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Encyclopedia > List of contemporary artists

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 in this list have gained recognition or proven their importance because their work has been shown in contemporary art exhibitions of worldwide importance, such as the documenta or the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Art Biennial or exhibited in major modern or contemporary art museums and institutes. 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 since World War... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated Po-mo[1]) is a term originating in architecture, literally after the modern, denoting a style that is more ornamental than modernism, and which borrows from previous architectural styles, often in a playful or ironic fashion. ... from documenta 6 documenta is one of the world‘s most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art which now takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. ... Detail of exhibition. ... São Paulo Biennial: Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo The São Paulo Biennial was founded in 1951 upon the initiative of industrialist Francisco (Ciccillo) Matarazzo Sobrinho (1898-1977). ...


There may be some overlap with the list of modern artists, since it is difficult to define the boundaries between modern and contemporary art. This is a list of modern artists: important artists who have played a role in the history of modern art, dating from the late 19th century until (approximately) the 1970s. ... Dejeuner sur lHerbe by Pablo Picasso At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893 I and the Village by Marc Chagall, 1911 Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917 Campbells Soup Cans 1962 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two... 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 since World War...


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See also: Art, List of painters, List of modern artists, List of sculptors This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... The following list is an incomplete list of painters. ... This is a list of modern artists: important artists who have played a role in the history of modern art, dating from the late 19th century until (approximately) the 1970s. ... This is a partial list of sculptors. ...



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Marina Abramović (born 1st November 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a renowned performance artist. ... Crash, photointaglio, aquatint, relief and shaped embossing by Vito Acconci, 1985 City of Words, lithograph by Vito Acconci, 1999 Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. ... Nadir Afonso, photo by wife Laura Afonso Nadir Afonso (born 1920) is a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter of international recognition. ... Gustavo Aguerre, born 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, artist, curator, writer, theatre designer. ... Eija-Lisa Ahtila (born 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a video artist and photographer. ... Chantal Akerman (born June 6, 1950) is a Belgian filmmaker and director based in Paris, who is known for her deconstructive style and pessimistic humor. ... Edward Allington (born1951) is a British artist and sculptor. ... For the author, see Laurie Halse Anderson. ... Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) American minimalist artist. ... Ida Applebroog (born 1929 in New York, the Bronx) attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an honorary doctorate from the New School/Parsons School of Design. ... Nobuyoshi Araki , born May 25, 1940 in Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. ... This article needs translation. ... Ahmed Al Safi ,(احمد الصافي) borin in Diwaniya Iraq 1971 Studied sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Baghdad he won the Ismail Fatah Al Turk prize for young sculptors 2000 In the 1990s, in the years of economic embargo emerged Ahmed Al Safis artworks especially at the end of the...

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This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Marie-Claire Baldenweg (*1954 born Switzerland) is a Swiss/Australian contemporary artist. ... John Baldessari, (b. ... Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. ... Artur Barrio is an artist who works and lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. ... Jean-Michel Basquiat (pronounced in French) (December 22, 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York) was an American artist. ... Vanessa Beecroft (Genoa, Italy, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist living in New York. ... Zdzisław Beksiński (24 February 1929 – 22 February 2005) was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... José Bernal (born January 8, 1925) is a Cuban-American artist. ... Tobias Bernstrup (born 1970 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a contemporary artist working with videos, interactive works, live performances and electronic music. ... Ashley Bickerton was born in the West Indies in 1959. ... Thierry Bisch (born 1953 in Strasbourg, France) is a French artist. ... Godfrey Blow (born October 6, 1948) is an artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. ... Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor and installation artist (although he refers to himself as a painter, with regard to his concerns in all media). ... Iñaki Bonillas (born in 1981 in Mexico City. ... This biographical article needs to be wikified. ... Louise Bourgeois (born December 25, 1911, Paris) is an artist and sculptor, whose work has been strongly influenced by the surrealists, abstract expressionism and minimalism. ... Robert Julius Brawley was born in 1936 and died in 2006 of cancer. ... Stuart Brisley (born in 1933 in Haslemere, England) is widely regarded as the godfather of British performance art. ... Chris Burden during the performance of his 1974 piece Trans-fixed where he was nailed to the hood of a Volkswagen Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. ...

