List of contemporary artists
Encyclopedia
This is a list of artists who create contemporary art
, i.e. those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism
) and the present day. Artists on this list meet the following criteria:
See also: Art
, List of painters, List of modern artists, List of sculptors
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Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
, i.e. those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
) and the present day. Artists on this list meet the following criteria:
- The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by his/her peers or successors.
- The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
- The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
- The person's work either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums, or had works in many significant libraries.
See also: Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, List of painters, List of modern artists, List of sculptors
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- AboveAbove (artist)ABOVE has been creating public art since 1995. Above is an international street artist who keeps his identity concealed. Above is known for his multi-layer/full color social and political stencils, spinning wooden "arrow mobile" installations, and large mural "word play" paintings. Above started...
(born 1981) American street / installation artist - Marina AbramovicMarina AbramovicMarina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
(born 1946), performance artist - Vito AcconciVito AcconciVito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...
(born 1940), installation and performance artist - Bas Jan AderBas Jan AderBas Jan Ader was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. He lived in Los Angeles for the last 10 years of his life. Ader's work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances...
(1942–1979), conceptual artist - Nadir AfonsoNadir AfonsoNadir Afonso, GOSE is a geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso later studied painting in Paris and became one of the pioneers in Kinetic art, working alongside Victor Vasarely,...
(born 1920), geometric abstractionist - Gustavo AguerreGustavo AguerreGustavo Aguerre, born 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, artist, photographer, curator, writer, theatre designer. After leaving Argentina he moved to Germany studying at the Munich Art Academy between 1974 and 1976....
(born 1953), conceptual, performance and installation artist - Eija-Liisa AhtilaEija-Liisa AhtilaEija-Liisa Ahtila is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki.In 1998 Eija-Liisa Ahtila participated in the second edition of Manifesta. She was the winner of the inaugural Vincent Award in 2000. In 2002 she had a solo show at Tate Modern, and in 2006 her multi-screen video...
(born 1959), video artist - Peggy AhweshPeggy AhweshPeggy Ahwesh is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R...
(born 1954), video artist - Rita AckermannRita AckermannRita Ackermann is a Hungarian-American artist.-Early life and education:Rita Ackermann was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1968.Ackermann trained at the University of Fine Arts Budapest from 1989 until 1992...
(born 1968), artist - Chantal AkermanChantal AkermanChantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...
(born 1950), filmmaker - Vikky AlexanderVikky AlexanderVikky Alexander is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited internationally since 1981. Working across mediums she is a leading practitioner in the field of photo-conceptualism and is well-known as an installation artist who uses photography, drawing,...
(born 1959), installation artist - Edward AllingtonEdward AllingtonEdward Allington is an English artist and sculptor.He studied at Lancaster College of Art 1968–71, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London 1971–74 and the Royal College of Art 1983–84.He won the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Prize in 1989, was Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at...
(born 1951) sculptor - Laurie Anderson (born 1947), performance artist
- Carl AndreCarl AndreCarl Andre is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American...
(born 1935), sculptor - Janine AntoniJanine AntoniJanine Antoni is a contemporary artist whose work focuses mostly on process. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and brain as tools and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork.She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College...
(born 1964), sculptor and installation artist - Ida ApplebroogIda ApplebroogIda Applebroog is a notable American painter. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine...
(born 1929), painter - Nobuyoshi ArakiNobuyoshi Arakiis a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki...
(born 1940), photographer - Siah ArmajaniSiah ArmajaniSiah Armajani is an Iranian-born American sculptor.Siah Armajani designed the Olympic Torch presiding over the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States...
(born 1939), sculptor - Mireille AstoreMireille AstoreMireille Astore is an artist and a writer. She left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1975 to live in Melbourne, Australia. She studied the Sciences at the University of Melbourne where she graduated before becoming a full-time artist and writer...
(born 1961), conceptual, performance and installation artist - Javier ArevaloJavier ArevaloJavier Arevalo is a Mexican artist.-Early life:Arevalo was born on 29 April 1937 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. His passion for art emerged in 1950 when he drew cover illustrations for textbooks for the medical school of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. In 1951 he won first place in a...
(1936),Painter - Mino ArgentoMino ArgentoMino Argento is an Italian artist, whose works comprise abstract paintings on canvas and paper.-Life and work:Mino Argento was born in Rome, Italy in 1927. He worked in architecture as a young man...
(born 1927), Painter
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- Francis Bacon (1909–1992), painter
- Jo BaerJo BaerJosephine Gail "Jo" Baer, born Josephine Kleinberg August 7, 1929, is an American artist, whose works are associated with minimalist art...
(born 1929), painter - John BaldessariJohn BaldessariJohn Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
(born 1931), conceptual artist - BanksyBanksyBanksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...
(born 1974), graffiti artist - Fiona BannerFiona BannerFiona Banner is an English artist, who was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2002. In 2010, she produced new work for a Duveen Hall commission at Tate Britain. She is one of the Young British Artists.-Life and work:...
(born 1966) - Matthew BarneyMatthew BarneyMatthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video...
(born 1967), filmmaker - Artur BarrioArtur BarrioArtur Barrio is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his work consists of installation pieces that create interaction with the public. Barrio engages the viewer as participant in his art, often without their knowledge that it is art in which they are participating...
(born 1945), Interactive artist - Jennifer BartlettJennifer BartlettJennifer Losch Bartlett is an American artist. She is best-known for paintings combining abstract and representational styles.-Education:...
(born 1945), painter - Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting.-Early life:...
(1960–1988), painter - Vanessa BeecroftVanessa BeecroftVanessa Beecroft is an Italian contemporary artist living in Los Angeles.-Artistic practice:Beecroft's work is a fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models...
(born 1969) - Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005), painter
- Larry BellLarry Bell (artist)Larry Bell is a contemporary American artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Taos, New Mexico, and maintains a studio in Venice, California. From 1957 to 1959 he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles as a student of Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben, Robert Chuey, and Emerson Woelfer...
, (born 1939), sculptor - Maurice BenayounMaurice BenayounMaurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...
(born 1957), media artist - Lynda BenglisLynda BenglisLynda Benglis is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today...
(born 1941), sculptor - José BernalJosé BernalJosé Bernal was a Cuban-American artist. He was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas and became a naturalized U.S.A. citizen in 1980....
(born 1925), painter/sculptor - Joseph BeuysJoseph BeuysJoseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...
(1921–1986) - Ashley BickertonAshley BickertonAshley Bickerton is a contemporary artist living in Bali. A mixed-media artist, Bickerton often combines both photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages...
(born 1959) - Janet BiggsJanet BiggsJanet Biggs is an American video artist, photographer and performance artist living in New York City.Biggs' video works often include images of individuals engaged in obsessive and extreme activities. She has worked with miners underground, champion wrestlers, speed-obsessed bikers, synchronized...
(born 1959), video and performance artist - Thierry BischThierry Bisch-Early life and education:Bisch comes from a family with industrial interests in France. The work of his great-grand father, the painter Louis Janmot , had a profound influence upon him....
(born 1953), painter - David Blatherwick (born 1960), painter and video artist
- Godfrey BlowGodfrey BlowGodfrey Blow is an artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. He is the founder of the Perth Stuckists.-Life and art:Godfrey Blow was born in Lincolnshire, England on the same day as fellow Stuckist artist, Eamon Everall...
(born 1948), painter - Christian BoltanskiChristian BoltanskiChristian Boltanski is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.-Life and work:Having no formal art education, he began painting in 1958. Nevertheless, he first came to public attention in 1960 with few short films and publication of several notebooks...
(born 1944) - Henry BondHenry BondHenry Bond is an English writer, photographer curator, and visual artist. In his Lacan at the Scene , Bond made a contribution to theoretical psychoanalysis....
(born 1966) - Christine BorlandChristine BorlandChristine Borland is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . Borland attended the University of Ulster, and the Glasgow School of Art....
(born 1965) - Michaël BorremansMichaël BorremansMichaël Borremans is a Belgian painter and filmmaker who lives and works in Ghent. His painting technique draws on 18th century art as well as the works of Édouard Manet and Degas. The artist also cites the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez as an important influence...
