Art lovers know good paintings when they see them. If you are good painter your paintings can adorn houses and buildings for generations. However, for you to gain the required experience and get the necessary contacts you may need to start with employment. A potential employer will be interested in how you can benefit the company. Therefore your curriculum vitae should clearly show your best attributes as an artist. Here is a sample painter CV.
Painter CV Example, Format
Jamie Norton
Roosevelt Drive4657
Markham, Virginia
Educational Background:
1962-1966: – Graphic Arts Crafts and Painting Diploma, Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Fine Arts Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions (Galleries)
2008: Artropolis Road Show, public galleries
2007: RBC Investments New Canadian Painting Competition
Pavillion Gallery, Winnipeg 2003 Museum London, London;
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Realtime Gallery, Toronto
Contemporary Drawing 2003, TW Wood Gallery and Art Centre,
Montpelier, Vermont
Discovery 2003, Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver
CBC Studios, Vancouver
Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver
Helen Pitt Awards, Vancouver Art Gallery
Selected Commissions and Collections
Sir Rudolph Agnew
Trevor Baines
Susannah Constantine
Robert Dickinson CBE DL
Imogene Edwards Jones
David Einthoven
Sir Roger Gibbs
Allan Grieve
Prince Ernst of Hanover
The Hon. Massey Lopes
Nick Love
Count Luca Marenzi
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Mute Records and Barry Adamson
National Portrait Gallery
Sir Ian Rankin
Rolf Sachs
Sir David Scholey
Michael Stodda
Art Related Activities
2003/4 Sculpture Workshops for Harlem Arts School
2005/06 Youth Women & Theatre Group, The Greek Road,
The Lemon Factory, Leavenworth
2004 Curator; Mailbox Gallery for Artsfest 2004.
Awards
Bursary and honorary associate membership of the Wiser Arts Gallery
Artist in residence August/September 2009 Wiser Arts Gallery, WAG
Hobbies
Singing in Choirs, Playing the Cello, composing music and socializing
