Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an English musician, composer, producer, music theorist, and singer, who,...
Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger (pronounced /ˈɡiːɡər/; born February 5, 1940) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer, who won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual...
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 August 12, 1988) was an American artist and is cited by Graham Thompson as the first painter of African descent to become an international art star...
Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international...
Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance....
Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the Turner Prize. Whiteread is...
Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist. Andre was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated in Quincy public schools and at Phillips Academy Andover, where he became friends...
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high...
Agnes Martin was a Canadian-American painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. She was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan...
Gilbert and George are two contemporary artists who work together as a duo. Gilbert Proesch (San Martin de Tor, Italy, 17 September 1943) and George Passmore (Plymouth, United Kingdom, 8...
Richard Deacon CBE (born 15 August 1949) is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize. Richard Deacon was born in Bangor in Wales, educated at Plymouth College and then...
Tony Cragg (born 9 April 1949) is a British-born sculptor/ artist. Cragg was born in Liverpool. Following a period of work as a laboratory technician he first studied art on the foundation...
Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times,...
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer who lives in Berlin and London. He won the Turner Prize in 2000. Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Remscheid in Germany. He lived and worked...
Antony Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is an English sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead commissioned in 1995 and erected in...
Chris Ofili is a British painter noted for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage. He is one of the Young British Artists. He is a Turner Prize winner and his work has been...
Steven Rodney "Steve" McQueen CBE (born 1969) is a British artist and filmmaker. He is a winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival, a Turner Prize and BAFTA. Born in London...
Martin Creed (born 1968) is a Scottish artist noted for his works which are grounded in the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. He won the Turner Prize in 2001. Martin Creed was born in...
Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH is a British painter of German Origin. In May 2008, his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping was sold by auction by Christie's in New York City...
Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. His father was an Italian immigrant who took...
Jeff Koons is an American artist whose work incorporates kitsch imagery using painting, sculpture, and other forms, often in large scale. His life and work were profiled on CBS...
Grayson Perry, (born 1960), is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. He works in several media. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in...
Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain...
Chantal Anne Akerman (born 6 June 1950) is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School.. Renowned for a hyperrealist style, Akerman's work seeks to...
Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933, Jamaica, New York – November 29, 1996, Riverhead, New York) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from...