This is a list of artists who create

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic co ...

, 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: *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.

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Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...

(born 1946), performance artist *

Vito Acconci Vito Acconci (, ; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His foundational p ...

(1940–2017), installation and performance artist * Rita Ackermann (born 1968), artist * Bas Jan Ader (1942–1979), conceptual artist *

Eija-Liisa Ahtila Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Helsinki. Ahtila is most known for her multi-panel cinematic installations. She experiments with narrative storytellin ...

(born 1959), video artist *

Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. She received her B.F.A. at Antioch College. A bricoleur who has created both narrative works and documentaries, some projects are scrip ...

(born 1954), video artist * Chantal Akerman (1950–2015), filmmaker * Vikky Alexander (born 1959), installation artist *

Edward Allington Edward Thomas Allington (24 June 1951 – 21 September 2017) was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement. Born at Troutbeck Bridge, Westmorland, to Ralph Allington and his wife, Evely ...

(1951–2017) sculptor *

Francis Alÿs Francis Alÿs (born 1959, Antwerp) is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. In 1986, Alÿs left behind his profession as an architect and relocated to Me ...

(born 1959), conceptual artist *

El Anatsui El Anatsui ( h-nah-ch-wee born 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. He has drawn particular international attention for his " bottle-top installations". These installations consist of thousands of aluminum piec ...

(born 1944), sculptor and installation artist *

Laurie Anderson Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and ...

(born 1947), performance artist *

Carl Andre Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures and for the suspected murder of contemporary and wife, Ana Mendieta. His sculptures range from large public art ...

(born 1935), sculptor *

Janine Antoni Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, ...

(born 1964), sculptor and installation artist *

Ida Applebroog Ida Applebroog (born November 11, 1929) is an American multi-media artist who is best-known for her paintings and sculptures that explore the themes of gender, sexual identity, violence and politics. Applebroog has been the recipient of multiple ...

(born 1929), painter *

Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist professionally known by the mononym . Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books.The number depends on such things ...

(born 1940), photographer *

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971
" The New York ...

(1923–1971), photographer *

Siah Armajani Siavash "Siah" Armajani ( fa, سیاوش ارمجانی; 10 July 1939 – 27 August 2020) was an Iranian-born American sculptor and architect known for his public art. Family and education Siavash Armajani was born into a wealthy, educated fam ...

(1939–2020), sculptor * Arman (1928–2005), sculptor *

John Armleder John Armleder (born 1948, in Geneva) is a Swiss performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator. His work is based on his involvement with Fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s, when he created performance art pieces, installations and collecti ...

(born 1948), performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator * Art & Language, conceptual artist *

Richard Artschwager Richard Ernst Artschwager (December 26, 1923 – February 9, 2013) was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism. Early life and art Richard Artschwager was born to Euro ...

(1923–2013), sculptor and painter *

Roy Ascott Roy Ascott FRSA (born 26 October 1934) is a British artist, who works with cybernetics and telematics on an art he calls technoetic by focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. Since the 1960s, Ascott ...

(born 1934), new media artist *

Frank Auerbach Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British subject since 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon ...

(born 1931), painter * Sofia Areal (born 1960), painter

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Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...

(1909–1992), painter *

Jo Baer Josephine Gail Baer (born August 7, 1929) is an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turne ...

(born 1929), painter *

John Baldessari John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020) was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter ...

(1931–2020), conceptual artist * Balthus (1908–2001), painter *

Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigram ...

(born 1974), graffiti artist *

Fiona Banner Fiona Banner (born 1966), also known as The Vanity Press is a British artist. Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, installation and text, and demonstrates a long-standing fascination with the emblem of fighter aircraft and their role within cul ...

(born 1966) *

Matthew Barney Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...

(born 1967), filmmaker *

Will Barnet Will Barnet (May 25, 1911November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. Bi ...

(1911–2012), painter *

Artur Barrio Artur Barrio (Artur Alipio Barrio de Sousa Lopes) 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 h ...

(born 1945), interactive artist *

Jennifer Bartlett Jennifer Bartlett ( Losch; March 14, 1941 – July 25, 2022) was an American artist. She was known for paintings and prints that combine the system-based aesthetic of conceptual art with the painterly approach of Neo-Expressionism. Many of her ...

(born 1945), painter * Georg Baselitz (born 1938), painter * Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), painter *

Noah Becker Noah Becker (born 1970) is an American and Canadian artist, writer, publisher of ''Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art'', and jazz saxophonist who lives and works in New York City. He is a contributing writer for ''Art in America'' Magazine, ' ...

(born 1970), painter *

Vanessa Beecroft Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969) is an Italian-born American contemporary performance artist; she also works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting. Many of her works have made use of professional models, sometimes in large nu ...

(born 1969) * Larry Bell (born 1939), sculptor *

Maurice Benayoun Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957) is a French new-media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, th ...

(born 1957), media artist *

Lynda Benglis Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedaba ...

(born 1941), sculptor *

Danelle Bergstrom Danelle Bergstrom (born 1957) is an Australian visual artist known for landscapes and portraits of significant Australians and International figures. Biography Bergstrom was born in Sydney. She attended Hunters Hill High School and studied a ...

(born 1957), painter *

José Bernal José Bernal Romero (January 8, 1925 – April 19, 2010, known by his first name and by his paternal family name José Bernal) was a Cuban-American artist, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara). H ...

(1925–2010), painter/sculptor *

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...

(1921–1986), sculptor, performance artist, installation artist *

Ashley Bickerton Ashley Bickerton (May 26, 1959 – November 30, 2022) was a Barbadian-born American contemporary artist. A mixed-media artist, Bickerton often combined photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages. He is asso ...

(born 1959), mixed-media artist *

Janet Biggs Janet Biggs is an American artist, known for her work in video, photography and performance art. Biggs lives and works in New York City. Biggs' work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations and often navigates territory between ...

(born 1959), video and performance artist *

Dara Birnbaum Dara Birnbaum (born 1946) is an American video and installation artist. Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the Amer ...

