TIAMSA
The International Art Market Studies Association

The art market,
taken seriously.

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.

ConferencesAll events →
26
New York · Flagship

The Value of Art

TIAMSA returns to New York for its tenth-anniversary congress on price, provenance, and power in the global market.

25
Poznań · CFP Open

Margins & Centres

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

24
Melbourne · Archive

Art & Its Markets

Our annual conference examined circuits of value across the Asia-Pacific art world. Proceedings now online.

For a century the market shaped what we see, value and remember — yet it stayed a footnote to art history. We exist to change that.

The TIAMSA Mission
What we do
I.

Convene

Annual international conferences and year-round gatherings that bring the entire field into one room.

II.

Connect

Curators, dealers, economists, lawyers, historians and students — joined in a single, rigorous conversation.

III.

Cultivate

The Emerging Scholars Forum and grants nurture the next generation of art-market research.

600+
Members
30
Countries
12
Local Groups
2015
Founded · London

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 £25 a year.

Join TIAMSA