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George Condo is an American contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. He currently lives and works in New York City. Wikipedia

Born: 1957, Concord, NH

Spouse: Anna Condo (m. 1989–2015)

Education: University of Massachusetts Lowell

Known for: Painting

Artwork: Mental States (The Women of Tisbury Court), More

Agnes Bernice Martin, born in Canada, was an American abstract painter. Often referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion, inwardness and silence". Wikipedia

Born: March 22, 1912, Macklin, Canada

Died: December 16, 2004, Taos, NM

Education: Teachers College, Columbia University (1952), More

Awards: National Medal of Arts

Tom Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Wikipedia

Born: February 23, 1931, Cincinnati, OH

Died: December 17, 2004, New York City, NY

Books: Wesselmann, More

Education: Art Academy of Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, Cooper Union, Hiram College

Periods: Modern art, Pop art

Barkley L. Hendricks is a contemporary American painter who has made pioneering contributions to black portraiture and conceptualism.Wikipedia

Born: 1945, Philadelphia, PA

Books: Barkley L. Hendricks: Some Like it Hot

Education: Yale University, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

ruby onyinyechi amanze is a visual artist whose practice is primarily centered around drawing and works on paper. In a non-linear and open narrative, her drawings explore space as a malleable construct, the freedom to play as revolutionary and cultural hybridity as a mundane norm. 

Amanze was born in Nigeria in 1982. She immediately relocated to the U.K. where she spent the next thirteen years, prior to moving to the U.S. [Philadelphia, PA]. In 2004, amanze earned her B.F.A., Summa Cum Laude, from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 2006. In 2012-2013, amanze was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Amanze has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including, New York, Johannesburg, Miami, London and Lagos. She recently concluded the 2014-2015 Workspace Program with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, was a 2015 summer recipient for the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Queens Museum, NY. Although she currently lives and works in New York, she is truly a citizen of the world.

Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA, is a British-Indian sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. Wikipedia

Born: March 12, 1954 (age 62), Mumbai, India

Spouse: Susanna Kapoor (m. 1995)

Known for: Sculpture

Structures: Cloud Gate, ArcelorMittal Orbit, Ark Nova, More

Christian Rosa is an artist best known for his sparse, abstract paintings built up from individual shapes and marks amid large expanses of raw, untreated canvas. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rosa has lived and worked in Vienna and Los Angeles. Wikipedia

Born: September 12, 1982 (age 33), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

People also search for: Daniel Richter, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Brande Bytheway, Benjamin Moses Smith

John Currin is an American painter based in New York City. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. Wikipedia

Born: 1962, Boulder, CO

Spouse: Rachel Feinstein (m. 1997)

Known for: Painting

Artwork: Nude on a Table, The Women of Franklin Street, More

Education: Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University

Wang Guangyi is a Chinese artist. He is known as a leader of the new art movement that started in China after 1989, and for his Great Criticism series of paintings which use images of propaganda from ... Wikipedia

Born: 1957, Harbin, China

Education: China Academy of Art

Books: Wang Guangyi

Robert Longo is an American painter and sculptor. Longo became a rising star in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which depicted sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion.Wikipedia

Born: January 7, 1953 (age 63), Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Spouse: Barbara Sukowa (m. 1994)

Education: State University of New York College at Buffalo

Period: Contemporary art

Books: The Freud drawings, Men in the cities, 1979-1982, More

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, ... Wikipedia

Born: March 22, 1929 (age 87), Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Award: Praemium Imperiale

Influenced: Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Donald Judd, Marc Jacobs

Periods: Contemporary art, Feminist art, Pop art, Minimalism

Julie Mehretu is an artist, best known for her densely layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City. Mehretu shares her New York studio with her partner, the artist Jessica Rankin.Wikipedia

Born: 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Education: Cheikh Anta Diop University, Rhode Island School of Design, Kalamazoo College

Awards: MacArthur Fellowship

David Choe is an American figure painter, muralist, graffiti artist and graphic novelist of Korean descent. Wikipedia

Born: April 21, 1976 (age 40), Los Angeles, CA

Education: California College of the Arts

Award: Xeric Foundation

Books: Snowman Monkey BBQ, Cursiv: Giant Robot Presents a Book of Dirty Drawings

Parents: Jane Choe, Jimmy Choe

Donald K. Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, particularly well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. Wikipedia