(born 1963), painter - Eberhard BossletEberhard BossletEberhard Bosslet is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation and painting, both indoors and outdoors, since 1979...
(born 1953) - Fernando BoteroFernando BoteroFernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist. His works feature a figurative style, called by some "Boterismo", which gives them an unmistakable identity...
(born 1932), painter - Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
(1911–2010), sculptor - Robert J Brawley (born 1936), painter
- Stuart BrisleyStuart BrisleyStuart Brisley is widely regarded as the seminal figure of British performance art. Over a career of half a century Stuart Brisley has come to the conclusion, as stated in his recent novel "" that 'what goes down comes up'...
(born 1933), performance artist - Glenn BrownGlenn BrownGlenn Brown is an English artist. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000.-Working practice:Brown appropriates images created by living, working artists, such as Frank Auerbach and Howard Hodgkin, as well as images by artists more established in the historical canon, such as Rembrandt or...
(born 1966) - Angela BullochAngela BullochAngela Bulloch , is an artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists.-Life and career:...
(born 1966) - Chris BurdenChris BurdenChristopher "Chris" Burden is an American artist working in performance, sculpture, and installation art.-Education:Burden studied for his B.A...
(born 1946) - Gerard ByrneGerard ByrneGerard Byrne is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He works primarily in film, video and photography in large-scale installations which reconstruct imagery found in magazine published in the 1970s through the 1980s...
(born 1969), installation artist
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- Sophie CalleSophie CalleSophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
(born 1953) - Nuno de CamposNuno de CamposNuno de Campos is a Portuguese painter, living in New York City, United States.-Life and work:Nuno de Campos was born in Porto, Portugal,His paintings are done in tempera, and are known for their luminous quality...
(born 1969), painter - Janet CardiffJanet CardiffJanet Cardiff is a Canadian installation artist. Born in Brussels, Ontario in 1957 Cardiff studied at Queen's University where she graduated in 1980. She also studied at the University of Alberta and graduated in 1983. She works in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and...
(born 1957), installation artist - Gerard CarisGerard CarisGerard Caris is a Dutch sculptor and artist who has pursued a single motif throughout the course of his artistic career, the pentagon.- Early life and education :He was born in Maastricht, Holland...
(born 1925) - Norman CarlbergNorman CarlbergNorman Carlberg is an American sculptor and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style....
(born 1928), sculptor - Gillian CarnegieGillian CarnegieGillian Carnegie is an English artist.Carnegie is a graduate of the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art....
(born 1971), painter - Anthony CaroAnthony CaroSir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.-Background and early life:...
(born 1924), sculptor - Antonio CaroAntonio CaroAntonio Caro is a contemporary artist known for using conceptualizations and iconic visuals that often make political commentary about his home country. Since 1970, Caro has built a career that, according to the categorizations of history and criticism, denotes an authentic example of conceptual...
(born 1950), painter, conceptualization - Nicolas CaroneNicolas CaroneNicolas Carone belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris...
(1917-2010), painter, sculptor - James CasebereJames CasebereJames Casebere is an American contemporary artist and photographer living in New York.-Biography:James Casebere, born in Lansing, Michigan, grew up outside of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in 1976...
(born 1953), photographer - Maurizio CattelanMaurizio CattelanMaurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora , depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite....
- John CederquistJohn CederquistJohn Carl Cederquist is an American sculptor in wood and builder of studio furniture who was born in Altadena, California...
(born 1946), American sculptor - Vija CelminsVija CelminsVija Celmins is an American artist.-Early life:Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana...
(born 1938) - John Chamberlain (born 1928), sculptor
- Jake and Dinos ChapmanJake and Dinos ChapmanIakovos "Jake" Chapman and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman are English visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers, who work together as a collaborative sibling duo...
(born 1966 & 1962) - Judy ChicagoJudy ChicagoJudy Chicago is a feminist artist, author, and educator.Chicago has been creating artwork since the mid 1960s. Her earliest forays into the art world coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevance...
(born 1939) - Illya ChichkanIllya ChichkanIllya Chichkan . He is a representative of the art movement "Ukrainian New Wave", which developed in the 90's. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Kiev, Ukraine as a painter, author of intallations, photo and video-projects....
(born 1967), installation and video artist - Dan ChristensenDan ChristensenDan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007....
(1942–2007), abstract painter - Christo (born 1935)
- Lygia ClarkLygia ClarkLygia Clark was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement...
(1920–1988) - Francesco ClementeFrancesco ClementeFrancesco Clemente is an Italian and American contemporary artist. Influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and J Krishnamurti, the art of Francesco Clemente is inclusive and nomadic, crossing many borders, intellectual and geographical.Dividing his time...
(born 1952) - Chuck CloseChuck CloseCharles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
(born 1940), painter - Claude CloskyClaude CloskyClaude Closky is a French artist born in Paris in 1963 who specialized in contemporary art. Frieze Magazine has stated that "Most of Closky’s works explore repetition, accumulation, and alphabetical, numerical or binary classifications." -Monographs:...
(born 1963) - Jon CoffeltJon CoffeltJohnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
(born 1963), painter, new media, book arts, fiber art - Mat CollishawMat CollishawMatthew "Mat" Collishaw is an artist based in London, and one of the Young British Artists.-Career:Collishaw attended Goldsmiths, University of London , alongside Damien Hirst and other YBA artists....
(born 1966) - Tony CraggTony CraggTony Cragg is a British visual artist specialized in sculpture. He is currently the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.-Early life:Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949...
(born 1945), sculptor - Michael Craig-MartinMichael Craig-MartinMichael Craig-Martin RA is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is noted for his fostering of the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree...
(born 1941), painter, printmaker, digital artist, sculpture - Martin CreedMartin CreedMartin Creed is an artist and musician. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for Work No. 227: the lights going on and off, which was an empty room in which the lights went on and off.-Life and work :...
(born 1968), installation artist
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- Hanne DarbovenHanne DarbovenHanne Darboven was a German conceptual artist. She became best known for her large scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers.-Early life and career:...
(1941–2009) - Ian DavenportIan DavenportIan Davenport is an English painter, and former Turner Prize nominee.-Life and work:Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup in London, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire before going to Goldsmiths College from where he graduated in 1988...
(born 1966), painter and printmaker - Ronald DavisRonald DavisRonald Davis , born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics...
(born 1937), abstract painter - Richard Deacon (born 1949), sculptor
- Tacita DeanTacita DeanTacita Dean is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists, and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998.-Life and work:...
(born 1965), conceptual artist, filmmaker - Wim DelvoyeWim DelvoyeWim Delvoye is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Much of his work is focused on the body. He repeatedly links the attractive with the repulsive, creating work that holds within it inherent contradictions- one does not know whether to stare, be...
(born 1965), neo-conceptual artist - Guy DenningGuy DenningGuy Denning is a self taught English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group, a member of Stuckism International, and part of the urban art scene in Bristol.- Art :...
(born 1965), painter - Rineke DijkstraRineke DijkstraRineke Dijkstra is a female Dutch photographer.-Life and work:Dijkstra concentrates on single portraits, and usually works in series, looking at groups such as adolescents, clubbers, and soldiers. Her subjects are often shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background...
(born 1959), photographer - Sam DillemansSam DillemansSam Dillemans is a Belgian painter.-Background:Sam Dillemans was born in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium. After high school, Dillemans studied at several academies in Belgium and abroad. He obtained the French Higher National diploma of Plastic Expression Option Art...
(born 1965), painter - Braco DimitrijevicBraco DimitrijevicSlobodan Dimitrijević , known as Braco Dimitrijević is a Paris-based Yugoslavian artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it....
(born 1948) - Stephen DiRadoStephen DiRadoStephen DiRado is an American photographer. His work is mostly black-and-white, and he makes frequent use of large-format cameras. He is most noted for his portraiture, night-astronomical photography, and semi-composed group photography, and for the extensive length of his projects.He has been...
(born 1957), photographer - Mark DivoMark DivoMark Divo is a Luxembourgeois conceptual artist and curator who organises large scale interactive art projects incorporating the work of a number of well-known underground artists. His own work involves performance, photography, installation, often using found material.-Career:Between 1988 and...
