Art and Photography Curators

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 145,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1, a data lab that supports AI labs by evaluating and curating visual assets, is seeking Art and Photography Curators on a contract basis. Fully remote worldwide, you will review artworks and photography, judge attribution, provenance and presentation, and document your decisions in writing.

Ideal candidates have professional experience as curators or in collections roles, familiarity with prints and editions for photography, and the ability to explain decisions clearly in written English.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a curator or related role.
• Experience selecting works, attributing them, planning displays.
• Familiarity with prints, editions for photography (for photography track).
• Ability to write clear explanations of decisions.

Responsibilities

• Review artworks and image sets.
• Judge attribution, date, medium, and edition.
• Assess provenance gaps and display risks.
• Check titles, labels, and descriptions for accuracy.
• Flag rights or ownership issues.
• Write a short explanation for each decision.

Skills

Curator

Collections specialist

Attention to detail

Print processes

Selecting works

Job description

Pay: $50 - $105/hour

Required Skills

• Curator
• Collections specialist
• attention to detail
• print processes
• selecting works

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

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.