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Nuno de Campos (1969 in Porto, Portugal - ) is a Portuguese painter known for his luminous tempura paintings. ... Sophie Calle is a French photographer, installation and conceptual artist. ... Janet Cardiff (born 1957) is a Canadian installation artist. ... Norman Carlberg (full name Norman Kenneth Carlberg) American sculptor, was born in 1928 in Roseau, Minnesota. ... Vija Celmins (b. ... Jake Chapman (born 1966) and Dinos Chapman (born 1962) are brothers and British artists who work almost exclusively in collaboration with each other. ... Dan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007. ... Christo Yavasheff (born June 13, 1935) is an artist popularly known as Christo. ... Chuck Close (born Charles Thomas Close) July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington)[1] is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist before a catastrophic blood clot left him severely paralyzed. ... Lygia Clark (1920 – 1988) is a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. ... Francesco Clemente (born in Naples in 1952) is an Italian painter. ... Manège, by Claude Closky, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 2006 Claude Closky is a French artist born in Paris in 1963. ... Jon Coffelt born (May 16, 1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. ... Ferryman. ... Martin Creed (born 1968) is a British artist noted for his works which hark back to the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Tom Curtis (born 1973, Ilkeston) is a professional football player, & currently plays for Notts County. ...

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Ronald Davis (a. ... #407Untitled, mixed media on paper, 60cm x 80cm Guy Denning Guy Denning (born, 1965) is a British contemporary artist and painter based in Bristol,United Kingdom. ... Damon Denys (13 December 1974 – ) is a contemporary American artist working mainly out of Salt Lake City, Utah, the bay area, California, and Scottsdale, Arizona. ... Sebastian Diaz Morales (b. ... Braco Dimitrijevic is an artist, born in Sarajevo on June 18 1948 in former Yugoslavia. ... Mark Divo born 1966 in Luxemburg. ... Marlene Dumas (born 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist combining elements of Expressionism with conceptual art into ink and watercolour pieces and oil paints on canvas. ... For the Canadian politician, see John Duncan (Canadian politician). ...

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Olafur Eliasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish/Icelandic artist, famous in the UK for his exhibition The Weather Project at the Tate Modern, London, in 2003. ... Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). ... The painting Shadda is typical of Ermess work and is currently exhibited in the British Museum. ... Bracha L. Ettinger (also known as Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Bracha Ettinger, Hebrew: ברכה אטינגר, ברכה ליכטנברג-אטינגר) is a renowned artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst. ... Robert Leigh Erdle known as Rob Erdle (17 August 1949, - 30 December 2006) was a watercolorist and educator, and president of various arts associations. ... Leif Elggren is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

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Jan Fabre - born Antwerp, Belgium 1958 draws, sculpts, writes plays, directs on stage, choreographs and designs. ... ingrid Falk, born 1960 in Sweden. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... This article or section needs to be wikified. ... Stephen Finer is a London based artist who has been in commercial and public exhibitions since about 1980. ... Ohne Titel (to Bob and Pat Rohm), 1970. ... The artist Jane Frank (or Jane Schenthal Frank) was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25,1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Lucian Freud OM (born December 8, 1922) is a British painter and printmaker. ...

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Harry Gamboa, Jr. ... Birth machine Hans Ruedi Giger (pronounced: GEE-ger) (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien. ... Gilbert Prousch (or Proesch) (born in San Martin (San Martino), Italy, September 11, 1943) and George Passmore (born in Devon, England January 8, 1942), better known as Gilbert & George, are artists. ... Jack Goldstein (September 27, 1945 – March 14, 2003) was born in Montreal, Canada, moved as a boy to Los Angeles, California and attended high school there in the 1960s. ... Andy Goldsworthy (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. ... Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) was a Cuban artist who grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. ... Angel of the North Antony Gormley (born 1950) is an English sculptor, best known as the creator of Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead. ... Dan Graham (born 1942) is a U.S. artist He is based in New York, is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist. ... Robert Graham (born August 19, 1938, in Mexico City) is a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States of America. ... Born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, in 1949, Rodney Graham is an artist frequently linked with photoconceptualism, the brand of conceptual art that has made Vancouver, British Columbia an important city for global art since the mid-to-late 1980s. ... Johannes Grenzfurthner, leading a fake demonstration in Munich in 2003 Johannes Grenzfurthner (* June 13, 1975, Vienna) is artist, writer, curator, director. ... Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953 in Columbus, Ohio) is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Peter Grzybowski (born 1954 Kraków, Poland), multimedia and performance artist and a painter. ...

