Short artist bio sample
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Biographies About
Visual Artists
From Renaissance masters to modern rebels, hear the stories of people with a gift
for seeing the ideal and imaginary—and making us believe.
Van Gogh
- The Life
- By: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
Overall
Performance
Story
Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials and illuminated with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul....
- 5 out of 5 stars
Empathy for a True Artist
- By Sojourning Hope on 05-04-21
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An artist biography (or ‘artists biog’) is a paragraph or two about you and your career as a practitioner. It may also contain a line about the key themes to your practice.
Biographies are often confused with other tools used for self-promotion. A biography differs from an artist’s CV in being only written in prose. An artist statement talks about the work and the thinking behind it. A biography talks about the person themselves.
What to include in your artists’ biog
The sort of key information in an artist’s biography might be:
- Your name
- The medium you work in
- A line about the key themes, concerns of your practice.
- Your showing history
- Your art related education (degree level onwards)
- Other interesting information relevant to your practice or career as an artist (e.g. collaborations or arts collectives, other areas or aspects to your career that inform your practice)
- Where you live and work
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10 Artist Biographies To Read This Year
What would the winter holidays be without those warm, comforting afternoons spent under the blankets or close by the chimney? If you’ve exhausted all the classics of French literature and the summer’s bestsellers, why not try another genre: the artists’ biography? Since many artists have lived thrilling lives, Artsper suggests these biographies of artists whose lives make for a compelling novel!
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Dazzling Epic of the Precursor of Street Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), whose works can be found on Artsper, was undoubtedly one of the artists who made the biggest impressions on the New York underground art scene in the 1980s.
Born in Brooklyn, this African-American with a rebellious temperament left school when he was a teenager to devote himself to his passion: art. His personal graffitis were quickly noticed for their tribal signs and naïve characters. Criticizing consumerism and the exclusion of ethnic communities, Basquiat has his first exhibition at the age of 21. This remarkabl