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Find the galleries that would show your work.

Add a few images. Shown reads the work, compares it with what 1,700 galleries show and who they take on, and tells you where you fit.

Private beta. The first 100 artists get their first year free. Galleries use it free.

Early career
May Milton, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Read as printmaking. Example only.

Each ring is a career level. We place you from your record of shows, fairs and galleries. You don’t pick it, and you can correct it.

The index so far, and growing every night

  1. 1,700+galleries read
  2. 36,000+works on their walls, fingerprinted
  3. 63,000+artists on their lists
  4. 26,000+shows on record
  5. 549cities
  6. 108countries

Every gallery is read from its own public pages: who it shows, who it took on lately, what its walls look like. Your work is matched against all of it.

See where your work fits

1

Start with your name

We look up your shows, fairs and the galleries that list you, and place you at your level. No CV to fill in.

2

Add 3 to 20 works

Photos from your phone are fine. Any medium.

3

See who fits, and why

Galleries whose shows sit close to your work and who take on artists at your level, with the reason for each. Open calls that fit you, too.

4

Say yes

A gallery sees your work only if you say yes.

For galleries

Galleries lead, and it’s free.

  • Say what you’re looking for. It stays private to you.
  • See artists who fit your program, at the level you take on, with the reason for each.
  • Fewer cold submissions. Artists come to you already matched.

Is your gallery one of the 1,700 we’ve read?

Type your website. If it’s in, claim it and say what you’re looking for.

What it costs

Free to start.

  • Free: your record and your top 3 matches.
  • $100 a year for everything else.
  • The first 100 artists get their first year free.
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