(born 1966) - Peter DoigPeter DoigPeter Doig is a contemporary artist born in Scotland. In 2007, a painting of Doig's, entitled White Canoe, sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist.-Early life:...
(born 1959), painter - Joel DucorroyJoel DucorroyJoel Ducorroy is an original French artist, born in 1955 and known as a "plate artist" .His art consists of stamping word or words onto license plates. He uses license plates as a way of breaking away from the traditional canvas...
(born 1955), plate artist - Marlene DumasMarlene DumasMarlene Dumas is a South African born artist and painter who lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Stressing both the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value, Dumas tends...
(born 1953), painter - John DuncanJohn Duncan (artist)This page is about John Duncan the contemporary artist. For the Symbolist artist see John Duncan .John Duncan is an artist who has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam, currently lives and works in Bologna...
(born 1953), performance, installation artist
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- Leif ElggrenLeif ElggrenLeif Elggren , is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual...
(born 1950) - Ólafur ElíassonÓlafur ElíassonOlafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research...
(born 1967) - Tracey EminTracey EminTracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....
(born 1963) - Rob ErdleRob ErdleRobert Leigh Erdle known as Rob Erdle was a watercolorist and educator, and president of various arts associations. He exhibited his watercolors in over 200 shows, 47 of which were one-man exhibitions....
(1949–2006) - Ali Omar ErmesAli Omar ErmesAli Omar Ermes is an artist, writer and community activist. Having spent a period in Libya during which he wrote constantly and published in Arabic, he continues to write on various issues in both Arabic and English, but today his primary focus is on conference papers...
(born 1945) - Bracha Ettinger (born 1948)
- Valie ExportValie ExportValie Export is an Austrian artist...
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- Jan FabreJan FabreJan Fabre is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer.He studied at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp...
(born 1958) - Öjvind FahlströmÖjvind Fahlström-Biography:Fahlström was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as the only child to Frithjof Fahlström and Karin Fahlström. In July 1939 he was sent to Stockholm to visit some distant relatives and after World War II he started to study and later on to work as a writer, critic and journalist...
(1928–1976) - Angus FairhurstAngus FairhurstAngus Fairhurst was an English artist working in installation, photography and video. He was one of the Young British Artists .-Life and work:Angus Fairhurst was born in Pembury, Kent...
(1966–2008) - Ingrid FalkIngrid FalkIngrid Falk is a painter, installation artist and curator. In 1992 formed the art collective FA+ in collaboration with her husband, Gustavo Aguerre...
(born 1960) - Bernd FaschingBernd FaschingBernd Fasching is an Austrian painter and sculptor. He lives and works in Vienna.- Life and work:In 2000 Fasching opened his project Westwerk in the more than 800 years old Vienna St. Stephan’s Cathedral...
(born 1955) - Charles FazzinoCharles FazzinoCharles Fazzino is an American pop artist. An innovator in the 3D pop art style, his work is exhibited in hundreds of fine art galleries worldwide. Born in 1955, Charles Fazzino is the son of a Finnish sculptor and an Italian mode shoe designer...
(born 1955) - Kenneth FeingoldKenneth FeingoldKenneth Feingold is a contemporary American conceptual artist based in New York. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, and installations since 1974...
(born 1952) - Susan FeredaySusan FeredaySusan Fereday is an Australian artist, writer, curator and educator. She holds a doctorate from Monash University, Melbourne.- Art Practice :...
(born 1959),artist, photographer - Stephen FinerStephen Finer-Work:Finer participated in "British Art from the Arts Council Collection 1940-80" at the Hayward Gallery, 'Collazione Inglese ll' at the Venice Biennale and was in the touring exhibition, 'Men on Women', 'The Portrait Now' at the National Portrait Gallery and 'Painting the Century 101 Portrait...
(born 1949) - Eric FischlEric FischlEric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker.-Early life:Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1967...
painter (born 1948) - Peter Fischli & David WeissPeter Fischli & David WeissPeter Fischli and David Weiss , often shortened to Fischli/Weiss, are an artist duo that have been collaborating since 1979. They are among the most renowned contemporary artists of Switzerland...
(born 1952, born 1946) - Dan FlavinDan FlavinDan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.-Early life and career:...
(1933–1996) - Bruno FonsecaBruno FonsecaBruno Fonseca was an American artist who shifted between abstract and figurative styles and worked in both painting and sculpture....
(1958–1994) - Caio FonsecaCaio FonsecaCaio Fonseca is an American artist.Fonseca was born in New York to a family of artists. His older brother Bruno Fonseca , was a well known contemporary artist. His father, Gonzalo Fonseca, was an Uruguayan sculptor.He was raised in New York City...
(born 1959) - Peter ForakisPeter ForakisPeter Forakis was an American artist known as an abstract geometric sculptor. The son of a Greek immigrant, he grew up on the Wyoming prairie until the age of 10 when his family moved to Oakland, California. Eventually they settled in Modesto, California...
(1927-2009), sculptor - Jane FrankJane FrankJane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...
(1918–1986) - Helen FrankenthalerHelen FrankenthalerHelen Frankenthaler is an American abstract expressionist painter. She is a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work...
(born 1928), painter - Andrea FraserAndrea FraserAndrea Fraser is a New York-based performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. She is currently a member of the Art Department faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.-Position:...
(born 1965), performance artist - Lucian FreudLucian FreudLucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
(1922-2011) - Tom FriedmanTom Friedman (artist)Tom Friedman American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic...
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- Anya GallaccioAnya GallaccioAnya Gallaccio is a Scottish artist, who often works with organic matter. She was a nominee in the 2003 Turner Prize.-Life and career:...
(born 1963) - Harry Gamboa, Jr.Harry Gamboa, Jr.Harry Gamboa Jr. is a Chicano essayist, photographer, director and performance artist. He was a founding member of the influential Chicano performance art collective ASCO.-Biography:...
(born 1951) - H.R. Giger (born 1940)
- Isa GenzkenIsa GenzkenIsa Genzken is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin.-Education:Genzken studied fine arts and art history at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1969–1971, the Berlin University of the Arts from 1971–1973, and Arts Academy Düsseldorf from 1973-1977. Genzken married German visual...
(born 1948) - Gilbert and GeorgeGilbert and GeorgeGilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.-Early life:Gilbert Proesch was...
, (born 1943 & 1942) - Sam GilliamSam GilliamSam Gilliam is internationally recognized as one of America's foremost Color Field Painter and Lyrical Abstractionist artists....
(born 1933), painter - Liam GillickLiam GillickLiam Gillick is a British conceptual artist who lives in New York City. He is often associated with the artists included the 1996 exhibit Traffic, which first introduced the term Relational Art.-Life and career:...
(born 1964) - Michael GoldbergMichael GoldbergMichael Goldberg was an American abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings. His work was recently seen in September 2007 in a solo exhibition at Knoedler & Company in New York City, as well as several exhibitions at...
(1924–2007), painter - Nan GoldinNan GoldinNancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...
(born 1953), photographer - Jack GoldsteinJack GoldsteinJack Goldstein was a Canadian born, California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom.-Early life and education:...
(1945–2003) - Andy GoldsworthyAndy GoldsworthyAndy Goldsworthy, OBE is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.-Life and career:The son of F...
(born 1956) - Peter GolfinopoulosPeter GolfinopoulosPeter Golfinopoulos, an American artist, was born in Manhattan in 1928. Hispaintings are marked by a variety of highly individualistic modes.- Life/education :Served for three years in the U.S. Air Force....
(born 1928) - Felix Gonzales-Torres (1957–1996)
- Robert GoodnoughRobert GoodnoughRobert Goodnough was an American abstract expressionist painter. A veteran of World War II, Goodnough was one of the last of the original generation of the New York School; , even though he began exhibiting his work in galleries in New York City in the...
(1917–2010) - Douglas GordonDouglas GordonDouglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale...
(born 1966) - Antony GormleyAntony GormleyAntony Mark David Gormley OBE RA is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site...