(born 1946), video and installation artist * Ronald Bladen, (1918–1988), sculptor * David Blatherwick (born 1960), painter and video artist * Guy Bleus (born 1950), performance artist, mail art *

Christian Boltanski Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French Conceptual art, conceptual style. Early li ...

(1944–2021), sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker * Alighiero Boëtti (1940–1994), conceptual artist * Maurizio Bolognini (born 1952), post-conceptual media artist *

Henry Bond Henry Bond, FHEA (born 13 June 1966) is an English writer, photographer, and visual artist. In his ''Lacan at the Scene'' (2009), Bond made contributions to theoretical psychoanalysis and forensics. In 1990, with Sarah Lucas, Bond organised ...

(born 1966), writer, photographer and visual artist * Christine Borland (born 1965) * Michaël Borremans (born 1963), painter *

Eberhard Bosslet Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation, light art and painting, all indoors and outdoors, since 1979. Biography ...

(born 1953), sculptor, installation artist * Fernando Botero (born 1932), painter *

Jack Boul Jack Boul (born February 8, 1927) is an artist and teacher based in Washington, D.C., whose oil paintings, monotypes and sculpture are included in museums including the National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection. His work has also bee ...

(born 1927), painter, printmaker and sculptor *

Louise Bourgeois Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...

(1911–2010), sculptor and installation artist *

Mark Bradford Mark Bradford (born November 20, 1961) is an American visual artist. Born in Los Angeles, Bradford studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Recognized for his collaged painting works, which have been shown internationally, his practice al ...

(born 1961), painter * Robert J Brawley (1937–2006), painter * Candice Breitz (born 1972), video artist * Stuart Brisley (born 1933), performance artist *

Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Broodthaers (28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker, and visual artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works. In 1943-1951 he was a member of a Communist party. Life and career ...

(1924–1976), poet, filmmaker and artist * Glenn Brown (born 1966) *

Tania Bruguera Tania Bruguera (born 1968 in Havana, Cuba) is an artist and activist who focuses on installation and performance art. She lives and works between New York City and Havana, and has participated in numerous international exhibitions. Her work is i ...

(born 1968), installation and performance artist *

Angela Bulloch Angela Bulloch (born 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada), is an artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists. Bulloch lives and works in Berlin. Life and career Bulloch studied at G ...

(born 1966), installation artist *

Deborah Butterfield Deborah Kay Butterfield (born May 7, 1949) is an American sculptor. Along with her artist-husband John Buck, she divides her time between a farm in Bozeman, Montana, and studio space in Hawaii. She is known for her sculptures of horses made f ...

(born 1949), sculptor *

Chris Burden Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including ''Shoot'' (1971), where he arranged ...

(1946–2015), performance artist, sculptor, installation artist *

Jack Bush John Hamilton Bush (March 20, 1909 – January 24, 1977) was a Canadian abstract painter. A member of Painters Eleven, his paintings are associated with the Color Field movement and Post-painterly Abstraction. Inspired by Henri Ma ...

(1909–1977), painter * Gerard Byrne (born 1969), installation artist

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Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) 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 known as Oulipo. ...

(born 1953), conceptual artist from France * Nuno de Campos (born 1969), painter * Janet Cardiff (born 1957), installation artist * Gerard Caris (born 1925), sculptor *

Norman Carlberg Norman K. Carlberg (November 6, 1928 – November 11, 2018) was an American sculptor, photographer, and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style. Early life and education Carlberg was born in Roseau, Minnes ...

(1928–2018), sculptor * Gillian Carnegie (born 1971), painter *

Anthony Caro Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ' found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moor ...

(1924–2013), sculptor *

Antonio Caro Antonio José Caro Lopera (10 December 1950 – 29 March 2021) was a Colombian conceptual artist who created works since the late 1960s. He typically used non-traditional forms to create politically and socially charged critiques of Colombian is ...

(1950–2021), painter, conceptualization *

Nicolas Carone Nicolas Carone (June 4, 1917 – July 15, 2010) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Their artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized internationally, including in London and Paris. New ...

(1917–2010), painter, sculptor *

James Casebere James Casebere (born 1953) is an American contemporary artist and photographer living in New York and Canaan, New York. Biography Casebere, born in Lansing, Michigan, grew up outside of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University and gradua ...

(born 1953), photographer *

Maurizio Cattelan Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him bei ...

(born 1960) * Nick Cave (born 1959), performance artist, sculptor * John Cederquist (born 1946), American sculptor *

Vija Celmins Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. lv, Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and dr ...

(born 1938), painter * Saint Clair Cemin (born 1951) Brazilian sculptor * John Chamberlain (1927–2011), sculptor * Suki Chan (born 1977), video and installation artist * Gordon Cheung, (born 1975), contemporary artist *

Jake and Dinos Chapman Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers. Their subject matter tries to be deliberately shocking, including, in 2008, a series of works that ...

(born 1966 and 1962) *

Judy Chicago Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history ...

(born 1939), feminist artist * Dale Chihuly (born 1941), glass artist * Luke Ching (born 1972) conceptual artist * Dan Christensen (1942–2007), abstract painter * Abraham David Christian (born 1952) * Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), portrait painter and printmaker *

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and ...

(1935–2009) * Paolo Cirio (born 1979), Internet artist *

Lygia Clark Lygia Pimentel Lins (23 October 1920 – 25 April 1988), better known as Lygia 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-2 ...

(1920–1988), painter, installation artist *

Brian Clarke Brian Clarke (born 2 July 1953) is a British painter, architectural artist and printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, symbolist paintings, set designs, and collaborations with major figures in Modern and conte ...

(born 1953), multidisciplinary architectural artist, painter, stained glass designer *

Francesco Clemente Francesco Clemente (born 23 March 1952) is an Italian contemporary artist. He has lived at various times in Italy, India and New York City. Some of his work is influenced by the traditional art and culture of India. He has worked in various art ...

(born 1952), painter *

Chuck Close Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very l ...

(1940–2021), painter * Claude Closky (born 1963) * Arnaud Cohen (born 1968) *

Robert Colescott Robert H. Colescott (August 26, 1925 – June 4, 2009) was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African American. He studied with Fernand L ...

