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Category
Art modeling jobs and figure model jobs
Life drawing, sculpture, fine-art photography and academic figure work.
Live results
Art models, filtered
The category filter is already applied. Narrow it further by city, age, height or availability.
No profiles are published yet
The grid only ever shows profiles a person has read and approved, and it never pads itself with people who do not exist, so it is empty rather than filled with stock faces. Here is the shape of a card instead: the fields every profile publishes, and the nine categories they publish them under. Search and filtering work now, and the first approved profile appears here the moment it passes review.
What a card holds
The image a search result shows.
And what it publishes
- Display name
- Set by the model
- Category
- One or more of nine
- City
- Where they work
- Age · Height
- From date of birth · cm
- Day rate
- Published range
- Availability
- Now · this month · booked
Where a profile can list
A model can list in several at once, and a brand can filter on several at once.
What brands book it for
Art schools and universities, life-drawing groups, sculptors, fine-art photographers, painters.
The buyer here is usually an in-house marketing manager, a photographer or a production coordinator with a brief and a date, not a casting director. That is why the filters are city, availability and physical criteria rather than credits and union status.
Hire a model →What your portfolio needs
Held poses with the duration noted, a range of dynamic and long poses, and your stated comfort with clothed or unclothed work.
Quantity is not the point. A booker opens a profile, decides in about fifteen seconds whether you fit the brief, and then checks whether your rate and your availability make the shoot possible. Everything in the profile should serve one of those two questions.
Building the portfolio →Figure model jobs
Figure model jobs and life drawing model jobs
Art schools, university art departments, community life drawing groups, private ateliers, sculptors and fine-art photographers. There is no agency market for this work: an art model agency barely registers as a search, and schools hire models themselves, usually by the hour, after an application and often a background check.
The rate is set by the school, not negotiated per booking. The University of Texas at Austin art department pays its models $25 an hour for three-hour sessions of 30-minute sittings and 30-second gesture poses, and ZipRecruiter put the US average for a life drawing art model at $19.50 an hour in July 2026, most between about $15 and $24. Private groups, sculptors and photographers pay more and book less often, and they are the clients who search for a model by city and by the pose terms she states up front.
Questions
How much do figure models get paid?
How do I find figure model jobs near me?
Do you need an agency to be an art model?
Rates in this category
We do not publish a rate table
Every site that prints one is either quoting a survey it will not name or making the number up, and a stale figure does more damage than no figure: it becomes the ceiling a brand negotiates down from. On MaxGirls the rate is whatever the model publishes on their own profile, visible before anyone makes contact, and we never take a share of it.
What actually moves the number is the same in every category: the usage license, the length of the day, the market, and whether exclusivity is being asked for. Those are worth understanding before you set your own range.
The other categories
The rest of the sheet
Art models by city
Get started
List in Art and be findable by the brief
Create your profile, and a person will review it before it goes live.