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List Of LGBTQ Artists
This is a list of notable visual artists who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or otherwise non-heterosexual. This list covers artists known for the creation of visual art such as drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, performance works and video works. The entries are in alphabetical order by surname. Birth and death dates are included. All new additions to this list should include a reference. B * Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), USA * Alison Bechdel (born 1960), USA * Joan E. Biren (born 1944), USA * Rora Blue (born ), USA * Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), FRA * Joe Brainard (1942-1994), USA * Scott Burton (1938-1989) C * Cathy Cade (born 1942), USA * Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), USA * Caravaggio (1571-1610), Italy * Tammy Rae Carland (born 1965), USA *Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), France * Liz Collins (born), USA * Frank Coombs (1906-1941), GBR * Enrico Corte (born 1963), Italy D * TM Davy (Born 1980), USA * Jimmy De Sana (1949-1990), USA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTIST
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Burton
Scott Burton (June 23, 1939 – December 29, 1989) was an American sculptor and performance artist best known for his large-scale furniture sculptures in granite and bronze. Early years Burton was born in Greensboro, Alabama to Walter Scott Burton, Jr. and Hortense Mobley Burton. While Burton was a child, his parents separated and Burton relocated to Washington, DC. with his mother. Burton began his artistic career at the Washington Workshop Center in Washington D.C. in the mid-1950s under Leon Berkowitz, before progressing to the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Between 1959 and 1962 Burton took classes at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Harvard University, and Columbia University, where he finally received his bachelor's degree. In 1963 Burton was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University in New York City. Art career During his decade-long relationship with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaiden Animations
Jaiden Dittfach (born September 27, 1997), known online as Jaiden Animations, is an American YouTuber and animator, known for her story-time animations. Her videos explore a variety of topics, spanning from her experiences to personal stories. She also creates videos centered on video games. Dittfach's four YouTube channels have collectively amassed over million subscribers and over billion views At the 10th Streamy Awards in 2020, she received a Streamy Award in the Animated category. She was previously nominated for the award in 2018. YouTube career Early career Prior to working on her own channel, Dittfach worked with other YouTubers on their channels, including iHasCupquake. Eponymous channel Dittfach created her YouTube channel in 2014, when she was 16 years old. In 2016 and 2017, Dittfach's channel started trending on the website, becoming more prominent to bigger audiences. Dittfach mainly uploads animated YouTube videos that tell stories about her personal life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney (December 30, 1901 – March 26, 1979) was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Beauford's younger brother, Joseph, was also a noted painter. Biography Early life Beauford Delaney was born December 30, 1901, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Delaney's parents were prominent and respected members of Knoxville's black community. His father Samuel was both a barber and a Methodist minister. His mother Delia was also prominent in the church, and earned a living taking in laundry and cleaning the houses of prosperous white families. Delia, born into slavery and never able to read and write herself, transferred a sense of dignity and self-esteem to her children, and preached to them about the injustices of racism and the value of education. Beauford was the eighth of ten children, only four of whom survived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl De Nieves
Raul de Nieves (born 1983, Michoacán, Mexico) is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Early life De Nieves grew up in Michoacán, Mexico. His father passed away when de Nieves was two. Several years later, de Nieves and his family emigrated to San Diego, San Diego, CA. At 20, de Nieves was accepted to the California College of the Arts, but decided against paying the tuition fees and instead moved to San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco's Mission District, San Francisco, Mission District. He worked at an antiques shop called Gypsy Honeymoon and soon met fellow artist and sculptor Stewart Uoo. Work De Nieve's showed first series of paintings, ''St George and the Dragon'' (2003–05), in 2005 at the back room of the Gypsy Honeymoon. The following year, de Nieves moved to New York and exhibited new sculptures, shoes, at Newman Popiashvili. In 2014, he completed his first life-sized work, ''Day(ves) of Wonder'', which returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy De Sana
Jimmy DeSana (November 12, 1949 – July 27, 1990) was an American artist, and a key figure in the East Village punk art and New wave music, New Wave scene of the 1970s and 1980s. DeSana's photography has been described as "anti-art" in its approach to capturing images of the human body, in a manner ranging from "savagely explicit to purely symbolic". DeSana was close collaborators with photographer Laurie Simmons and writer William S. Burroughs, who wrote the introduction to DeSana's self-published collection of photographs ''Submission''. His work includes the album cover for the Talking Heads album ''More Songs about Buildings and Food'' as well as John Giorno’s LP, ''You’re The Guy I Want To Share My Money With.'' Early life and education DeSana was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1949. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1972, DeSana moved to New York after studying at the University of Georgia. Work DeSana began to take photographs being a teen, mostly photograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TM Davy
