Art and Photography Curators

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 76,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking an experienced Art and Photography Curator for a 100% remote contract role. You will review artworks or photography sets, determine attribution, and explain your reasoning in writing. The position is worldwide and compensated hourly, reflecting the professional standards of curatorial practice.

Ideal candidates have curated or managed collections, exhibitions, or photo archives, with ability to justify decisions and manage provenance considerations for loans and displays.

Qualifications

• Professional work as a curator, assistant curator, collections/exhibitions specialist, gallery director or registrar.
• Experience with real decisions on selecting works, attributing them, planning displays or handling loans and acquisitions.
• For photography: familiarity with prints, editions and photographic processes.

Responsibilities

• Review works and image sets, judge attribution, context and presentation, and explain decisions in writing.
• Look at works or sets and decide which fit a given theme, show or collection.
• Judge attribution, date, medium, edition and print type from what is shown and described.
• Flag provenance gaps, doubtful attributions and condition/display risks.
• Check that titles, labels and descriptions are accurate and fair to the work.
• Flag rights, consent or ownership issues.

Skills

Curatorial experience

Job description

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.

This is a 100% remote contract role, open to applicants worldwide in the countries the employer accepts.