Stop searching for the photo of the painting you sold last year.
StudioNXT is a living archive for working artists. Every work catalogued, located, and preserved — with Mira, your archive’s own assistant, at hand. Built for the long view.
StudioNXT is live. Places open by invitation, a few artists at a time.
01 Inside the archive
The archive. Every work: documented, located, remembered.
02 Where your archive lives today
Ask a working artist where their life’s work is recorded. The honest answer is usually four places — and the fourth one is the problem.
Photos scattered across your phone.
Spreadsheets only you can read.
Notes in apps nobody will open.
Memory.
03 Play the archive game
Find the sold painting.
This is your camera roll. Somewhere in it is the painting on the left — it sold in 2019, and a collector just emailed asking for its history. You have fifteen seconds.
The work in question
Untitled (Field)2019 · Acrylic on canvas
Sold — private collector
A small demonstration of what happens when an archive has no system.
04 Built for the long view
Archive
Every work catalogued with a permanent number — images, dimensions, medium, location, provenance. Works in progress and abandoned directions belong here too. Your whole practice, not just the finished work.
Voice
Record the stories behind your works in your own words. The meaning survives alongside the object.
Publish
A public gallery on your terms, and certificates of authenticity collectors can trust. Share nothing until you choose to.
Legacy
Your archive survives you. Decide in advance what happens to the work when you no longer keep it.
Quietly helping throughout: Mira, your archive’s own assistant. Ask her which works used cobalt blue, where a drawing is stored, or to draft your artist statement — she answers from your archive.
“Mira, which works from 2019 used cobalt blue?”
“Three works — two paintings and one work in progress. All are in Box 7, with the collector history for the one that sold.”
05 From the founding archives
The printmaker, 94
Seven decades of work in boxes and drawers. 422 works now photographed, numbered, labelled — a permanent record she can open on her phone, ready for her retrospective.
The painter
A life’s work scattered across Facebook, Google Drive, and Dropbox — images everywhere, information nowhere. Now one archive: every work titled, dated, located.
The sculptor
Works across bronze, wood, and stone — but no record of editions, sales, or where pieces went. Now every edition numbered, every sale and location on file.
Three practices, three ways an archive gets lost. StudioNXT was built inside all three.
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