Born: May 5, 1951 (age 65), Asheville, NC

Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork: Wall Flowers, Lemons, May 16, 1984, Four Oranges, More

Children: Penn Sultan

Periods: Pop art, Abstract expressionism

Known for: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking

Franz Kline was an American painter born in Pennsylvania. He is mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Wikipedia

Born: May 23, 1910, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Died: May 13, 1962, New York City, NY

Known for: Abstract art

Periods: Modern art, Action painting, Abstract expressionism

Education: Girard College, Boston University

Sterling Ruby is an American artist who works in a large variety of media including ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and video. Often, his work is presented in large and densely packed installations. Wikipedia

Born: 1972, Bitburg, Germany

Artwork: EXHM (3681), SUPERMAX 2008, BC (3785), More

Known for: Artist, Pottery, Collage, Drawing, Painting, Performance, Photography, Sculpture, Video

Movies: Triviality

Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Center College of Design

Jean-Michel Othoniel is a contemporary artist born in 1964 in Saint-Etienne. He lives and works in Paris. Wikipedia

Born: 1964, Saint-Étienne, France

Books: Othoniel - Christine Angot

RETNA is a contemporary artist, primarily recognized for graffiti art. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, and started his career in the early 1990s. Wikipedia

Born: 1979, Los Angeles, CA

Richard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. Wikipedia

Born: November 2, 1939 (age 76), San Francisco, CA

Spouse: Clara Weyergraf (m. 1981), Nancy Graves (m. 1965–1970)

Siblings: Tony Serra, Rudy Serra

Movies: Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet, Hand Catching Lead, Cremaster 3

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Bharti Kher is an Indian contemporary artist. Her work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation, often incorporating bindis, the popular forehead decoration worn by women in India, in her work. Wikipedia

Born: 1969, London, United Kingdom

Artwork: An Absence of Assignable Cause, More

Education: Middlesex University, Northumbria University

Luciano Castelli is a Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician. Wikipedia

Born: September 28, 1951 (age 64), Lucerne, Switzerland

People also search for: Rainer Fetting, Pierre Molinier, Beda Achermann

Books: Revolving paintings

Mark Flood was born in the year 1957, in Houston, Texas. Flood has been making art for 30 years and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University in 1981. He Sings in the band Culturcide under the pen name Perry Webb. Wikipedia

Born: 1957, Houston, TX

Books: Four on the Trail

Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Wikipedia

Born: December 20, 1961 (age 54), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Known for: Visual arts

Movies: This Is Not a Ball

Parents: Vicente Lopes Muniz, Maria Celeste de Oliveira Muniz

Terry Winters is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art.Wikipedia

Born: 1949, Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Artwork: Color and Information, Double Gravity, Dumb Compass, More

Education: Pratt Institute (1971), High School of Art and Design

Carlos Vega’s work incorporates historical documents in order to explore questions about humanity, both from the perspective of the individual and of society as a collective. He incorporates antique ledgers, typed cards from library catalogs, postage stamps, newspaper and labels into paintings on canvas and, more recently, on lead, which he punctures, etches and paints. “There is something really sensual about the material,” he said of working with lead in a recent interview during a 2013 residency at the Lux Institute of Art in Encinitas, CA. “Maybe it’s that every scratch you make becomes shiny and like silver, or there is something about the malleability and softness of the material that makes you almost believe that you can be like Midas.”

Angel Otero is a contemporary visual artist specializing in painting. Otero's work is characterized by an interest in personal history, expressionistic abstraction, and Spanish Baroque painterly traditions.Wikipedia

Born: 1981, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. Wikipedia

Born: 1960, The Bronx, New York City, NY

Known for: Conceptual art

Artwork: Narratives, We're Black and Strong (I), More

Movies: The Death of Tom

Education: Wesleyan University (1982), Rhode Island School of Design

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Brian Donnelly, professionally known as KAWS, is a New York-based artist and designer of limited-edition toys and clothing. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Wikipedia

Born: 1974, Jersey City, NJ

Education: School of Visual Arts

Books: KAWS: 1993-2010, KAWS ONE

Known for: Painting, Graphic design, Sculpture, Graffiti

Jonathan Horowitz is a New York based artist working in video, sculpture, sound installation, and photography. Horowitz critically examines the cultures of politics, celebrity, cinema, war, and consumerism. Wikipedia

