Social Media is now an accepted and effective way for artists to brand, market and sell their artworks.  The main goals for artists when marketing through social media are to increase their reach, create more traffic to their art website and display their art to new audiences.

By employing art-related hashtags, an artist increases their power to reach more interested people.  In 2015, art hashtags will be necessary to help to achieve branding, marketing, and sales goals.

Just what is a hashtag and how can it help my marketing?  Think of a hashtag as a way to categorize and collect posts about a particular subject. A hashtag is the symbol # plus a subject matter word related to your post.  For example, #Art is a well-used hashtag in social media for art-related subjects. If you were to create and post a message about a new art competition or art show, including the hashtag #Art and automatically this post will be shown with all of the other posts that have used the #Art hashtag.

By using a hashtag, you reach your regular followers with your message, and, in addition, you reach the group of people who follow the hashtag #Art.  This hashtag is followed by a very large group of people who are interested in or associated with the art industry. 

Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram and Pinterest all provide the ability to include hashtags with your posts. The following list of 101 popular art-related hashtags can be used with any of your social media posts.  We suggest you put these hashtags on a spreadsheet, then separate them into groups as appropriate for your post’s subject matter.   From there you can copy and paste that group of # hashtags into your posts.

Here is our list of 101 art related hashtags for artists to use in their social media posts;

#abstract #abstractart #abstractartist #abstractarts #abstracted #abstractexpressionism #abstractexpressionist #abstraction #abstractors #abstractpainting #abstractphoto #abstractphotography #abstracts #acrylic #animation #art #artcall #artcompetitions #artcontest #arte #artfair #artgallery #artinfo #artist #artnews #artshow #artwork #black #blackandwhite #blackwhitephotography #callforart #callforentries #color #colour #creative #drawing #drawings #fineart #graffitiart #grafiti #graphic #graphicdesign #illustration #ink #lightspacetime #markers #model #mono #monoart #monochrome #mural #murals #myart #onlineart #onlineartgallery #onlineartsales #paint #painting #paintings #pencil #photo #photobomb #photobooth #photocollage #photodaily #photoday #photoftheday #photogram #photograph #photographer #photography #photoofday #photooftheweek #photos #photoscape #photoself #photosession #photoshare #photoshoot #photoshoots #photoshop #photoshopped #photoshot #photostudio #phototag #photowall #portrait #portraits #portraiture #selfie #selfportrait #sketch #spray #spraypaint #streetart #streetartistry #streetphotography #urban #wallart #watercolor #watercolour

In 2015 begin to include the appropriate # hashtags with your social media posts.  You will not only increase your reach but you will gain more followers with your branding and art marketing. 

We have related article posts on this subject - #Art Hashtags for Artists to Use on Instagram and How to Use Instagram for Successful Artists.