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How's My Dealing? 2.0

Worldwide Reviews by Artists for Artists of Galleries, Art Fairs, Mail Scams and more.

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  • The Other Art Fair, London UK
    Terms and conditions are very strict asking people to pay money in case of comments. Hence why some are coming here. Ryan Stanier the owner is a rich boy who with the help of mum and dad managed to sell his company. So he made bank when the artists are making 0 return....
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  • Holy Art Gallery?
    You are only after success?? What is success? Have you studied art? If the art school is good, it will advise and guide you forward. Every country has its own reputable galleries, I can only tell you about the galleries in my own country, so you should ask your local artists. You can't just walk into a reputable gallery and start collaborating with them. You are one of many applicants and the galleries only select the best and...
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  • Flyer art gallery! Scam!
    Yes me too...
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  • Divulgarti group
    A mi me acaban de escribir lo mismo, fuerte...
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  • Excellance art Gallery in Mirabella, Spain
    You should be cautious. You are paying for something you cannot see. These gallery offerrings are making their money off of you paying the fee and not the sale of your work....
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  • Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid
    Great to have a page like this to keep I’m skeptical about this place PAKS Gallery Contemporary ART Vienna / Munich / Gallery by the castle Heidenreichstein They endlessly approaching me and not sure of their validity !! Plus overcharging to exhibit work !!! Rebecca Setareh Info@artofrebecca.com www.artofrebecca.com...
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  • Holy Art Gallery?
    Where have you, the artists, had success? Is there a reputable company that does help new artists that you would recommend?...
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  • Axiom Gallery or AXIOM Fine Art Consulting
    This guy also doesn’t pay his rent. He’s a fraud on all fronts. BEWARE!!!!!!...
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  • The Other Art Fair, London UK
    Surprised these jokers don't get more negative comments.....
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  • Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid
    I was contacted by this gallery in the past two weeks. I asked multiple questions, which they answered specifically but with vague details on numbers and expected returns. I am dealing with Berta B. of their Curatorial Department. I have specifically asked why they charge an upfront fee and then 30% of sales as well. Awaiting Berta's response....
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  • Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid
    Thank you for the warning, they contacted me today and I came here straight away to find out about them....
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  • ITSLIQUID GROUP
    received exactly the same right now!" How are you? This is Amaride Ferrante, Art Curator at ITSLIQUID Group and we have already been in contact, as we invited you to present your works in our exhibitions in the past. I’m reaching out because we would love to invite you to consider participating in BORDERS ART FAIR 2025, the flagship event of Venice’s artistic calendar, running alongside the Venice Biennale. https://www.itsliquid.com/call-borders-venice-2025.html BORDERS ART FAIR 2025 is divided...
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  • Divulgarti group
    Thank you for this website! I am so tired of these vanity galleries. Usually you can see examples of the artworks and see for yourself that they are pretty woeful. But Loredana Trestin has curated her online presence pretty well, so difficult to know. I won't be bothering with their request!...
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  • Divulgarti group
    I have just been contacted regarding an exhibition in July 2025, luckily I checked the name and came to this site! I will not be taking up the offer....
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  • Art.Number23
    TIme and time again, Constantine finds tiny gallery owners around Europe and take advantage of them, leaving them not only unpaid but also owing money to cover expenses. Ask around and find out....
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  • Galería Gaudí
    Please provide your name and website or social media so we can verify that you are indeed an artist and have sold your art through Galería Gaudí. I would never buy art from a vanity gallery. Just like I wouldn't buy services from plumbers or lawyers who have bought their resumes. An artist who collaborates with a vanity gallery has bought their resumes and it's therefore worth toilet paper. You won't get to MoMa from the Galería...
