Studio Associate helps visual artists chart their paths to success.
We coach working artists on telling their story and managing and growing their studio practice through effective marketing, networking, communications, and best practices of facilitating private sales and working with galleries.
We represent a curated group of 20+ artists in New York, LA, and the UK under our Associated Artists page. Please inquire about available works on each individual artist’s page.
In January 2021, we launched Jen + Kate in the Art World, a conversation series on Instagram live with Kate Mothes of YngSpc, in which we interview various entrepreneurs in the arts about tangential aspects of sustaining creative careers. Past conversations can be seen on our IGTV channel.
the story
Studio Associate was founded by artist, curator, and arts administrator Jen Hitchings in 2019 to utilize her knowledge of the art world on both sides of the market to elevate the work of contemporary artists.
Find out more about our mission and our first exhibition here!
design by Tara Lynn Connelly
directing associate
Jen Hitchings founded Studio Associate in 2019. She is an artist, curator, art consultant, and career coach based in Los Angeles with a decade of experience directing and managing galleries and artist studios, volunteering for artist-run organizations and non-profits, facilitating events, and managing creative teams in NYC. Managerial positions have been held at Pierogi Gallery and Century Pictures/Leo Koenig, Inc., and she co-directed Associated Gallery and Transmitter between 2013-2020. She is currently Director of the Patty Disney Center for Life & Work at California Institute of the Arts. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY Purchase, a certificate in Small Business & Entrepreneurship from Hunter College, and a certificate of completion in Art as a Global Business from The Sotheby’s Institute.
She was included in The Observer’s Arts Power 50: Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2020.