Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including...
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...
Mark Wallinger (born 1959) is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo (1999), and State Britain (2007), a recreation at Tate...
Gillian Wearing (born 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and a winner of the Turner Prize. Gillian Wearing was born in Birmingham. She moved to Chelsea, London to study...
Helen Chadwick (18 May 1953 – 15 March 1996) was a British conceptual artist. Chadwick studied at Croydon College of Art, The Faculty of Arts and Architecture Brighton Polytechnic and then...
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...
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...
Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Chicago has been making work since the mid 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided...
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...
Louise Bourgeois is an artist and sculptor. Her parents repaired tapestries. At 12, she started helping them draw the missing segments...
Robert Irwin is an American Installation artist. Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California to Robert and Goldie Anderberg Irwin. Starting as a painter, his art grew out of...
Sophie Calle (born 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...
Christian Boltanski (born 1944 in Paris) is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker. Having no formal art education, he began painting in 1958. Nevertheless, he first came to...
Sandy Skoglund (born September 11, 1946) is an American photographer and installation artist. Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with...
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was a Cuban artist who grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. Gonzalez-Torres had his first one-man exhibition of his early text pieces in 1988 at...
Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist. In 1986 he created a 3,000 m² sculpture in the great courtyard of the Palais Royal, in Paris: "Les Deux Plateaux",...
Janet Cardiff (born 15 March 1957) is a Canadian installation artist. Born in Brussels, Ontario in 1957 Cardiff studied at Queen's University (BFA) where she graduated in 1980. She also...
James Turrell is an artist primarily concerned with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater. Located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Turrell...
Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black...
Ilya Kabakov, Russian Илья Иосифович Кабаков is an American conceptual artist of Russian-Jewish origin, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from...
Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was a Canadian photographer, poet and artist. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Calgary, Alberta, he studied at the Southern Alberta...
Richard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art deals with issues of scale and the classic problems...
Olafur Eliasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish-Icelandic artist. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Eliasson...
Dan Graham is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art...
Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 - June 5, 1998) was a Swiss-German artist best known for his artist's books and for his sculptures and pictures made with rotting food stuffs . He was also known...