(born 1950), sculptor - Dan GrahamDan GrahamDan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....
(born 1942) - Robert GrahamRobert Graham (sculptor)Robert Graham was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.-Biography:...
(1938–2008) - Rodney GrahamRodney GrahamRodney Graham is an artist and musician born in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He is most often associated with the Vancouver School...
, (born 1949), photographer, installation artist - Cleve GrayCleve GrayCleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
(1918–2004) - Peter GrzybowskiPeter GrzybowskiPeter Grzybowski is a multimedia and performance artist and a painter. Studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków . Graduated 1982. First performances completed 1981, individual and with Awacs Group and KONGER...
(born 1951), performance artist - Don Gummer (born 1946), sculptor
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- Hans HaackeHans HaackeHans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,...
(born 1936), conceptual artist - Karl HagedornKarl HagedornKarl Hagedorn was a German American painter, who worked on lithographs and etchings. He is not to be confused with another artist of the same name, who was born in Berlin in 1869; settled in Manchester, England in 1905; and died in 1969....
(1922–2005), painter - Richard HamiltonRichard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...
(1922-2011), painter, collagist - Keith HaringKeith HaringKeith Haring was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.-Early life:...
(1958–1990), painter, graffiti artist - Mona HatoumMona HatoumMona Hatoum is a video artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London.- Lebanon :...
(born 1952), performance artist - Carl Michael von HausswolffCarl Michael von HausswolffCarl Michael von Hausswolff is a composer, visual artist and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, architectural space and paranormal electronic interference...
(born 1956) - Tim HawkinsonTim HawkinsonTim Hawkinson is an artist from the United States of America who mostly works as a sculptor.- Education :Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from San Jose State University; in 1989 he earned an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles.- Work :Hawkinson′s work is...
(born 1960), sculpture artist - Gottfried HelnweinGottfried HelnweinGottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish fine artist, painter, photographer, installation and performance artist.-Work:Helnwein studied at the University of Visual Art in Vienna...
(born 1948), multimedia artist, installation artist, painter, photographer, performance artist - Diango HernandezDiango HernandezDiango Hernández is a Cuban contemporary artist.- Biography :Hernandez was born in 1970 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. He earned a degree in industrial design at the Havana Superior Institute of Design...
(born 1970), conceptual artist, painter - Eva HesseEva HesseEva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
(1936–1970), sculptor - Hugo HeyrmanHugo HeyrmanHugo Heyrman , , is a Belgian painter, filmmaker, internetpioneer, synesthesia- and new media researcher.- Biography:Hugo Heyrman was born in Antwerp, where he lives and works....
(born 1942), painter, multimedia artist - Gary HillGary HillGary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...
(born 1951), video artist - Susan HillerSusan HillerSusan Hiller is an American-born artist who lives in London, UK. Her art practice encompasses installation, video, photography, performance and writing.-Early Life and Education:...
(born 1940), installation artist - Damien HirstDamien HirstDamien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
(born 1965), installation artist - Saskia HolmkvistSaskia HolmkvistSaskia Holmkvist is a conceptual artist from Sweden, working mainly with video. She is best known for the short films "System" and "Interview With Saskia Holmkvist" .-External links:***...
(born 1971), conceptual artist - Christian HolstadChristian HolstadChristian Holstad is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York City. He received his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994....
, (born 1972), conceptual artist - Toos van HolsteinToos van HolsteinToos van Holstein is a Dutch painter with an expressionistic, figurative style.-Biography:Toos van Holstein studied art and art history at the Academy of Arts in the town of Tilburg . From 1970-1990 she was a teacher in art.In 1983 she had her first exhibition with oil paintings...
(born 1949), painter - Jenny HolzerJenny HolzerJenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.-Education:...
(born 1950), interdisciplinary artist - Peter HowsonPeter HowsonPeter Howson OBE is a Scottish painter. He was an official war artist in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War.Peter Howson was born in London and moved with his family to Prestwick, Ayrshire, when Howson was aged four...
(born 1958), painter - Gary HumeGary HumeGary Stewart Hume is an English artist. His work is strongly identified with the YBA artists who came to prominence in the early-1990s. In 1996, Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize, but lost out to Douglas Gordon. Hume was elected a Royal Academician in 2001.-Life and work:Hume was born in...
(born 1962) - Pierre HuyghePierre HuyghePierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.-Biography:...
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- John Stuart IngleJohn Stuart IngleJohn Stuart Ingle was an American contemporary realist artist, known for his meticulously rendered watercolor paintings, typically still lifes. Some criticism has characterized Ingle's work as a kind of magic realism...
(born 1933), painter - Koji IshikawaKoji Ishikawa (artist)is a Japanese contemporary artist. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Ishikawa received his B.F.A. 1991 from Osaka University of Arts. Ishikawa had seven solo exhibitions since 1991....
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- Alfredo JaarAlfredo JaarAlfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives in New York. He was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war - the best known perhaps being the 6-year long...
(born 1956), conceptual artist - Richard JacksonRichard Jackson (artist)Richard Jackson is an American contemporary artist born in 1939 in Sacramento. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.He studied Art and Engineering at Sacramento State College from 1959–1961 and taught Sculpture and New Forms at UCLA Los Angeles 1989 - 1994....
(born 1939), painter, installation - Michael (Mike) Jansen (born 1951), painter, performer and composer
- Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009)
- Chantal JoffeChantal JoffeChantal Joffe is an English artist based in London. Her often large-scale paintings generally depict women and children. In 2006 she received the prestigious Charles Wollaston Award from the Royal Academy.-Life and education:...
(born 1969), painter - Jasper JohnsJasper JohnsJasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.-Life:Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed...
(born 1930), painter, printmaker - Mary JordanMary Jordan (filmmaker)Mary Jordan is an award winning filmmaker, artist, activist and social justice advocate based in New York City. She grew up in the Bronx and in Toronto, Canada. She studied literature, cultural and social anthropology and art....
(born 1969), filmmaker, performance artist and activist - Gerry JudahGerry JudahGerry Judah is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces...
(born 1951), artist, designer - Donald JuddDonald JuddDonald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...
(1928–1994), sculptor - Isaac JulienIsaac JulienIsaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker.-Biography:Julien graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985, where he studied painting and fine art film...
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- Ilya KabakovIlya KabakovIlya Kabakov, Russian Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в , is a Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish descent, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island...
(born 1933), installation artist - Eduardo KacEduardo KacEduardo Kac is an American contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio-art. Kac was born in 1962, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He lives and works in Chicago....
(born 1962), transgenic artist - Stanya KahnStanya KahnStanya Kahn is a Los Angeles based video artist. "Using humor as a central device, Kahn combines storytelling with visceral performances, blurring the lines between the fictional and the real to show how language is forged out of trauma." "Kahn’s characters are contemporary flaneurs, and each is...
(born 1968), performance, video artist - Wolf KahnWolf KahnWolf Kahn is a German-born American painter.Kahn is known for his combination of realism and Color Field, and known to work in pastel and oil paint. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated from the University of Chicago...
(born 1927), landscapes, oil paints/pastels - Nabil KansoNabil KansoNabil Kanso is a Lebanese-American painter born in Beirut, Lebanon.His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large-scale formats...
(born 1946), painter - Anish KapoorAnish KapoorAnish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...
(born 1954), sculptor - On KawaraOn Kawarais a Japanese conceptual artist living in New York City since 1965. He has shown in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976.-Early life:After graduating from Kariya High School in 1951, Kawara moved to Tokyo...
(born 1949), conceptual artist - Wladyslaw KazmierczakWladyslaw KazmierczakWladyslaw Kazmierczak is a Polish performance artist and curator, born in Psary, in Greater Poland Voivodeship. He studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Jonasz Stern....
(born 1951), performance artist - Jonathan Keats (born 1971), conceptual artist
- Mike Kelley (born 1954)
- Ellsworth KellyEllsworth KellyEllsworth Kelly is an American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the Minimalist school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing the simplicity of form found similar to the work of John McLaughlin. Kelly often employs bright colors to...
