Adel Abdessemed
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Conceptual artist Adel Abdessemed, like William Lamson and Cai Guo-Qiang, creates situations based on deliberate actions—or “acts” as he calls them—carried out on everyday materials, which he documents with videos, photographs, and later juxtaposes with a sculptural remainder from the action itself.
Marina Abramović
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Marina Abramović is perhaps the most famous performance artist working today. Employing duration, pain, danger, exhaustion, and viewer participation, she works at extremes as she complicates the relationship between art and audience.
Ai Weiwei
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Dissident artist Ai Weiwei is famous for conceptual artworks that challenge authority and explore the links between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese culture.
Jia Aili
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Jia Aili is a Chinese contemporary artist born in 1979 in Liaoning province, China. His pieces feature the dark side of human progress and warfare, including symbols like gas masks, industrial waste, the hammer and sickle sign, and mushroom clouds.
F. Moshiri & S. Aliabadi
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Drawing equally from Eastern and Western traditions, Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri is best known for his technically exquisite, conceptually rich paintings.
Refik Anadol
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The award-winning New Media artist Refik Anadol explores the potential of artificial intelligence, using machine-learning algorithms to transform vast datasets into highly sensory aesthetic experiences.
El Anatsui
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In his sculptures and installations, El Anatsui transforms simple, everyday objects into grand, totemic assemblages.
Donald Baechler
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Donald Baechler, a member of the East Village art scene in 1980s New York, is known for his painting-collage-drawing works depicting of childhood imagery and nostalgic ephemera like grammar school primers, old maps, and children’s drawings, or purposely cliché motifs such as a skull, a rose, a globe, and a soccer ball.
John Baldessari
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A pioneering force in Conceptual art, John Baldessari transformed pop cultural and art historical iconography into meditations on image, language, appropriation, and authenticity.
Banksy
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Perhaps the most famous figure in street art working today, Banksy is known for urban interventions that demonstrate irreverent wit and a biting political edge.
Georg Baselitz
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Georg Baselitz’s raw, expressive paintings helped expand notions of figurative art in the mid–20th century.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
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Bernd and Hilla Becher are best known for their austere, elegiac, and widely influential photographs of industrial architecture in their native Germany.
Renate Bertlmann
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Renate Bertlmann has been challenging social constructs surrounding gender and sexuality in her photographs, collages, performances, and sculptures since the 1970s.
Peter Blake
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Widely regarded as the godfather of British Pop art and the Young British Artists movement, Peter Blake creates paintings, collages, and prints that blend modernity and nostalgia.
Frank Bowling
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Adopting an Abstract Expressionist vernacular since the mid-1960s when he moved to New York, Frank Bowling paints in a unique style that draws from abstraction and his Guyanese heritage.
Maurizio Cattelan
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Maurizio Cattelan’s playful, provocative conceptual practice skewers the conventions of art, institutions, and contemporary value systems at large.
Christo
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Christo became famous for his monumental collaborations with his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude.
Brian Clarke
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Brian Clarke was born in 1953 in Oldham, England. Even though he is widely considered the most important contemporary artist in stained glass practice, he has exercised with a wide range of different media: paint, sculpture, mosaic, drawing, collage, and tapestry among others.
Chuck Close
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In the 1960s, Chuck Close pioneered Photorealism with his monumental, exquisitely detailed portraits, whose subjects he took from photographic sources.
Tony Cragg
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Turner Prize–winning sculptor Tony Cragg draws new connections between humans and the material world.
Tacita Dean
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Tacita Dean creates photographs, films, and drawings that explore themes of chance, narrative, and time, often featuring nautical imagery and derelict spaces.
Thomas Demand
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With colored paper and cardboard, Thomas Demand meticulously reconstructs interior scenes from photographs of historic events, sometimes at life-size scale, then photographs them.
Peter Doig
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Peter Doig’s serene, fantastical paintings feature kaleidoscope landscapes punctuated by enigmatic, partially obscured figures.
Marlene Dumas
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Marlene Dumas is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands whose figurative work have earned her a place among the most influential painters of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Olafur Eliasson
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Olafur Eliasson uses technical devices and natural elements such as light, water, and fog to transform exhibition spaces into immersive, site-specific environments.
Tracey Emin
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Tracey Emin’s poetic, confessional practice spans film, painting, neon, embroidery, drawing, installation, and sculpture.
Brian Eno
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Brian Eno is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist known as one of the main innovators of ambient music and generative painting.
Elger Esser
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Elger Esser’s pale, luminous landscape photographs, which are almost entirely unpeopled and frequently feature a straight, low horizon line, have been compared to both early-19th-century photography and Dutch landscape paintings of the 17th century.
Abdulnasser Gharem
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Born 1973 in Khamis Mushait where he use to live and work. In 1992 Gharem graduated from the King Abdulaziz Academy before attending The Leader Institute in Riyadh.
Liam Gillick
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Young British Artist Liam Gillick is primarily interested in analyzing structures, social organizations, and human interaction.
