Artists by Time Period: Contemporary Art

Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Musical Artists, Actors & Actresses, Artists, Authors

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,...

H. R. Giger
H. R. Giger
Authors, Artists

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
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Actors & Actresses, Authors, Artists

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
Bill Viola
Artists, Authors

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
Bruce Nauman
Authors, Artists

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
Rachel Whiteread
Artists, Authors

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
Carl Andre
Artists

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
Frank Stella
Artists

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
Agnes Martin
Artists

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
Gilbert and George
Artists, Authors

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
Richard Deacon
Artists

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
Tony Cragg
Authors, Artists

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
Richard Long
Authors, Artists

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
Wolfgang Tillmans
Artists

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
Antony Gormley
Authors, Artists

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
Chris Ofili
Authors, Artists

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...

Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
Authors, Artists

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
Martin Creed
Artists

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 Freud
Lucian Freud
Authors, Artists

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 Acconci
Vito Acconci
Actors & Actresses, Authors, Artists

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
Jeff Koons
Authors, Artists

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
Grayson Perry
Artists

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 Hirst
Damien Hirst
Authors, Artists

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 Akerman
Chantal Akerman
Actors & Actresses, Authors, Artists

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
Dan Flavin
Artists

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...

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