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  • Galería Gaudí
    Save your money and forget vanity galleries....
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  • Galería Gaudí
    Absolutely outrageous fee for just three paintings! What are you aiming for? Do you want to sell your art? Do you want recognition in the art world? You won't achieve either by paying a vanity gallery. You'll only lose your money and, at worst, your reputation. Do you even know how professional artists and reputable galleries work? I read reviews of other similar galleries on this site so you can understand what vanity galleries are all about....
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  • Art.Number23
    Hello, Know that these bastards have struck again with my case in Vienna. The opening is supposed to be on April 4, 2025 and I sent by mail as indicated in their instructions my works to the gallery address except that I went there with SIGNATURE as proof that they arrived because signed by the reception. So they arrive on March 21, 2025 at 12:54 p.m. I ask them for confirmation that day and Constantine tells...
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  • Galería Gaudí
    Someone here in 2025? I'm about to go with them to a fair in Paris, but after doing a lot of research on the gallery, I don't know what to do anymore....
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  • Galería Gaudí
    Hello, we are ready to hold an exhibition in Paris with them, we think it is reliable to have 3 works for €1500. With so many comments I am now undecided whether I should participate. Someone? help...
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  • STATION 16 GALLERY
    These thieves sold 6 works and didn't bother to tell me let alone pay me. They also destroyed another piece entirely and refused to pay for it. Lawsuit in process. Also goes under the name S16 Gallery, managed by Adam Vieira....
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  • Zürcher Gallery
    Exactly. She charges women artists to be in group shows while fairs are going on in NY for two weeks and then sells nothing....
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  • Residency Arquetopia
    ARQUETOPIA art residency is a scam run Francisco Guevara (Founder/Director), Christopher Davis (Co-founder/Co-director and Guevara's partner), and Nayeli Hernández (Program Director). They have 4 residencies: one in Puebla (where I went), one outside Oaxaca, one in Kusco, and one in Naples. According to the 100s of bad reviews on howsmydealung, all their residencies suck. They are cold, uncommunicative, pompous, pretentious, punishing, stingy amd miserly people who don't give a damn about artists....
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  • Context art gallery, Venice. AKA Marco Patrizio
    Translation - I too have been cheated by him. There are two works of art outstanding that I would very much like to have back!...
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  • Context art gallery, Venice. AKA Marco Patrizio
    Auch ich bin betrogen worden von ihm. Es stehen zwei Kunstwerke aus, die ich sehr gerne zurück haben möchte!...
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  • Residency Arquetopia
    ARQUETOPIA art residency is a scam run Francisco Guevara (Founder/Director), Christopher Davis (Co-founder/Co-director and Guevara's partner), and Nayeli Hernández (Program Director). They are cold, uncommunicative, pompous, pretentious, punishing, stingy amd miserly people who don't give a damn about artists. As scores of others have commented on the howsmydealing site, they were in a hurry to get my bank transfer, pretending the residency was very competetive, when in fact, the Puebla...
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  • ITSLIQUID GROUP
    Just received the flattering random email saying "we have visited your website and we are very interested in showing your work...." My suspicions also aroused by the very short deadline for submission of proposal =ie about 4 days from receiving the email - well known tactic of pressure selling/scams. From what I have read here and elsewhere I won't follow through on this...
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  • The Art Letters and Numbers in Averill Park
    You are right. The owner does everything she can to facilitate artists stay. I have been twice. It is a bit isolated but very warm and friendly, and you can show work in nice spaces in Assisi....
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  • Art box project
    I showed with them in Miami 2021 I think. Wynwood space in main area, staffed by friendly people. No sales, but they did shown the work on a screen as advertised. Pop up’s generally are not worth it....
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Don’t go to Arquetopia

