Responsibilities

• Monitor (via Google alerts and Meltwater), clip, and maintain the press archive across print, digital, newsletters, and emerging platforms, including Substack, podcasts, and creator-driven media alongside legacy outlets.
• Actively maintain, research, and expand the gallery's media contact database, with a focus on independent writers and critics who are building audiences outside traditional mastheads.
• Track the media landscape; identify new publications, platforms, and voices relevant to contemporary art and culture.
• Oversee the press@ inbox and route requests appropriately.
• Manage the gallery's online press room in coordination with the web team, keeping it current and useful as a journalist-facing resource.
• Prepare internal and external media reports for gallery leadership, artists, and estates.
• Organize press previews, including RSVPs, scheduling, and logistics.
• Support the Communications team on exhibition campaigns across all channels.
• Coordinate mailings of David Zwirner Books to the appropriate media contacts.
• Collaborate across the global communications team to help streamline processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in art history, communications, journalism, or a related field.
• 3 - 4 years of experience in communications, public relations, or a closely related role, preferably at a gallery, auction house, or PR firm.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong editing ability.
• Genuine fluency and understanding of the current media landscape.
• Comfortable using tools for research, reporting, and workflow efficiency, while maintaining editorial judgment.
• Able to manage time independently, prioritize across competing deadlines, and stay organized in a fast-moving department.
• Proactive, collaborative, and positive – equally at ease working autonomously and as part of a close-knit team.

Benefits

• Benefits! Flexible workplace and commuter benefits, corporate memberships to museums, including the Whitney, MOMA, and others.
• Summer Fridays, generous PTO and leave, and family medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401K savings plan with automatic employer contributions.