Best Artist Websites of 2023 | 29 Inspiring Examples

When making artist websites, you’ll need a web design that works for your art portfolio. Great artists’ websites make art pop off the computer screen so that viewers can fully appreciate the work of art in front of them. In this article, we’ll show you many examples of websites of artists that we think are effective at conveying the art portfolios contained within.

Rose DatocDall

 

Rose is an artist known for her oil paintings, but she also holds art education seminars accessible via her website. Rose’s site design emphasizes her business savvy, with many teaser images linking viewers directly to her e-commerce store.

Rose’s site is notably balanced in terms of the color in each widget pane. The overall design of the site is minimalistic so her paintings take up the majority of the viewer’s attention.

Istvan Brinza

Istvan is a sculptor and still-life photographer known for his dramatic images cast in chiaroscuro lighting. Notably, Istvan’s website is designed to be substantially more visually busy than other portfolios for artist websites.

This means that the background pops off of the page and emphasizes the color contrasts in the art galleries. Each image effectively leads to the contact form where people can buy Istvan’s art.

Dan Katcher

Dan Katcher’s art combines digital paintings, CGI animations, and sculptures, all displayed in full glory on his portfolio website. Dan’s web design is decidedly image-focused, with background panels depicting works-in-progress for the image the viewer appreciates.

The other good thing about Dan’s site is that it has a section for art news regarding his upcoming projects and a social media downlink.

Luke Hawker

Luke Hawker’s ethereal drawings of architecture in various stages of construction are depicted pitch-perfectly on his website. Much like his sketches’ delicate pencil and pen lines, his site lacks colors to avoid detracting viewers’ attention to the galleries.

Luke’s social media integration is non-traditional, with an Instagram button at the top of his navigation bar. Nonetheless, it works and doesn’t detract from his drawings by introducing buttons or badges created in another artistic style.

Jay Adan

Jay Adan’s spunky sculpture and painting style perfectly fit his crisp yet quirky web design. Reminiscent of comic book pages rather than traditional art, Jay’s image galleries are full of New York’s attitude.

Jay’s portfolio is on full display on his artist website, but there’s also helpful information about pricing, purchasing, and his history as an artist from design school onward.

Juan Logan

Juan Logan is an artist who produces mixed-media paintings, wall art, and furniture, all in the style of Gustav Klimt. Juan’s site gets the landing page right and doesn’t bother the viewer with unnecessary information or cluttered design.

Juan’s landing page image is reminiscent of greeting cards, but you’ll find that his site navigation immediately brings the viewer to pictures with more depth soon after.

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Guy Gilray

With his ink sketches of countrysides, castles, and medieval engineering, Guy Gilray’s art is wholesome and bucolic. Guy’s work is dark and brooding in his oil paintings, and his website reflects both moods with extreme precision.

In terms of modern design standards, Guy’s website breaks all the rules. The background is dark, the text is a simple typeset, and the navigation is minimal. However, Guy’s site shines as a portfolio website because it provides his art with the space it needs to be perceived fully.

Miss Aniela

Miss Aniela’s fashion and photography site bridge the gap between complicated elements and simple galleries, creating the ideal portfolio in art. Aniela’s pet portraits are advertised separately from other navigation elements, emphasizing her photography and digital images without confusing thematic diversity.

Full of inspiration, Aniela’s e-commerce suite is minimal, but it’s enough to get buyers in the door. Overall, that’s the goal of many artists’ portfolios.

Rick Kennington Fine Art

Rick’s oil paintings of the American countryside in the age of the Wild West are uniquely emotional. Each of Rick’s paintings makes an appearance on his site, but the best thing about Rick’s style is that they tile together cleanly on his site.

In other words, Rick’s website design is built around his cohesive art style so that the individual paintings can be considered as part of a group. Most art exhibitions try to pull this off with white space, but Rick pulls it off with no extra space whatsoever.