(born 1923), painter - Anselm KieferAnselm KieferAnselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
(born 1945), painter - Manfred KielnhoferManfred KielnhoferManfred Kielnhofer is an Austrian painter, sculptor and Photographer.- Life :Kielnhofer visited the technical College Linz where he took his final exam in 1995. he was engaged with technique and design and art on building lead him to his special way of art. Since 2000 he lives as an free artist in...
(born 1967), sculptor, installation artist, photographer, painter - Edward KienholzEdward KienholzEdward Kienholz was an American installation artist whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz...
(born 1927), installation artist - Scott KildallScott KildallScott Kildall is an American conceptual artist working with new technologies in a variety of media including video art, prints, sculpture and performance art. Kildall works broadly with virtual worlds, networked art and speculative technologies. His work centers on repurposing technology and...
(born 1969), performance, new media, conceptual - Miru KimMiru KimMiru Kim is an artist, photographer, illustrator, and arts events coordinator, who has explored, documented, and photographed various urban settings such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, the Croton aqueduct, Paris catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. Kim's Naked City Spleen series...
(born 1981), photography - Bodys Isek KingelezBodys Isek KingelezBodys Isek Kingelez or Jean Baptiste is a sculptor and artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly known for his models of fantastic cities made of cardboard...
(born 1948), sculpture - Martin KippenbergerMartin KippenbergerMartin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona....
(1953–1997) - Komar and MelamidKomar and MelamidKomar and Melamid is an artistic team made up of Russian-born American graphic artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid . In an artists’ statement they said that “Even if only one of us creates some of the projects and works, we usually sign them together...
(born 1943 & 1945) - Jeff KoonsJeff KoonsJeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
(born 1949) - Frans KoppelaarFrans KoppelaarFrans Thomas Koppelaar , is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.From 1963 - 1969 he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague...
(born 1943), painter - Mark KostabiMark KostabiKalev Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer.-Early life:Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles on November 27, 1960 to Estonian immigrants Kaljo and Rita Kostabi. He was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton...
(born 1960), painter - Barbara KrugerBarbara KrugerBarbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
(born 1949), artist and photographer - Yayoi KusamaYayoi Kusamais a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation...
(born 1929), installation artist, performance artist, painter
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- Suzanne LacySuzanne LacySuzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist, educator, writer, and former public servant. She describes her work, which includes "installations, video, and large-scale performances", as focusing on "social themes and urban issues." She also served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then...
(born 1945), performance/public artist - Ronnie LandfieldRonnie LandfieldRonnie Landfield is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.Landfield is...
(born 1947), painter - Michael LandyMichael LandyMichael Landy RA is one of the Young British Artists . He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down , in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008 Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in...
(born 1963) - Annika LarssonAnnika LarssonAnnika Larsson is a contemporary artist living in New York. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm....
(born 1972), artist - Maria LassnigMaria LassnigMaria Lassnig is an Austrian artist. Her paintings are an exploration of the body, a central theme which she calls "body awareness"....
(born 1919), painter - Matthieu LauretteMatthieu LauretteMatthieu Laurette is a media and conceptual contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions....
(born 1970), multimedia, conceptual, installation, video artist - Robert LazzariniRobert LazzariniRobert Lazzarini is an American artist who lives and works in New York. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1995 and is included in major collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the...
(born 1965), sculptor, installation artist - Lee BulLee BulLee Bul is one of the most prominent contemporary artists to have emerged from Asia in the 1990s.In 1999, she came to prominence when she represented Korea in the Venice Biennale.- Education :...
(born 1964), sculpture, installation, conceptual artist - Lennie LeeLennie LeeLennie Lee is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London.-Life and career:Lennie Lee is a British artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college in London before winning a scholarship to study philosophy at Christ...
(born 1958), multimedia, performance, video, photography - Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photographer and visual artist
- Mark LewisMark Lewis (artist)Mark Lewis in Hamilton, Ontario is a Canadian artist. Noted for his film installations, Lewis represented Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale.-Biography:...
(born 1958) installation and film artist - Sol LeWittSol LeWittSolomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....
(1928–2007), installation and conceptual artist - Allan LinderAllan LinderAllan Linder is an American artist living in New York. He is a painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He uses a variety of media, but mostly acrylic paint on canvas.- Biography :...
(born 1966), painter and sculptor - Claude-Max LochuClaude-Max LochuFrench artist, painter and designer, Claude-Max Lochu was born in 1951 in Delle in Territoire de Belfort, Franche-Comté and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon...
(born 1951), painter - Richard LongRichard Long (artist)Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...
(born 1945) - Robert LongoRobert LongoRobert Longo is an American painter and sculptor. Longo became famous in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which depicted sharply dressed businessmen writhing in contorted emotion.-Early life and education:...
(born 1953), painter and sculptor - Rafael Lozano-HemmerRafael Lozano-HemmerRafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montreal...
(born 1967), installation artist - Sarah LucasSarah LucasSarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s...
(born 1962) - Cecilia LundqvistCecilia LundqvistCecilia Lundqvist is a Swedish artist, working exclusively with animation. She is best known for the short films "Trim" , "Souvenir" and "Emblem" ....
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- Terence MainTerence MainTerence Main is an American modernist sculptor who was born in 1954. He is best known for the cast metal sculptural furniture that he has been making for more than 20 years. He challenges the boundaries between sculpture and commercial design...
(born 1954), American modernist sculptor - Totte MannesTotte MannesTotte Mannes is a renowned visual artist whose oil paintings are on display in many museums and collections. She lives in Madrid...
(born 1933), painter - Brice MardenBrice MardenBrice Marden , is an American artist, generally described as Minimalist, although his work defies specific categorization. He lives in New York and Eagles Mere.Marden is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.-Life:...
(born 1938), painter - Milovan Destil MarkovićMilovan Destil MarkovicMilovan DeStil Marković is Serbian visual artist, who began his career in the early 1980s. Active for over two decades, he is recently described as father of Transfigurative Painting and the Text Portrait...
(born 1957) - Agnes MartinAgnes MartinAgnes Bernice Martin was an American abstract painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.She won a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998....
(1912–2004), painter - Eugene J. MartinEugene J. MartinEugene James Martin was a prolific African American visual artist.-Art:Eugene J...
(1938–2005), painter - Richard Mayhew (1934- ), painter
- Paul McCarthyPaul McCarthyPaul McCarthy , is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.-Life:McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a BFA in painting...
(born 1945) - Allan McCollumAllan McCollumAllan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over forty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on...
(born 1944) - Ryan McGinleyRyan McGinleyRyan McGinley is an American photographer living in New York City who began making photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 25, McGinley was one of the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo...
(born 1977), photographer - Steve McQueenSteve McQueen (artist)Steve Rodney McQueen CBE is a British artist and filmmaker. He is a winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival, a Turner Prize and BAFTA.-Early years:...
, (born 1969) - Cildo MeirelesCildo MeirelesCildo Meireles is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, encourage the viewer's interaction.-Life:Cildo Meireles was born...
(born 1948), sculptor and installations - Ana MendietaAna MendietaAna Mendieta was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is known for her "earth-body" art work....
(1948–1985) - Thom MerrickThom MerrickThom Merrick is an American artist. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute, and emerged in the mid 1980s, represented by pioneer gallerists Colin de Land and Pat Hearn in New York City...
(born 1963) - Boris MikhailovBoris Mikhailov (photographer)Boris Andreyevich Mikhailov is a fine art photographer who has been described as one of the most important artists to have emerged from the former USSR...
(born 1938), photographer - Ksenia MilicevicKsenia MilicevicKsenia Milicevic is a French painter, architect and town planner. She is based in Paris, with a studio in Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre. She also maintains a base in South West France.- Life :...
(born 1942), painter and architect - Franco Mondini-RuizFranco Mondini-RuizFranco Mondini-Ruiz is an American artist who lives and works in New York, New York and San Antonio, Texas. He is of Mexican and Italian descent. According to art critic Roberta Smith, his work "questions notions of preciousness and art-market exclusivity while delivering a fizzy visual pleasure"...