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This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Madeline Haases lithograph We Go to the Zoo from the de Young Museum[1] Madeline Haases watercolor Moon Pull Series III as exhibited in Nearly All Media exhibition in Long Beach, California. ... Karl Hagedorn (1922 - 2005) was a German-American painter, who worked on lithographs and etchings too. ... Richard Hamilton (born February 24, 1922) is an English painter and collage artist. ... Harings Radiant Baby Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s. ... Mona Hatoum Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952, later emigrated to London in 1975. ... Tim Hawkinson (1960-) is an artist from the United States of America. ... Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ... Dr. Hugo Heyrman playing at the Florian, Venice 1997. ... Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. ... Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Interview With Saskia Holmkvist, 2005, by Saskia Holmkvist Saskia Holmkvist (born 1971) is a conceptual artist from Sweden, working mainly with video. ... Christian Holstad (born 1972, California) is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York City. ... Toos van Holstein (Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 1949) is a Dutch painter with an expressionistic, figurative style. ... Peter Howson (born 1958) is a Scottish painter. ... Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) is an acclaimed French artist who works in a variety of media, from film and video to public interventions. ...

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Koji Ishikawa (石川晃治 Ishikawa Koji, 1968-) is a Japanese modern artist. ... Josip Ivanovic is a Croatian sculptor born in Sarajevo in 1961, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Sculpture) in 1988. ... John Stuart Ingle (born in Minnesota in 1933) is an American contemporary realist artist, known for his meticulously rendered watercolor paintings, typically still lifes. ...

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  • Richard Jackson, (born 1939), painter, installation
  • Michael (Mike) Jansen, (born 1951), painter, performer and composer
  • Jeanne-Claude, (born 1935)
  • Dan Jones, (born 1960), painter
  • Donald Judd, (1928-1994), sculptor
  • Isaac Julien, (born 1960), filmmaker

Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (born June 13, 1935), also known simply as Jeanne-Claude, is married to environmental artist Christo. ... Dan Jones (born June 29th 1962), rock musician, figurative painter, designer and author of alternative comic Bruised Fruit. In the early 1980s he was a member of rock band Living in Texas with disabled performance artist Mat Fraser. ... Untitled (Core Piece), 1969 Untitled sculpture from 1990 Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994) was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed) whose work sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional... Isaac Julien (born 1960 in London, England) is a filmmaker whose work often deals with black gay politics. ...

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It has been suggested that Kabakov be merged into this article or section. ... Eduardo Kac was the first person to have a microchip implanted in his body. ... 1000 Names, 1985 Anish Kapoor (originally Anish Neeraj Sen, born 1954) is a Turner Prize winning sculptor. ... On Kawara (born 1933) is a Japanese conceptual artist. ... Kazmierczak Wladyslaw Polish performance artist and curator of the International Performance Art Festival “Castle of Imagination”. He studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow (1971–76), atelier of prof. ... Jonathon Keats (born October 2, 1971) is an American conceptual artist known for creating large-scale thought experiments. ... Mike Kelleys Frankenstein, 1989 For other persons of the same name, see Mike Kelley. ... This article should be translated from material at de:Anselm Kiefer. ... Martin Kippenberger (born 25 February 1953 in Dortmund, died 7 March 1997 in Vienna), was an influential German artist whose penchant for mischievousness made him the focus of a generation of German enfants terrible including Albert Oehlen and Markus Oehlen, Georg Herold[1], Dieter Göls, and Günther F... This artistic team is made up of Russian artists Vitaly Komar (born 1943) and Alexander Melamid (born 1945). ... Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955), is an American artist. ... Photo of the artist Frans Thomas Koppelaar (April 23, 1943), Dutch painter, was born at The Hague. ... I Shop, Therefore I Am Barbara Kruger (b. ... Yayoi Kusama (草間弥生 ,born March 29, 1929) has been called Japans greatest living artist. ...

