Béatrice Côté in the studio. All artwork © Béatrice Côté. Photography by art_works.

Our Work

Having facilitated 1,000+ commissions and acquisitions since our founding in 2016, art_works tailors projects to all scales and scopes within traditional and nontraditional spaces.

  • What We Offer

    • Acquisitions + commissions

    • Site-responsive installations

    • Collection curation + temporary exhibitions

    • Inventory management and strategic deaccessions

    • Architecture and design partnerships 

    • Public outreach + community engagement 

    • Educational programming

    Specialized Services

    Arts Programming + Client Engagement 

    We go above and beyond standard advisory practices to bring artworks to life for our clients, offering educational programming, workshops, presentations, lectures, pop-up exhibitions, and more. When art anchors a space, there should be no barriers to entry—and the more innovative and specific the engagement, the better.

    Strategic Investment + Collection Management

    Art should have a lasting impact. Bringing decades of artworld experience and cross-industry expertise, we manage and expand contemporary art collections to maximize both economic and social returns on investment.

    Impact Summaries

    We deliver in-depth, individualized impact reporting that underscores the true reach of client investments. By facilitating sustainable relationships between collectors, artists, and local communities, our projects demonstrate the measurable impact of art on communities of all kinds to flourish with ongoing, measurable impact

  • We work inside and outside of the traditional art market to build impactful private collections. Deeply informed by our backgrounds in art history and curation, we identify artworks of significance that tell compelling stories, reflect personal interests, and retain value over time. 

    While dedicated to supporting established art practices, we’re especially passionate about championing underrepresented and emerging artists by weaving their work into broader collection narratives and cultural dialogues.

  • We are an artist-first advisory creating meaningful opportunities to grow art practices and careers. Our support ranges from strategic consulting and funding resources to project management and traditional agency-style representation. 


    Artists are our partners. We assume a variety of roles to ensure acquisitions and commissions are empowering experiences conducted with fairness, transparency, and respect. Whether working with a represented or unrepresented individual, our goal remains the same: to create lasting relationships between artists, collectors, and communities.

Michael Talbot & Phoebe Warner with their collaborative mural Collective Ascension, 2023. Brian P. Murphy Memorial Staircase, Cambridge, MA. Project executed in collaboration with Community Art Center and facilitated by art_works for DivcoWest. © Michael Talbot & Phoebe Warner. Photography courtesy of Casey Preston, WhiteBirch Media.

Artists contracted by art_works receive the highest commission rate of any arts advisory working today.