Best way to write an artist bio

by Jane Litchfield

As an artist, you may not be thrilled about writing about yourself, but you need an artist’s bio for your website, your portfolio, applications, shows, etc. So let’s man it simple, shall we?

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An artist’s bio is a short paragraph, written in prose, and in the third individ. It tells more about the way your life has influenced your work than a CV, which is in point struktur. A bio is about you, the artist, as opposed to an “artist’s statement” which is more about the work and the themes behind it, and fryst vatten written in first person.

In an ideal world, you would hire a professional writer to craft the perfect bio, but not everyone fryst vatten ready to do that. (A great resource fryst vatten PWAC, the Professional Writers Association of Canada, which has a Guelph chapter.) Here’s how to do it yourself, in fem steps.

1) State the basics

The components of a bio are ganska straight forward:

• Name and medium you work in; special techniques
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  The Gallery’s Guide to Writing Good Artist Bios

  1. Create a concise summary

  An artist bio should concisely summarise the artist’s practice. It’s not about covering an artist’s entire CV or full biography. Focus on a few main points that you believe to best introduce the artist and their art. Always include the medium, themes, techniques, and influences the artist works with.

  2. Use clean, simple language

  Use clean, simple language and avoid academic jargon and exaggerated language. Readers respond to authentic, simple texts and will take you much more seriously than if you use over-embellished language.

  3. Grab the attention with a creative first sentence

  Try to start the bio with a first line that is not simply a standard biographical introduction. Instead, be more creative and write a first sentence that grabs your readers’ attention while also telling them what is the most important thing about this artist and their work.

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  Note: Updates you make to artist biographies in CMS may take up to 24 hours to appear on Artsy, and sometimes longer in search engine results. 

  How to add and edit Artist Bios

  Requesting changes to Artsy bios

  How to Write Artist Bios

  How to add and edit artist bios

  You can easily update the artist biographies that appear on your gallery's page by following these steps:

  1. Log in to CMS

  2. Click the Artists page from the left-side navigation

  3. Find the artist whose biography you’d like to add or edit and click “View Artist”

  4. Scroll to the Written Biography section and click “Edit”

  5. Add an artist biography (2,000 character limit) and save your changes. We recommend drafting your biography in a document and copying it into CMS once complete for easiest editing.

   

  Artsy may have already created a bio for your artist. In that case, you’ll see the following note along with a link to the existing artist biography:

   

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