Toronto based International Art House specializes in purchasing art at auctions on behalf of individual and corporate clients. Furthermore, IAH offers art valuation services. It is the objective of the International Art House to create and nurture long lasting and mutually beneficial relationships with our clientele while helping them expand on their art collections. We thank you for visiting our web site and look forward to helping you augment your art collections in the near future.
Alma Handzic, IAH Director & Art Dealer
Alma Handzic founded the International Art House in 2005 combining her educational background in Business Management and History of Art with her professional experience gained while working in commercial galleries in Edmonton, AB and Toronto, ON.
Alma's appreciation of art and a desire to be involved in the world of art stems from an early age and was inspired by her parents' collection of Eastern European art as well as the gatherings often frequented by most interesting characters, artists, writers and scholars. While living in Eastern Europe and Canada, Alma has extensively travelled through Europe and has visited parts of North American and African continents, where she explored galleries and museums filled with art previously seen in her art history books. Earnest to start her professional career in the exciting world of art and very shortly after her convocation, Alma made a decisive move to Toronto, a city with a rich and thriving art scene.
Since the inception of the International Art House, Alma had a number of successful art exhibitions featuring Canadian and International artists, whom she had a great pleasure of working with. Having gained clients on whose behalf she purchases art at auctions, having had organized donation of art works to government operated art galleries among other interesting assignments, Alma looks forward to new and exciting projects.
EDUCATION
George Brown College, Fundraising and Volunteer Management Certificate, 2005
University of Alberta, Bachelor of Arts, Art History, 2003
Grant MacEwan College, Management Studies Diploma, 1999
COMMITTEE INVOLVEMENT
Collections Committee, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2005 - 2006
Fundraising Committee, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2005
MEMBERSHIPS
Art Gallery of Ontario
Visual Arts Ontario