(1925–2009), painter *

Mat Collishaw Matthew "Mat" Collishaw Hon. FRPS (born 6 January 1966) is an English artist based in London. Collishaw's work uses photography and video. His best known work is ''Bullet Hole'' (1988), which is a closeup photo of what appears to be a bull ...

(born 1966), photographer, video artist *

George Condo George Condo (born 1957) is an American visual artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. He lives and works in New York City. Early life Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He studied art history and music ...

(born 1957), painter * Cortis & Sonderegger (born 1978 and 1980), installation *

Tony Cragg Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg (born Liverpool 9 April 1949) is an Anglo-German sculptor, resident in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. Early life and training Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool."Tony Cragg." ''Contemporary Artists''. Farmington Hills, ...

(born 1945), sculptor *

Michael Craig-Martin Sir Michael Craig-Martin (born 28 August 1941) is an Irish-born contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is known for fostering and adopting the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, '' An Oak Tre ...

(born 1941), painter, printmaker, digital artist, sculpture *

Martin Creed Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, ''Work No. 22 ...

(born 1968), installation artist * Patricia Cronin (born 1963), cross-disciplinary artist *

José Luis Cuevas José Luis Cuevas (February 26, 1934 – July 3, 2017) was a Mexican artist, he often worked as a painter, writer, draftsman, engraver, illustrator, and printmaker. Cuevas was one of the first to challenge the then dominant Mexican muralism ...

(1934–2017), painter, printmaker, sculptor

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* Dado (1933–2010), painter *

Hanne Darboven Hanne Darboven (29 April 1941 – 9 March 2009) was a German conceptual artist, best known for her large-scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers. Early life and career Darboven was born in 1941 in Munich. She g ...

(1941–2009), conceptual artist *

Ian Davenport Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee. Life and work Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire and then at Goldsmith ...

(born 1966), painter and printmaker *

Ronald Davis Ronald "Ron" 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 Dean Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British / German visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. ...

(born 1965), conceptual artist, filmmaker *

Wim Delvoye Wim Delvoye (born 1965 in Wervik, West Flanders) is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Much of his work is focused on the body. As the critic Robert Enright wrote in the art magazine ''Border ...

(born 1965), neo-conceptual artist *

Walter De Maria Walter Joseph De Maria Roberta Smith (July 26, 2013)Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77 '' New York Times''. (October 1, 1935July 25, 2013) was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New Y ...

(1940–2013), installation artist, conceptual artist *

Abigail DeVille Abigail DeVille (born 1981) is an artist who creates large sculptures and installations, often incorporating found materials from the neighborhoods around the exhibition venues. DeVille's sculptures and installations often focus on themes of th ...

(born 1981), installation and sculpture artist * Guy Denning (born 1965), painter *

Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he bega ...

(1922–1993), painter *

Rineke Dijkstra Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam.Sam Dillemans Sam Dillemans (born 17 January 1965) 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 Fren ...

(born 1965), painter * DOT DOT DOT (artist) visual, public, conceptual artist * Braco Dimitrijevic (born 1948) *

Jim Dine Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American artist whose œuvre extends over sixty years. Dine’s work includes painting, drawing, printmaking (in many forms including lithographs, etchings, gravure, intaglio, woodcuts, l ...

(born 1935), sculptor *

Mark di Suvero Marco Polo di Suvero (born September 18, 1933, in Shanghai, China), better known as Mark di Suvero, is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient. Biography Early life and education Marco Polo di Suvero was bor ...

(born 1933), sculptor * Harry Dodge (born 1966), visual artist *

Peter Doig Peter Doig ( ; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting ''White Canoe'' sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction rec ...

(born 1959), painter *

Marlene Dumas Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands. Life and work Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had ...

(born 1953), painter *

John Duncan John Duncan may refer to: Arts and entertainment * John Duncan (painter) (1866–1945), Scottish painter * John Duncan (artist) (born 1953), American artist and musician * Big John Duncan (born 1958), Scottish punk musician * John Duncan (harpist) ...

(born 1953), performance, installation artist

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Martin Eder Martin Eder (born 31 August 1968 in Augsburg) is a German artist. From 1986 until 1992, he studied at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, and from 1993 until 1995 continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, attending ...

(born 1968), painter *

Ólafur Elíasson Olafur Eliasson ( is, Ólafur Elíasson; born 5 February 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's ...

(born 1967) *

Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin, CBE, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and ...

(born 1963) *

Ben Enwonwu Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu MBE (14 July 1917 – 5 February 1994), better known as Ben Enwonwu, was a Nigerian painter and sculptor. Arguably the most influential African artist of the 20th century, his pioneering career opened th ...

(1917–1994), painter and sculptor * Bracha Ettinger (born 1948) *

Valie Export Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work. Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer ...

(born 1940) *

Mary Beth Edelson Mary Beth Edelson (born Mary Elizabeth Johnson) (6 February 1933 - 20 April 2021) was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists." Edelson was a printmaker, book art ...

(1933–2021) feminist artist

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* Jan Fabre (born 1958), multidisciplinary artist * Öjvind Fahlström (1928–1976), multimedia artist *

Harun Farocki Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is n ...

(1944–2014), filmmaker *

Angus Fairhurst Angus Fairhurst (4 October 1966 – 29 March 2008) was an English artist working in installation, photography and video. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). Life and work Angus Fairhurst was born in Pembury, Kent. Having attended ...

(1966–2008), installation artist *

Hans-Peter Feldmann Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German visual artist. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting. Early life and career In the 1960s, Feldmann studied painting at the University ...

(born 1941), photographer, installation artist * Kenneth Feingold (born 1952), conceptual artist *

Brendan Fernandes Brendan Fernandes (born 1979) is a Canadian contemporary artist. He specializes in installation and visual art and currently serves as a faculty member at Northwestern University teaching art theory and practice.Loos Ted,The Impresario of 'Ballet ...

(born 1979), performance artist * Teresita Fernández (born 1968), multidisciplinary artist *

Esther Ferrer Esther Ferrer (born 1937 in San Sebastián, Spain) is a Spanish performance artist. Ferrer received Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts (1999), the Marie-Claire Prize for Contemporary Art in France, and the Velázquez Plastic Arts Prize. Hi ...