Robert Wilson

With a uniquely quirky yet serious website, Robert Wilson understands exactly how he wants his viewers to perceive his art. With a navigation bar and social media buttons located at the bottom of the screen instead of the top, Robert creates the illusion of his art being on the stage and a viewer sitting in the audience.

This means that Robert’s website is highly effective at making his art pop off the screen. Many artist websites would do well to take note.

Mountain Galleries

Unlike many other photography projects or artistic websites, Mountain Galleries bucks the trend to provide a straightforward and no-nonsense user experience. There aren’t any fancy design tricks or sophisticated image galleries with Mountain Galleries.

Instead, you’ll find that the website is oriented towards getting visitors to purchase prints or arrange a phone call to purchase an oil painting. For one website designed to sell the output of multiple artists, it’s hard to see how it could be done differently.

Beti Kristof

Beti Kristof’s cheerful pastel and oil paintings pop off the page with their vibrant green and red colors. Beti’s artist website is the product of a website builder put to use. While the e-commerce options are rudimentary, Beti’s art speaks for itself.

Beti’s watercolor paintings also appear on her site, but the focus is on showcasing her latest exhibition pieces. For a visual artist, this is an excellent approach.

Denisa Prochazka

 

Denisa Prochazka’s stunning sculptures and earthworks are showcased with great skill on her graphic designer website. On the front page, each of Denisa’s latest works is in a mini-gallery for viewers to get a sense of her range.

There aren’t any bursts of color on Denisa’s art website because that would distract the viewer. Likewise, social media badges are understated and nearly hidden to prevent them from detracting from her sculptures.

Susan Woodford

Susan’s sculptures capture the art of motion, and her website is no different. Where other artists might refrain from using text to center the viewer’s attention, Susan’s site does not, and it works to her advantage.

The minimalist aspects of the design are matched by a neutral color scheme, which brings out the hues and shapes of Susan’s art.

Nancy Stonington

Nancy Taylor Stonington’s artist portfolio website is a testament to her beautiful landscape paintings in acrylic and oil. The top navigation bar works to provide the information you might need at a glance while also reserving a large amount of screen space to view her showcase.

Nancy’s portfolio is distributed in a conversion-oriented fashion by linking each work of art to an e-commerce platform, so it’s clear that it helps her to move more of her work to the market.

The Tokyoiter

With style intentionally evoking the New Yorker magazine’s front page typography, the Tokyoiter site depicts a handful of parodies of New Yorker covers. Each cover is rendered at the appropriate size for viewers to appreciate, and the gallery-first layout means that it’s easy for viewers to get engrossed the moment they land on the page.

The site’s color scheme is white and black, and it works because the art has a vast array of colors that shine through.

Allison Lyons

Allison Lyons’ sculptures, paintings, and mixed-media masterpieces are front and center with her portfolio website’s design. Thanks to her site’s flat design and infinitely scrolling gallery on the landing page, Allison makes it easy for viewers to see what they want.

The navigation bar also ensures that viewers who want something other than the main gallery can quickly find exactly what they need. Notably, the social media badges are at the very top, right under the navigation bar, which is a nice touch.

Philippa Rice

Philippa Rice’s pop-art style digital images are full of life and attitude, but her website design is the opposite. With its white background and orange text, the site might be a candidate for the most boring of the year — if Philippa’s lovely artwork didn’t populate it.

Philippa’s site is exactly what artist portfolio sites should be: impressive because of the art because the art is the largest element of how the design looks when considered all at once. While no artist portfolio site is perfect, Philippa’s comes very close.

Mario Radev

Mario’s surrealist paintings, drawings, digital art, and mixed media art are somewhere between disturbing and fascinating. The site design is extremely simplistic to avoid detracting from the spectacle, and its coloration is entirely absent.

Interestingly, Mario’s site design would also probably work if it were in black rather than in white.

