Arie Bouman Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

• Case Handler• Marine Surveyor• Claims Adjuster

• Project manager, public art installation• Registrar, mid-sized gallery• Corporate installs• Custom art packing and crating for transit

• Exhibition reviews & Interviews • Published in Dutch and English

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Developed guidelines and procedures for process improvement• Trained staff on packing complex, high-value items• Established a crate manufacturing facility• Researched and developed an accurate budgeting and pricing system for crating

Brooklyn, New York

• Responsible for overseeing all shipping on-premises• Managed Inventory of 20,000 works• Clients: gallery, private and corporate collections, museums, and individual artists• Coordinated, planned, received, inspected, and released shipments (national & international)• Condition checks and reports• Handled large-scale shipments consisting of multiple artworks, requiring project scheduling, strategic consolidation, streamlined shipping solutions, and fine art technician handling.• Prepared budgets and delivered quotes to clients and shippers• Arranged transportation and provided customer service and quality assurance• Art fair project management

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Wolfart Project Spaces is an exhibition and performance space and an integral part of an urban redevelopment project of the municipality of south Rotterdam and the NAC foundation Rotterdam. • Founded and managed a non-profit organization and art space• Chairman of the Board for the Association • Applied for grants and funding: for the initial year we received approx.$50,000 in grants• Served as spokesperson to the local municipality and local buisinesses and NGO’s. • Created and sustained programming: exhibitions, performances, debates and receptions • Public Relations: including outreach to media outlets and creating an online presence• Organized general assemblies for the members of the association• Organized finances and gave accountability to the members and the board

Enschede Area, Netherlands

Organizer, 2002-2007AKI Festival is an annual, five-day, multi-disciplinary arts festival including a lecture program, exhibitions, music/art performances and workshops. The Festival was organized by the ARTEZ academy for visual Arts Enschede (NL) and drew over 20,000 visitors each year. • Contributed and helped plan the programming for the festival• Developed and presented a workshop that researched and reflected upon role of an artschool within society and the artworld, from the prespective of Utopia.• Organized a debate between theorists and artists under the heading‘Art sublimates the lie’• Public Relations: edited and printed the festival’s publications• Coordinated the facilitities logistics, before and during the festival. • Instructed and supervised volunteers• Organized private sponsoring, amongst others the Grolsch Brewery

Master Of Arts - Ma, Critical Theory And The Arts

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Painting

Post-Graduate Artist Residency