Presentations

Tracking the provenance of your artworks includes keeping track of events where they’ve been displayed. This includes solo or group exhibitions, art fair booths, online viewing rooms, grant or residency applications, and more. Valise calls these events “presentations” of your works.

Basics

Fields

When tracking presentations, you can record the following information:

• Venue: the gallery or institution that put on the event.
• Title: any unique title of the event, like an exhibition title.
• Location: the city and state or country where the event took place.
• Start Date: when the event began. If you’re unsure of the month or day it took place, we recommend using the first of that period (eg. <year>-01-01 or <year>-<month>-01).
• End Date: when the event ended.
• Photos: include photographs of the event.
• Checklist: you’re able to record which works were included in a given event, and even rearrange them to match a particular sequence.
• Documents: upload any files related to the exhibition, like a press release, a shipping manifest, or condition reports.

Tips & Tricks

• Putting together an exhibitions section on your CV? You can use Cmd+A or Ctrl+A to select all of your presentations and then choose Copy text from the selection menu. This will give you formatted text you can easily paste into other tools, like an online application form.
• Coming soon: upload a PDF of your CV, and we’ll automatically import all the events recorded.