Contemporary artists continue to garner interest for their work—and their sales. Ringling College of Art and Design alum Blair Whiteford ’13, Fine Arts, was recently among eight artists singled out by Artnet for big spikes in price searches over the last year.
According to the Artnet article “From Zero to Hero,” each artist featured was the subject of zero searches on the Artnet Price Database in 2023 and then dozens in 2024. With more than 17 million vetted and verified auction results, the database is one of the world’s most comprehensive records of art sales.
Whiteford, who also received his MFA from Yale University in 2019, set a personal record for his 2020 piece, Mass Controller when it sold for $63,500 in New York on November 15, 2023.