Performance artists with Wikipedia entries include:

A

• Alan Abel
• Marina Abramovic
• Vito Acconci
• The-O Adams
• damali ayo
• G.G. Allin
• Laurie Anderson
• Ron Athey

Alan Abel (b. ... Marina Abramović (born 1st November 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a renowned performance artist. ... Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. ... The-O Adams (Born September 29th 1989 in London, United Kingdom) is a London based Performance Artist. ... damali ayo is a conceptual and performance artist known for her challenging work on contemporary race relations. ... Controversial punk rocker GG Allin. ... Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician. ... Ron Athey (born December 16, 1961) is an American extreme performance artist. ...

B

• Franko B
• Magali Babin
• Troy Banarzi
• Artur Barrio
• Joseph Beuys
• Nicole Blackman
• Black Sun Productions
• Mark Bloch
• Blue Man Group
• Kate Bornstein
• Leigh Bowery
• George Brecht
• Alexander Brener
• Stuart Brisley
• Robert Delford Brown
• Chris Burden
• Nao Bustamante

Franko B was born 1960 in Milan, Italy. ... Magali Babin (b. ... Troy Banarzi (b. ... Artur Barrio is an artist who works and lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. ... Joseph Beuys (IPA: ; May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was an influential German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s. ... Image:NicoleBlackman BloodSugar. ... Black Sun Productions is a collective of music, magick, performance and film artists working from their base in Switzerland. ... For the French historian and founder of the Annales school, see Marc Bloch Mark Bloch (born January 23, 1956), also known as Pan, P.A.N., Panman, Panpost and the Post Art Network, is an American multi-media artist from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Since 1982 he has lived in New... Blue Man Group (Blue Man, BMG) is a creative organization founded by Phil Stanton, Chris Wink, and Matt Goldman; it is centered on a trio of mute performers, called Blue Men, who present themselves in blue grease paint, latex bald caps, and black clothing. ... Kate Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... George Brecht (born Halfway, Oregon, United States 1924) was an early Fluxus artist. ... Green dollar sign spray painted onto Malevichs painting Alexander Brener (b. ... Stuart Brisley (born in 1933 in Haslemere, England) is widely regarded as the godfather of British performance art. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 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. ... Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance art pioneer originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. ...

C

• Cabaret Voltaire
• Giuseppe Chiari
• Lisa Crystal Carver (Lisa Suckdog)
• Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi
• Costes
• Paul Couillard
• COUM Transmissions (later Throbbing Gristle)

Cabaret Voltaire was a British music group from Sheffield, England. ... Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (also known simply as Giuseppe Chiari; 10 March 1654- 8 September 1727) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mostly in Rome. ... Lisa Crystal Carvers (AKA Lisa Suckdog) writing in Rollerderby, made her one of the most well known writers of the zine boom in the early 90s, along with scribes like Pagan Kennedy. ... Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi are two Chinese performance artists, based in Britain, who work together and specialise in art intervention. ... Jean-Louis Costess noise music albums can be described as wild, chaotic screechfests through dark Freudian terrain. One-time husband of Lisa Crystal Carver, he helped write the backing noise-opera music of the Suckdog Circus, and was also a performer in Suckdog, along with Carver, Dame Darcy, Coz... Paul Couillard (born August 1, 1961 in Chatham, New Brunswick) is a Canadian performance artist and new media artist, writer and curator. ... COUM Transmissions was a gang interested in pushing boundaries, influenced by Dada and the Merry Pranksters. ... Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975, in London) are a British Avant-Garde group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ...

D

• D Underbelly
• Bill Dan
• Vaginal Davis
• Danielle Dax
• Danny Devos
• Jess Dobkin
• John Duncan

D UNDERBELLY (spelled with all capital letters) is an underground network of independent performance artists and dancers of color based in Brooklyn, NY, founded in 1997 by Artistic Director Baraka de Soleil. ... Bill Dan is a sculptor and performance artist specializing in rock balancing. ... Vaginal Davis on cover of EP. Clarence Dennis Williams, also known as Vaginal Davis or her dominatrix-alter-ego Veronika VIntrest, (born February 23, 1969) is a punk rock drag queen and an avant-garde performance artist. ... Danielle Dax, 1990 Danielle Gardner (born 23 September 1958) is better known as Danielle Dax a experimental musician and producer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. ... Danny Devos (born in Vilvoorde, 1959) is a Belgian artist whose work involves body art and performance art and a fascination with true crime. ... Jess Dobkin (born 1970) is a performance artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. ... For the Canadian politician, see John Duncan (Canadian politician). ...

