AMY WHITAKER New York University Steinhardt School Department of Art and Art Professions 34 Stuyvesant Street, office 522, New York, NY 10003 [email protected] | +1 212.998.5174 EDUCATION 2021 PhD, University of London, Goldsmiths, political economy Dissertation title: Equity for Artists Advisor: Will Davies; Committee: Kate Oakley and Nicola Searle 2004 MFA, University College London, Slade School of Fine Art, painting 2001 MBA, Yale University, School of Management, economics and strategy 1996 BA, Williams College, studio art and political science, magna cum laude ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2016 – New York University, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Administration Serve as the main faculty member for the for-profit concentration in the MA program. 2011 – 2015 Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Full-Time Faculty, MA in Art Business Redeveloped and led the cornerstone Principles of Business course. 2011 – 2016 School of Visual Arts, Founding Faculty, MFA in Products of Design Taught Business Structures to product designers. 2011 – 2013 California College of the Arts, Adjunct Faculty, MBA in Design Strategy Taught Managerial Economics to designers in a novel design-focused MBA program. 2010 Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts Taught experimental studio art course in economics, Paint by Econ, at the invitation of the RISD president. 2009 Williams College, Adjunct Faculty, Economics and Art Taught experimental course Entrepreneurship as an Art Form cross listed in art and economics. 2004 – 2005 Harvard Law School, Researcher and Editor, Internet Law [Jonathan Zittrain] Researched, edited, and designed the books Jurisdiction and Technological Complements to Copyright as part of a larger casebook project on Internet law. 2001 – 2002 Yale University, Olin Fellow in Economics [Paul MacAvoy] Wrote 100-page white paper on the evolution of the US FDA during the 1990s. 2000 – 2001 Yale University, Research Assistant in Economics [Sharon Oster] 2000 – 2001 Yale University, Teaching Assistant in Strategy [Ted Marmor] 1995 – 1996 Williams College, Teaching Assistant in Drawing [Mike Glier] 1995 – 1996 Williams College, Teaching Assistant in Color Theory [Ed Epping] OTHER EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2015 – 2016 New Museum Incubator, Entrepreneur-in-Residence Wrote business curriculum for first museum-led incubator in art, design, and technology. 2007 – 2010 Locus Analytics, Senior Researcher and Consultant Developed information architecture for an economic mapping system used to classify a universe of 25,000 publicly traded companies and was named on two patents. 2005 – 2007 D. E. Shaw & Co., LP, Associate, Investor Relations (Series 7 and 63) Managed relationships with investors all over the world, rewrote marketing and fund offering documents, managed investor exposure reports, and cleared contracts for incoming investments. 2000 Tate, Associate, Business Strategy and Planning, Director’s Office Worked for the head of business strategy and co-managed institution-wide strategic planning across the Directors’ Group and entire staff during the summer that Tate Modern opened. 1998 – 1999 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Special Projects Coordinator, Education Edited and managed all printed educational materials including for the Guggenheim Bilbao, and wrote special reports and business plans for the Director’s Office. 1996 – 1998 Jenny Holzer Studio, Editor and Project Manager Served as project manager for Phaidon monograph and reissue of a Guggenheim catalog on the artist and participated in numerous other projects of the studio. 1996 The Museum of Modern Art, Intern (then freelancer), Sales and Marketing Coordinated editorial promotion of Design Store products and researched furniture designers. 1995 – 1996 College Council Co-President, Williams College Led the student body as an undergraduate, rewrote the College Council constitution and ratified it with over 67% participation, led student organizing around an honorary degree to the Prime Minister of Singapore including giving a speech at the ceremony, and served on numerous committees. HONORS AND AWARDS 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Competition (Equity for Artists), Finalist 2019 SNAAP (Strategic National Arts Alumni Project), Indiana University, Fellow 2019 Global Research Initiative Fellowship, NYU Provost’s Office, NYU London 2018 Dora Maar Brown Fellows Program, Finalist WHITAKER CV – MAY 2021 2 2017 Axiom Business Book of the Year, Silver Medalist (and recipient of related NYU university-wide honors citation) 2017 Business Book of the Year, 800-CEO-READ/Porchlight, Creativity and Innovation Finalist 2013 Sarah Verdone Writing Award, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2003 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Project Award 1997 Rhodes