Douglas Gordon
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Throughout his diverse practice—spanning photography, video, performance, sound, and text-based work—Douglas Gordon recontextualizes familiar images and artworks, distorting time, language, and other aesthetic aspects to challenge viewers’ perception, expectation, and memory.
Antony Gormley
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In sculptures, installations, and public artworks, Antony Gormley considers the relationship between time, space, and the human body.
Wang Guangle
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Conceptual art pioneer Wang Guangle was born in 1976 and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he started exploring the potential of texture and painting surfaces, which later translated into his minimalist monochrome painting practice.
Peter Halley
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Peter Halley is a painter and printmaker born in New York in 1953. Associated with the Minimalist, Neo-Geo, and Neo-Conceptualist movements, he is best known for his brightly colored geometric abstractions, which he started painting in the 1980s and which he calls “prisons” and “cells”.
Lubaina Himid
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Lubaina Himid made history in 2017, at age 63, when she became the first Black woman and the oldest artist yet to win the prestigious Turner Prize.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst, a poster boy for the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in late 1980s London, is one of the most notorious artists of his generation.
David Hockney
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A pioneer of the 1960s British movement, David Hockney is one of the most celebrated and prolific artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Jenny Holzer
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Since the 1970s, Jenny Holzer has inserted language into public settings as part of her singular conceptual practice.
Gary Hume
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Young British Artist Gary Hume is best known for exuberant, Pop-inflected works which he makes with high-gloss, household enamel paint on aluminum panels.
Candida Höfer
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In majestic large-format color photography, Candida Höfer captures the psychological residue left behind in empty public and institutional spaces.
Axel Hütte
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Among the celebrated postwar German photographers collectively named the Düsseldorf School, Axel Hütte is known for his large-scale, coolly beautiful photographs of urban and natural landscapes.
Robert Indiana
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Robert Indiana is most famous for his iconic “LOVE” image, which has appeared across media including sculptures, prints, and paintings and epitomizes the artist’s graphic, predominantly text-based Pop art practice.
Anish Kapoor
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Anish Kapoor is known for elegant sculptures of spare geometries and organic forms, which he fabricates with feats of engineering.
Alex Katz
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With flat planes of rich, lovely color, Alex Katz’s landscapes and portraits evoke the smooth aesthetics of advertising billboards and film.
Kaws
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One of the most iconic artists of his time, KAWS is known for combining his own characters with beloved popular culture icons to wittingly question the condition of contemporary society.
Yves Klein
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Yves Klein is famous for his explorations into pure color—blue in particular. Employing only his signature, patented pigment, International Klein Blue, the artist made iconic monochromes that aimed to bring art into the realm of pure, atmospheric feeling.
Imi Knoebel
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Imi Knoebel’s minimalist hybrids of painting and sculpture explore relationships between color and structure.
Jeff Koons
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One of the most famous artists working today, Jeff Koons makes gleeful, tongue-in-cheek sculptures, paintings, and installations that border—and often cross—the edge of good taste.
Friedrich Kunath
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German artist Friedrich Kunath reimagines romanticism in dreamlike compositions, while saturating his art in irony, nostalgia and pathos.
Sol LeWitt
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Sol LeWitt famously stressed the importance of the ideas that animated his artwork over the particulars of their execution.
Annie Leibovitz
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One of the most influential photographers of our time, Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 Waterbury, Connecticut and she is most renowned for her iconic celebrity portraits.
Peter Lindbergh
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The fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh is celebrated for his artfully composed narrative photographs, as well as his films and television commercials.
Robert Longo
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Robert Longo is known for large-scale, hyperrealistic charcoal portraits that consider power, authority, and social unrest.
Nate Lowman
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Nate Lowman appropriates, paints, and photographs existing imagery, mining the detritus of pop culture in mixed-media works that critique celebrity culture, consumerism, and the saturation of sex and violence in mass media.
Takashi Murakami
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Known for his brightly colored and maniacally cheerful works, Takashi Murakami's astronomical rise to fame in the contemporary art world has been met with equal parts celebration and criticism.
Claes Oldenburg
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Since the 1960s, Claes Oldenburg has worked at the forefront of the Conceptual and Pop art movements, and he’s best known for his monumental public sculptures of everyday objects.
Yan Pei-Ming
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Drawing from European portraiture traditions, Yan Pei-Ming creates large-scale paintings that depict international celebrities including politicians, popes, and actors—or the artist himself.
Pablo Picasso
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Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space.
Otto Piene
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Otto Piene, co-founder of the Düsseldorf-based Group Zero, made highly experimental, process-based artworks that embraced unconventional materials including smoke, fire, and light.
Larry Poons
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Larry Poons’s gestural abstraction takes inspiration from the rhythm and improvisational methods of musical composition.
Richard Prince
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Perennially provocative, Richard Prince has blazed new trails for photography with his explorations of appropriation, identity, and the meaning of images in a mass-media culture.
Laure Prouvost
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The Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost is known for her lush, immersive films and mixed-media installations.