(born 1937), conceptual and performance artist *

Carole Feuerman Carole A. Feuerman (born 1945) is an American sculptor and artist working in hyperrealism. Feuerman utilizes a variety of media including resin, marble, and bronze. She has been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution's National ...

(born 1945), sculptor * Stephen Finer (born 1949), painter *

Eric Fischl Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s. Life Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on s ...

painter (born 1948), painter, sculptor and printmaker * Peter Fischli & David Weiss (born 1952, 1946–2012) *

Dan Flavin Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American Minimalism, minimalist artist famous for creating sculpture, sculptural objects and installations from commercially available Fluorescent lamp, fluorescent light fixtures. Earl ...

(1933–1996) *

Bruno Fonseca Bruno Fonseca (1958 – May 31, 1994) was an American artist who shifted between abstract and figurative styles and worked in both painting and sculpture. Biography Early life Fonseca was born in New York to a family of artists. His ...

(1958–1994), painter, sculptor *

Caio Fonseca Caio Fonseca (born 1959) is an American painter. He is the son of the Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca; the artist Bruno Fonseca was his brother, and the writer Isabel Fonseca is his sister. Life and work Fonseca grew up in the West Village ...

(born 1959), painter *

Peter Forakis Peter Forakis (September 22, 1927 – November 26, 2009) was an American artist and professor. He was known as an abstract geometric sculptor. Early life and education Peter Forakis was born on September 22, 1927, in Hanna, Wyoming. The son o ...

(1927–2009), sculptor *

Günther Förg Günther Förg (December 5, 1952 – December 5, 2013) was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His abstract style was influenced by American abstract painting.

(1952–2013), painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer *

Sam Francis Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 – November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Early life Sam Francis was born in San Mateo, California,

(1923–1994), painter *

Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s u ...

(1928–2011), painter *

Andrea Fraser Andrea Rose Fraser (born 1965) is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of Institutional Critique. Fraser is based in New York and Los Angeles and is currently Department Head and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio of th ...

(born 1965), performance artist *

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...

(1922–2011), painter * Tom Friedman (born 1965), conceptual sculptor

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Ellen Gallagher Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and ...

(born 1965), multidisciplinary artist * *

Anya Gallaccio Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a British artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice). Her use of organic materials results in natural processes ...

(born 1963), installation artist * Enrico Garff (born 1939), painter *

Kendell Geers Jacobus Hermanus Pieters Geers, commonly known as Kendell Geers, is a South African conceptual artist. Geers lives and works in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text ...

(born May 1968) conceptual artist *

Isa Genzken Isa Genzken (born 27 November 1948) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. She also works with photograp ...

(born 1948), sculptor *

Gilbert and George Gilbert Prousch, sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch (born 17 September 1943 in San Martin de Tor, Italy), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942 in Plymouth, United Kingdom), are two artists who work together as the collaborative art d ...

, (born 1943 and 1942), sculptors, performance artists * Adrian Ghenie (born 1977), painter *

Sam Gilliam Sam Gilliam ( ; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form ...

(born 1933), painter *

Liam Gillick Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist who lives and works in New York City.

(born 1964), conceptual artist * Karin Giusti (born 1955), sculptor, installation artist *

Robert Gober Robert Gober (born September 12, 1954) is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs. Early life and education Gober was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and studied literatu ...

(born 1954), sculptor * Michael Goldberg (1924–2007), painter *

Nan Goldin Nancy Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is '' The Ballad of Sexual Depe ...

(born 1953), photographer *

Jack Goldstein Jack Goldstein (September 27, 1945 – March 14, 2003) was a Canadian born, California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom. Early life and education Goldstein was born to a Jewish family in Montreal, ...

(1945–2003), painter *

Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Early life Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire on 26 Ju ...

(born 1956), sculptor, photographer * Peter Golfinopoulos (born 1928), painter * Leon Golub (1922–2004), painter * Felix Gonzales-Torres (1957–1996), sculptor, installation artist *

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 30 June 1965, in Strasbourg) is a French visual artist and educator. She is known for her work in video projection, photography, and art installations. She has worked in landscaping, design, and writing. "I alw ...

(born 1965), artist and filmmaker *

Robert Goodnough Robert Goodnough (October 23, 1917 – October 2, 2010) 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; (although he has been referred to ...

(1917–2010), painter *

Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Work Much of Gordon's ...

(born 1966), video art, photography * Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor *

Dan Graham Daniel Graham (March 31, 1942 – February 19, 2022) was an American visual artist, writer, and curator in the writer-artist tradition. In addition to his visual works, he published a large array of critical and speculative writing that spanned ...

(1942-2022), multidisciplinary artist * Robert Graham (1938–2008), sculptor *

Rodney Graham William Rodney Graham (January 16, 1949 – October 22, 2022) was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School. Early life Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on January 16, 1949. ...

(born 1949), photographer, installation artist * Cleve Gray (1918–2004), painter *

Kaloust Guedel Kaloust Guedel (born October 31, 1956) is a Cyprus-born American artist of Armenian descent. He is a self-educated artist and theorist. Guedel is known as the founder of the Excessivism movement. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California s ...

(born 1956), painter, sculptor *

Genco Gulan Genco Gulan ( (born 1969 in Turkey) is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist, who lives and works in Istanbul. His transmedia contextual work involves painting, found objects, new media, drawings, sculpture, photography, performance and ...

(born 1969), sculptor, performance artist *

Don Gummer Don Gummer (born December 12, 1946) is an American sculptor. His early work concentrated on table-top and wall-mounted sculpture. In the mid-1980s, he shifted his focus to large free-standing works, often in bronze. In the 1990s, he added a var ...

(born 1946), sculptor *

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works ...

(born 1955), photographer

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Hans Haacke Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a Germany, German-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Haacke is considered a "leading exponent" of Institutional Critique. Early life Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the ''S ...

(born 1936), conceptual artist * Jacques Halbert (born 1955), neo-dada artist * Petrit Halilaj (born 1986) * David Hall (1937–2014), video artist * Richard Hamilton (1922–2011), painter, collagist *

Keith Haring Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his wor ...

