Fall 2025 Internship

For fall 2025, The FLAG Art Foundation seeks a motivated intern looking to gain hands-on experience in all facets of working at a nonprofit exhibition space. It is essential that the candidate is reliable, proactive, and above all, a team player. Tasks may include curatorial assistance and research, exhibition organization, archiving materials, organizing catalogue mailings, event planning and support, administrative assignments, etc. Interns will gain practical knowledge by participating in FLAG’s curatorial and administrative processes and are also encouraged to explore ideas relevant to their studies/professional interests.

The ideal candidate is a current undergraduate or graduate student, or recent graduate. The internship is three days per week (Thursday through Saturday, 10:30 AM-5:30 PM), including some evenings for events, from September 2025 to January 2026. The selected candidate will be paid monthly and will receive monthly MetroCards.

Requirements:

• Interest in contemporary art, architecture, literature, visual culture, etc.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communications skills, including the ability to contextualize artistic knowledge to visitors
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
• Computer proficiency is a must, particularly experience with Microsoft Office and Google Suite; experience with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Photoshop is a plus
• Ability to multitask and manage time efficiently
• Personable, with a professional phone demeanor
• A sense of humor

About:

The FLAG Art Foundation is a nonprofit exhibition space that encourages the appreciation of contemporary art among diverse audiences. Founded in 2008 by art patron and philanthropist Glenn Fuhrman, FLAG presents rotating exhibitions that include artworks borrowed from a variety of sources. FLAG invites a broad range of creative individuals to curate thematic group shows and works in-depth with artists to provide curatorial support and a platform to realize solo exhibitions. FLAG fosters dialogue around contemporary art by producing artist talks, artist-led workshops, and exhibition tours for school and museum groups. Based in Manhattan’s Chelsea art district, FLAG and all its related programs are free and open to the public.

Recent exhibitions include:

• A Rose Is (February 27-June 21, 2025), an expansive group exhibition that examines the ubiquity and multivalent meaning of the rose throughout art history and visual culture. Across a wide array of media, including video, sculpture, painting, and text, the exhibition considers the rose in all of its symbolic and ritual complexity, ultimately seeking to complicate our familiarity with it as a vehicle for consumption and desire.
• Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend (September 13, 2024-February 8, 2025), a solo exhibition by 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation prize winner Lubaina Himid, comprising two new bodies of work: a suite of Strategy Paintings that depict Black men and women seated around tables featuring different configurations of objects—in each case, imagining a specific problem to be solved; and an arrangement of sixty four plank paintings entitled Aunties, building on her previous plank works that evoke the form of funerary objects from East Africa.
• The Swimmer (June 6-August 9, 2024), an expansive group exhibition an expansive group exhibition inspired by John Cheever’s 1964 short story of the same name, featuring over thirty artists.
• Ian Mwesiga: Beyond the Edge of the World (Feb. 23-May 4, 2024), the Ugandan artist’s debut institutional solo exhibition in the United States. Comprised of eleven oil paintings created between 2021 and 2023, Mwesiga’s recent works embrace the mystery, fantasy, and possibility of the unknown.
• Graham Little (Feb. 23-May 4, 2024), the Scottish artist’s debut institutional solo presentation in the United States. Created between 2000 and 2023, Little presented sixteen gouache and colored-pencil works which are meticulous portals into Little’s complex and mysterious universe.
• In March 2022, FLAG initiated its ongoing Spotlight exhibition series, which changes every four weeks and includes new or never-before-exhibited artworks accompanied by commissioned pieces of writing. It is the hope of this series to create focused and thoughtful dialogues between the visual arts and critics, scholars, poets, etc. Spotlight artists include Ellen Altfest, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Christina BanBan, María Berrío, Sarah Cain, Kenturah Davis, Louis Fratino, Peter Halley, Lauren Halsey, Shara Hughes, Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow, Shannon T. Lewis, Aubrey Levinthal, Maud Madsen, Joel Mesler, Ian Mwesiga, Aliza Nisenbaum, Nathaniel Oliver, Laura Owens, Naudline Pierre, Umar Rashid, Tschabalala Self, Steven Shearer, and Honor Titus.

The FLAG Art Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FLAG is firmly committed to equal employment opportunities in all facets of its operations and makes decisions concerning hiring and terms and conditions of employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.

To Apply: 

• Send a combined PDF of your cover letter, resume, and a one-page writing sample with your first and last name as the file name to [email protected]
• Include “Internship” and your first and last name as the subject of the email.
• Include any conflicts during September 2025-January 2026. 

Absolutely no calls or walk-ins. Due to the volume of applications received by our team, candidates will only be contacted if their applications proceed to the interview stage.

08/08/2025