and speak at professional and community forums and serve as a spokesperson
• Serve as staff liaison to the Board of Trustees Collections Committee
• Actively participate in building the permanent collections and participate in the deaccession process
• Manage and prepare project budgets, planning, and overall logistics for exhibitions and publications in collaboration with staff across all departments
• Organize large-scale contemporary installations for the Grand Atrium
• Regularly participate in the collective editing and copyediting process for all text panels and interpretive label material generated by the curatorial department. 
• Regularly network with peers, artists, collectors and donors nationally and internationally to build external relationships
• Assist with planning and preparation of national and international Art Trips as needed

Requirements

Candidates must have a M.A. in art history or a related field with at least five years of experience in an art museum curatorial department. Excellent interpersonal, writing, and organizational skills required. Candidate must be self-motivated, hands-on, entrepreneurial and a team player.

To Apply:

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