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Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. ... Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) is an American abstract painter. ... Annika Larsson (born 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a video artist. ... Matthieu Laurette (born 1970 in Villeneuve Saint Georges, France) is a media and conceptual contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions. ... Lennie Lee, Young British Artist, was born March 4, 1958 in Johannesberg, South Africa. ... Four-Sided Pyramid, created by LeWitt in 1997, stands in the scupture garden of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Sol LeWitt (born 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a conceptual artist and painter. ... Allan Linder (1966 - Present) is an American artist associated with the New York Art Scene. ... Katarina Löfström (born 1970) is a Swedish videoartist, working with graphic animation. ... Detail of Riverlines installed in the lobby of the Hearst Tower (New York City) Richard Long (born June 2, 1945) is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. ... Robert Longo (b. ... Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. ... Cecilia Lundqvist (born 1971 in Eskilstuna) is a Swedish videoartist, working exclusively with animation. ...

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Agnes Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was a Canadian-American painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. ... Eugene J. Martin, self-portrait, 1990 Eugene James Martin (b. ... Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. ... Collection of One Hundred Plaster Surrogates, 1982/90. ... Steve McQueen (born 1969) is an English artist. ... Cildo Meireles (born Rio de Janeiro, 1948)is a Brazilian installation artist and sculptor. ... Ana Mendieta (18 November 1948 – 8 September 1985) was a Cuban American artist famous for her performance art and video works. ... Thom Merrick (born January 1, 1963, in Sacramento, California) is an American Artist. ... Stani Michiels is a visual artist and architect, who was born in 1973 in Geel (Belgium). ... Leonard van Munster (born February, 1972), is an Dutch contemporary artist and sculptor. ... Bronze Gate (2005) is a cor-ten steel work by Robert Morris. ... Antoni Muntadas (born in 1942 in Barcelona) is a multidisciplinary, pioneering media artist, sometimes also referred to as Antonio Muntadas or, simply, Muntadas. ... Takashi Murakami, September 17, 2006. ... Cheap Sunglasses, Oil/Linen, Glass/Wood 58x48, 1999 The artist Loren Munk is a maker of contemporary paintings. ...

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Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. ... Early Morning, oil on canvas, 206cm x 175. ... Whisper (1988), terra cotta Alexander Ney (born 1939, in Leningrad, Russia) is an American sculptor and painter. ... Graham Nicholls is a British installation artist specialising in immersive art. ...

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Albert Oehlen (*1954 in Krefeld) is an artist who lives in Germany. ... Markus Oehlen (born in 1956, in Krefeld) is a German artist. ... Chris Ofili (born 1968) is an English born painter noted for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage. ... This article needs cleanup. ... For the song by Die Ärzte, see Yoko Ono (song). ... Orlan is a French artist, born May 30th- 1947, in Saint-Etienne. ...

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Stefano Pasquini, artist and writer. ... LA HORA DE LAS PUERTAS CERRADAS, 2005 Virginia Patrone was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1950, where she lived and worked before moving to Spain in 2003. ... Simon Patterson (b. ... Pedro Pedraja is one of the leading contemporary Painters living in Great Britain. ... Pereira da Silva Manuel Pereira da Silva (7 December 1920 – 2003) was a Portuguese sculptor. ... Alan Yentob and Grayson Perry at private view of Gilbert & George retrospective, Tate Modern Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960), is an award-winning English artist, best known for his ceramics and cross-dressing. ... Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s. ... Richard Piegza (born June 10, 1954) is a Paris-based performer, video, action and installation artist since 1977. ... MARK PODWAL (born June 8, 1945) is an artist, author and physician. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Sigmar Polke Spiderman (Spiderman; Acrylic on paper, mounted on linen. ... Richard Prince, born 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone, is a American painter and photographer. ...

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Quinns sculpture in Carrara marble, Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005), for The Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square. ... Tim Quinn is an Australian politician. ...

