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4434 Miami BeachHOME ADDRESS:
Apt No.Home No./Street City
FL 33140
State Zip Code
212.256.1947PHONE:
Home Work
budgazad@gmail.com
Email Address
Miami Beach
Street
4434 Post Avenue
City
FL
State
33140
Zip Code
Address:
ProjectArt Position:Business Name:Miami Director and National Program Advisor
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CHANA BUDGAZAD SHELDON
4434 Post Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33140 | 516.532.5124 | budgazad@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE
ProjectArt, Miami, FL
Miami Director / National Program Advisor, May 2017 - present
• Leading nationwide program to transform libraries in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Detroit,
and Pittsburgh into cultural hubs where visual artists teach underserved youth and create new work
• Responsible for all aspects of non-profit organization’s Miami operations and development
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Executive Director, March 2009 – April 2017
• Led all operations, programming, and development of non-profit organization with 32-member Board
• Grew annual revenue from $120,000 to $850,000, securing significant first-time support from the
National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation, City of Miami, and corporate and individual
donors; and increased support from the Warhol Foundation and Miami-Dade County
• Curated 70 site-specific exhibitions, some further developed at NY Museum of Modern Art, Queens
Museum of Art, Aldrich Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, and White Chapel Gallery, London
• Created public art program, educational program for high-school artists, and lecture series
• Collaborated with Perez Art Museum Miami, Bass Museum of Art, De la Cruz Collection, commercial
galleries, private collections, and other local and national institutions
• Participated in NADA Miami Beach (2013-2016) and hosted 2016 Common Field National Conference
in partnership with other Miami-based non-profits
• Obtained regular media coverage from New York Times, Miami Herald, Art in America, Artforum, and
local television and radio
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Director, September 2001 – October 2008
• Managed all aspects of commercial gallery, including exhibitions and operations
• Represented 18 emerging and established artists
• Marketed artwork to an international client base of private collectors and museums
• Coordinated the exhibition of artwork at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern
Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Berlin and Bilbao; Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary
Art, Philadelphia; Tate, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• Participated in art fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze, London
• Liaised with media including New York Times, New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, museum catalogues
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Member, City of Miami Beach, Art in Public Places Committee (2014 - Present)
• Juror, AIRIE Foundation; Cintas Foundation; Downtown Development Authority; Fla. Dept. of State
• Panelist, Art Basel Miami Beach; Bass Museum of Art, and Funding Arts Network Miami
• Capacity Building Program, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Devos Institute of Arts
Management, (2011-2012)
• Curatorial advisor for major group exhibition Auto Body featuring works by 33 local, national and
internationally-based female artists during Miami Art Week 2014
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, January 2001
• Major in Computer Design and Photography, Minor in English
• Studied at Kent Institute of Art & Design, Maidstone, UK, Spring 2000