TM Davy (born 1980) is a New York-based painter. Davy paints and draws in the style of social realism and portraiture, recognizable for his keen sense of light and color depicting both the human and non-human. Early life and education Davy was born and raised in New York, New York. Davy spent his early years fine tuning his technique at a summertime apprenticeship at the mural studio his father owned alongside highly trained Russian and Chinese social realist academic style painters. Davy notes that he helped paint the clouds visible on the ceiling of the New York Public Library before he began college. Davy attended and graduated from the School of Visual Arts where he now teaches. Work Davy paints a range of subject matter including portraits of friends and beachgoers, candlelight scenes, horses and ponies, and wildlife, typically highlighting the subject matter's interaction with light and shadows. "Light is the great connector in my art, and it has both symbolic and metap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Corte
Enrico Corte (; born 21 June 1963) is an Italian contemporary artist. He works in the fields of painting, sculpture, drawing, video art and photography. His exhibitions often include multimedia installations that mix diverse genres and form relationships both with the surrounding area and the viewing public by means of ever-changing combinations. He has lived for extended periods of time in Rome, London, Berlin, Paris and New York, always immersing himself in the contemporary culture and assimilating the tensions of the metropolitan counter-cultures. His works can be found in both private and public collections in Europe and the USA. Some recurring themes constitute the artist’s poetic core. One element is the so-called "impossibility of the ''Tragic''" within the system of contemporary art. Another theme is the co-existence of creation and destruction in the process of realizing a work, along with the analysis of the “dark side” of creativity which often coincides with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Coombs (artist)
Frank Mundy Coombs (30 July 1906 – 15 April 1941) was an English painter, architect and art dealer. Early life Frank Coombs was born in Radstock, the son of Frank and Louisa Isabel Coombs, of Bath, Somerset. He studied art at King's School, Bruton under Arthur Jenkins. Career Frank Coombs qualified as an architect and worked at the Hampshire County Council. For two years, he lived in the island of Sark and there met Ala Story, while Story was on a vacation, and followed her back to London, where Story owned the Storran Gallery. Coombs was responsible for the progressive turn of the Storran Gallery. Originally selling woodcuts and greeting cards, when Coombs joined the gallery in 1935 he organized his first show, a show that completely changed the future of the business. After that first show, Coombs, together with Eardley Knollys and Ala Story, exhibited works by Pavel Tchelitchew, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Christopher Wood and Victor Pasmore. When Story sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Collins
Liz Collins (born 1968) is an American contemporary artist and designer. Collins is recognized for her artwork involving fabric, knitwear, and textiles as well as the fashion label she developed. She has expertise in textile media including the transition of fabric into multi-dimensional forms as a method to vary the scale of her pieces to make them architectural and inviting rather than object-based. Collins is based in Brooklyn, New York. Early life and education Liz Collins graduated with a BFA degree (1991) and MFA degree (1999) from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Collins launched her personal knitwear clothing line in 1999 as her MFA thesis at RISD and ran her business until 2004. She was a professor of textiles at RISD from 2003 to 2013. Career After receiving her M.F.A., Collins spent the next several years developing her own knitwear company until 2004. Recognized for its innovative design, Collins developed a patent for her specialized technique of interw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements; and one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century art as a whole. The ''National Observer'' suggested that, “of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man.” He is best known for his novels ''Le Grand Écart'' (1923), ''Le Livre blanc'' (1928), and '' Les Enfants Terribles'' (1929); the stage plays ''La Voix Humaine'' (1930), '' La Machine Infernale'' (1934), ''Les Parents terribles'' (1938), '' La Machine à écrire'' (1941), and ''L'Aigle à deux têtes'' (1946); and the films ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1930), ''Les Parents Terribles'' (1948), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), ''Orpheus'' (1950), and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy Rae Carland
Tammy Rae Carland (born January 27, 1965), is a photographer, video artist, zine editor, current provost at California College of the Arts (CCA), and former co-owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr. Lady Records and Videos. Her work has been published, screened, and exhibited around the world in galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin, and Sydney. Early life Carland was born in Portland, Maine in 1965. She grew up with 4 siblings and was raised by her single mother. She was the first in her family to graduate from high school. Zines, videos, and music In the late 1980s, while she was studying photography at The Evergreen State College, Carland co-founded the independent art gallery Reko Muse (a.k.a. wreck-o-muse) in Olympia, Washington with fellow photography student, Kathleen Hanna and another friend, Heidi Arbogast. They formed a band, Amy Carter, who performed during art exhibitions. Kathleen Hanna often did spoken word performances at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