Walid Raad
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Walid Raad works across installation, performance, video, and photography in order to grapple with the legacy of the Lebanese Civil War; memory, loss, carnage, and dizzying acts of reconstruction are all major motifs.
Gerhard Richter
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One of the most famous artists to emerge from post-war Germany, Gerhard Richter is known for his prolific, varied, and widely influential painting practice.
Ugo Rondinone
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Ranging from installations and sculptures to psychedelic paintings and large-scale drawings, Ugo Rondinone’s eclectic practice explores the relationships between opposing forces—day and night, real and artificial, euphoria and depression.
Michal Rovner
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Michal Rovner is an Israeli contemporary artist, known for her video, photo, and cinema artwork. Rovner is internationally known with exhibitions at major museums, including the Louvre and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Ed Ruscha
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Ed Ruscha’s expansive oeuvre defies easy categorization, though it’s all infused with a kind of deadpan California cool.
Tom Sachs
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Tom Sachs (USA, born 1966) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.
Anri Sala
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Working in film, photography, and performance, Anri Sala explores ruptures in sound and image and creates moments of overlap among the senses.
Thomas Schütte
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A student of Gerhard Richter, Daniel Buren, and Benjamin Buchloh, Thomas Schütte is considered one of the most important sculptors of his generation.
Sean Scully
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Since the 1960s, Sean Scully has made abstract canvases that feature stripes, blocks, and grids painted in rich, evocative hues.
Collin Sekajugo
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Ugandan-Rwandan Collin Sekajugo’s artistic practice examines and questions the notion of personal identity in a self-absorbed contemporaneity by re-imagining subjects from visual, oral and digital culture.
Park Seo-Bo
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Park Seo-Bo (1931-2023) was a pioneering figure in Korean contemporary art and is celebrated as the founder of the Dansaekhwa movement. He was one of the first artists to introduce abstraction into Korea's then very conservative art world, skillfully balancing tradition with the rising influence of Western art.
Andres Serrano
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Andres Serrano is perhaps best known for his unflinching color photographs of controversial subjects including dead bodies, feces, handguns, Ku Klux Klansmen, and Catholic figurines submerged in bodily fluids.
Chiharu Shiota
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Best known for her delicate, mixed-media web-like composition combined with everyday items, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota’s oeuvre, explores fundamental human concerns such as life, death and relationships.
David Shrigley
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David Shrigley’s drawings, paintings, animations, and neon texts embrace cartoon aesthetics and an absurd, deadpan sensibility.
Gary Simmons
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Gary Simmons references film, architecture, and American popular culture in paintings and drawings that address race, class, and memory on both personal and collective levels.
Sarah Slappey
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Sarah Slappey paints grotesque surrealistic compositions populated by contorted hands, limbs, and breasts that have earned her attention and acclaim.
Thomas Struth
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Thomas Struth’s mesmerizing, large-format photographs capture the wonders of nature, machinery, architecture, and contemporary life itself.
Donald Sultan
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Donald Sultan’s large-scale still-life paintings feature semi-abstract compositions and unique materials: The artist has used tar, spackle, enamel, Masonite, and vinyl floor tiles to create his minimalist renderings of flowers, fruits, and other natural forms.
Luc Tuymans
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Luc Tuymans’s muted, mysterious paintings transform source material from television, film, and photography into meditations on history, memory, and the mediation of images in contemporary culture.
Cy Twombly
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Cy Twombly’s idiosyncratic style incorporated expressive drips, frenetic scribbles, and gestural, calligraphic linework into lyrical abstractions.
Manolo Valdés
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Manolo Valdés (1942, Valencia, Spain) has developed a distinctive style that explores history without taking away from the original subject.
Joana Vasconcelos
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Evoking the 1960s Nouveau Réalisme movement, Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, and the symbolic, tactile constructions of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse, Joana Vasconcelos threads everyday objects and materials together in her assemblages, which comment on womanhood, nationality, and consumerism.
Bernar Venet
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Bernar Venet is a Conceptual artist best known for his versatility in multiple mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, as well as stage design and musical composition.
Not Vital
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Painter, sculptor, designer, and architect Not Vital lives as though his life is a work of art, embodying the kind of eccentric and extravagant lifestyle made famous by artists before him like Salvador Dalí.
Wang Qingsong
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Wang Qingsong’s staged photographs are vehicles for incisive, witty commentary on economic expansion, social tension, and rising Western influence in contemporary China.
Wang Guangyi
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Wang Guangyi repurposes historical Chinese propaganda into paintings that poke fun at the intersection of China’s communist history and the rise of Western influence.
Andy Warhol
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Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images.
Rachel Whiteread
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With industrial materials such as plaster, resin, rubber, and concrete, Rachel Whiteread makes ghostly casts of the spaces surrounding common objects and architecture as she meditates on memory and permanence.
Erwin Wurm
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Erwin Wurm expands contemporary notions of sculpture with humorous works that often invite viewer participation or anthropomorphize everyday objects.
Yue Minjun
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In fantastical paintings populated with heightened, hysterical self-portraits, Yue Minjun satirizes contemporary society and art historical tropes.
Zhang Xiaogang
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