(1958–1990), painter, graffiti artist *

Mona Hatoum Mona Hatoum ( ar, منى حاطوم; born 1952) is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum ...

(born 1952), performance artist * Susan Hauptman (1947–2015), graphic fine artist *

Carl Michael von Hausswolff Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956) is a composer, visual artist, and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices (camera, tape deck, radar, sonar) used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, ar ...

(born 1956), sound artist * Tim Hawkinson (born 1960), sculpture artist *

Al Held Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, h ...

(1928–2005), painter *

Gottfried Helnwein Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media. His work is ...

(born 1948), multimedia artist, installation artist, painter, photographer, performance artist * Diango Hernandez (born 1970), conceptual artist, painter * Jeremy Henderson (1952–2009), artist and painter *

Eva Hesse 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. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 196 ...

(1936–1970), sculptor * Andreas Heusser (born 1976), conceptual artist * Hugo Heyrman (born 1942), painter, multimedia artist *

Gary Hill Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s ...

(born 1951), video artist *

Susan Hiller Susan Hiller (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 2019) was an American-born artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her art practice included installation, video, photography, performance and writing. Early life and education Born in Tallah ...

(1940–2019), installation artist *

Charles Hinman Charles Hinman born 1932 in Syracuse, New York is an Abstract Minimalist painter, notable for creating three-dimensional shaped canvas paintings in the mid-1960s. Early years Charles Hinman was born in 1932, in Syracuse, New York. He initiate ...

(born 1932), painter *

Thomas Hirschhorn Thomas Hirschhorn (born 16 May 1957) is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Paris.Randy Kennedy (June 27, 2013)Bringing Art and Change to Bronx''New York Times''. Life and works In the 1980s, Thomas Hirschhorn came to Paris with the will to ...

(born 1957), installation artist *

Damien Hirst Damien Steven Hirst (; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingd ...

(born 1965), installation artist *

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

(born 1937), painter *

Jim Hodges James Hovis Hodges (born November 19, 1956) is an American businessman, attorney, and politician who served as the 114th governor of South Carolina from 1999 to 2003. Since his victory in 1998, Hodges has remained the only Democrat elected t ...

(born 1957), installation artist *

Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Early life Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, ...

(1932–2017), painter *

Candida Höfer Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach. From 1997 to 2000, ...

(born 1944), photographer *

Tom Holland Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, three Saturn Awards, a Guinness World Record and an appearance on the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 Europe list. Some publications h ...

(born 1936), mixed media artist, painter *

Frank Holliday Frank Holliday (born 1957, North Carolina) is an American painter who became known in the New York City art world in the 1970s and 1980s. He is often associated with the East Village scene and associated with Club 57. His early career as an a ...

(born 1957) *

Saskia Holmkvist Saskia Holmkvist (born 1971) is a conceptual artist from Sweden, working mainly with video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first develop ...

(born 1971), conceptual artist * Christian Holstad (born 1972), conceptual artist *

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces and includes large-scale installations, advertising billboards, ...

(born 1950), interdisciplinary artist *

Roni Horn Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...

(born 1955), sculptor, installation artist and writer *

Peter Howson Peter Howson OBE (born 27 March 1958) is a Scottish painter. He was a British official war artist in 1993 during the Bosnian War. Early life Peter Howson was born in London of Scottish parents and moved with his family to Prestwick, A ...

(born 1958), painter * Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler (born 1965/1962), video artists *

Gary Hume Gary Stewart Hume (born 9 May 1962) is an English artist. Hume's work is strongly identified with the YBA who came to prominence in the early 1990s. Hume lives and works in London and Accord, New York.

(born 1962), painter * Philipp Humm (born 1959), painter, multi-disciplinary artist *

Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. Education Pierre Huyghe (pronounced ''hweeg'') was born in Paris in 1962. He lives ...

(born 1962), media artist

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* Jörg Immendorff (1945–2007), painter * INO, visual artist

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Alfredo Jaar Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war— ...

(born 1956), conceptual artist * Richard Jackson (born 1939), painter, installation *

Renata Jaworska Renata Jaworska (born 1979 in Zwoleń, Poland) is a Polish contemporary visual artist. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Salem, Germany. Early life and education While still a student of the Józef Chelmoński High School of Fine Arts in ...

(born 1979), painter * Chantal Joffe (born 1969), painter *

Jasper Johns Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related top ...

(born 1930), painter, printmaker *

Ray Johnson Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson (October 16, 1927 – January 13, 1995) was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as

(1927–1995), pop artist, mail art * Jennie C. Jones (born 1968), multidisciplinary * Josignacio (born 1963), painter *

Donald Judd Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed).Tate Modern websit"Tate Modern Past Exhibitions Donald Judd" Retrieved on February 19, 2009. In ...

(1928–1994), sculptor *

Isaac Julien Sir Isaac Julien (born 21 February 1960Annette Kuhn"Julien, Isaac (1960–)" BFI Screen Online.) is a British installation artist, filmmaker, and distinguished professor of the arts at UC Santa Cruz. Early life Julien was born in the East End ...

(born 1960), filmmaker

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Ilya Kabakov Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в; born September 30, 1933), is a Russian–American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked f ...

(born 1933), installation artist * Eduardo Kac (born 1962), transgenic artist *

Stanya Kahn Stanya Kahn (born 1968) is an American artist. She graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University and received an MFA in 2003 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Kahn lives and works in Los Angeles, ...

(born 1968), performance, video artist *

Wolf Kahn Wolf Kahn (October 4, 1927 – March 15, 2020) was a German-born American painter. Kahn, known for his combination of Realism and Color Field, worked in pastel, oil paint, and printmaking. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated from ...

(1927–2020), landscapes, oil paints/pastels *

Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK t ...

(born 1954), sculptor *

Allan Kaprow Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the " Environment" and " Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well ...

(1927–2006), painter, performance artist * Deborah Kass (born 1952), mixed media artist *

On Kawara was a Japanese conceptual artist who lived in New York City from 1965. He took part in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976. Early life Kawara was born in Kariya, Japan on December 24, 1932. After graduating fro ...