Born: 1966, New York

Education: Wesleyan University

Books: Jonathan Horowitz: Self-portraits in "mirror #1, Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum

Born: February 15, 1970 (age 46), Charleston, SC

Spouse: Amanda Fairey

Movies: Beautiful Losers, POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English

Periods: Graffiti, Street art

Education: Rhode Island School of Design, Porter-Gaud School, Idyllwild Arts Foundation, Wando High School

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese Contemporary artist and activist. His father's side's original surname is 蔣 Jiang. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. Wikipedia

Born: August 28, 1957 (age 58), Beijing, China

Spouse: Lu Qing

Structures: Beijing National Stadium

Parents: Ai Qing, Gao Ying

Movies: Disturbing the Peace, More

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents.Wikipedia

Born: July 22, 1898, Lawnton, Swatara Township, PA

Died: November 11, 1976, New York City, NY

Field: Sculpture

Periods: Surrealism, Section d'Or, Kinetic art, Modern art, Abstraction

Ashley Bickerton is a contemporary artist, presently living in Bali. A mixed-media artist, Bickerton often combines photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages. Wikipedia

Born: 1959, Barbados

Parents: Derek Bickerton

Education: California Institute of the Arts

Period: Contemporary art

Movies: Art City #1: Making It In Manhattan

Banksy is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director of unverified identity. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. Wikipedia

Born: 1974, Bristol, United Kingdom

Education: Bristol Cathedral Choir School

Movies: Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Antics Roadshow

Periods: Graffiti, Street art

Awards: Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, More

David Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world. Wikipedia

Born: September 14, 1954, Red Bank, NJ

Died: July 22, 1992, New York City, NY

Education: High School of Performing Arts

Movies: Fear Of Disclosure, Manhattan Love Suicides, Beautiful People, Bust

Music group: 3 Teens Kill 4 (1980 – 1983)

Edward Francis Paschke was a Polish American painter. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. Wikipedia

Born: June 22, 1939, Chicago, IL

Died: November 25, 2004, Chicago, IL

Spouse: Nancy Cohn (m. 1968–2004)

Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1970)

People also search for: Jim Nutt, Nancy Cohn, Sharon Paschke, Marc Paschke

Books: Ed Paschke, Selected Works 1967-1981: Exhibition , The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, More

Children: Sharon Paschke, Marc Paschke

El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. He has drawn particular international attention in recent years for his iconic "bottle-top installations", distinctive ... Wikipedia

Born: 1944, Ghana

Education: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Books: Gli: Wall, Gawu

Georg Baselitz is a German painter. Wikipedia

Born: January 23, 1938 (age 78), East Germany

Baselitz was born 23 January 1938, as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz (now a part of Kamenz, Saxony), in Germany. His father was an elementary-school teacher and the family lived in the local schoolhouse.

In the 1970s, Baselitz was part of a group of Neo-Expressionist German artists, occasionally identified as "Neue Wilden," focusing on deformation, the power of subject and the vibrancy of the colors. He became famous for his upside-down images. He is seen as a revolutionary painter as he draws the viewer’s attention to his works by making them think and sparking their interest. The subjects of the paintings don’t seem to be as significant as the work’s visual insight. Throughout his career, Baselitz has varied his style, ranging from layering substances to his style, since the 1990s, which focuses more on lucidity and smooth changes.[5]

Hans Op de Beeck has developed his career through international exhibitions over the past ten years. His work consists of sculptures, installations, video work, photography, animated films, drawings, paintings and writing (short stories). It is his quest for the most effective way of presenting the concrete contents of each work that determines the medium that the artist ultimately selects. The scale can vary from the size of a small watercolour to a large, three-dimensional installation of 300m2.

The artist not only uses a very wide variety of media, but also deliberately employs a diversity of aesthetic forms, ranging from an economical, minimalist visual language to overloaded, exaggerated designs, always with the aim of articulating the content of the work as precisely as possible.

Heinz Mack is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale.Wikipedia

Born: March 8, 1931 (age 85), Lollar, Germany

Known for: Op art, Light art, Kinetic art

Books: Ars urbana, Die grosse Stele, More

Education: University of Cologne, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Jason Martin makes sensual, almost three-dimensional paintings—compositions of thickly impastoed modeling paste painted a single, rich color. Martin bows to Abstract Expressionism with his obvious focus on process and the intensely expressive gesture that runs throughout his work. Although his paintings—ranging in size from 20 inches to six feet—appear to be non-objective investigations of the line separating painting from sculpture, Martin’s titles, such as Torah, Nocture, Genus, Aether, Crux, and  Storm, suggest references to cultural experience, scientific knowledge, and the natural world.