(born 1961) - Sebastian Diaz MoralesSebastian Diaz MoralesSebastian Diaz Morales is an Argentine visual artist.Born in 1975 in Comodoro Rivadivia, Argentina, and currently dividing his time between that city and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sebastián Díaz Morales belongs to the newest generation of Latin American artists. In his films and videos, Mr...
(born 1975), Video Artist - Robert MorrisRobert Morris (artist)Robert Morris is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation...
(born 1931) - Loren MunkLoren MunkThe artist Loren Munk is a maker of contemporary paintings. He is known among New York artists primarily for his cubistic paintings of urban imagery. Munk also has received accolades for his drawings and mosaics...
(born 1951), painter - Leonard van MunsterLeonard van MunsterLeonard van Munster , is a Dutch contemporary artist making Site-specific and Subject-specific work.-Private room 02 - 2004-2006:...
(born 1972), installation artist - Antoni MuntadasAntoni MuntadasAntoni Muntadas is a multidisciplinary, media artist, sometimes also referred to as Antonio Muntadas or, simply, Muntadas. Since 1971, he lives and works in New York. Muntadas was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,1977–1984, and is currently Visiting Professor with...
(born 1942) - Takashi MurakamiTakashi Murakamiis an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art...
(born 1962), sculptor and painter - Elizabeth MurrayElizabeth Murray (artist)Elizabeth Murray was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R...
(1940–2007), painter - Wangechi MutuWangechi MutuWangechi Mutu is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.-Early life:Originally from the Kenyan Kikuyu tribe, she was educated in Nairobi at Loreto Convent Msongari and later studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales...
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- Bruce NaumanBruce NaumanBruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....
(born 1941) - Odd NerdrumOdd NerdrumOdd Nerdrum , is a Norwegian figurative painter. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative, while primary influences by the painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio place his work in direct conflict with the abstraction and conceptual art considered acceptable in much of his...
(born 1944), painter - Shirin NeshatShirin NeshatShirin Neshat شیرین نشاط is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.-Background:Neshat's parents were upper middle-class...
(born 1957), visual artist - Alexander NeyAlexander NeyAlexander Ney is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1974 and has since lived and worked in New York...
(born 1939), sculptor and painter - Graham NichollsGraham NichollsGraham Nicholls is an author, artist and expert on out of body experiences and spirituality. He speaks widely on issues around parapsychology, ethics and art at institutions ranging from the London Science Museum to the Cambridge Union Society...
(born 1975), installation artist - Daniel Ng (born 1963), painter
- Kenneth NolandKenneth NolandKenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School...
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- Albert OehlenAlbert OehlenAlbert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. He graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others...
(born 1954), painter - Markus OehlenMarkus OehlenMarkus Oehlen is a German artist. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf . His is formative participant of the German art movement Neue Wilde...
(born 1956), painter - Chris OfiliChris OfiliChris Ofili is a Turner Prize winning British painter best known for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage, particularly his incorporation of elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists, and is now based in Trinidad.-Early life:Ofilli was born in Manchester. He had a...
(born 1968), painter - Jules OlitskiJules OlitskiJules Olitski was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Early life:Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Russian government...
(1922-2007), painter - Arthur OmarArthur OmarArthur Omar is a Brazilian contemporary artist. Omar is a video artist, photographer, filmmaker, and installation artist.Omar works with cinema, video, photographic installations, music, poetry, and drawing...
(born 1948), photographer, filmmaker, video and installation artist, - Yoko OnoYoko Onois a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
(born 1933), musician, artist - OrlanOrlanORLAN is a French artist, born May 30, 1947 in Saint-Étienne, Loire. She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She was invited to be a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, for the 2006-2007 academic year...
(born 1947) - Roman OpalkaRoman OpalkaRoman Opałka was a French-born Polish painter.Opałka was born on August 27, 1931, in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien, France, to Polish parents. The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Lodz. He later...
(born 1931), painter - Julian OpieJulian OpieJulian Opie is a visual artist, and one of the New British Sculpture movement.-Life and work:Julian Opie was raised in Oxford, England, where he attended the Dragon School and Magdalen College School. He attended Goldsmith's School of Art in London from 1979-82...
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- Nam June PaikNam June PaikNam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
(1932–2006), video artist - Roxy PaineRoxy PaineRoxy Paine is an American artist. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York....
(born 1966), sculptor - Niki de Saint PhalleNiki de Saint PhalleNiki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès-Brandon Fal de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker.-The early years:...
(1930-2002) sculptor - Cornelia ParkerCornelia ParkerCornelia Ann Parker OBE, RA is an English sculptor and installation artist. -Life and career:Parker studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and Wolverhampton Polytechnic...
(born 1956) - Ray ParkerRay Parker (painter)Raymond Parker was born in 1922 and he died in 1990. He was known as an Abstract expressionist painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction...
(1922–1990), painter - Stefano PasquiniStefano PasquiniStefano Pasquini, artist and writer. Received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in 1991, then immediately left his country for Dublin, briefly, then London for seven years, and New York. He is currently based in Bologna, where he works...
(born 1969), sculpture, video and installation artist - Virginia PatroneVirginia PatroneVirginia Patrone was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1950, where she lived and worked before moving to Spain in 2003.In 1971 Patrone began her studies as an architect in the Faculty of Architecture, in the Universidad Mayor de la República, Uruguay's National University. In 1978 she turned to...
(born 1950), painter - Simon Patterson (born 1967)
- Oliver Payne and Nick RelphOliver Payne and Nick RelphOliver Payne and Nick Relph are British artist-filmmakers who have collaborated since 1999. Oliver Payne was born in 1977, Nick Relph in 1979. Both studied at Kingston University, London. Payne failed his undergraduate Intermedia course in 2000, and Relph was "booted out" the same year...
(born 1977 and 1979), video artists - Pedro PedrajaPedro PedrajaPedro Pedraja is a painter living in Great Britain.He is originally from Santander, Spain and is a graduate of The University of the Basque Country in Bilbao....
(born 1974), painter - Jacques PellegrinJacques Pellegrin (painter)Jacques Pellegrin is a French painter.-Biography:Jacques Pellegrin paints portraits, landscapes and still lifes. He started to paint at age eight. When he was eleven years old, he carried off the first prize from the Aix-en-Provence city hall.His style connected first to classic and realist art...
(born 1944), painter - Manuel Pereira da SilvaManuel Pereira da Silvathumb|200px|Manuel Pereira da SilvaManuel Pereira da Silva was a Portuguese sculptor. He was born in Oporto, Portugal....
(1920–2003), sculptor - Grayson PerryGrayson PerryGrayson Perry is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of...
(born 1960) - Elizabeth PeytonElizabeth PeytonElizabeth Joy Peyton is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid-1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends and boyfriends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy...
(born 1965), painter - Richard PiegzaRichard PiegzaRichard Piegza is a Paris-based performer, video, action and installation artist since 1977.From 1978 to 1982, he created and directed Ambasada Lingua. In 1982, he moved to Paris, and in 1988, he founded the Wizya Video Art Action, which organizes and documents artistic events and performances...
(born 1954), performance, video and installation artist - Adrian PiperAdrian PiperAdrian Margaret Smith Piper is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City and lived for many years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before emigrating from the United States...
(born 1948), conceptual artist - Steven PippinSteven PippinSteven Pippin is an English artist. Pippin works with converted or improvised photographic equipment and kinetic sculptures....
(born 1960) - Philip PocockPhilip PocockPhilip Pocock, artist, photographer and researcher, was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1954. Since the early 1990s, his work has been collaborative, situational, time-, code-, net-based and participatory....
(born 1954), internet and installation artist - Mark PodwalMark PodwalMark Podwal is an artist, author and physician. He may be best known for his drawings on The New York Times OP-ED page. In addition, he is the author and illustrator of books for children as well as for adults. Most of these works — Podwal's own as well as those he has illustrated for...
(born 1945) - Sigmar PolkeSigmar PolkeSigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matter and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint...
(born 1941-2010) - Larry PoonsLarry PoonsLawrence Poons , better known as Larry Poons, is an abstract painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan. He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician...
