About — AUX | Fine Art Advisory

CV

Kate DePetris
Principal
AUX Fine Art Advisory
& Collections Management

347.803.0602
info@auxadvisory.art https://auxadvisory.art

Fine art collections and exhibitions professional with ten years’ experience managing projects across contemporary galleries, museums, and private collections. Registrar by trade, with extensive experience in collections documentation, condition surveys, fine art logistics, exhibition planning, loan and insurance coordination.

Brings calm project ownership, current museum standards, and a keen eye to the movement, exhibition, and care of art and object collections. Driven by a deep commitment to the stewardship of cultural heritage objects and their accessibility to the public - today and for generations to come.

EDUCATION

B.A. Art History, French Minor
University of North Texas
Fall 2011

ARCS Courier Workshop
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Spring 2020

Certified Cargo Screening Facility Training
Travel Security Administration
2012, 2020

AFFILIATIONS

Association of Registrars
and Collections Specialists

American Alliance of Museums | AAM

Collections Stewardship Professional
Network of the AAM

SKILLS

Public, Private, and Corporate

Collection Stewardship

Preventive Preservation

Condition Reporting

Database and Systems

Fine Art Logistics

Vendor Communication

Exhibitions

Loan Facilitation

Insurance Coordination

Contract Negotiation

Stakeholder Relationships

Project Ownership

Space Planning

Curation and Interior Design

Advisory and Consulting

SYSTEMS

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

Adobe Creative

FileMaker Pro

Salesforce

CRMs and Relational Databases

ArtBase / ArtLogic

TMS / PastPerfect

SELECT CONTRACTS

Curator, Subject Matter Expert | Fixpoint, Inc. for Top AI Lab | Remote | Aug. 2025–Mar. 2026

Project Lead, Reeves Collection Move, Mold Remediation | Dallas Museum of Art | Fall 2022

Registrar, Exhibitions Support | Meadows Museum, SMU | Dallas | Fall 2021

Registrar, Sales & Exhibitions | Calodney Advisory | Dallas and New York | Sep. 2020–2022

EXPERIENCE

Regional Art Coordinator | JLL for the Capital One Art Program | Plano, Texas | Nov. 2023– Jul. 2024

Regional stewardship of a 7,500-piece corporate art collection, managing acquisitions, exhibitions, and logistics in the Midwest, South, and West. Curated contemporary exhibitions, collection rotations, and employee-facing programming grounded in museum-level care and aligned with client standards.

Director of Collections Management | Artemis Fine Art Services | Dallas | Sep. 2019 – Sep. 2020

Researched and developed bespoke stewardship programs and bid responses for collections management service contracts. Acted as Project Manager for the duration of contracts, overseeing storage, inventory, collections maintenance, installation, and conservation projects.

Registrar | Castelli Gallery | Registrar | New York | Nov. 2017– Mar. 2018

Managed the collection and directed operations for a small team across two gallery locations, three off site storage facilities, and two residences. Reconciled physical and digital inventories by implementing ArtBase,referencing archives, and collaborating with studios, estates and foundations.

Registrar | Ronald O. Perelman Collection | New York | Oct. 2016 – Aug. 2017

Managed a vast private collection of post-war and contemporary art across residential, commercial, and outdoor properties. Coordinated international shipments for acquisitions, rotations, consignments-on-approval, and loans for exhibitions. Created inventories, reconciled insurance schedules, and addressed the collection’s immediate display, care, storage, and conservation needs.

Registrar| Lehmann Maupin | New York | Jan. 2015 – Oct. 2016

Drafted language and executed contracts, inbound and outbound logistics for loans, consignments, and donations for the gallery’s three New York locations. Tracked movement, dictated packing, shipping, and installation requirements on behalf of a dynamic roster of forty international artists. Secured objects and venues for traveling exhibitions; compiled, tracked, and balanced budgets; managed transport, storage, and conservation projects.

Project Manager, International Shipping | Crozier Fine Arts | New York | Mar. 2014 – Jan. 2015

Coordinated fine art logistics on a global scale. Facilitated air and sea freight shipments in compliance with all relevant customs, TSA, and trade regulations. Managed client inventories and provided on-site services while growing a robust international network of colleagues and vendors.

Operations | Artemis Fine Art Services | Dallas | Mar. 2012 – Feb. 2014

Organized fine art shuttle and exclusive-use shipments. Coordinated the company’s largest national exhibition dispersal to date. Oversaw domestic fine art packing, ground transportation and installation for special projects, traveling exhibitions and art fairs.

EXHIBITION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Nari Ward, Sun Splashed. By Diana Nawi. Preface and acknowledgments by Franklin Sirmans. Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2015. Retrospective.

Kader Attia loan for Nel mezzo del mezzo: Arte contemporanea nel Mediterraneo. Palermo, Italy, 2015.

Erwin Wurm loan for Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. By Alison Byrne and Heather Hakimzadeh. Curatorial acknowledgments, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016.

Mickalene Thomas loan for Sharp-Tongued Configuration. Exhibition catalogue by Andrea Kirsch. Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University–Camden, 2017.

Andy Warhol loan for From A to B and Back Again. By Donna M. De Salvo and Jessica Beck. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018. Retrospective.