Dan Frantz

Dan Frantz’s sports and travel photography is cinematic and packed with emotion. On the landing page, Dan highlights quality photographs from prior shoots while also describing in a brief caption whether the art is a commercial, a music video, or a photo shoot.

Captioning images in this way is a gamble for a gallery page because it adds visual clutter. However, Dan’s page avoids any pitfalls because it doesn’t try to display too many images simultaneously.

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Emily Mercedes

Emily Mercedes’ watercolor and pencil drawings of animals, vehicles, and household items have a pleasing aesthetic. Each one of her paintings is, in effect, a small gallery of drawings arranged in a grid gallery.

To capture the benefit of each piece’s internal organization on her website, Emily arranges her gallery pieces in a grid, making each piece easily scannable. There’s also a contact us functionality built into the lower right portion of her site, which is a bonus.

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Ben and Julia Studio

Ben and Julia’s site is a collage of their bizarre surrealist paintings, photographs, digital images, and drawings. With such a diverse collection of visually confusing art, it’s no surprise that the duo opted to make their website design barebones.

There’s a clear separation between the portions of the site intended for viewing art and the site intended for handling logistical matters like following their exhibitions or visiting their studios. This helps to keep viewers focused on the art and not the details.

Alonsa Guevara

Alonsa Guevara’s explosive photographs of fruit and flowers jump off of her website thanks to a minimalist design with few visual elements other than text. Rather than displaying images in a gallery, with Alonsa’s site, you can view each individually in series.

This means that the site is less scannable, but a better portfolio website for getting people to purchase individual paintings that are particularly impressive.

Jeff Hein

Jeff Hein’s’ pseudo-realistic photography style uses light and human facial expressions to create stunning displays of emotion. With such a complicated artistic style, Jeff needs a dead-simple artist portfolio site.

But Jeff needs a way to direct visitors to his design school and photography school services, so the simplest possible design wouldn’t accomplish all of his goals. Thus, Jeff’s navigation bar is a bit wider than his paintings to provide a framing bracket for the visuals without disrupting them.

Creature Creature

 

Creature Creature’s iconic Japanese pop-art murals and graphic designs are absolutely stunning. Because some of their work is designed to be depicted as street art in urban locales like New York City, it’s often necessary to include a photograph of their art on display rather than the art’s unedited digital image.

To get around this requirement, their artist portfolio website has a wide layout with an understated navigation bar to leave more visual space for the art to be shown in the way that it was intended.

Eric Pickersgill

Eric’s black and white photography could only be matched by a website that suits his visual style. Eric’s web design emphasizes easy browsing rather than a detailed examination of his portfolio, which is perfect for his work style.

The only thing missing from Eric’s site is an effective e-commerce platform.

Caroline Drogo

Caroline Drogo’s site is an excellent balance of colorful paintings and understated design elements that guide the viewer’s eye to the correct location. Known for her Afro-Hispanic subjects and visual color tropes, Caroline’s social media integrations are easy to locate but thankfully not in the foreground.

Caroline went as far as to keep her navigation menu options in a very light gray. It slightly impedes navigation by users, but the color of her paintings more than makes up for it.

Alex Tran

Alex Tran’s photographs and digital paintings are all portraits, making fitting them into the same gallery somewhat tricky. To solve this problem, Alex’s site has two different sizes for images in the gallery so that two larger images flank two smaller and wider images in the center.

Overall, it’s hard to say that Alex’s unique web design approach is anything short of brilliance. While it probably won’t render correctly on a mobile device, an essential thing about Alex’s site is that it gives the viewer the ability to appreciate more than one piece of art at a glance, even when the pieces are very different thematically and visually.

Herrick Gallery

As with many websites dedicated to the works of more than one artist, the Herrick Gallery site trades off first-page galleries for ease of navigation. While the first page technically has a gallery, it isn’t any artist’s portfolio but giant navigation buttons.

Once you navigate into the gallery’s pages, you can see the portfolios of the individual artists while also getting more information from the in-line captions.

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