About Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors

Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors provides curatorial expertise, extensive art resources, and outstanding service to a wide range of clientele seeking to develop high quality, uniquely tailored art programs. We believe that art can significantly enhance environments and enrich our experiences of them. Through a collaborative process, we engage our clients to learn about the design and function of their spaces and to identify their aesthetic interests, programmatic goals, potential audiences, and budget parameters. With that understanding, we present targeted art concepts that lead to successful, harmonious art installations. With our combined 40+ years of art consulting experience and our educational backgrounds in art history and studio art, we have the capability to connect clients with exceptional works by artists at all levels.

Areas of Expertise

Interior Art Consulting

• Corporate

• Health Care

• Hospitality

• Residential

• Retail

• Exhibitions

Our Team

Chandra Cerrito, Principal

With over 20 years of experience as an interior art advisor and public art consultant, Chandra Cerrito has a depth of art consulting expertise. After earning a BA in art history and Certificate of Visual Art from Princeton University and an MFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts, she worked in Bay Area galleries and art consulting firms as manager, assistant to the director, and art consultant. Starting in 2003, Cerrito refined her curatorial skills as an independent curator of numerous museum exhibitions and director of the Oakland-based gallery Chandra Cerrito Contemporary for over a decade. In 2004, she founded Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors, in Napa, CA, which helps create collections for corporate, hospitality and health care clients. As a public art advisor, she has worked with developers, property owners, and cities to manage over 45 public art projects and develop public art policy. 

Virginia Tominia, Senior Art Consultant

Virginia Tominia has worked as a fine art consultant in Atlanta and California since 1999, developing collections for hospitality, corporate, and health care clients throughout the United States and abroad. She is a Senior Art Consultant at Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors, where she has worked since 2007. Tominia earned a BA in art history from Emory University in Atlanta, where she minored in fine art with a concentration in sculpture and philosophy. Early on, she carved her way as a fine artist, exhibiting in local and international art spaces, co-founded a contemporary art issues group of professional artists, writers and curators, and interned in the curatorial department at Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta. Passionate about art, Tominia has curated and juried numerous Bay Area gallery exhibitions, volunteered at local arts organizations, and served as managing gallery director of Chandra Cerrito Contemporary. With particular mastery in creative art sourcing, skillful placement, overseeing commissions, and meticulous project administration, Tominia has led or helped manage dozens of projects for a variety of clientele including Kaiser Permanente, UCSF Medical Center, Westin Hotels, Four Seasons Hotels, Tucker’s Point Residencies and Club, Georgia Pacific Headquarters, AAA California, the David Brower Center, and Neiman Marcus.

Katie Revilla, Art Consultant

As Art Consultant, Katie Revilla skillfully manages art consulting projects from artist research to installation oversight. She is particularly adept at creating art plans, artist outreach and coordination, and installation management.  She has developed an artist diversity survey and helps draft didactics for collection artworks. She was a key member of the consulting team for UCSF Bayfront Medical Building, a new 4 story medical clinic building in Mission Bay for which we provided hundreds of interior artworks. Katie previously served as Gallery Associate at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, as well as Marketing Manager and Registrar, and she is currently our Social Media Manager. Katie is an art professional with varied experience in museums and galleries, as well as an active studio artist. She earned a BA in art practice from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. Certified in art handling, she worked as preparator at the Asian Art Museum and UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Gallery. She also held manager and visitor services positions at the Berkeley Art Museum and the New Museum Los Gatos. Given Katie’s well-rounded expertise, strong relationships with artists, and enthusiasm for dynamic collections and efficient administration, she contributes curatorial proficiency and project management excellence.

Julia Rutherford Daly, Consulting Associate, Marketing Manager, and Registrar

Julia Rutherford Daly has a varied background in public, private, and non-profit arts sectors. As the Marketing Manager and Registrar at Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors, she oversees an extensive artist database and leads the firm’s communications via web site, e-newsletters, and social media. Prior to her position at Chandra Cerrito / Art Advisors, Daly served as Curator for the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture where she managed three public governmental galleries, maintained the County and City of Santa Barbara’s permanent art collections, and administered the County’s Percent for Art program in concert with County Arts in Public Places Committee. Daly spent a combined six years at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in diverse roles ranging from Annual Fund Manager to serving as the lead curator of Ray Strong: Beyond Santa Barbara. Internationally, she held a position with Galeria Senda in Barcelona. Daly received a dual BA in Art History and Spanish from the University of California, Santa Barbara before earning her MA from the University of Southern California in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere. During her graduate studies, she worked with the Hammer Museum’s Chief Curator Connie Butler to support the 2014 Made in L.A. biennial.