Exhibition and Installation Manager - Toronto, Canada - Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada

Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada

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Exhibition and Installation Manager

MOCA Toronto
The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is at the heart of the art ecosystem.

MOCA Toronto will be ambitiously inclusive, interdisciplinary, and internationally renowned through our work with artists and a place for everyone to explore, provoke ideas, and challenge the current cultural moment.

We intend to achieve this vision through our mission:

To present rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through the commissioning of new work.
To foster active dialogue and participation, celebrate complexity, and serve as an inclusive cultural hub in a hyperdiverse city and world.

Our values guide our work:

Equitable, inclusive, and accessible
Artistcentred, interdisciplinary, and processoriented
Critical and transformative
Reciprocal and relationshipbased
Locally rooted and globally connected
Courageous and responsible

MOCA has been actively adapting to the evolving situation regarding COVID-19 and will continue to do so, ensuring staff and visitor safety and striving to maintain a supportive work environment.

Position Summary

Posted on:
February 15, 2023

Closing on:
March 8, 2023

Location:
Toronto, ON

Employment Type:
Full-time

Remote/Onsite:
Hybrid

Level:
Manager

Report to:
November Paynter, Chief Curator & Associate Director

Start date:
March 2023

Salary:
$60,000-$68,000 per annum

Benefits:
Health, Dental, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Long Term Disability, Ontario Reciprocal Program Membership

The Exhibition and Installation Manager supports all aspects of the production and realization of the exhibitions that make MOCA an accessible, responsive, and engaging museum for Toronto's diverse, intergenerational community.

The Exhibition and Installation Manager (EIM) works closely with the programme team on a diverse range of exhibitions, from concept to installation.

The incumbent is responsible for all production and registrar support.

Many of MOCA's programmes support the creation of new artworks and The EIM focuses on all administration, production needs and any specific research required to enable these new commissions, as well as facilitating the loan/production support and installation needs of existing works.

In addition, the EIM manages all Museum best practices in relation to artworks, including but not limited to overseeing insurance, permits, facility requirements (in dialogue with the Facilities Manager and Exhibition design and installation Lead), art handling, transportation and liaison with fabricators.

The EIM has excellent organizational and communication skills, with strong intuition and an ability to problem solve.

Responsibilities

Administrative aspects of large-scale and small-scale, multiple origins, and multiple artist exhibitions and new commissions; including:

Acting as the main point of contact for artists and galleries once a project and artwork concepts and production approaches have been approved for exhibition by the Curatorial team and the artist has signed an MOU or Agreement
Overseeing and managing loan agreements, artist agreements, production agreements and permits
Development of checklists, floor plans and exhibition installation timelines with Exhibition design and installation Lead
Overview of all design requirements for the exhibition, including the production of support structures
Filing all incoming invoices and fee payments, maintaining budgets for all exhibitions with support from the Curator working on the project
Ensuring that travel, accommodation and hosting for visiting artists and arts professionals are arranged in a costeffective and appropriate manner
Providing facility reports and other documentation to foundations, museums and lenders

Registrar duties include but are not limited to:

Coordinating complex, multiple origin/destination shipments; completing all necessary customs documentation and liaising with brokers; ensuring that at least three quotes are obtained for all transport needs over $5,000
Organizing crating and packing of artworks offsite, at international storage facilities/artist studios prior to their shipment to MOCA
Prioritizing working with registrars at other institutions to costshare artwork shipments
Planning shipments and completing customs documentation for shipments of both art and nonart, exhibitionrelated materials (ex. catalogues, raw materials)
Liaising with insurance providers for all artworks; noting incoming/outgoing artwork shipments and calculating recommendations of additional coverage amounts needed for new exhibition cycles; obtaining insurance certificates to send to loaning parties (ex. artists, other institutions) in advance of shipments taking place and managing insurance claim processes

Production of new commissions in dialogue with exhibiting artists, including: