Much more than a prize
How it works
cromAwards is an international art and design contest. But every entry leaves something permanent: a verified profile that follows the artist edition after edition. Here is how it works.
Your verified profile
One URL for everything
When you enter, your artist profile is created with its own code (CA-…) and a unique address. That is where your edition history, your works and your distinctions live.
Diplomas that can be checked
Every diploma and certificate carries a QR code pointing to your profile: anyone who scans it instantly confirms it is authentic. No tricks, no forgeable PDFs.
A credential on your phone
Your artist card can be added to Google Wallet or Apple Wallet and shown in one gesture: name, code and verification QR.
Every artist has a verified profile with their history and verifiable documents. In their portfolio they can upload their own works: 5 with Basic, for free, and up to 30 with Pro.
Your work in front of galleries and collectors
You decide to be visible
From your private area you turn on —or off, with immediate effect— your presence in the showcase, visible only to accredited galleries, curators and collectors.
Accreditation by hand
No gallery walks in on its own: the organisation reviews and approves every account one by one, and all of them accept specific terms of use that protect your work.
No commissions, your rights
cromAwards is a meeting point, not an intermediary: we charge no commission whatsoever and your work and its rights always remain yours.
Privacy and respect, by design
Anonymous until you decide
By default you are anonymous across the site: galleries and the public see you as a “Verified artist”, with your work, discipline and area, but without your name, and you decide in each conversation whether to make yourself known. If you prefer, you can choose to be shown with your name. They can also write to you anonymously, and emails are never shared. If you are a finalist or award winner, your name appears in the public competition results.
No pestering
A symmetrical 7-day rule: nobody can send a second unanswered message in a row. And either party can close a conversation for good.
Blind evaluation
The jury scores every work without knowing who its author is. If you use a pseudonym, the pseudonym is what gets published: your real name stays protected.
All of this is set down in writing: in the terms and conditions (clause 9) and in the terms for galleries and collectors accepted by galleries.
If you are a gallery or a collector, request your free accreditation and get in touch with emerging talent.
