2016 - According to the study, nearly one fifth (19 percent) of American artists represented at the selected New York galleries graduated from Yale. (research conducted by CUNY’s Guttman College in the fall of 2016,) https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-york-galleries-study-979049
2017 - The discount for women’s art at auction is 47.6%; even removing the handful of “superstar” artists that skew the data, the discount is still significant at 28%
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=30835002018 - Overall, 96.1% of artworks sold at auction are by male artists
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=30790172018 - There are no women in the top 0.03% of the auction market, where 41% of the profit is concentrated. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=3079017
2017 - 93% of U.S. museum directors are white
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/museum-boards-directors-whitest-getting-whiter/
2017 - 46% … of U.S. museum boards are all white
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/museum-boards-directors-whitest-getting-whiter/
2018 - Disappointingly, some studies also suggested that artists born into countries without access to high-prestige institutions tended to stay low prestige throughout their careers.
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aau7224