Experience

The Drawing Center

• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager and Head Preparator

  • May 2022 - Present

• Head Preparator

  • Jan 2006 - May 2022

  Installation of a broad range of approaches to drawing in a museum setting, lighting, wall labelling, condition reporting, wall painting and repair, fine art packaging, etc. for artists like Leon Golub, Gerhard Richter, chef Feran Adria, Rirkrit Tirivanija, Matt Mullican, Alexis Rockman, Cecily Brown, renaissance era artists working on copper plates, and registrar /preparator teams from a wide range of world class museums like MOMA, SFMOMA, The Met, The Whitney, etc.



Aaron Zimmerman

• United States
• Medical Practices

• Freelance Art Handler and Artist

  • Sep 1997 - Present

  In the 24 years that I have been an art handler in the NYC area I have done just about everything. I have installed work in the homes of every top collector and many celebrities in this area such as David Letterman, Steve Martin, The Mugrabis, Richard Gere, Betsy Johnson, and TV Producer Bob Boyett. I transported and installed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution under heavy security and have handled invaluable Van Goghs and Cezannes for Phillips Auction House. I have lectured on shipping and packing techniques at The Drawing Center and The Fashion Institute of Technology. And an installation of ceramic work that I installed at The Minskoff Theater for the Broadway production of the Lion King is visible from the street in Times Square. In terms of skill sets, I am accomplished and experienced in everything from installing massive grids of small paintings to building weird igloos made of fake boobs, to complicated multiple channel video pieces, to moving heavy sculptures, to delicate paper handling, to ancient Japanese Scrolls. I can also build and tear down walls, paint and repair gallery surfaces, stretch canvases, build crates, fix frames, cut mattes and soft pack anything imaginable. I'm really experienced at dealing with the needs of finicky museum curators, nervous commercial art dealers, angsty registrars, detail obsessed conservators and neurotically anal contemporary artists of every ilk working in all media too. I have worked for the Jewish Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The National Academy Museum, The Japan Society, The China Institute, The Wallach Gallery at Columbia University, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Metro Pictures, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Silverstein Gallery, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, The Park Avenue Armory, Dietl, Marlborough Galllery, and Bernarducci/Meisel Gallery.

• Fine Artist

  • 1997 - Present

  I have exhibited my work, most notably, at The Akron Ohio Museum of Art, Bravin Lee Programs, Mark Moore Gallery (via Beautiful Decay Magazine), Leslie Heller Workspace, PPOW Gallery, and at Takashi Murakami’s Gesai Miami Art Fair. My performance work has been featured at The Knitting Factory New York and The Judson Church. I have lectured at The Jersey City Museum, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Drawing Center.My work has been written about in Art News, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out NY, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Akron Beacon Journal, NYArts Magazine, The New York Sun, and The Columbus Alive. And it has been purchased by The Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art (NNEMoca) in Burlington, VT, Jean Pigozzi, Steve Shane, Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich of Postmasters Gallery, John Post Lee of Bravin Lee Programs, Amir Fallah of Beautiful Decay Magazine and a host of other private collectors and supportive friends.I have curated or co-curated shows at 450 Broadway Gallery and The Lodge Gallery in New York City. And I have taught drawing, painting, 2D and 3D design in the Visual Communications Department of The Katherine Gibbs School where I was a portfolio advisor, curator of student work for the school’s gallery, and a member of the curriculum development committee.I am formerly a contributing writer for NYArts Magazine, Germany’s Zoo Magazine and the now defunct crowndozen.com. Takashi Murakami, Mike Kelley, DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh, and Ian MacKaye of Fugazi are but a few of the artists I have had the privilege of working with in the world of wordcraft.My first book “Grotesque Banalities and Trite Repulsions” is available through Blurb.com.



PPOW Gallery

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Preparator

  • Jan 2004 - Jan 2014

  Installation of artworks in all media for artists at all career levels, lighting, inventory/storage management, condition reporting, shipping/logistics, local transportation, client/dealer meeting preparations, art fair installation, framing, construction, painting, demolition, facilities maintenance, crating/packaging, canvas stretching. Installation of artworks in all media for artists at all career levels, lighting, inventory/storage management, condition reporting, shipping/logistics, local transportation, client/dealer meeting preparations, art fair installation, framing, construction, painting, demolition, facilities maintenance, crating/packaging, canvas stretching.



Crozier Fine Arts

• United States
• Fine Art
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Crew Chief/ Local Trucking

  • 1999 - 2003

  Driver and art handler in local trucking department, onsite art packing and installation, pick-up and delivery of fine art to Crozier's elite fine art clientele including Mary Boone Gallery, Phillips Auction House, Sothebys, Christies, The Met, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, The Mugrabi family, The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, etc.. Driver and art handler in local trucking department, onsite art packing and installation, pick-up and delivery of fine art to Crozier's elite fine art clientele including Mary Boone Gallery, Phillips Auction House, Sothebys, Christies, The Met, The Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, The Mugrabi family, The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, etc..



Katherine Gibbs School

• United States

• Adjunct Professor

  • 2000 - 2002

  Instructor of Drawing, Painting, 2D Design, 3D Design, curriculum development committee, curator of student work, portfolio preparation tutor. Instructor of Drawing, Painting, 2D Design, 3D Design, curriculum development committee, curator of student work, portfolio preparation tutor.



Time Magazine

• Retail Office Equipment

• Tech Support in the Pictures Department

  • Sep 1998 - May 1999

  During my second year of graduate school, I helped the photo editors with computer issues, routed photos chosen for publishing to their respective departments, maintained the news service (Reuters, AP, etc.) feed servers, did some photo retouching, color/contrast adjustment and helped the operations manager with whatever other issues arose in the department. During my second year of graduate school, I helped the photo editors with computer issues, routed photos chosen for publishing to their respective departments, maintained the news service (Reuters, AP, etc.) feed servers, did some photo retouching, color/contrast adjustment and helped the operations manager with whatever other issues arose in the department.



Art in General

• United States
• Fine Art
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern/Art Handler

  • Aug 1997 - May 1998

  As a college work/study intern I helped out in the office in a variety of capacities, handled the phones and manned the reception desk. I also helped organize the storage, handled and installed art for their exhibitions. As a college work/study intern I helped out in the office in a variety of capacities, handled the phones and manned the reception desk. I also helped organize the storage, handled and installed art for their exhibitions.