Artist biography format pages
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How To Write A Professional Artist Bio
The artist’s biography is arguably one of the most crucial pieces of text and forms of communication for your art career. After reading, writing, and reviewing thousands of artists’ biographies, we have identified all the necessary ingredients for a professional and industry-approved artist biography, empowering artists to have the best chances for success in the high-end art world, explained and illustrated in a step-by-step guide on how you can write your own artist bio.
First and foremost, we must very briefly discuss what makes a sound or professional artist bio. Here at CAI, we offer career advice for artists for success in the highest realms of the art world, pursuing artistic quality, critical recognition, and established gallery representation. From this perspective and objective, we must follow some unwritten rules of the art world so they will take us seriously. As a result, the artist’s bio is not written in
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Wikipedia:Artist biography article template
Enter the name of the subject in the box below and click on "Create draft" to create your draft biography.
Below is a preview of what will be created:
Artist biography article template |
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[Your artist's name here] (1900–2015) was / is an [type of artist] known for [what he/she is known for].[1]
Biography
[Name] was born ... [2]
Career
[More information about the artist's career goes here ...] [3]
Works
- Famous work here
- Another famous work here
- Another famous work here
References
- ^[citation to reliable source, print or e, goes here]
- ^[citation to reliable source, print or e, goes here]
- ^[citation to reliable source, print or e, goes here]
Further reading
- Important book to know about
- Important e-book to know about
- Important article to know about
External links
- Useful website link and name
- Useful website link and name
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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:
Log in to CMS
Click the Artists page from the left-side navigation
Find the artist whose biography you’d like to add or edit and click “View Artist”
Scroll to the Written Biography section and click “Edit”
- 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:
Artsy already provides a bio for t