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Virginia Damtsa, Director of VVA VirginiaVisualArts Ltd. is an Art Dealer, Art Gallery and Art Agency with 26 years experience in the art market. Virginia was born in Athens, educated in Paris and London where she finished her studies with two Masters in Art from Sotheby's Institute and University of the Arts, London.

Virginia did her first deal at the age of sixteen, opened her first gallery in London at the age of twenty, co-owned the gallery Riflemaker London for fourteen years, facilitated and closed some important art deals and taught and lectured at Christie’s. She showed established artists like Gavin Turk, Judy Chicago, William Burroughs, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz alongside emerging. However, her main passion is to discover new upcoming artists and help them break into the art market.

She still now manages fifty artists, has her own art school, mentors Artists and Creatives, writes about art in major financial newspapers, features on TV as an Art World Expert and creates links and sales between artists, galleries, major collectors and museums.

Her agency helps artists to break into the art market with introductions and by creating new opportunities.

For exhibitions, Virginia uses two art spaces, one in Marylebone and the other in Fitzrovia where she mainly shows mid-career and emerging international contemporary artists. She runs at least more than 20 art exhibitions a year.