Artist portfolio
A focused, fast artist portfolio website
You do not need a custom-coded website to present your work professionally. What you need is a clean public page, connected to your inventory, that updates when your work does and can also be embedded on the website you already have.
Build your portfolio from saved artwork records
Add a few works, upload a logo and headshot, write a short bio, then share the link or copy the embed code for your website.
Portfolio publishing, branding, and website embeds are included on Free. External checkout and Available Works require Starter or Studio.
What a portfolio actually needs
A portfolio website earns its keep when it does four things and does them well:
- Shows your work at high quality, without cropping or color drift
- Lets a visitor understand who you are quickly
- Makes it obvious how to get in touch or enquire about a piece
- Stays accurate as your work changes
The last one is where most custom-built artist websites quietly die. A site is fine on launch day; six months later it's out of sync, the bio is outdated, and three sold pieces are still listed as available. An inventory-connected portfolio fixes that by making the inventory the source of truth.
The portfolio connected to your inventory
Artwork Codex gives you a public portfolio page at a clean URL (artworkcodex.com/p/your-name) that pulls directly from your artwork records. When you update a selected piece, its public details reflect the saved record without maintaining a second copy.
No CMS, no static site rebuild, no "I'll update the website on the weekend." The website is the inventory, simply filtered to what you want public.
Branding controls that matter
- Your logo at the top of the page
- Headshot and bio in an About drawer
- Light or dark mode
- Selection and ordering of which works appear
- Clean, semantic URLs for each public artwork
- Optional price, availability, enquiry, purchase request, or gallery action
- Seller-owned external checkout on Starter or Studio
You're not trying to win a design award. You're trying to present serious work professionally. These controls are enough to do that, without being enough to get lost in.
Embed it on the website you already use
If you already have a website on WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, or your own hosting, you can embed the saved Artwork Codex portfolio there. Copy the universal embed code from the Portfolio dashboard, paste it into a code block, and the embedded gallery updates whenever the saved portfolio changes.
Website builders that ask for an external page or iframe URL can use the direct embed link instead. Either way, Artwork Codex remains the inventory source of truth and your public website stays current.
Reorder the portfolio like a real exhibition
The portfolio reorder panel is a drag-and-drop grid with multi-select, lasso selection, arrow-key nudging, and undo/redo. You can arrange a portfolio the way you'd hang an exhibition, not the way a spreadsheet wants to sort it.
Sort buttons for year, title, medium, category, and price are there if you want them. Custom ordering is always an option.
Portfolio plus private viewing rooms
A public portfolio is your shop window. A private viewing room is useful for a more focused buyer conversation. Artwork Codex includes both: your public portfolio for discovery, and password-protected viewing rooms for curated collector conversations. Free includes one viewing room, Starter includes five, and Studio includes unlimited viewing rooms.
You can also add a clear buying path to selected available works. Read how to sell art online from your portfolio with an enquiry, purchase request, gallery link, or seller-owned external checkout.
Same inventory, two different contexts. You're not maintaining two separate systems.
SEO-friendly out of the box
Public portfolio pages are server-rendered and have proper meta tags and OpenGraph previews. When you turn on Allow search engines, the portfolio is included in the sitemap and can be considered for search results. When you turn it off, the page remains available to people with its exact link but asks search engines not to index it.
For an artist, that's usually the difference between a website that generates real inbound enquiries and one that nobody ever finds.
When a portfolio is enough, and when it isn't
For most individual artists, a single public portfolio plus private viewing rooms is enough. You get a professional presence, a way to share selected work with specific people, and all of it stays synchronized with your inventory.
If you need a large shop with a cart, complex stock rules, automated order handling, or many product types, a dedicated commerce platform may fit better. Artwork Codex is strongest when you need a clean, inventory-connected portfolio with direct enquiries, purchase requests, gallery representation, or a checkout link that you own.