British, b. 1970, Jersey, United Kingdom

Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter. Wikipedia

Born: June 5, 1923, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela

Died: January 14, 2005, Paris, France

Movement: Kinetic art

Artwork: Esfera Theospacio, Light Trap, Vibration superieure, More

Parents: Luis Rafael García Soto Parra, Emma Soto

Jonathan Meese is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's works include collages, drawings and writing. Wikipedia

Born: January 23, 1970 (age 46), Tokyo, Japan

Education: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg

Period: Contemporary art

Movies: The Heart is a Dark Forest

Books: Jonathan Meese, Mama Johnny: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Magasin Grenoble, More

Known for: Painting, Sculpture, Performance art, Installation art

Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century. Wikipedia

Born: March 19, 1888, Bottrop, Germany

Died: March 25, 1976, New Haven, CT

Field: Abstract art

Artwork: Homage to the Square, Graphic Tectonic, More

Juan Uslé is a Spanish painter known for his use of color and abstraction.Wikipedia

Born: 1954, Santander, Spain

Known for: Painting

Artwork: Soñé Que Revelabas, Ojo-nido, Cada Vez Mas Cerca, More

Karl Wirsum is an American artist. A member of the notorious Chicago artistic group The Hairy Who, he helped set the foundation for Chicago's art scene in the 1970s. Wikipedia

Born: 1939, Chicago, IL

Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

People also search for: Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, John Hallmark Neff, Lanny Silverman

Books: The Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969, More

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war. Wikipedia

Born: May 4, 1958, Reading, PA

Died: February 16, 1990, New York City, NY

Influenced by: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, Walt Disney, More

Periods: Graffiti, Contemporary art, Pop art

Siblings: Karen Haring, Kristen Haring, Kay Haring

Kerry James Marshall is an American artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Wikipedia

Born: October 17, 1955 (age 60), Birmingham, AL

Education: Otis College of Art and Design

Ex-spouse: Cheryl Lynn Bruce

Books: Chris Ofili: Afrotranslinear

Awards: MacArthur Fellowship

Born in 1926, Kwon was among Seoul National University’s first art school class, alongside peers Park No-soo (who also passed earlier this year), Suh Se Ok, Chang Un-sang, and Park Sae-won. He was known for his participation in the Tansaekhwa monochromatic movement of the era.

He graduated in 1951 with a degree in painting and returned to SNU for a master’s degree, which he earned in 1957.

In 1958, during a time of great focus on traditional styles of Korean landscapes, Kwon created “Seaside Fantasy,” an unexpected surrealistic work that pushed the boundaries of contemporary practices.

By the 1960s, the artist was experimenting with different textures on monochromatic planes, in particular his works in white. He used his fingernails to scratch at and tear layers into traditional paper, gluing them to canvases for tense landscapes.

Marcello Lo Giudice is considered one of the most innovative artists on the new frontier of European Art Informal, a European equivalent to abstract expressionism. His multifaceted projects are a meditation on the alliance between cosmic energies and human beings; focusing on the intimacy of nature, human dignity and rejection of war and barbary. The internationally known art critic Pierre Restany, who has also written about Yves Klein and coined the term “Nouveau réalisme,” defined Lo Giudice as an exceptional “telluric” painter. 

Combining his knowledge of the Earth’s metamorphoses with a profound affection for organic, geological substances, the artist creates a variety of meticulously crafted paintings and sculptures. Lo Giudice composes vibrant and energetic paintings by spreading and layering colorful pigments thickly on the canvas, thus creating a coarse, haptic surface in various phases. From his technique, interweaved, rugged crossroads and interferences arise. True elegy to color and life; substantial force and enthusiasm are found in his work.

