Marly Hammer
Marly Hammer works with artists, galleries, and cultural organizations to solve complex creative projects, strategic questions, and organizational challenges.
Marly Hammer works with artists, galleries, and cultural organizations to solve complex creative projects, strategic questions, and organizational challenges.
What I Do
What I Do
Each project is executed with a tailored approach and specialist care. Generally, my work includes:
Creative Development
Creative Development
Advising individual artists, galleries and institutions to develop exhibitions, collaborations, large scale cultural initiatives, and new projects.
Advising individual artists, galleries and institutions to develop exhibitions, collaborations, large scale cultural initiatives, and new projects.
Operations & Execution
Operations & Execution
Creating the structures, processes, budgets, teams, and timelines needed to actually make things happen.
Creating the structures, processes, budgets, teams, and timelines needed to actually make things happen.
Organizational Strategy
Organizational Strategy
Examining the structure and creative challenges of a gallery, studio, or cultural organization and identifying opportunities to work more effectively.
Examining the structure and creative challenges of a gallery, studio, or cultural organization and identifying opportunities to work more effectively.
Communication Strategy
Communication Strategy
Aligning messaging, audience development, relationships, and sales to support the broader goals of a project or organization.
Aligning messaging, audience development, relationships, and sales to support the broader goals of a project or organization.
Partnerships & Relationships
Partnerships & Relationships
Cultivating relationships between artists, galleries, institutions, collectors, brands, and other cultural partners.
Cultivating relationships between artists, galleries, institutions, collectors, brands, and other cultural partners.
About
About
Marly Hammer is a thought partner and collaborator who supports artists, galleries, and institutions by navigating complex challenges and bringing ambitious ideas to life.
With more than 20 years of experience working across the art world, she brings a broad perspective and a hands-on approach, helping clients identify opportunities and get projects done.
Before founding her independent practice, Marly held senior roles at Tom Sachs Studio, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, and Pace Gallery, overseeing operations, creative direction, exhibitions, and global programming. In 2018, she co-founded Work in Progress Ventures, an independent art advisory and curatorial platform, collaborating with artists, collectors, and cultural partners on exhibitions, acquisitions, and special projects.
Alongside her consulting work, Marly is an independent curator whose recent projects include The Mall, a large-scale cultural project developed with Jasper Richmus at the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, New York, during Upstate Art Weekend, and eight exhibitions for SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Marly holds a B.A. in Art History from Lafayette College and an M.A. in Exhibitions and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute. She serves on the executive board of ArtTable and supports the development of the endowment for the Patrick J. Clements Principio Fund at The Peddie School.
Marly Hammer is a thought partner and collaborator who supports artists, galleries, and institutions by navigating complex challenges and bringing ambitious ideas to life.
With more than 20 years of experience working across the art world, she brings a broad perspective and a hands-on approach, helping clients identify opportunities and get projects done.
Before founding her independent practice, Marly held senior roles at Tom Sachs Studio, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, and Pace Gallery, overseeing operations, creative direction, exhibitions, and global programming. In 2018, she co-founded Work in Progress Ventures, an independent art advisory and curatorial platform, collaborating with artists, collectors, and cultural partners on exhibitions, acquisitions, and special projects.
Alongside her consulting work, Marly is an independent curator whose recent projects include The Mall, a large-scale cultural project developed with Jasper Richmus at the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, New York, during Upstate Art Weekend, and eight exhibitions for SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Marly holds a B.A. in Art History from Lafayette College and an M.A. in Exhibitions and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute. She serves on the executive board of ArtTable and supports the development of the endowment for the Patrick J. Clements Principio Fund at The Peddie School.