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Peter Reginato (born August 19, 1945 in Dallas, Texas) is an American abstract sculptor. ... Jesse Richards as Frank in his film Franks Wild Years Jesse Richards (born July 17, 1975) is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the British art movement Stuckism. ... Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Edward Ruscha (born December 16, 1937 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker. ...

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Chéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi (born December 30, 1956 in Kinto M’Vuila) is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Dominique Sanson was born in Paris, France in 1949. ... Bojan Šarčević (b. ... Raymond Saunders is an American artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934. ... Closed Contact #10, 1996. ... Mauro Saviola (born May 22, 1938) is an Italian painter from Viadana, Mantova. ... Julian Schnabel (b. ... Fulcrum 1987, 55 ft high free standing sculpture of Cor-ten steel near Liverpool Street station, London Richard Serra (born November 29, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. ... Patrick Brill, better known by his pseudonym Bob and Roberta Smith (born 1958) is a British contemporary artist. ... Interior of the Eaton Centre showing one of Michael Snow and Joyce Wielands best known sculptures, called Flightstop, which depict Canada Geese in flight. ... Frank Stella La scienza della pigrizia (The Science of Laziness) 1984, oil, enamel and alkyd paint on canvas, etched magnesium, aluminum and fiberglass, National Gallery of Art Washington DC Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. ... Sarah Sze (born 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York City. ... Konstantia Sofokleous, Greek: Κωνσταντία Σοφοκλέους (born 1974) is a Cypriot artist. ...

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Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London, UK. She is represented by the Hales Gallery of London, and she exhibited broadly worldwide. ... Mark Tansey (born 1949- in San Jose, California) is an American postmodern painter best known for monochromatic works which include commentary in their title, for example The Triumph of the New York School from 1984. ... Arthur Thrall (born 1926 Milwaukee, WI) Painter, printmaker Arthur Thrall, 2005 Arthur Thrall’s painting and prints have been in more than 500 exhibits in the USA and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and in US embassies. ... Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) is a photographer. ... Be Angry but Dont Stop Breathing by Mark Titchner (2003). ... Of Rikrit Tiravanijas art could be said that it is very typical for the type of contemporary expression that emerged in the mid-1990ies that is sometimes referred to as relational aesthetics, a term invented by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud, or simply social art. Tiravanijas art is... Richard James Tuttle (born 12 July 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American minimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. ... Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is a Belgian contemporary artist, considered one of todays most influential painters. ... Keith Tyson (born August 23, 1969) is an English artist. ...

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Cybèle Varela (Petropolis, 1943) is a Brazilian born, Europe based, contemporary mixed-media artist. ... Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. ... John Virtue (born Accrington, Lancashire in 1947) is an English artist. ... Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956 in Linköping) is a composer, visual artist and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

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Jeff Wall (born Vancouver September 29 1946) is a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. ... Magnus Wallin (born 1965 in Malmö) is a Swedish videoartist, working with 3D animation. ... Smashed to pieces in the still of the night - Zerschmettert in Stücke im Frieden der Nacht (Vienna, 1991) Lawrence Weiner (born February 10, 1942) was one of the central figures of conceptual art. ... Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the Turner Prize. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Jane and Louise Wilson (born 1967) often known just as The Wilson Sisters are British artists are twin sisters who have exhibited and worked together throughout their career. ... This page is about the installation artist. ... Shaun Wilson (born Melbourne, 1972) is an Australian artist, film maker, academic and curator working with themes of memory, place and scale through painting, miniatures and video art. ... Francesca Woodman (born April 3, 1958 in Denver, Colorado, died January 19, 1981 in New York) was, despite her short life, a remarkably influential and important photographic artist. ... Wu Guanzhong (August 29, 1919– ) is one of the best known contemporary painters of Chinese origin. ...

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  • Peter Young

Peter Young, is an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa in January 1940. ...

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Phaidon Book (cover), Joe Zane, 2006, handmade book, inkjet on paper Joe Zane is an American artist born in 1971. ... Wolfgang Zelmer (born April 6, 1948 in Munich, Germany) is a German painter and best known for his modern mystical still life paintings and etchings. ... Larry Zox (born Lawrence Zox) (1936 is an American painter who is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he does not readily use that category for his work. ...


 

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