Martin Wong was a Chinese-American painter of the late twentieth century. His work has been described as a meticulous blend of Social realism and visionary art styles. Wikipedia

Born: July 11, 1946, Portland, OR

Died: August 12, 1999, San Francisco, CA

Education: Humboldt State University

People also search for: Miguel Piñero, Amy Scholder, Miguel Angel Gómez Ramos, Adelina Piñero, Juanita Lovette Ramirez

Books: Sweet oblivion

Massimo Vitali is an Italian photographer based in Lucca. Vitali studied photography at the London College of Printing. He initially worked as a photojournalist for the Report Agency in the 1970s, and later as a movie camera operator. Wikipedia

Born: 1944, Como, Italy

Education: London College of Communication

Matthew Day Jackson is an American artist whose multifaceted practice encompasses sculpture, painting, collage, photography, drawing, video, performance and installation. Wikipedia

Born: 1974, Panorama City, Los Angeles, CA

Education: Rutgers University, University of Washington

McArthur Binion is an American artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Binion was born in Macon, Mississippi. He holds a BFA from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Wikipedia

Born: 1946, Macon, MS

American, b. 1978, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, based in Los Angeles, California

Neil Gavin Welliver was an American-born modern artist, best known for his large-scale landscape paintings inspired by the deep woods near his home in Maine. Wikipedia

Born: July 22, 1929, Millville, PA

Died: April 5, 2005, Belfast, ME

Artwork: Couple with Leslie, Flotsam-Allagash, Royal Head, More

Children: Titus Welliver, Eli Welliver, Silas Welliver, Ethan Welliver

Education: Yale University (1955), University of the Arts (1953)

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Nick Darmstaedter produces artwork without an affinity to a single medium or material. He is best known for his active involvement with artist-led organization, The Still House Group, founded by Isaac Brest and Alex Perweiler in 2007. Like his Still House peers, Darmstaedter frequently produces works that employ found objects; he states that gathering and sorting are a crucial part of his practice, in which chance also plays a significant role. His works, however, are not readymades, but transformations that emphasize the materials’ physical properties and original forms. Darmstaedter’s works nod to the American Pop and Minimalist movements.

American, b. 1988, Los Angeles, California, based in Brooklyn, New York

Os Gêmeos (Portuguese for The Twins; born 1974 in São Paulo, Brazil as Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo) are graffiti artists and identical twin brothers. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a main influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil's own style. Their work often features yellow-skinned characters - taken from the yellow tinge both of the twins have in their dreams - but is otherwise diverse and ranges from tags to complicated murals. Subjects range from family portraits to commentary on São Paulo's social and political circumstances, as well as Brazilian folklore. Their graffiti style was influenced by both traditional hip hop style and the Brazilian culture.[1]

Park Seo-bo is a South Korean painter. Park was born in 1931 in Yecheon, Gyeongbuk, South Korea. While he spent his childhood in Yecheon, he soon moved out to Seoul where he studied at the Hong-Ik ...Wikipedia

Born: 1931, South Korea

Books: 朴栖甫: 描法 1994-2001, 朴栖甫: Esquisse-drawing 1996 - 2001

Pedro Cabrita Reis is a Portuguese artist. Reis has exhibited widely and participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta IX in 1992; in 2003 he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale.Wikipedia

Born: 1956, Lisbon, Portugal

Books: Pedro Cabrita Reis: London : Haunch of Venison, Frieze Art Fair, Camden Arts Centre, Pearl

Richard Anuszkiewicz is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Wikipedia

Born: May 23, 1930 (age 86), Erie, PA

Known for: Painting

Periods: Hard-edge painting, Op art

Books: Australian Processed Food and Beverage Industry

Education: Yale University, Cleveland Institute of Art

Robert H. Colescott, 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 Léger in Paris. Wikipedia

Born: August 26, 1925, Oakland, CA

Died: June 4, 2009, Tucson, AZ

Education: University of California, Berkeley (1952)

Period: Surrealism

Known for: Genre art

Books: Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Robert Motherwell was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.Wikipedia

Born: January 24, 1915, Aberdeen, WA

Died: July 16, 1991, Provincetown, MA

Spouse: Helen Frankenthaler (m. 1958–1971)

Artwork: Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 54, More

Known for: Painting, Printmaking

Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Wikipedia

Born: October 22, 1925, Port Arthur, TX

Died: May 12, 2008, Captiva, FL

Influenced by: Marcel Duchamp, Cy Twombly, John Cage, Josef Albers, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell

Periods: Postmodernism, Mixed media, Modern art, Pop art, Neo-Dada, Abstract expressionism

Working in both two and three dimensions, Robert Therrien transforms elements from the culture of everyday life into works of art that evoke classical archetypes. His deceptively simple oeuvre lends itself to psychological interpretation, given its evident fascination with the narratives of childhood, while remaining firmly objective due to its literal proximity to the real and its relationship to the minimal.

