Cornell Dewitt Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• With an extensive background in arts administration, including a master’s degree in the field and 25 years of art world experience in New York and international markets, I have the deep experience, entrepreneurial.
• Leadership — adaptable, seasoned, and innovative leadership across a broad variety of purviews.
• Strategic Planning — developing and refining institutional strategy.
• Operational Management — developing and organizing institutional structure.
• Project Development — planning and execution of specialized programs to achieve specific client goals.
• Business Development — developing and implementing growth opportunities, including cultivating and delivering new clients and partners.

New York, US

Bower Blue is a digital strategy and content production agency for the visual arts, architecture and design communities.We’re strategists and content creators with decades of experience at the intersection of art, design, technology and storytelling. Driven by creativity and informed by data, we deliver results to increase engagement, audience and sales.

New York, NY, US

• Daily Plinth is the first platform dedicated to discovering and promoting video content from the art world, and was a member of the 2018-2019 cohort at NEW INC, the New Museum’s business incubator. Developed and led.
• Platform structure and operation, with business partner.
• Editorial vision, guidelines, and taxonomy.
• Revenue model and business development.
• Marketing strategy and implementation, with business partner.

London, England, GB

In my role as VP, Strategic Partnerships, I developed and worked with partners to leverage Collectrium to improve their workflow and bottom-line, while also fulfilling the company's own growth potential and strategic development. Collectrium is an enormously powerful and flexible tool for collectors, gallerists, dealers, and other art world service.

New York, New York, US

• Reporting directly to the CEO, I overhauled and directed all aspects of the sales pipeline across multiple business channels, from personnel, products, and processes, to strategic planning and inter-departmental.
• Led a global team of 12 sales reps, support staff, and 13 customer support staff.
• Developed new advertising and gallery products and overhauled existing products.
• Developed marketing and outreach plans with VP of marketing.
• Worked with technology development team to overhaul and update site, with VP of technology.
• Liaised with Editor in Chief to coordinate News; developed, wrote, and edited articles.

• Responsible for all aspects of New York and Miami art fairs, including managing existing relationships – and identifying and developing new relationships – with galleries, VIPs, press, curators, museums, partners.
• Hired, trained, and mentored all key internal and external staff.
• Coordinated with production team on all on-site activity.
• Developed and managed annual budget covering all areas of fair operations.SALES
• Sold booths representing 95% of fair’s gross revenue, to over 100 individual gallery clients.STRATEGY
• Led fair after resignation of founding director at difficult time for market.

Active in primary and secondary market sales, artist representation, and advising; private client advisory and collection management; and curation of conceptual theme and solo exhibitions.

Responsible for management of gallery’s top-level artists, as well as sales and client development.

New York, NY, US

Director of Internships in the Arts Program. Hired by the chair of the department to overhaul, update and invigorate a ten-year-old program, and to help hire permanent faculty.

Founder of gallery specializing in emerging to mid-career contemporary artists. Managed all aspects of the gallery including build-out of gallery spaces, developing and managing artist roster, sales, marketing, and logistics.

Co-founder and owner of gallery of contemporary photography. Joseph Raj Gallery was a pioneer in the use of the web as exhibition space and marketing tool.

Ma, Visual Arts Administration

Ba, English Literature

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