Scholarship, State and National Finalist 1996 Richard W. Krouse Prize in Political Science, Williams College [for “distinguished work in political science” and “intellectual and humane qualities”] 1996 Hutchins Prize, Williams College [second highest award given at graduation, for “mental and moral qualities” that lead one to become “a useful, worthy, and lovable citizen”] GRANTS 2021 NYU Steinhardt, Arts and Culture Grant, Equity for Artists, with co-PI K. McCoy [under consideration] 2020 Spencer Foundation, Economic Mobility and Social Exclusion in the Arts, co-PI with G. Wolniak [declined] 2020 Russell Sage Pipeline Grants, Economic Mobility and Social Exclusion in the Arts, with co-PI G. Wolniak [declined] 2020 Institute of Human Development and Social Change, NYU, Community Governance of Art Museums: Redesigning Salary, Program, and Board Representation for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [declined] 2019 Creative Capital Art Writers Grant, Finalist 2019 Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, NYU Steinhardt 2018 NYU Center for the Humanities, book publishing subvention, Economics of Visual Art 2013 Creative Capital Artist’s Grant, Finalist 2008 Studio Grant, Association for Cultural Advancement Through Visual Art, London PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 1. Whitaker, A. (in press). Economics of visual art: Market practice and market resistance. Cambridge University Press. [Expected to be published November 2021] 2. Whitaker, A. (2016). Art thinking. Harper Business. Silver Medal, Axiom Business Book Competition. Trans. Chinese (simplified and complex), Czech, Farsi, Japanese, and Korean. Reviewed or featured: Financial Times, Boston Globe, Self, Vanity Fair, Kirkus, Library Journal. Cited in Stanford Social Innovation Review, MIT Technology Review, and elsewhere. Invited talks include Aspen Ideas Festival, Claremont University Athenaeum, and talks in Canada, Sweden, China, and Slovenia. 3. Whitaker, A. (2009). Museum legs: Fatigue and hope in the face of art. Hol Art Books. WHITAKER CV – MAY 2021 3 Reviewed in Curator: The Museum Journal. Selected by the RISD president as the first assigned common read for RISD first-year class, in conjunction with orientation keynote. Recognized with Sarah Verdone Writing Award. JOURNAL ARTICLES (* = first author; ** = equal contribution) 1. Whitaker, A.,** & Greenland, F.** (forthcoming). Anatomy of an art scandal: Artistic integrity and financial speculation in the Inigo Philbrick case. [Special issue: The cultural sociology of art and music. Ed: L. McCormick.] American Journal of Cultural Sociology. 2. Whitaker, A. (2021). Economies of scope in artists’ incubator projects. Journal of Cultural Economics, articles in advance: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10824-021-09417-4. 3. Whitaker, A. (2021). Reconsidering people as the institution: Empathy, pay equity, and deaccessioning as key leadership strategies in art museums. Curator: The Museum Journal, 64(2): 253-267. 4. Whitaker, A.,* & Kräussl, R. (2020). Fractional equity, blockchain, and the future of creative work. Management Science, 66(10), 4594–4611. Five-year impact factor: 5.469, H-index: 237. Accepted in the Fast Track for “high- impact research that is of broad interest, analogous to what might appear in Science, Nature, or PNAS.” Cited (as a working paper) in The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Artsy, Forbes, ArtsDaily, and InsideHigher Ed’s Academic Minute. Published paper: 506 downloads from July 2020 to March 2021. SSRN [Social Science Research Network] Working paper: 4,533 abstract views, 981 downloads, and top 10% of all working papers on SSRN. 5. Whitaker, A.,* Bracegirdle, A., De Menil, S., Gitlitz, M.A., & Saltos, L. (2020). Art, antiquities, and blockchain: New approaches to the restitution of cultural heritage. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(3): 312-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2020.1765163 H-index: 42. Featured in ENCATC Magazine. Inspired the formation of a non-profit organization, the Art and Antiquities Blockchain Consortium. 6. Whitaker, A.,* & Grannemann, H. (2019). Artists’ royalties and performers’ equity: A ground-up approach to social impact investment in creative fields. Cultural Management: Science and Education, 3(2), 33–51. 7. Whitaker, A. (2019) Art and blockchain: A primer, history, and taxonomy of use cases in the arts. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 8(2), 21–46. 8. Whitaker, A. (2019). Economic provenance: The financial analysis of art historical records. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 6(27). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol6/iss1/27 9. Whitaker, A. (2019). Shared value over fair use: Technology, added value, and the reinvention of copyright. Cardozo Art and Entertainment Law Journal, 37(3), 635–657. 10. Whitaker, A. (2018). Artist as owner