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Est. 2015 · London
The International Art Market Studies Association
The Study of the Art Market

Where the market
meets the academy.

Active internationally, TIAMSA is an interdisciplinary association of professionals, academics and students focusing on the study of the art market — its history, its mechanisms, and its meaning.

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2024
Past · Melbourne

Art & Its Markets

Our annual conference convened in Melbourne, examining circuits of value across the Asia-Pacific art world.

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2025
Upcoming · Poznań

Margins & Centres

Rethinking peripheries in the global art trade. Call for papers now open to members and scholars.

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Our Field

Establishing art market studies as a discipline in its own right.

For a century the art market shaped what we see, value, and remember — yet it remained a footnote to art history. TIAMSA exists to change that.

We connect curators, dealers, economists, lawyers, historians and students across a single, rigorous conversation about how art is bought, sold, and understood.

600+
Members
30
Countries
12
Local Groups
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A society for everyone who takes the art market seriously.

Membership opens conferences, the Emerging Scholars Forum, regional groups and a global network of peers — from first-year students to senior professionals.

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June 2026

Emerging Scholars Forum opens 2027 cohort

Applications invited from doctoral and early-career researchers worldwide.

May 2026

New regional group launches in São Paulo

Our twelfth chapter brings Latin American art-market research into the network.

April 2026

In the press: TIAMSA on provenance reform

Board members featured in coverage of new restitution guidelines.