(1932–2014), conceptual artist * Mary Kelly (born 1941), conceptual artist * Mike Kelley (1954–2012), sculptor, installation artist, performance artist *

Ellsworth Kelly Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, c ...

(1923–2015), painter *

William Kentridge William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films, especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The latter are constructed by ...

(born 1955), draughtsman, film maker and sculptor * Anselm Kiefer (born 1945), painter *

Manfred Kielnhofer Manfred "KILI" Kielnhofer (born 28 January 1967 in Haslach an der Mühl) is an Austrian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. Due to his antisemitic statements in connection with the planned vaccination to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, nu ...

(born 1967), sculptor, designer, photographer *

Edward Kienholz Edward Ralph Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist and assemblage sculptor whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collab ...

(1927–1994), installation artist * Karen Kilimnik (born 1962), painter * Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948–2015), sculpture *

Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. Kippenb ...

(1953–1997), conceptual artist, installation artist *

Komar and Melamid Komar and Melamid (pronunciation: ''Kómar and Melamíd'') is a tandem team of Russian-born American conceptualist artists Vitaly Komar (born 1943) and Alexander Melamid (born 1945). In an artists' statement they said that "even if only one of us ...

(born 1943 and 1945), conceptual artist *

Jeff Koons Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-Surface fi ...

(born 1955), conceptual artist *

Mark Kostabi Kalev Mark Kostabi (born November 27, 1960) is an American artist and composer. Early life 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 dra ...

(born 1960), painter *

Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captio ...

(born 1945), artist and photographer * Alfred Freddy Krupa (born 1971), painter, book artist * Peter Kuckei (born 1938), painter *

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attribute ...

(born 1929), installation artist, performance artist, painter

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David LaChapelle David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American photographer, music video director and film director. He is best known for his work in fashion, photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His pho ...

(born 1963), photographer * Suzanne Lacy (born 1945), performance/public artist *

Ronnie Landfield Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, an ...

(born 1947), painter *

Michael Landy Michael Landy (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation '' Break Down'' (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the ''Art Bin'' project (2010) at the ...

(born 1963), conceptual artist *

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (born 1948) is an American artist who took part in the Stonewall riots. History Lanigan-Schmidt's artwork incorporates materials such as tinsel, foil, cellophane, saran wrap and glitter, embracing kitsch and intentionally ...

(born 1948), installation, collage *

Maria Lassnig Maria Lassnig (8 September 1919 – 6 May 2014) was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness".Attias, Lauri''Maria Lassnig'', ''Frieze'', May 1996. She was the first female artist to win the Gran ...

(1919–2014), painter *

Matthieu Laurette 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. He lives and works in Paris, A ...

(born 1970), multimedia, conceptual, installation, video artist * Robert Lazzarini (born 1965), sculptor, installation artist * Lee Bul (born 1964), sculpture, installation, conceptual artist * Marc Lee (born 1969), installation, new media and conceptual artist *

Zoe Leonard Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited widely since the late 1980s and her work has been included in a number of seminal exhibitions including Documenta IX and Document ...

(born 1961), photographer and visual artist * Mark Lewis (born 1958), installation and film artist *

Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...

(1928–2007), installation and conceptual artist * Richard Long (born 1945), sculptor, photographer, painter *

Robert Longo Robert Longo (born 1953) is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his ''Men in the Cities'' drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writhing in cont ...

(born 1953), painter and sculptor * Lee Lozano (1930–1999), painter * Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967), installation artist *

Sarah Lucas Sarah Lucas (born 1962) is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, collage and found objects. ...

(born 1962), photographer, sculptor, conceptual artist

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Robert Mangold Robert Mangold (born October 12, 1937) is an American minimalist artist. He is also father of film director and screenwriter James Mangold. Early life and education Mangold was born in North Tonawanda, New York, North Tonawanda, New York (s ...

(born 1937), painter * Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), photographer *

Christian Marclay Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality. Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records ...

(born 1955), composer, conceptual artist * Bruce McLean (born 1944) conceptual, performance, sculptor, painter *

Brice Marden Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938) is an American artist generally described as Minimalist, although his work may be hard to categorize. He lives and works in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania. Lif ...

(born 1938), painter *

Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall ...

(born 1955), painter *

Milovan Destil Marković Milovan DeStil Marković ( sr-cyr, Милован ДеСтил Марковић; born 9 November 1957 in Čačak, Yugoslavia, today Serbia) is Serbian visual artist, who began his career in the early 1980s. Active for over two decades, he is recen ...

(born 1957), painter, performance artist *

Agnes Martin Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Mart ...

(1912–2004), painter * Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005), painter *

Enrique Martinez Celaya Enrique Martínez Celaya (born June 9, 1964) is a contemporary Cuban-born painter, sculptor, author and former scientist whose work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world. He trained and worked as a physicist, com ...

(1964), painter, sculptor *

Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Matta-Echaurren; June 22, 1943 – August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art. ...

(1943–1978), conceptual artist *

Amanda Matthews Amanda Matthews (born 1968) is an American sculptor and painter from Louisville, Kentucky, United States, who lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Early life, Education, and Family Amanda Matthews was born in 1968 in Louisville, Kentucky to Jam ...

(born 1968), sculptor, painter, public art designer *

Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1945. He studied art at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and later continued ...

(born 1945), performance and installation artist *

Allan McCollum Allan McCollum (born 1944) is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in New York City. In 1975, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and he moved to New York City the same year. In the late 1970s he became especially well kn ...

(born 1944), sculptor, installation artist *

Ryan McGinley Ryan McGinley (born October 17, 1977) is an American photographer living in New York City. McGinley began making photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 25, he was one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of Ameri ...

(born 1977), photographer * Steve McQueen (born 1969), filmmaker *

Cildo Meireles Cildo Meireles (born 1948) 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, e ...

(born 1948), sculptor and installation artist *

Ana Mendieta Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta left for the United States in 1961. Earl ...

