Clarissa Keener
3 min readNov 13, 2020

HOW TO WRITE AN ARTIST STATEMENT

Something that all artists need, but it can be difficult to put together. The main thing you want to remember is to be concise and clear. Do not be pretentious. You will alienate your buyers, and come off sounding pompous. Say you are a painter, and your style is impressionism. You do not want to use the word ‘impressionism.’ Your artist statement should make sense to anyone reading it. Not everyone knows every genre of painting. Instead, I would try…