E

• Tony Eveready
• EXIT (members Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher later formed Crass)

Tony Eveready (born Duane Moore on March 12, 1971) is a hardcore porn star/performance artist who entered the industry in 1994. ... EXIT were a performance art group during the mid 1970s. ... Penny Rimbaud circa 1977 Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943, Northwood, Middlesex, England), better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977. ... Gee Vaucher was born in 1945 in Dagenham, East London. ... For information about the anarchist writer, see Chris Crass Crass was an English anarchist punk rock band, formed in 1977[1][2] and based around Dial House, an open house community near Epping, Essex. ...

F

• Deej Fabyc
• Karen Finley
• John Fare

This article lacks information on the subject matters importance. ... Karen Finley (b. ... The legend of John Charles Fare (or Faré) is the story of a man who slowly destroyed his own body. ...

G

• Diamanda Galás
• Regina José Galindo
• Cheri Gaulke
• GG Allin
• Gilbert and George
• Jack Goldstein
• Guillermo Gomez-Peña
• Paul Grégoire
• Peter Grzybowski
• gyrl grip

Diamanda Galás, pictured in the early 2000s. ... Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, 1974~ ) is a performance artist who specializes in body art. ... Cheri Gaulke (b. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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. ... Guillermo Gómez-Peña (born 1955) is a Mexican-born, United States-based (since 1978) writer and performance artist, most of his works have to do with the interface between Mexican and U.S. culture. ... Cardinal Paul Grégoire (October 24, 1911 – October 30, 1993) was a Canadian Archbishop of Montreal. ... Peter Grzybowski (born 1954 Kraków, Poland), multimedia and performance artist and a painter. ... The gyrl grip is a troupe of like-minded renegade artists, who use radically different media to collaborate in public performances and ritual. ...

H

• Lyn Hagan
• Jessica Higgins
• Amy Hill
• Tehching Hsieh

Lyn Hagan is a London based writer, artist and founding director of LifeInSpace, graduate of Chelsea College of Art and former student at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. ... Artist: Jessica Higgins, installation at Lance Fung Gallery, NYC Jessica Higgins (born New York City, USA 1964) is an intermedia artist, performance artist and improvisational dancer. ... Amy Hill (born May 9, 1953 in Deadwood, South Dakota) is a Japanese-Finnish-American actress well-known to many children for her roles of Mrs. ... Tehching Sam Hsieh (謝德慶; born 1950, Nanjhou, Pingtung County, Taiwan) was a noted New York City-based performance artist; he has been called a master by Marina Abramović. He no longer makes art. ...

J

• Juha
• Miranda July

Juha as a duo in 2003 This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Miranda July Miranda July (born February 1, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, and film director. ...

K

• Istvan Kantor / Monty Cantsin
• Allan Kaprow
• Wladyslaw Kazmierczak
• Andy Kaufman
• Jonathon Keats
• The Kipper Kids
• Yves Klein
• Alison Knowles
• Helene Kvint
• Dan Kwong

Istvan Kantor (aka Monty Cantsin, and Amen!) (born 27 August 1949 in Budapest) is a hungarian born canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism. ... Monty Cantsin is a multiple identity that anyone can adopt, but has close ties to Neoism. ... Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 - April 5, 2006) helped to develop the Environment and Happening in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. ... 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. ... Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor, and performance artist. ... Jonathon Keats (born October 2, 1971) is an American conceptual artist known for creating large-scale thought experiments. ... The Kipper Kids, consisting of Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh, were a performance duo. ... Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European neo-Dadaism. ... Alison Knowles (1933 - ) is an American artist who produced work in a number of forms. ... Helene Kvint (born December 27, 1972) is a renowned Danish performance artist and actress. ... Dan Kwong is a veteran performance artist, writer, teacher and visual artist. ...

L

• Suzanne Lacy
• Lennie Lee
• André Éric Létourneau

Suzanne Lacy (born 1945) is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. ... Lennie Lee, Young British Artist, was born March 4, 1958 in Johannesberg, South Africa. ... André Éric Létourneau (b. ...

M

• Piero Manzoni
• Gordon Matta-Clark
• Paul McCarthy
• Justin McKeown
• Ursula Merchant
• Orlando Mohorovic
• Linda Montano
• Frank Moore
• Charlotte Moorman
• Mr. Pacman
• Otto Muehl