(1948–1985), sculptor, performance and video artist * Yucef Merhi (born 1977), installation and new media artist * Thom Merrick (born 1963), sculptor, painter * Boris Mikhailov (born 1938), photographer *

Ann Mikolowski Ann Margaret (Stroman) Mikolowski (May 16, 1940 – August 6, 1999) was a twentieth-century American contemporary artist. She was a painter of portrait miniatures and waterscapes, as well as a printmaker and illustrator of printed matter ( ...

(1940–1999), portrait miniaturist, waterscape painter, printmaker, book artist *

Haroon Mirza Haroon Mirza (born 1977) is a British contemporary visual artist, of Pakistani descent. He is best known for sculptural installations that generate audio compositions. Early life and education Mirza was born in 1977 in London, England. He is ...

(born 1977), sculptor, installation artist * Eva Moll (born 1961), painter, performance and installation artist * Dianna Molzan (born 1972), painter, sculptor * Franco Mondini-Ruiz (born 1961), painter, sculptor, performance and installation artist * Jonathan Monk (born 1969), conceptual artist * Sebastian Diaz Morales (born 1975), video artist * François Morellet (1926–2016), painter, engraver, sculptor and light artist *

Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura (森村泰昌, Morimura Yasumasa, born June 11, 1951) is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of ...

(born 1951), photographer * Robert Morris (1931–2018), sculptor, writer and conceptual artist * Ed Moses (1926–2018), painter * Antoni Muntadas (born 1942), installation and new media artist *

Vik Muniz Vik Muniz (; born 1961) is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Primarily working with unconventional ma ...

(born 1961), photographer *

Bruce Munro Bruce Beaton St Clair Munro (born 2 June 1959) is a dual nationality English/Australian artist known for producing large immersive site-specific installations, often by massing components in the thousands. Frequently, Munro’s subject matter is ...

, installation artist *

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts as well as co ae ...

(born 1962), sculptor and painter * Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007), painter *

Zoran Mušič Zoran Mušič (12 February 1909 – 25 May 2005), baptised as Anton Zoran Musič, was a Slovene painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He was the only painter of Slovene descent who managed to establish himself in the elite cultural circles of ...

(1909–2005), painter *

Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan-born American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work.Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. Life and work ...

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Ernesto Neto Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto (born 1964, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a contemporary visual artist. Early career Ernesto Neto began exhibiting in Scotland in 1988 and has had solo exhibitions abroad since 1995. He represented with Vik M ...

(born 1964), installation artist * John Nieto (1936–2018), painter *

Odd Nerdrum Odd Nerdrum (born 8 April 1944) is a Norwegian figurative painter, born in Sweden, and considered to be one of the greatest living classical figurative painters. His work is held by museums worldwide. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work referenc ...

(born 1944), painter *

Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat ( fa, شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and th ...

(born 1957), visual artist * NEVERCREW (born 1980 and 1979), urban artists, installation artists *

Alexander Ney Alexander Ney (russian: link=no, Александр Ней; born September 1939 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is an American sculptor and painter. After establishing himself in 1972 as a resident of France, he immigrated to the United States in 197 ...

(born 1939), sculptor and painter * Graham Nicholls (born 1975), installation artist *

Olaf Nicolai Olaf Nicolai (born 1962 in Halle an der Saale) is a German conceptual artist. Life Olaf Nicolai grew up in Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt) in the German Democratic Republic. From 1983 to 1988 he studied German language and literature at the u ...

(born 1962), conceptual artist *

Kenneth Noland Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American 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 though ...

(1924–2010), painter * Thomas Nozkowski (1944–2019), painter * Jim Nutt (born 1938), painter * Marina Núñez (born 1966), multimedia artist

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* Albert Oehlen (born 1954), painter * Markus Oehlen (born 1956), painter *

Chris Ofili Christopher Ofili, (born 10 October 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in T ...

(born 1968), painter *

Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Ame ...

(1887-1986), painter *

Claes Oldenburg Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions ...

(1929-2022), sculptor *

Jules Olitski Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Early life Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ...

(1922–2007), painter *

Nathan Oliveira Nathan Oliveira (December 19, 1928 – November 13, 2010) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents. Since the late 1950s, Oliveira has been the subject of nearly one hundred ...

(1928–2010), painter *

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

(born 1933), musician, artist *

Bruce Onobrakpeya Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932) is a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the Malm� ...

(born 1932), printmaker, painter and sculptor *

Orlan orlan is an internationally recognized French artist. She is not tied to any one material, technology, or artistic practice. She uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and ro ...

(born 1947), performance and body artist * Roman Opałka (1931–2011), painter *

Catherine Opie Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961) is an American fine-art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles. Opie studies the connections between mainstream and i ...

(born 1961), photographer *

Julian Opie Julian Opie (; born 1958) is a visual artist of the New British Sculpture movement. Life and education Opie was born in London in 1958 and raised in the city of Oxford. He attended The Dragon School and then Magdalen College School, Oxfor ...

(born 1958), digital artist *

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the natu ...

(1938–2011), conceptual and installation artist *

Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco (born April 27, 1962) is a Mexican artist. He gained his reputation in the early 1990s with his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. In 1998, Francesco Bonami called Orozco "one of the most influentia ...

(born 1962), conceptual and installation artist *

Tony Oursler Tony may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer * Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby leagu ...

(born 1957), multimedia and installation artist

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Nam June Paik Nam June Paik (; July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super h ...

(1932–2006), video artist * Roxy Paine (born 1966), sculptor *

Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, ; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Early years Eduardo Paolozzi was born on 7 March ...

