Art Resume Tips
Writing an art resumes and your job resumes are two different things. It is always better to keep softcopy of your resume on your computer so that you can easily change or update it. All resumes whether it is an art resume or resume related to other field should be clear and easy to read.
Usually an art resume is two to three pages in length. Most of the artists have two versions of their resumes, one page version and a long version. The resume should be properly typed, readable and printed on a quality paper.An art resume must include following things.
Name and Contact Information
In this section, first you have to mention your full name at the top of page and it should be larger than the remaining information presented in the resume. After that you write your mailing address, email address, phone number, fax number and website if appreciate.
Education
After providing your personal information list all the honors received and academic degrees earned. Write here schools, colleges, and universities you attended. You can list classes or workshops you attended and the notable teachers or artists you have studied with, if you don't have any art related degree.
Honors and Awards/Grants
You list here all the recognitions of merit, prizes won by you in grants, exhibitions, competitions, scholarship, fellowships and other recognitions.
Bibliography
Under this category you mention articles, television and radio interviews and reviews as well as magazines, books, catalogues and newspapers who have published at your art work.
Exhibitions
In the exhibition section list the space of exhibition, name of exhibition and name of city and state where the exhibition was held. Also you can divide this section into separate categories such as: group shows, solo shows, invitational exhibitions, juried exhibitions etc.
Collections
This section can be divided into corporate collections, private collections and permanent public collections. Ask for the permissions before mentioning the name of your private owner of work in the resume.
Professional Affiliations
Mention the professional organizations, local, regional, and national, to which you belong. If you served as a volunteer or held a position within the organization, then mention all this information as well.
Related Work Experience/Professional Experience
In this field, artists may write about the experiences that they feel are relevant to their professional at making career like:
- teaching art
- technical experience related to their artistic discipline
- jobs held in their field
- workshops, lectures and presentations given by them as an artist.
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