This is a very poor excuse for a residency. The physical plant: sewage drains in the kitchen, under dining table. Caps move off the drains routinely. Stench. No hot water. (5 hour presentation on arrival. Rules. Rules. Rules. Most of them-nonsense Map lesson. Host never checked in with any of us for the duration (4 weeks). He avoided the residents at all cost.) No common meeting place. Library locked-inaccessible. No place to sit outside together in camaraderie. Caged birds. Cat piss smell on walkways. I’ve been invited to many residencies…average to lovely. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE TO ANYONE.…

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Arcade Project, M. Charlene Stevens

Unsettled by the fundraiser M Charlene Stevens, owner of Arcade Project, Arcade Project Curatorial and Arcade Zine has put up. Charlene positions herself as a constant victim but is entirely unprofessional, nasty and selfish. She owes money to dozens of people including myself, a BIPOC and will lash out if called out on. Charlene cannot secure a job because of her troublesome demeanor and entitlement. Do not work for or with Charlene.

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Roy’s Art Fair – A complete waste of time and money

Sadly I participated as an artist during last year’s Roys Art Fair in London. Overall I had a very disappointing experience with no sales, no one around me seemed to have sold also. Traffic was not great, the venue was at the most, extremely average. The management and owner is an artist who used the funds to pay for his participation at The Other Art fair and promote his art so clearly there is a conflict of interest and I would advise fellow artists to avoid them.

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The Sedona Arts Center – not illegal, but very unethical

Last Fall I submitted and got one piece juried into an exhibition at what I thought was a prestigious exhibition space at a perceived ‘arts destination,’ The Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona. I paid a thirty dollar entry free via Call For Entry. Since Sedona is only an hour away from my studio delivering the artwork to the venue wasn’t expensive or too time consuming. At drop-off the one person I met was cordial and professional. Later I returned to the gallery for the opening reception. It was a typical group show; not bad but a little uneven with…

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Holy Art Gallery?

Please look into The Holy Art Gallery They have just had an exhibition in London Oxo Bargehouse were the conditions we’re unbelievable. They take down any negative commits from artists. They do so many open calls a year. All contracts non refundable even though Artist at this exhibition, some had no gallery lighting, leaking roof, rubbish laying around, mice, no drinks nibbles at launch party, no proper sales sheets, no proof of promotion, poor footfall, visitors mostly family and friends, no proper signage outside or within the gallery. They took no responsibility for the conditions within the exhibition and were…

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Galleria Huuto

I was looking for exhibition opportunities in Nordic countries and found out a gallery in Helsinki, Galleria Huuto, apparently is “an independent artist run collective” managing three spaces and receiving funding from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, however it charges fees from 500€ up to 1500€ for a three week exhibition period. Does any finnish artist out there that know more about Galleria Huuto? http://www.galleriahuuto.net/?page_id=53&lang=en

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Divulgarti group

The assistant of the curator Loredana Trestin of Divulgarti group contacted me through Instagram and told me that they were impressed by my art and they want to invite me to an upcoming exhibition. I did my research: It’s a group exhibition in a handbag store in Milan. Yes you read it correctly: a handbag store. It’s called Galleria Cael. To participate it costs: – 1°work 350,00 € (for a size up to meter) – 2°works 600,00 € – 1°work € 400.00 (if more than one metre per one metre) – 2°works 700,00 € I’m not interested in vanity galleries…

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If you’re approached by “Gallerist” Marco Antonio Patrizio – Run!

It’s been a few years now. I was approached by italian gallerist Marco Antonio Patrizio who ran his gallery from Padua not far from Venice. Apparently he found me on Instagram. Besides running this gallery Mr Patrizio also attended various art exhibitions in different cities throughout Italy. We agreed on 5 of my pieces to be exhibited in Genua for a start and then to evaluate after Genua for a possible future collaboration. Nothing sold at the Genua exhibition and that’s OK. He brought my paintings back to his gallery in Padua (at least I think so) I asked for…

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Continua Gallery

In the early 2000s I was sexually assaulted by one of the three Galleria Continua gallerists. Anyone who worked with them, at least at the time, would easily guess who it was. I discussed it with one of the girls working for them at the time, and she said that she just accepted she had that kind of a boss and managed her way around it.

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Greenhouse Gallery – Walter aka“Dub” Wagnon aka WC Wagnon

WC Dub Wagnon was the last owner of Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio. He’s stolen many pieces of art from many different artists, never paid several artists and also skipped out on leases on properties. He’s the current owner of The Northwest Oklahoman, a newspaper in Ellis County Oklahoma. He lives in Arnett, OK. He also embezzled money from the Coppini Academy over the course of 6 years. Prior to that he was arrested and jailed twice for check forgery and selling electronic items and pocketing money from his previous job. All public records. If anyone is owed money by…

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