Looking at examples of what artists can do with their online presence can help you find inspiration and motivation to get your portfolio launched. Here are eight of our favorite fine art portfolios, each with an approach as unique as their work.
Anna Froelich/JAMES
**Flashing light warning for anyone with sensitivities.
One of the most inventive and compelling portfolios I have ever seen. Anna Froelich’s use of animation, space, and timing on her incredible portfolio is inspiring as to what can be done on our platform.
Format theme: Slate
Dominique Van Olm
Filmmaker and photographer Dominique Van Olm has perfect instincts for immersion into the narrative of a site. The full-frame scroll of images, contrasted with galleries that leave space for images to breathe, shows an understanding of timing I would expect of a filmmaker.
Format theme: Sun
Keizo Ueno
Austere, and contemplative, Keizo Ueno’s portfolio of photographs is beautifully restrained, leaving viewers to take time to make connections between the two frames sidled up by the column design. A timeless and elegant portfolio that allows the artist’s work to speak.
Format theme: Frame
Josh Juett
Delightfully weird, Juett’s work takes up the space it needs in this engrossing portfolio with a staggered grid. His bizarre figures interact through their placement, all markers of a well-built and curated portfolio.
Format theme: Mica
Joy Kim
Kim’s beautiful illustrations, which elevate daily rituals and mundane objects, float atop the scrolling surface of this light, airy portfolio.
Format theme: Clarity
Diego Muñoz Olivar
Designer and artist Diego Muñoz Olivar’s site has the kind of careful, cutting edge consideration you would expect from someone well-versed in design principles and communication. Every project section is engaging, and has a little life of its own.
Format theme: Flash
Elliot Petenbrink
Artist Elliot Petenbrink was recently featured in one of our Visual Essays, but as his portfolio site is a work in and of itself, it bears repeating!
Browse through the pairings of images, and search for hidden Easter eggs in the customization of his website.
Format theme: Kiln
Kaylee Peters
Artist Kaylee Peters uses the white negative space to perfect effect in order to show the physical forms of her cyanotypes, repurposing boxes and cartons. The left-to-right navigation through their serialized work demonstrates the series progression and image relationships without taking away from the center focus.
Format theme: Horizon Left
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