For people who make culture

A place on the record.

WattsOS is the canonical record of visual culture. If your work has been part of it — as an artist, designer, architect, or any other maker — there's a place for it here.

Already on the record

Find your profile.

Search for your name. If WattsOS has indexed your work through a gallery, museum, archive, or publication, you can claim and edit your profile.

Not yet on the record

Request a record.

Submit your work for editorial review. Share where it has been seen — exhibitions, publications, press, reviews, or collection placements.

Every request is reviewed by the WattsOS editorial team. Most responses arrive within a few days.

Submit a request

How verification works

Editorial review, not algorithmic.

Submit

Provide evidence of where your work has been publicly shown, published, or reviewed. The more specific the references, the faster the review.

Verify

The editorial team checks each submission against primary sources. Gallery websites, publication archives, institutional records.

Decide

Three possible outcomes: approval, a request for more information, or a decline with specific feedback. Every response is written by a human.

Index

Approved records enter the canonical database with full source provenance. Verified makers can then claim and edit their profile.

What qualifies as public evidence

Work that has been seen beyond your own network.

WattsOS indexes the people who make visual culture — artists, designers, architects, photographers, fashion designers, and other practitioners — whose work has reached an audience beyond their personal following. The form of that audience can vary — what matters is that it's documented and verifiable.

Exhibitions at galleries, museums, artist-run spaces, fairs, or festivals

Publications, reviews, or critical writing covering the work

Catalogs, monographs, or printed editions

Collection placements (institutional or significant private)

Public commissions or permanent installations

Press coverage or features in third-party publications

Curated platform contexts where editorial selection has been applied

If you're unsure whether your work qualifies, submit a request and let us review. We respond to every submission with specifics.

After you're indexed

Control your own record.

Edit your profile

Verified practitioners can update biography, website, representation, and exhibition history. Every edit is source-tracked.

Add primary sources

Submit press, reviews, exhibition documentation, and other source material. Editorial review applies the same trust scoring as institutional ingestion.

Maintain the record

Update representation when galleries change, add new exhibitions as they happen, correct any historical inaccuracies. Your record stays accurate because you keep it that way.

Verified practitioners do not control the canonical truth of their record. Edits are sourced and reviewed. Disputed facts surface in provenance.

Questions

What makers ask.

How long does review take?

What if my submission is declined?

Can I submit on behalf of another maker?

Is there a cost?

What can I edit on my profile?

What if there’s incorrect information about me?

Ready to begin.

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