The Digital Artist Business Card
One scan shares your artist profile: CV, portfolio and statement. Keep your work ready for the next conversation.
No credit card required
Walk into any room already prepared.
Your Artist Card lives in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. At a gallery opening, a studio visit, a networking event. One scan and whoever you've just met has your full professional profile in their hands.
Your CV, your portfolio, your artist statement: everything a curator, collector, or collaborator actually needs.
Three steps to get set up.
Add your Artsume profile
Create your free Artsume account and build your artist profile: CV, portfolio, statement, and contact information. This becomes the destination when someone scans your card.
Generate your Artist Card
Artsume generates a digital Artist Card linked to your profile. Add it to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet in one tap. It lives on your phone, ready whenever you need it.
Share at openings and art fairs
At your next opening, fair, or studio visit, let someone tap or scan your card. They see your full professional profile, including your CV, portfolio, and contact information. No app download required.
Your profile, CV, and portfolio are all included. Create your Artsume.
One scan at an opening puts your CV, portfolio and statement in their hands.
Someone scans your card at a gallery opening, art fair, or studio visit. Your full artist profile lands on their phone: CV, portfolio, statement, contact. No app download required on their end.
Apple Wallet & Google Wallet. No app required to receive.
Your Artist Card lives alongside your boarding passes and credit cards. Pull it up and let someone tap or scan. Your profile is on their phone.
Artsume shows scan activity. See when people open your profile.
Every time someone scans your card, Artsume records when, where, and which surface it came from: the wallet pass, a printed QR, or a shared link. See your scan history and read the pattern in it.
One scan opens your full professional profile.
When a curator, collector, or gallerist scans your card, it opens your profile: cover, photo, statement, then your CV, portfolio, and exhibition history. It is your career record, not a social feed.
What you get:
- One scan puts your profile in their hands.
- Keep your card in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.
- A scan opens your CV, portfolio and statement.
- See when and where your card is scanned.
- Share your current profile from your artist card.
Common questions. Straight answers.
What is a digital artist business card?
A digital artist business card is a wallet-based card (Apple Wallet or Google Wallet) that shares your full artist profile when scanned. Unlike a paper card, it links directly to your CV, portfolio, and contact information.
How does the Artsume artist card work?
Add your Artist Card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. When someone taps or scans it, they see your Artsume profile: CV, portfolio, statement, and contact information. No app download required on their end.
Do people need an app to scan my card?
No. Anyone with a smartphone can tap (NFC) or scan (QR code) your card. It opens your profile directly in their browser. No download or account required.
What does my card show when someone scans it?
They see your full Artsume profile: CV, portfolio works, artist statement, and contact information. The same professional profile you'd send to a gallery or grant organization.
Can I track who scans my card?
Yes. Artsume shows scan activity with its date, city, and source: your wallet pass, a printed QR, or a shared link.
Is the artist card free?
Yes. The Artsume Artist Card is free for all artists. Your card, profile, CV, and portfolio are all included.
How is this different from a Linktree?
Linktree shows links. Artsume shows your career. When someone scans your Artist Card, they see your full CV with exhibition history, portfolio works with documentation, and artist statement.
Why artists need a digital business card
Why artists need a digital business card
Paper cards go in a drawer. A digital card goes directly to someone's phone and links to your full profile. The person you meet at an opening can access your CV and portfolio within seconds.
What is an NFC artist card?
An NFC artist card uses near-field communication (the same technology as contactless payments) to share your profile with a tap. No camera, no QR scanning needed. Someone holds their phone near your card and your profile appears.
Digital business card vs. paper card
Paper cards carry a name, website, and maybe a phone number. A digital artist card links to your CV, portfolio, statement, and contact information. Unlike paper, it updates automatically when you add new work or exhibitions.
What information should an artist business card include?
Your name, practice description, CV link, portfolio link, and contact information. Artsume's Artist Card includes all of this through your profile, so anyone who scans it can review your work and reach you directly.
Using your artist card at gallery openings and art fairs
Openings and fairs are fast. You have seconds with a curator or collector before the conversation moves on. A digital card lets you share your full profile in those seconds. They can review your CV and portfolio at their own pace later.
Read the interview“I also use the artist card in my phone wallet. When I meet someone, I can pull it up and say, “Here, scan this. It has everything.””
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Part of your Artsume profile
And the profile behind it.
What you get:
- Present your work and career in your professional art resume.
- Keep your CV current as your career develops.
- Find opportunities matched to your work and experience.
- See how often your profile and works are opened.
- Keep every opportunity, deadline and application in one place.
- Message organizations and peers without leaving Artsume.
Build your Artist Card, and the profile behind it. It's free.
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