(born 1937), painter - William PowhidaWilliam PowhidaWilliam Powhida is a visual artist and former art critic born in 1976 in New York. His work addresses the contemporary art industry.Topics have included creating an "enemies" list as well as letters addressed to contemporary curators , collectors and critics, requesting recognition...
(born 1976) - Richard PrinceRichard PrinceRichard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...
(born 1949), painter and photographer - Martin PuryearMartin PuryearMartin Puryear is an African American sculptor. He works in media including wood, stone, tar, and wire, and his work is a union of minimalism and traditional crafts.-Life:...
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- Alessandro RahoAlessandro RahoAlessandro Raho is a British portrait and landscape artist. His work has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London.-Career:...
(born 1971) - Yvonne RainerYvonne RainerYvonne Rainer is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental. Her work is classified as minimalist art.- Early life :...
(born 1934), performance artist - Rallé (born 1949), artist
- Neo RauchNeo RauchNeo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align...
(born 1960), painter - Robert RauschenbergRobert RauschenbergRobert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
(1925–2008), painter, collagist, printmaker, neo-dadaist - Peter ReginatoPeter ReginatoPeter Reginato , is an American abstract sculptor.Reginato was born in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in the hills outside Oakland, California and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. He began making abstract sculpture in 1965 and moved to New York City in 1966 to pursue his career as a sculptor...
(born 1945), sculptor - Marc RemboldMarc RemboldMarc Rembold, Swiss artist, was born in 1963 in Zurich. He developed the "Light in Colour“ concept during the 1980s. The concept was defined as living colours which they change their value with the temperature of the light. In 2000 he worked on the realisation of his series Liquids, in which...
(born 1963), painter, sculptor, and new media - Seund Ja RheeSeund Ja RheeSeund Ja Rhee was a Korean painter, printmaker and ceramist.She was a prolific artist with more than 1000 paintings, 700 prints, 250 ceramics, and a lot of drawings....
(1918–2009), painter, printmaker, and ceramist - Jason RhoadesJason RhoadesJason Rhoades was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation...
(1965–2006), installation artist and sculptor - Jesse RichardsJesse RichardsJesse Richards is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism.-Early life:...
(born 1975), artist - Peter RichardsPeter Richards (artist)Peter Richards is both an artist and curator living and working in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 1994. Born in Cardiff in 1970 Richards studied a BA in Fine Art at Howard Gardens, Cardiff part of the University of Wales. He moved to Northern Ireland to further his studies, completing an MPhil...
(born 1970), artist, curator - Gerhard RichterGerhard RichterGerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in...
(born 1932), painter - Ken RinaldoKen RinaldoKen Rinaldo is an American artist and educator. He creates interactive art installations that explore the intersection between nature and technology...
(born 1958), electronic installation/robotics - Pipilotti RistPipilotti RistElisabeth Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist , is a visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections.-Life and career:...
(born 1962) - James RosenquistJames RosenquistJames Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...
(born 1933), painter - Ernest RuckleErnest RuckleErnest Ruckle is an American artist noted for his elaborately-structured paintings. He was born in Neptune, New Jersey, USA.-Life and work:...
(born 1940), painter - Thomas RuffThomas RuffThomas Ruff is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Life:...
(born 1958), photographer - Edward RuschaEdward RuschaEdward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California...
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- Anri SalaAnri SalaAnri Sala is a contemporary artist whose primary medium is video. He studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing...
(born 1974) - Chéri SambaCheri SambaChéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the most famous contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
(born 1956), painter - Jean-Michel SanejouandSanejouandJean-Michel Sanejouand was born in Lyon, France, on July, 18, 1934.His work has many facets, ranging from environments to monumental sculptures, fromreadymade like objects to paintings of oneiric landscapes in which one of his sculptures stands....
(born 1934), painter and sculptor - Dominique SansonDominique SansonDominique Sanson is an artist, born in Paris, France, in 1949. He lives and works in Ibiza.Dominique’s paintings can be found in private collections in Chile, Argentina, the USA and many European countries....
(born 1949), painter - Bojan SarcevicBojan ŠarcevicBojan Šarčević is a Bosnian-French visual artist. His work includes video, installations, site-responsive architectural interventions, photographic collage, more or less abstract sculpture, and printed publications.-Life:...
(born 1974), sculptor - Arthur Sarkissian (born 1960), painter
- Raymond SaundersRaymond Saunders (artist)Raymond Saunders is an American artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Saunders is currently a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts, Oakland, California. He is a visual artist, with a place in American art history...
(born 1934), painter - Jenny SavilleJenny SavilleJenny Saville is a contemporary British painter; best known as one of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women.-Life and career:Saville works and lives in Oxford, England...
(born 1970), painter - Julian SchnabelJulian SchnabelJulian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
(born 1951), painter, sculptor and filmmaker - Carolee SchneemannCarolee SchneemannCarolee Schneemann is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the...
(born 1939), performance artist - Thomas SchütteThomas SchütteThomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. From 1973 to 1981 he studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch under Gerhard Richter and Fritz Schwegler. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Work:In the early 1980s Schütte began a series of small sculptural works...
(born 1954),sculptor - Richard SerraRichard SerraRichard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.-Early life and education:...
(born 1939), sculptor - Stephen ShanabrookStephen ShanabrookStephen J Shanabrook is an American conceptual artist, who lives and works in New York City and Moscow, Russia.He graduated from Syracuse University, The Skowhegan School of Art program, USA and de Ateliers, The Netherlands....
(born 1965), sculptor - Joel ShapiroJoel ShapiroJoel Shapiro is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. Shapiro is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New York City, with a summer house on the shore of Lake Champlain, in Westport, New York...
(born 1941), sculptor - Cindy ShermanCindy ShermanCindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
(born 1954), photographer, performance artist - Yinka ShonibareYinka ShonibareYinka Shonibare, MBE, is a British-Nigerian artist living in the UK. He readily acknowledges physical disability as part of his identity but creates work in which this is just one strand of a far richer weave.-Life and career:...
(born 1962) - Amy SillmanAmy SillmanAmy Sillman is an American painter living and working in New York.In a 2007 article in Artforum, Linda Norden wrote of Amy Sillman’s “fearless, tenacious pursuit of a painting that might accurately register the discomfort, incoherence, and absurdity that can characterize painterly experience—and...
(born 1966), painter - Lorna SimpsonLorna SimpsonLorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
(born 1960), interdisciplinary artist - Victor SloanVictor SloanVictor Sloan MBE is an Irish photographer and artist.Victor Sloan studied at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art, England. He lives and works in Portadown, County Armagh in Northern Ireland...
(born 1945), photographer, mixed media artist, video artist, - Bob and Roberta Smith (born 1958)
- Kiki SmithKiki SmithKiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...
(born 1954) - Michael SnowMichael SnowMichael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...
(born 1929), filmmaker, musician, painter - Joan SnyderJoan SnyderJoan Snyder is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her paintings have been exhibited at several museums, including the de Saisset Museum and the Jewish Museum.-Painting styles:...
(born 1940), painter - Konstantia SofokleousKonstantia SofokleousKonstantia Sofokleous, Greek: Κωνσταντία Σοφοκλέους is a Cypriot artist. She has exhibited drawings and two animated movies, and at the 51. Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition. She lives and works in Limassol, Cyprus....
(born 1974), animation artist - Keith SonnierKeith SonnierKeith Sonnier is a Postminimalist, performance, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s, and has been one of the most successful with this technique...
(born 1941), sculptor - Joe StefanelliJoe Stefanelli (painter)Joe Stefanelli also known as Joseph J. Stefanelli belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world...
(born 1921), painter - Frank StellaFrank StellaFrank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
(born 1936), painter, printmaker - Sarah SzeSarah SzeSarah Sze is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations.-Early life:Sze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991...
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- Tomoko TakahashiTomoko TakahashiTomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London, UK. She studied at Tama University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art. She first came to attention when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1997...
(born 1966), installation artist - Mark TanseyMark TanseyMark Tansey is an American postmodern painter best known for monochromatic works, elaborate paintings incorporating hidden text, images and symbols and his invented "color wheel" approach to painting, in which a large, wooden wheel consisting of three rows of ambiguous words is spun—the results...
