Alex Guajardo

• Professional and personal assistance to the firm’s owner, Vito Schnabel
• Extensive correspondence with clients, curators, dealers, and others
• Support for sales from inception through completion; including offers, curation of artworks for particular portfolios, correspondence, and negotiation
• Dissemination of information regarding exhibitions, artists, and programming
• Liaising with artists and studios, museums and galleries
• Serving as primary point of contact for the aforementioned and as direct line to the owner
• Research of pertinent artists, artworks, institutions, auctions, and clients
• Writing and editing for various published materials including the translation of Italian and Spanish materials and press
• Database management, assisting in transfer of data from old database to new, implementation of new GalleryManager software, inputing sales and client data
• Project management via workflow software Asana in order to remain informed and keep informed other staff members in varying joint projects and arenas
• Act as owner's proxy in instances when owner is unavailable by attending meetings, conference calls, and more
• Management and maintenance of owner's calendar, scheduling of appointments, travel, travel accommodations
• Front of house duties such as phone answering and greeting of visitors

• Exhibitions for both KMFA locations, Chelsea and Bridgehampton; scheduling, coordination of all relevant aspects—inventory, collection of work, statements, press, CVs, images of work—exclusive creation of websites and webpages, writing of all press releases, promotional materials, and pricelists, distribution of press materials, listings, and advertising, preparatory duties, layout, handling, opening receptions and more
• Management and fabrication of gallery's entire online presence—maintenance of gallery website using CMS software, curation and conception of all social media accounts on Facebook, twitter, and Pinterest, implementing and uniting overarching campaign goals into cohesive content, specific to each platform, which saw engagement rise nearly 2000%, sales portals, press, and listings
• Extensive correspondence and liaising with a continually evolving stable of more than 40 artists, whose inventory, accounts, history, press, archives, and more require constant, vigilant attention
• Extensive correspondence and liaising with clients, providing them with artist information, work information, sales, invoicing, etc.
• Front of house duties; which include phone answering, client, visitor, and artist greeting, distribution of information about artists, works, exhibitions, etc.
• ArtSystems database management
• Registrarial and art handling duties; all work movement, shipping, coordination of trucking, etc.
• Art fairs: applications, exhibition considerations, work selection and handling
• Sales: meeting with clients, considering tastes, price ranges, and other requirements to tailor work selection to each individual, creation of presentations, consignment of work, sales and invoicing
• General administration of the gallery itself
• Intern program: review of applicants, interviewing, placement, hiring, management and training for relevant projects, delegation of tasks, projects, duties, etc.

• Reception duties, which included phone answering, correspondence, greeting, client, visitor and artist relations
• Maintenance and fabrication of archival materials for artists
• Administration and organizational projects such as mailings, documents, emails, and spreadsheets
• Book and catalogue sales, handling and shipping
• Editing and proofreading of relevant gallery materials
• Research of relevant artists, their collectors, their collectors' portfolios, and offers of artwork pertinent to those portfolios

• Reception duties, which included phone answering, correspondence, greeting, client, visitor and artist relations
• Maintenance and fabrication of archival materials for artists--including formatting of all relevant press materials, scholarly articles, exhibition histories, and auction performance
• Administration and organizational projects such as mailings, documents, emails, and spreadsheets

• Responsible for the conception, research and curating of "BLOOD/STONES: Burma Rubies", a traveling exhibition to raise awareness of human rights violations in Burma
• Writer, editor, and proofreader of accompanying exhibition materials such as press releases, grant
• applications, and catalog entries
• Preparator and exhibition designer
• General gallery and exhibition administration

• Responsible client and artist relations--acting as the point of contact between senior gallery staff and artists, senior gallery staff and clients
• Arts preparator
• Administrative and organizational projects such as mailings, documents, emails, maintenance of office supplies, and spreadsheets
• Various reception duties during business hours and during exhibition openings, other events, and private appointments
• Scheduling for the business owner, both professional and personal

• Support for museum's curator in day to day activities including correspondence, records keeping, research, and writing
• Catalogued and archived past and present collections for incorporation into future exhibitions and exhibition materials
• Research of future and current exhibitions
• Wrote, translated, and edited entries in exhibition catalogs
• Arts preparator

• Researched potential artists for future exhibitions and background for developing exhibitions
• Grant application writing
• Publicity for exhibitions
• Collector and artist relations--opening the lines of communication for lending of relevant artworks from both artists and their collectors
• Event planning for exhibition openings and other private events

• Awarded a Masters of Art in Contemporary Art with distinction
• Thesis topic: Contemporary Urban Art and Graffiti: History, Culture and Commercialization

Awarded Bachelors of the Arts in Art History. Due to unforeseen family circumstances, Bachelors degree was completed at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Completed coursework towards Bachelors of the Arts with a major in Art History and a minor in Italian.

Study abroad