Arts & Gallery Operations Intern

Reset Art / 120710 — Berkeley, CA
$20/hour · 10–15 hours/week · Fall 2026, with possibility of continuing

Reset Art is looking for a curious, energetic art student to help us produce exhibitions, grow audiences, sell art, and build new opportunities for artists.

Reset Art is a Berkeley-based arts nonprofit working to create more opportunities for artists to make, exhibit, and sell art. We operate 120710, a contemporary art gallery in West Berkeley, while developing tools and models that can make it easier for artists, curators, and organizers to create exhibitions and launch independent art spaces.

We’re looking for someone who wants to get directly involved in that work.

What You’ll Do

This isn’t an internship where you’ll spend the semester doing one narrowly defined task. You’ll work directly with Reset’s founder and participate in many aspects of running and expanding an arts organization.

Depending on what’s happening that week, you might:

• Help produce exhibitions from open call through opening night
• Work with artists and curators during installation
• Create social media, email, and other marketing for exhibitions and events
• Photograph and document exhibitions
• Help organize openings, talks, workshops, and other events
• Welcome visitors and talk with them about the artwork
• Help interested collectors learn about and purchase work
• Research and develop public-art opportunities
• Help identify potential spaces and partners for new galleries
• Research artists, galleries, arts organizations, and potential collaborators
• Help us think about how Reset can expand its network of independent art spaces
• Pitch in on the countless unexpected things that happen when you’re actually running a gallery

You’ll also attend exhibition openings and occasional evening or weekend events.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re particularly interested in Art Practice and History of Art students who are excited about contemporary art and curious about what happens behind the scenes of exhibitions and arts organizations.

You don’t need previous gallery experience.

We’re more interested in someone who is:

• Curious about contemporary art and artists
• Creative and full of ideas
• Organized and dependable
• Comfortable meeting and talking with people
• A strong communicator
• Comfortable with Instagram and other digital media
• Willing to take initiative rather than always waiting to be told what to do
• Excited about learning by actually doing things

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who likes making things happen.

What You’ll Learn

You’ll get unusually broad exposure to how exhibitions and arts organizations actually work.

You’ll participate in the process of conceiving, producing, installing, marketing, opening, and selling exhibitions; work directly with artists and curators; learn about art sales and collecting; participate in the development of public-art opportunities; and help explore how an independent gallery model can expand into additional spaces and communities.

You’ll see both sides of what we’re building: the physical gallery and the larger nonprofit organization behind it.

Because Reset itself is growing, you’ll also have an opportunity to contribute ideas and help shape how the organization develops rather than simply stepping into an established internship program.

Details

• Organization: Reset Art, a nonprofit arts organization
• Location: Primarily at 120710, our gallery in West Berkeley, with some work possible remotely
• Hours: Approximately 10–15 hours/week, flexible around class schedules
• Compensation: $20/hour
• Term: Fall 2026, with the possibility of continuing
• Schedule: Some evening/weekend availability for exhibition openings and occasional events
• Transportation: No car required; the gallery is accessible by public transportation
• Reports to: Jonathan Bachrach, Founder/Director, Reset Art

How to Apply

Please email the following to info@120710.art:

1. Your résumé
2. A short note telling us why you’re interested in Reset Art and this internship
3. A brief answer to this question:
   
   Tell us about something you’ve made, organized, promoted, or simply made happen. What did you do?

No formal cover letter is necessary.

Learn more at reset.art and 120710.art.