Curator of European and American Art

The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an encyclopedic art museum founded in
1927. Housed in a building designed by New York architect Bertram Goodhue,
the Academy is listed as a National and State Historical Site. The Academy
is Hawai?i?s largest private presenter of visual arts programs with a
permanent collection of over 50,000 works of art, and is the only art
museum in Hawaii accredited by the American Association of Museums.

The museum?s permanent collection has particular strengths in European and
American painting, graphic art, decorative arts, Impressionist and
post-Impressionist art, and the arts of Asia. The collection also contains
one of the finest holdings of nineteenth and twentieth century arts of
Hawai?i. Among the highlights of the permanent collection of European and
American Art are examples of antiquities, European painting, ranging in
date from the Italian Renaissance to the modern era, with works by Carlo
Crivelli, Piero di Cosimo, Carlo Saraceni, Pieter de Hooch, Jan van
Thielen, Jan van Goyen, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Alessandro Magnasco,
Nicolas De Largillière, Francois Boucher, Eugene Delacroix, Claude Monet,
Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Yves Tanguy, Amedeo Modigliani, and
Francis Bacon. American painters are represented by John Singleton Copley,
Gilbert Stuart, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur Dove,
Georgia O?Keefe, Morris Louis, Robert Rauschenberg, and Richard
Diebenkorn, among others. The largest single part of the permanent
collection comprises 15,000 European and American works on paper, ranging
in date from the Renaissance to the modern era.

The Honolulu Academy of Arts seeks a curator for the Department of
European and American Art.
The successful candidate will have demonstrated knowledge in a specific
area that relates to at least one of the Academy?s permanent collection
strengths, which include antiquities, European or American art, postwar
and contemporary art, works on paper, or the art of post-European contact
Hawai?i. The qualified candidate will demonstrate intellectual leadership,
visual acuity, and the ability to originate and implement dynamic and
groundbreaking exhibitions and catalogues for local, national and
international audiences. The curator must have the capacity and
willingness for intellectual growth.

The curator collaborates with the director, deputy director, and other
curators and staff in the presentation of the permanent collection, and
the planning, development, and presentation of special exhibitions and
publications, and provides leadership on a conceptual and operational
level in the implementation of such projects. The curator is expected to
produce and contribute to catalogues supporting both traveling and
non-traveling exhibitions, and to collaborate with the Education
Department curators in fulfilling the Academy\'s educational mission.

Responsibilities include collection development, collection management,
original research, interpretation, outreach, and maintaining fiscal
responsibility and accountability for the department. The curator is
expected to support the Academy in its fundraising from individuals,
foundations, and corporate sponsors.

Minimum requirements include:
-Advanced graduate degree in the history of European or American art or
related field, Ph.D. preferred.
-Five years prior museum experience at the curatorial level.
-Knowledge of at least one, and ideally two, European language.
-A proven record of publications (e.g., exhibition catalogues, books,
articles) and acquisitions experience.
-Sensitive to sound conservation and collection management practices.

Send curriculum vitae and letter of interest, including your salary
requirement, to:
Director of Human Resources
Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 S. Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96814
hrhonoluluacademy.org

The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an Equal Opportunity Employer
May 19, 2008