(born 1966), painter - Sam Taylor-WoodSam Taylor-WoodSamantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood OBE , born Samantha Taylor, is an English filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon...
(born 1967) - Diana ThaterDiana ThaterDiana Thater is an American artist, curator, writer, and educator. She has been a pioneering creator of film, video, and installation art since the early 1990s...
(born 1962), video - Paul ThekPaul ThekPaul Thek was an American painter and, later, sculptor and installation artist. Born in Brooklyn, he studied locally, at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute. In 1951 he entered the Cooper Union....
(1933–1988) - Wayne ThiebaudWayne ThiebaudWayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate...
(born 1920), painter, printmaker - Arthur ThrallArthur ThrallArthur Thrall is an American painter and printmaker. His works have been shown in more than 500 exhibits in the USA and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and numerous US embassies...
(born 1926), printmaker, painter - Wolfgang TillmansWolfgang TillmansWolfgang Tillmans is a German Fine-art photographer and artist. His comprehensive and diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer and also the first...
(born 1968), photographer - Rirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary artist residing in New York. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element...
(born 1961) - Mark TitchnerMark TitchnerMark Titchner is an English artist and a nominee for the 2006 Turner Prize. He lives and works in London.-Biography and career:Mark Titchner was born in Luton. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 1995....
painter and philosopher - Slaven ToljSlaven ToljSlaven Tolj , a multimedia artist from Dubrovnik, Croatia. He achieved international recognition for his installations, body art, and performances presenting distinct political and social-cultural criticism....
(born 1964), performance, installation artist - Helmut TollmannHelmut TollmannHelmut G. Tollmann, born 1945 in Cologne, is a visual artist, whose work includes paintings, graphics, sculptures, photographs, performance and installations. He is the creator of "Soul of chip", multi-layered artworks dealing with human and technical intelligence...
(born 1945), painter - Scott TreleavenScott TreleavenScott Treleaven is a Canadian artist whose work employs a variety of media including collage, film, video, drawing, photography and installation.-Artwork:...
(born 1975) - Rosemarie TrockelRosemarie TrockelRosemarie Trockel is a German Artist, and an important figure in the international contemporary art movement.- Life :...
(born 1952) - Zoja TrofimiukZoja TrofimiukZoja Trofimiuk is an Australian sculptor and printmaker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She specializes in cast glass; her studio is in Melbourne. Zbych Trofimiuk, an Australian actor, is her son.-Education:...
(born 1952),sculptor, printmaker - Ayako TsuruAyako TsuruAyako Tsuru is a contemporary artist from Mexico City.She studied at the National school of fine Arts from 1959 to 1963, before moving on to the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts of Salzburg, Austria in 1968, and the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto from 1970 to 1971.-Early...
(born 1941),Muralist Artist - Gavin TurkGavin TurkGavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...
(born 1967) - Richard TuttleRichard TuttleRichard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
(born 1941), postminimalist - Luc TuymansLuc TuymansLuc Tuymans is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today. His signature figurative paintings transform mediated film, television, and print sources into examinations of history and memory.-Life:Tuymans...
(born 1958), painter - Cy TwomblyCy TwomblyEdwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors...
(1928–2011), painter - Jacek TylickiJacek TylickiJacek Tylicki is an artist who settled in New York City in 1982.-Works:Tylicki's work is closely related to Land art, Installation, video and Photography...
(born 1951), multimedia artist - Keith TysonKeith TysonKeith Tyson is a British artist. In 2002, he was the winner of the Turner Prize. His work is concerned with an interest in generative systems, and an embrace of the complexity and interconnectedness of existence...
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- Cybèle VarelaCybèle VarelaCybèle Varela, , is a Brazilian mixed-media artist currently based in Europe. She is a painter, video artist, and photographer.-Career:From 1962 to 1966, Cybèle Varela studied visual arts at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro....
(born 1943) - Vladimír VašíčekVladimír VašícekVladimír Vašíček was a Czech painter, one of pioneers and classics of Czech modern and abstract painting past the Second World War.-External links:* ** , written by Josef Maliva, 1993** , Česky – English, 2005* *...
(1919–2003), painter - Bill ViolaBill ViolaBill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...
(born 1951) - John VirtueJohn VirtueJohn Virtue was born in Accrington, Lancashire in 1947 to become an English artist who specialises in monochrome landscapes. He is honorary Professor of Fine Art at the University of Plymouth, and from 2003–2005 was the sixth Associate Artist at London's National Gallery.Virtue trained at the...
(born 1947) - Wolf VostellWolf VostellWolf Vostell was a German painter, sculptor, noise music maker and Happening artist of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the pioneers of video art, environment-sculptures, Happenings and the Fluxus Movement...
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- Jeff WallJeff WallJeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s...
(born 1946), photographer - Magnus WallinMagnus WallinMagnus Wallin is a Swedish video artist, working with 3D animation. He is best known for the short film "Exit" .He participated in the 2001 Venice Biennale.-Notable works:* Anon * Anatomic Flop...
(born 1965), video artist - Mark WallingerMark WallingerMark Wallinger is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo , and State Britain , a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He won the Turner Prize in 2007...
(born 1959) - Suling WangSuling WangSuling Wang born in 1968, is an internationally recognized painter and contemporary artist, known predominantly for her large scale abstract works. She currently lives and works in London, UK.- Biography :...
(born 1968), painter - Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
(1928–1987), pop artist - Gillian WearingGillian WearingGillian Wearing OBE RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, The Turner Prize, in 1997. On 11 December 2007, Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London....
(born 1963) - Ai WeiweiAi WeiweiAi Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008...
(born 1957), Chinese, conceptual artist - Lawrence WeinerLawrence WeinerLawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
(born 1942), conceptual artist - Franz WestFranz WestFranz West is an Austrian artist.-Work:His art practice started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades...
(born 1947) - Rachel WhitereadRachel WhitereadRachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993—the first woman to win the prize....
(born 1963), sculptor - Hannah WilkeHannah WilkeHannah Wilke was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist.-Biography:...
(1940–1993), sculptor - Jerry WilkersonJerry WilkersonJerry Oliver Wilkerson was a St. Louis, Missouri artist known for his contemporary pointillistic style of painting, and as a supporter of local business and talent. After completing his BS at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in 1966, Wilkerson obtained his MFA from Washington University in...
(1943–2007), painter - Jane and Louise WilsonJane and Louise WilsonJane Wilson and Louise Wilson are British artists who work together as a sibling duo. Jane and Louise Wilson's art work is based in video, film and photography...
(born 1967), installation artists - Richard WilsonRichard Wilson (sculptor)Richard Wilson is a sculptor, installation artist and musician.Born in Islington, in London, he studied at the London College of Printing, Hornsey College of Art and Reading University...
(born 1953), installation artist - Shaun WilsonShaun WilsonShaun Wilson is an Australian artist, film maker, academic and curator working with themes of memory, place and scale through painting, miniatures and video art...
(born 1972), video artist - Joel-Peter WitkinJoel-Peter WitkinJoel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses , and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people...
(born 1939), photographer - Francesca WoodmanFrancesca WoodmanFrancesca Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring herself and female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, who are blurred , who are merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured...
(1958–1981), photographer - Wu GuanzhongWu GuanzhongWu Guanzhong was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as the father of modern Chinese painting. Wu had painted various aspects of China, including much of its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes in a style reminiscent of the...
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- Peter YoungPeter Young (artist)Peter Young, is an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa, January 2, 1940. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s. His work is associated with Minimal Art, Post-minimalism, and Lyrical Abstraction...
(born 1940), painter - Yang MaolinYang MaolinYang Maolin is a noted contemporary Taiwanese artist.Born in 1953 in Changhua, Taiwan, Yang studied painting at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. He co-founded several artists groups linked to the Transavantgarde movement in Taiwan: 101 and the Taipei Group in the 1980s, and Hantooshe in...
(born 1953), painter, sculptor - Yatrides GeorgesGeorges YatridèsGeorges Yatridès is a French-American artist born in France in 1931. His work is held various North American private collections, and has been featured in retrospectives and art school events.- Biography :...
(born 1931), painter