Therrien currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

French-Chinese, b. 1953, Nanjing, China, based in Beijing, China

Samuel Lewis Francis was an American painter and printmaker.Wikipedia

Born: June 25, 1923, San Mateo, CA

Died: November 4, 1994, Santa Monica, CA

Artwork: Towards Disappearance, II, Senza Titolo III, Basel Mural I,More

Ex-spouse: Mako Idemitsu

Fields: Painting, Printmaking

Parents: Samuel Augustus Francis, Sr, Katherine Lewis Francis

Sharon Lockhart is an American artist whose work considers social subjects primarily through motion film and still photography. She received her BFA from San Francisco Art institute in 1991 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1993. Wikipedia

Born: June 5, 1964 (age 52), Norwood, MA

Books: Pine Flat, Sharon Lockhart, Sharon Lockhart, Noa Eshkol

Movies: Goshogaoka, Double Tide, Podworka, Lunch Break, Teatro Amazonas, Pine Flat, Lunchfilm, No, Exit

Education: Art Center College of Design (1993), San Francisco Art Institute (1991)

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials.Wikipedia

Born: February 13, 1941, Oleśnica, Poland

Died: June 10, 2010, Cologne, Germany

Education: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Artwork: Untitled (Triptych), Untitled (Square 2), More

Known for: Painting, Photography

Awards: Erasmus Prize

Slim Aarons, born George Allen Aarons, was an American photographer noted for photographing socialites, jet-setters and celebrities. Wikipedia

Born: October 29, 1916, Manhattan, New York City, NY

Died: May 29, 2006, Montrose, NY

Sue Williams is a British visual artist, trained, living and working in Wales.Wikipedia

Born: 1956, Redruth, United Kingdom

Theaster Gates is an American Social Practice installation artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Wikipedia

Born: August 28, 1973 (age 42), Chicago, IL

Education: Iowa State University

Books: Theaster Gates: My Labour is My Protest

Known for: Installation art, Urbanism

Known for her flat, small-scale paintings, Varda Caivano works within an aesthetic of restraint, combining formal mastery with an openness to the unexpected. Mostly abstract with the occasional evocation of a landscape, Caivano’s works embody the artist’s ambivalence about the notion of resolution. As such, her paintings share a fragile quality elicited through her combinations of color and the thinness of the paint, which Caivano achieves in some instances by allowing the canvas to show through. 

Argentine, b. 1971, Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in London, United Kingdom

Walter Oltmann is an artist from South Africa who weaves together aluminum wire “doily” segments to create gauzy, black-and-white images. His more recent works—which were featured recently in an exhibition titled Cradle at the Goodman Gallery in Cape Town—depict skulls and sleeping children. Through tonal layering, Oltmann creates a ghostly, semi-transparent depth, and each of the drawings are their own sculptural objects. The result is a series of eerie, ancient-looking images that invoke a theme (and contemporary relevance) of ideas surrounding death, the fragility of life, and the passage of time.

South African, b. 1960, Rustenburg, South Africa

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. Wikipedia

Born: April 28, 1955 (age 61), Johannesburg, South Africa

Spouse: Anne Stanwix

Artwork: History of the Main Complaint, Tide Table, Felix in Exile, More

Parents: Felicia Geffen, Sydney Kentridge

Nominations: Hugo Boss Prize

Zeng Fanzhi is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing. From the earliest stages of his career, Zeng Fanzhi's paintings have been marked by their emotional directness, the artist's intuitive ... Wikipedia

Born: 1964, Wuhan, China

Education: Hubei Institute of Fine Arts

He was born in Oberammergau, Germany, on 1967. He works and lives in Brooklyn (Dumbo), New York. He studied History of Art and Political Science in Florida University and History in Santa Catalina College, University of Cambridge. He showed his work in Mixed Greens Gallery of New York, in Ambrosino Gallery of Miami, in AR Contemporary of Milano and in Barbara Davis Gallery of Houston.

