Applications open for international call for new Director

Storefront for Art and Architecture is seeking a Director who is an ambitious visionary, a curatorial risk-taker, and a dynamic leader to continue and expand Storefront’s position as an innovative and fearless platform for debate and exploration of ideas at the intersection of contemporary art, architecture, and design.

The Director is expected to expend their full professional time and efforts to advance the interests of Storefront and ensure its proper management. The duties of the Director include creating and overseeing an expansive program of exhibitions, events, competitions, publications, projects, and related activities; managing Storefront’s programs and operations; identifying opportunities for extending Storefront’s mission through the development of new initiatives; fundraising for programs and operations (in concert with the Board); hiring and managing Storefront’s staff; attending all meetings of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee; and working together to advance the objectives of the institution.

The successful candidate will have relevant curatorial or related experience; an international perspective and network in the realms of art, architecture, and design; excellent interpersonal, team participation, staff and project management skills; eagerness to collaborate; strong presentation and communication skills; experience in innovative communication and media praxis; ability to develop focused programming; aptitude to cultivate local and international constituencies; a talent for organization and considerable personal drive; an acute understanding of and commitment to fundraising for the organization’s programs and operations; and the desire and ability to closely collaborate with Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Board of Directors.

Benefits and salary
The successful candidate’s salary will be determined in conjunction with the search committee and will reflect the candidate’s background and experience. A comprehensive benefits package will also be provided.

Application deadline: May 4, 2018
To apply for this position, please email a curriculum vitae and a one-page letter of interest as a single PDF to: search [​at​] storefrontnews.org

About Storefront for Art and Architecture
Storefront was founded in 1982 by Kyong Park as an experimental forum and exhibition space for emerging ideas at the intersection of art and architecture, promoting public discourse around issues affecting, influencing, and challenging the built environment.
 
Storefront is committed to experimentation and innovation and to exploring radical spaces of action that do not have a home within the established and canonical forms of communication and display. It one of the only platforms focused primarily on the intersection of architecture, art, and design. Over its 36-year history, Storefront has presented the work of over one thousand architects and artists in solo exhibitions, site-specific installations, group shows, and performances at local and international venues, conferences, events, and in print and online publications.

Storefront’s gallery space is located in a unique triangular ground-level space at the corner of Kenmare Street and Lafayette in the Chinatown/Little Italy/SoHo area of New York City, with an operable façade designed by artist Vito Acconci and architect Steven Holl.
 
Storefront’s physical location and façade can be understood as a reflection of its mission and practice, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior and enabling an endless possibility of panel configurations that encourage artists and visitors to create their own experience of entry, navigation, and absorption in the gallery space. Storefront is an architectural landmark in New York City and a center of the architectural collective imagination worldwide.