What should an artist statement include?

What you make, how you make it, and why, written in first person and present tense. Influences and intended viewer experience are optional. Exhibition history belongs in the bio and CV.

How long should an artist statement be?

150 to 300 words for most uses. Juried calls and grant applications often set their own limits, so check before submitting.

What is the difference between an artist statement and an artist bio?

The statement is first person and about the work. The bio is third person and about you: location, medium, education, and career highlights.

Does this artist statement generator use AI?

No. It arranges the words you type into standard statement and bio structure. Nothing is invented and nothing is sent anywhere.

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The basics

Used in both documents.

Name

Pronouns (for the bio)

Discipline painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer...

Based in

The work

Answer in plain language, like you're telling a friend.

What do you make? Finish the sentence "I make..." e.g. "large-scale oil paintings of unseen landscapes"

How do you make it? Process, materials, techniques. e.g. "layering thin glazes over photo studies taken on long walks"

What is it about? Themes, questions, obsessions. e.g. "memory, familiarity, and the strangeness hiding in ordinary places"

Influences (optional) Artists, movements, experiences. e.g. "Paul Klee, nature, and years of inspecting the unknown"

What should the viewer feel or notice? (optional) e.g. "a second look at places they pass every day"

The record (for the bio)

All optional. Empty fields are skipped, so the bio never has awkward gaps.

Education e.g. "a BFA in Painting from MICA"

Exhibition highlights 2 to 4 venues reads best. e.g. "the Creative Alliance, School 33 Art Center"

Awards and residencies e.g. "a Maryland State Arts Council grant and a residency at the Vermont Studio Center"

Collections and press e.g. "private collections across the mid-Atlantic and BmoreArt"

Artist statement

Before you send it

Statements run 150 to 300 words: first person, present tense, about the work rather than your resume.
Read it out loud. If you would never say a sentence to a real person, cut it or rewrite it.
Ban list: "juxtaposition," "liminal," "interrogates," "praxis." If a plainer word exists, use it.
This is a first draft. Rearrange it, roughen it up, make it yours.

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