What is the difference between a C.V. and a resume?
They’re not the same, right?
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They’re not the same, right?
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
No they are not! But the fact that galleries, residencies, applications in general do not know the difference or sometimes say submit a resume/cv makes it confusing.
An artist resume is for all of your education, exhibitions, awards, bibliography, membership, professional experience. Not exactly in that order but it makes so that your exhibition record and the things your art has got you at the very top. A gallery might also not want to know your professional experience, but a residency might because you might have the option to work with students and leaving off the fact that you have experience in that would be BAD! (you can also tell them in the cover letter, but both is better)
A personal resume, is more job based and would be the one you gave a service industry or office type job. you get rid of all the artisty stuff and add in that you can work on computers and that you have had freelance jobs, or worked at Whole Foods and therefore can be a team player.
A cv is more skill and job suited. this is where you might get rid of all of those shows in galleries that don’t exist anymore and keep the impressive shows. this is also where you move your professional experience to the TOP! but under education. (the cv im talking about here might be called an artist cv. Its used for applying to university teaching positions specifically where it usually matters greatly what your exhibition history looks like.)
I personally keep all three on hand, the personal resume doesnt get used often, but i keep it update so i can use it one day. the cv and artist resume are updated with the same exact content and i usually tailor the required one to the application, some want a 2 page resume some want a complete resume. (with Melissa’s translations below that seems like an oxymoron now)
CAA has a Standards and Guidelines page for all of this stuff too but its very outdated.
My understanding of a resume vs. CV is actually the opposite.
A CV is a list of basically all of your life accomplishments (hence the name curriculum vitae=”course of life”): awards, exhibitions, education, gallery/artist representation, residencies, etc. It can be several pages long, depending on your experience.
A resume is a brief version of a CV (résumé=”summary” in French), and is more job/skill based, so you can edit a resume to appeal to an employer. Usually they are one page, maybe two, but the idea is for a resume to be very scannable because an employer doesn’t really care how many exhibitions you’ve been in, they just want to know if you can get the job done.
But maybe Erin is more in-tune with the art world’s standards? Does anyone else have a different understanding of the two?
Maybe we could get some galleries in on this question!
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_6507897_write-cv-resume-artist.html