Adriana Varejão is a Brazilian artist. She works in various disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. Varejão lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Wikipedia

Born: 1964, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Books: Adriana Varejão, Adriana Varejao. Polvo

Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. Wikipedia

Born: January 15, 1955 (age 61), Leipzig, Germany

Education: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Parents: Rosemarie Gursky, Willy Gursky

Barry McGee is a painter and graffiti artist. He is also known by monikers such as Ray Fong, Lydia Fong, Bernon Vernon, P.Kin, Ray Virgil, Twist and further variations of Twist, such as Twister, Twisty, Twisto and others.Wikipedia

Born: 1966, San Francisco, CA

Spouse: Clare Rojas (m. 2005), Margaret Kilgallen (m. 1999–2001)

Movies: Beautiful Losers

Children: Asha McGee

Education: El Camino High School, San Francisco Art Institute

Photographer Coke Wisdom O’Neal likes to explore “non-traditional forms of portraiture,” wherein “the subjects are secondary to the concepts represented,” as he describes. To date this has included photographic series of ordinary New Yorkers, Ohioans, and Texans, looking tiny in a huge wooden structure he created called “the box;” nude models cramped into small glass cubes; and strangers exposed through the contents of their medical cabinets (which he photographed without their knowledge to “give the viewer a glimpse of what’s on the inside”). The artist, who was named after his grandmother, is influenced by Richard Avedon’s portraits, which he calls “environmental, without use of the an environment.”

American, b. 1972, New York, New York, based in New York, New York

Donald Baechler is an American artist. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1974–77, and Cooper Union from 1977-78. Wikipedia

Born: November 22, 1956 (age 59), Hartford, CT

Artwork: Walking Figure, Black Flowers, Colorful Ball, More

Education: Cooper Union, Maryland Institute College of Art

Influenced by: Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Giotto

Known for: Painting, Assemblage

Francesco Clemente is an Italian contemporary artist. His work is influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and J Krishnamurti. Wikipedia

Born: March 23, 1952 (age 64), Naples, Italy

Education: Sapienza University of Rome

Period: Contemporary art

Artwork: Scissors and Butterflies, Map of What is Effortless, More

Movies: Good Will Hunting, Adam Green's Aladdin

Known for: Painting, Drawing

Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican artist. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984 and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid between 1986 and 1987. Wikipedia

Born: April 27, 1962 (age 54), Xalapa, Mexico

Spouse: María Gutiérrez (m. 1994)

Film music credits: Open Field

Movies: Open Field

Children: Simón Orozco

Glenn Brown is a British artist. He is known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing ... Wikipedia

Born: 1966, Hexham, United Kingdom

Education: Norwich University of the Arts

Nominations: Turner Prize

Hiroshi Sugimoto, born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, United States. Wikipedia

Born: February 23, 1948 (age 68), Tokyo, Japan

Awards: Hasselblad Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Education: Art Center College of Design (1970–1974), Rikkyo University(1970)

James Siena is an American contemporary artist based in New York City. His art is typically created through a series of self-imposed constraints also sometimes referred to as visual algorithms —rules Siena decides on before sitting down to work. Wikipedia

Born: October 28, 1957 (age 58), Oceanside, CA

Education: Cornell University

Period: Abstract expressionism

Known for: Painting, Printmaking

Kai Althoff is a German visual artist and musician. Wikipedia

Born: February 1966, Cologne, Germany

People also search for: Nicolaus Schafhausen, Glenn Brown, Nicholas Baume

Piotr Uklański was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1968. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw and photography at Cooper Union, New York.

Uklański emerged on the New York art scene in the mid-1990s with the emblematic work Untitled (Dance Floor)—a sculpture that integrates the legacy of minimalism with popular entertainment. Dividing his time between New York and Warsaw, he exploits multiple media (sculpture, photography, collage, performance, and film) and promiscuously absorbs diverse cultural references.

Gary Stephan is an artist who has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe. Exhibiting since the late 1960s, Stephan creates Postmodern art in the form of idiosyncraticly abstract ... Wikipedia

Born: 1942, Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Education: San Francisco Art Institute (1967)

Books: Book of Nine

Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Adam Helms, is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City. His work encompasses drawing, printmaking, sculpture, assemblage, and archival research, often having to do with the ...Wikipedia

Born: 1974

Brice Marden, 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. Wikipedia

Born: October 15, 1938 (age 78), Bronxville, NY

Artwork: The Dylan Painting, Spanish Painting, For Pearl, More

Movies: Art City #1: Making It In Manhattan

Education: Yale School of Art, Yale University, Boston University, Florida Southern College

Periods: Hard-edge painting, Modern art, Minimalism