Mr. Tobias Czudej, AAA Certified
USPAP compliant through:
03/22/2026
Specialization(s)
Postwar, Contemporary, and Emerging Art
Member Type
Certified Member
Service(s)
Charitable Donation; Estate Tax Liability; Equitable Distribution; Insurance
Appraiser's Statement
Tobias Czudej is an appraiser and advisor specialized in Post-War, Contemporary and Emerging Art. He is a certified member of the Appraisers Association of America (AAA), a partner at Art Valuation Audit and founder and principal of Czudej LLC, a fine art consultancy firm providing professional services to leading public and private collections, family offices, foundations and institutions worldwide. Czudej began his career at Gagosian Gallery, moving on to run the London Soho location for Pace where he had the opportunity to work with artists and estates such as Cy Twombly, Mike Kelley, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko and Claes Oldenburg. He is additionally recognized as a curator, having organized over thirty exhibitions at institutions and commercial galleries worldwide featured in publications such as Art Forum, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times and more. Known equally as a market professional with over a decade of experience at the top level of the blue-chip art market as well as a cutting-edge curator of contemporary art, Czudej is uniquely positioned to appraise artworks at all levels of the Post-War and Contemporary art market as well as provide strategic guidance for short and long-term goals including comprehensive collection assessment, development and management. Czudej holds a BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Recent lectures and panels participated in include: Yale University, New Haven, USA; Deloitte , Switzerland; Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK; CMCA, Maine, USA, Goldsmiths University, London, UK.
Office:
1 World Trade Centre, Suite 8500
New York, NY, 10007
Appraisal Services:
Museum Donation (IRS, CRA, CCPERB)
Insurance
Equitable distribution
Estate tax and planning
Art Financing (Collateral lending)
Appraisal Review
Litigation Support
Dispute Resolution & Mediation
Second Opinion & Reappraisal
Gift tax
Loss and damage
Sales advisory
Acquisition advisory
Damage & Loss
Categories
Contemporary
Emerging
Minimalism
Conceptual
Blue-Chip
Ultra-contemporary
Post-Internet
American
European
Asian
Abstract
Figurative
Photo-Realism
Monochrome
Light and Space
Neo-Geo
Pictures Generation
DADA
Color-Field
Chicago Imagists
Surrealism
Outsider
Op-Art
Arte Povera
Pop
YBAs
Mediums
Painting
Sculpture
Photography
Drawing
Prints
New Media
Video
NFTs
Multi-Media
Performance
Installation
Artists
Josef Albers
Kai Althoff
Richard Artschwager
Ruth Asawa
Michael Asher
Frank Auerbach
Lutz Bacher
Francis Bacon
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Lynda Benglis
Joseph Beuys
Alighiero Boetti
Lee Bontecou
Cecily Brown
Daniel Buren
Alexander Calder
Vija Celmins
John Chamberlain
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Willem de Kooning
Lois Dodd
Trisha Donnelly
Lynne Drexler
Jean Dubuffet
Marcel Duchamp
Marlene Dumas
Jana Euler
Dan Flavin
Lucio Fontana
Robert Frank
Helen Frankenthaler
Lucian Freud
Lee Friedlander
Isa Genzken
Adrian Ghenie
Luigi Ghirri
Alberto Giacometti
Sam Gilliam
Robert Gober
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
Dan Graham
Wade Guyton
R.H. Quaytman
Hans Haacke
Peter Halley
Richard Hamilton
David Hammons
Marsden Hartley
Robert Heinecken
David Hockney
Shara Hughes
Robert Irwin
Kerry James Marshall
Jasper Johns
Rashid Johnson
Donald Judd
Alex Katz
Mike Kelley
Ellsworth Kelly
Edward Kienholz
Martin Kippenberger
Yves Klein
Franz Kline
Imi Knoebel
Jeff Koons
Jannis Kounellis
Lee Krasner
Michael Krebber
Yayoi Kusama
Michaël Borremans
Louise Lawler
Sherrie Levine
Sol LeWitt
Roy Lichtenstein
El Lissitzky
Morris Louis
Lee Lozano
Tala Madani
Kazimir Malevich
Agnes Martin
John McCracken
Julie Mehretu
Mario Merz
Joan Mitchell
Henry Moore
Giorgio Morandi
Robert Morris
Robert Motherwell
Bruce Nauman
Louise Nevelson
Barnett Newman
Julien Nguyen
Isamu Noguchi
Cady Noland
Kenneth Noland
Jim Nutt
Georgia O’Keefe
Albert Oehlen
Chris Ofili
Claes Oldenburg
Laura Owens
Elizabeth Peyton
Blinky Palermo
Nicolas Party
Agnes Pelton
Adam Pendleton
Francis Picabia
Sigmar Polke
Jackson Pollock
Seth Price
Robert Rauschenberg
Ad Reinhardt
Gerhard Richter
Bridget Riley
Mark Rothko
Ed Ruscha
Lucas Samaras
Jenny Saville
Thomas Schütte
Kurt Schwitters
Park Seo Bo
Richard Serra
Cindy Sherman
Avery Singer
David Smith
Pierre Soulages
Frank Stella
Clyfford Still
Rudolf Stingel
Thomas Ruff
Sturtevant
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Alina Szapocznikow
László Moholy-Nagy
Paul Thek
Bob Thompson
Wolfgang Tillmans
Rosemarie Trockel
James Turrell
Luc Tuyman
Cy Twombly
Lee Ufan
Andra Ursuta
Dahn Vo
Andy Warhol
Lawrence Weiner
Fischli & Weiss
Franz West
Jack Whitten
Jordan Wolfson
Matthew Wong
Jonas Wood
Christopher Wool
Zao Wou-Ki
Zhang Xiaogang
Liang Yuanwei
and more.
We serve:
Private Collectors
Estates
Artists
Law firms
Museums
Private Wealth Management
Family Offices