BLUM
Amy Garofano has a diverse work experience that includes being the Director of Finance at BLUM since April 2019. Prior to this role, they worked as an independent consultant from March 2013 to April 2019, where they served as a Finance Manager. In this role, they developed and implemented systems for accurate financial record keeping for clients such as Wood Kusaka Studios Inc. and Ghebaly Gallery Inc. Before becoming an independent consultant, Amy worked as a Full-Cycle Bookkeeper at The Distribution Network from August 2006 to August 2010.
Amy Garofano obtained their Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine/Studio Arts from Gordon College in the years 1998 to 2002. Amy then pursued a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 2010 to 2012. In 2019, Amy took courses in Human Resources Management and Services at UCLA Extension.
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BLUM
BLUM represents more than sixty artists and estates from sixteen countries worldwide, nurturing a diverse roster of artists at all stages of their practices with a range of global perspectives. Originally opened as Blum & Poe in Santa Monica in 1994, the gallery has been a pioneer in its early commitment to Los Angeles as an international arts capital. The gallery has been acclaimed for its groundbreaking work in championing artists of Japanese and Korean postwar and contemporary movements, such as Dansaekhwa, Mono-ha, and Superflat, and for organizing museum-caliber solo presentations and historical survey exhibitions across its spaces in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York. Often partnering with celebrated curators and scholars such as Cecilia Alemani, Alison M. Gingeras, Sofia Gotti, Joan Kee, and Mika Yoshitake, the gallery has produced large-scale projects critically examining historical movements and work including the Japanese Mono-ha school (2012); the Korean Dansaekhwa monochrome painters (2014); the European postwar movement CoBrA (2015); Japanese art of the 1980s and 1990s (2019); a rereading of Brazilian Modernism (2019); a revisionist take on the 1959 MoMA exhibition, New Images of Man (2020); and a survey of portraiture through a democratic and humanist lens (2023). BLUM’s wide-reaching program includes exhibitions, lectures, performance series, screenings, video series, and an annual art book fair at its base in Los Angeles. BLUM Books, the gallery’s publishing division, democratically circulates its program through original scholarship and accessible media ranging from academic monographs, audio series, magazines, to artists’ books.