(1924–2005), sculptor * Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002), sculptor * Cornelia Parker (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist * Ray Parker (painter), Ray Parker (1922–1990), painter * Ed Paschke (1939–2004), painter * Simon Patterson (artist), Simon Patterson (born 1967), conceptual artist * Oliver Payne and Nick Relph (born 1977 and 1979), video artists * Grayson Perry (born 1960), ceramicist * Raymond Pettibon (born 1957), drawing, video and installation artist * Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965), painter * Adrian Piper (born 1948), conceptual artist * Steven Pippin (born 1960), sculptor * Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933), painter, action and object artist *Lari Pittman (born 1952), painter * Paola Pivi (born 1971), multimedia artist * Sigmar Polke (1941–2010), painter, photographer * Larry Poons (born 1937), painter * William Powhida (born 1976), drawing, painter, writer * Kenneth Price (1935–2012), ceramicist, sculptor * Richard Prince (born 1949), painter and photographer * Laure Prouvost (born 1978), installation artist, 2013 Turner Prize winner * Martin Puryear (born 1941), sculptor

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* Marc Quinn (born 1964), sculptor

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* Alessandro Raho (born 1971), painter and photographer * Arnulf Rainer (born 1929), painter * Yvonne Rainer (born 1934), performance artist * Rallé (born 1949), painter * Paul Henry Ramirez (born 1963), painter * Neo Rauch (born 1960), painter * Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), painter, collagist, printmaker, neo-dadaist * Peter Reginato (born 1945), sculptor * Paula Rego (born 1935), painter * Seund Ja Rhee (1918–2009), painter, printmaker, and ceramicist * Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), installation artist and sculptor * Jesse Richards (born 1975), artist * Gerhard Richter (born 1932), painter * Pipilotti Rist (born 1962), video artist * Larry Rivers (1923–2002), painter, multi-media * James Rosenquist (1933–2017), painter * Martha Rosler (born 1943), video artist, installation artist and performance artist * Dieter Roth (1930–1998), artist's books, sculptor, installation artist * Thomas Ruff (born 1958), photographer * Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944), conceptualist, mixed media, installation artist * Edward Ruscha (born 1937), painter, printmaker and filmmaker

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* Anri Sala (born 1974), video artist * Chéri Samba (born 1956), painter * Sanejouand, Jean-Michel Sanejouand (1934–2021), painter and sculptor * David Salle (born 1952), painter * Bojan Sarcevic (born 1974), sculptor * Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972), painter * Jenny Saville (born 1970), painter * Raymond Saunders (artist), Raymond Saunders (born 1934), painter * Markus Schinwald (born 1973), painter, sculptor and filmmaker * Julian Schnabel (born 1951), painter, sculptor and filmmaker * Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019), performance artist * Thomas Schütte (born 1954), sculptor * Richard Serra (born 1939), sculptor * Joel Shapiro (born 1941), sculptor * Sonia Landy Sheridan (1925–2021), art researcher * Cindy Sherman (born 1954), photographer, performance artist * Yinka Shonibare (born 1962) * Amy Sillman (born 1966), painter * David Simpson (artist), David Simpson, (born 1928), painter * Lorna Simpson (born 1960), interdisciplinary artist * Bob and Roberta Smith (born 1958) * Jack Smith (film director), Jack Smith (1932–1989), film director * Kiki Smith (born 1954), feminist artist * Robert Smithson (1938–1973), land artist, sculptor and photographer * Michael Snow (born 1929), filmmaker, musician, painter * Joan Snyder (born 1940), painter * Keith Sonnier (1941–2020), sculptor * Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), painter * Nancy Spero (1926–2009), painter * Joe Stefanelli (painter), Joe Stefanelli (1921–2017), painter * Pat Steir (born 1940), painter * Frank Stella (born 1936), painter, printmaker * Thomas Struth (born 1954), photographer * Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948), photographer * Sarah Sze (born 1969), sculptor

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* William Tillyer (born 1938), painter, printmaker, watercolorist *Tomoko Takahashi (born 1966), installation artist * Mark Tansey (born 1949), painter * Sam Taylor-Wood (born 1967), filmmaker, photographer * Diana Thater (born 1962), video artist * Paul Thek (1933–1988), painter, sculptor, installation artist * Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), painter, printmaker * Hank Willis Thomas (born 1976), conceptual artist * Arthur Thrall (1926–2015), printmaker, painter * Agnes Thurnauer (born 1962) * Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968), photographer * Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961), conceptual and installation artist * Mark Titchner (born 1973), painter * Slaven Tolj (born 1964), performance, installation artist * Scott Treleaven (born 1975), filmmaker * Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952), installation artist * Gavin Turk (born 1967), sculptor * James Turrell (born 1943), installation artist * Richard Tuttle (born 1941), postminimalist * Luc Tuymans (born 1958), painter * Cy Twombly (1928–2011), painter * Keith Tyson (born 1969), drawing, painter, installation artist

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* Francis Upritchard (born 1976), installation artist *Tomasz Urbanowicz (born 1959), architectural glass artist

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* Koen Vanmechelen (born 1965), multimedia artist, social art * Lydia Venieri (born 1964), painter, sculptor, photographer * Bill Viola (born 1951), video artist * Wolf Vostell (1932–1998), multimedia artist * Peter Voulkos (1924–2002), ceramicist, sculptor *Marc Vaux (born 1932), conceptual, painter, sculptor

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* Kara Walker (born 1969), installation artist * Jeff Wall (born 1946), photographer * Magnus Wallin (born 1965), video artist * Mark Wallinger (born 1959), conceptual artist * Suling Wang (born 1968), painter * Andy Warhol (1928–1987), pop artist * Gillian Wearing (born 1963), conceptual artist * Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), photographer * Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021), conceptual artist * Monika Weiss (born 1964), installation, video and performance artist * Ai Weiwei (born 1957), Chinese, conceptual artist * Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004), painter * Franz West (1947–2012), drawing, painter, sculptor * Rachel Whiteread (born 1963), sculptor * Jack Whitten (1939–2018), painter * Alison Wilding (born 1948), sculptor * Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), sculptor * Thornton Willis (born 1936), painter * Jane and Louise Wilson (born 1967), installation artists * Richard Wilson (sculptor), Richard Wilson (born 1953), installation artist * Joel-Peter Witkin (born 1939), photographer * Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), photographer * Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010), painter * Erwin Wurm (born 1954), sculptor, photographer * Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), painter

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*Xing Xin (born 1981), performance artist

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*Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977), painter *Peter Young (artist), Peter Young (born 1940), painter *Jack Youngerman (1926–2020), painter

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*Andrea Zittel (born 1965), installation artist *Larry Zox (1936–2006), painter *Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta (born 1962), interdisciplinary artist

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