Image Assistant Archivist

**Description**:
The Assistant Archivist is responsible for supporting the organisation, cataloguing, and maintenance of the gallery’s digital and physical archives, following Gagosian’s archival and imaging standards.

In particular the role involves assisting in editing, colour corrections, and the preparation of digital files and renderings for archival, exhibition, and publication purposes. You will support the distribution of high-quality images and documents on demand to internal teams. The image archivist will report to the Senior Image Archivist and works in close coordination with the Research, Exhibitions, and Sales departments.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Duties include (but not limited to)**:

- Supporting the cataloguing and digital filing of image and document archives, ensuring metadata is complete and standardised across systems. Quality controlling incoming image assets from artist studios, freelancers, and in-house photographers
- Monitoring project management systems to ensure imaging projects are on schedule
- Ingesting new assets into the gallery’s digital asset management system; assigning known metadata
- Fulfilling internal image requests, for example: creating to-scale digital art mock-ups, exhibition model chips, and poster facsimiles in Photoshop; coordinating photography
- Advancing digital workflow tools, and production procedural guides.
- Creation of digital pdf presentations to present exhibitions as a commercial tool (InDesign skills required)
- Submitting invoices and maintaining expense reports
- Ad hoc projects as assigned
- Managing external publication requests

**Rendering & Digital Imaging**

- Perform high-quality image rendering and post-processing for archival and production use.
- Generate pdf invitations and or presentations
- Ensuring rendered assets meet technical and aesthetic standards.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Essential skills**:

- Advanced level and proven record of image editing and colour correction in Adobe Photoshop CC at a minimum.
- Confidence and excellent working practical knowledge of Adobe Bridge, InDesign, Acrobat, Microsoft office, DAMS and SketchUp

** Requirements**

- 1-2 years’ experience working with digital or physical archives, image libraries, or in an arts-related environment (gallery, museum, publishing, or photo agency) preferred
- Graphic design course and knowledge preferred
- Ability to work on multiple projects at any given time whilst always bearing in mind the importance of prioritising and keeping to deadlines
- Knowledge of artist’s copyright and image rights preferred
- Willingness to work longer hours when necessary and under your own initiative in order to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work calmly and efficiently and able to recognize and prioritise what’s most important under pressure
- Previous commercial gallery exposure highly advantageous
- **Fluent in French and English**

**About Gagosian**:
Established by Larry Gagosian in Los Angeles in 1980, Gagosian is a global gallery specializing in modern and contemporary art that employs more than three hundred people at eighteen exhibition spaces across the United States, Europe, and Asia. In addition to its galleries, Gagosian is at the forefront of the digital marketplace with innovative online viewing rooms, timed to coincide with major art fairs, that include highly desirable works by today’s leading artists, transparent pricing, historical scholarship, and insightful market analysis.