Piero Manzoni (Soncino, Cremona July 13, 1933 - Milan February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic conceptual art in direct response to the work of Yves Klein When Manzoni did paintings, he experimented with various pigments and materials. ... Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 – August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Justin McKeown (born 1979) is an artist from Northern Ireland. ... Ursula Merchant (born September 10th 1932 in Rostock is a German Las Vegas-based performance artist, probably best known for her series Forkin Hell . She incorporated mixed media elements to create situational environments based on collective ideologies that blur the boundary between fact and fiction. ... Orlando Mohorovic (born 1950 in Labin) is a Croatian artist. ... Linda M. Montano, a seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art, has been actively exploring her art/life since the mid 1960s. ... Frank Moore (born Frank James Moore, June 25, 1946) is an American performance artist, poet, essayist, painter, musician and internet/television personality who has experimented in art, performance, ritual, since the late 1960s. ... Madeline Charlotte Moorman (November 18, 1933–November 8, 1991) was an American cellist and performance artist. ... The current Mr. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

N

• Ugo Nespolo
• Lane Nishikawa
• Hermann Nitsch
• Nsumi

Ugo Nespolo born at Mosso Santa Maria near Biella on August 29, 1941, studied under Enrico Paulucci at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin from where he emerged with a degree in Modern Literature having produced a graduate thesis on Semiology. ... Lane Nishikawa is an American actor, filmmaker and performance artist. ... Hermann Nitsch (b. ... Nsumi is an art collective based in New York City. ...

O

• Yoko Ono
• Dennis Oppenheim
• Tanja Ostojic

Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 Ono Yōko), born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese-American artist and musician. ... putos ... Tanja Ostojić (born 1972 in Yugoslavia) is a Serbian feminist performance artist. ...

P

• Nam June Paik
• Sarah Jane Pell
• Richard Piegza
• Genesis P-Orridge
• Michael Portnoy

Pre-Bell-Man, statue in front of the Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ... Dr. Sarah Jane Pell (born 30 December, 1974) is an Australian engaged in practice-as-research-in-performance. ... Richard Piegza (born June 10, 1954) is a Paris-based performer, video, action and installation artist since 1977. ... Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson February 22, 1950) is an English performer, musician, writer and artist. ... Michael Portnoy from SAKANAMAs I KNOW WHO I AM!, 2005 Bob Dylan and Portnoy (right) at the 1998 Grammy Awards Michael Portnoy is a New York based multimedia artist, choreographer, musician, actor and director of behavior. ...

R

• Vahid Rahbani
• The Residents
• Rachel Rosenthal
• Kira O' Reilly

Vahid Rahbani Vahid Rahbani وحید رهبانی (born 18 April 1979) is an Iranian theatre and film director and actor. ... For other uses, see Resident. ... Rachel Rosenthal is an interdisciplinary artist, a teacher, and animal rights activist based in Los Angeles, California. ... Kira O Reilly specialises in performance art, video art and installation. ...

S

• Mrs. Scabtree
• Carolee Schneemann
• David Sherry
• Shu Yang
• Lián Amaris Sifuentes
• Joey Skaggs
• Jack Smith
• Litsa Spathi
• Annie Sprinkle
• Stelarc
• Andre Stitt
• Survival Research Laboratories

Mrs. ... Carolee Schneemann (b. ... David Sherry (born 1974) is an artist. ... Shu Yang, born 1970, China, A Chinese painter, performance artist, photographer and curator. ... Lián Amaris Sifuentes is a performance artist, new media artist, scholar, and Assistant Professor of Drama and Dance at Colorado College. ... Joey Skaggs (born 1945) is a U.S. media prankster who has organized numerous successful hoaxes and other presentations. ... Jack Smith (14 November 1932 in Columbus, Ohio - 25 September 1989 in New York) was a US-American film director and one of the pioneers of American underground cinema. ... Litsa Spathi (born 1958) is a Greek painter, performer and fluxus artist, currently living in Heidelberg, Germany. ... Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg July 23, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a prostitute, stripper, porn film star, cable television host, porn magazine editor and writer, and sex film producer. ... Stelarc (born Stelios Arcadiou on June 19, 1946) to Greek Cypriot parents is an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. ... Andre Stitt (born 1958, Belfast, Northern Ireland), is a performance artist. ... Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is an industrial machine performance art group founded by Mark Pauline in November, 1978. ...

T

• Echo Transgression

Echo Transgression is one of the alter egos of performance/new media artist and filmmaker Kristie Alshaibi (formerly Kristie Drew, and born as Kristie Jeffries in 1972). ...

V

• Armand Vaillancourt

Armand Vaillancourt is a French Canadian sculptor born on September 3, 1929 in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada. ...

W

• David Wojnarowicz
• Wolf Vostell
• The World Famous Bushman

A famous image of David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz (September 14, 1954 - July 22, 1992) was a gay painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s. ... Wolf Vostell was one of the most important German artists after the Second World War. ... The World Famous Bushman, also known as David Johnson, has been entertaining passerbys along Fishermans Wharf for over twenty-five years. ...

Y

• Yang Zhichao
• Yes Men
• Yingmei Duan