Netvvrk’s New Visions Report Featured in ARTnews
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Brian Boucher at ARTnews shares the highlights from the New Visions Report. Boucher introduces the survey and establishes its importance to the field. He writes,
The art world may not be the most data-informed industry, but there are regular reports on the art market, such as the UBS Art Basel Market Report, which surveys auction houses, galleries, and fairs; UBS collector surveys; and the Artnet Intelligence Report, which analyzes that company’s proprietary auction data. If you noticed that artists don’t seem to appear in those reports, well, New York artist mentor Paddy Johnson is one step ahead of you. Her inaugural New Visions Report, released Wednesday, surveyed 1,000 mid-career creators with the aim of assessing their careers the same way other businesses are evaluated.
Boucher goes on to report on several of the more significant findings in the report.
The majority of these artists rely on other income, with 57 percent holding down a full-time or part-time day job. The market contraction has hit artists pretty hard, with 45 percent earning less in 2025 than they did in 2024, even though 64 percent kept their prices flat, suggesting that they, not their collectors, are taking the hit of the market contraction and rising inflation.
Yet for all of these problems, there are some highlights, pulled out the survey’s business analyst, Tim Schneider, and used to close out the article.
Artists remain hopeful all the same, with some 73 percent of respondents ranking their career prospects 3 or higher on a scale of 0 to 5. Many are taking action on that hopeful attitude, with 86 percent setting professional goals, 79 percent socking away money in savings accounts, retirement funds, and/or emergency funds.
