- Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois (born December 25, 1911, Paris) is an artist and sculptor, whose work has been strongly influenced by the surrealists, abstract expressionism and minimalism. Her work is deeply involved in the investigation of her own psyche and relation to objects through strong intuition. She constantly evaluates her past and creates work that is based out of this nostalgia and torture. She is one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century.
- Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also known to work with video and video installation. She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1991 and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1993.
- Bill Viola
Bill Viola (born America, 1951) 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 stage.
- Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. His father was an Italian immigrant who took him to museums and opera houses and gave him his first arts education. Vito attended Regis High School on New York City. He received a B.A. in literature from the College of the Holy Cross in 1962 and an M.F.A. in literature and poetry from the University of Iowa.
- Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July, 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). She has succeeded in equalling, if not surpassing, Damien Hirst among the YBAs in terms of notoriety among the general public. A drunken outburst on a Channel 4 TV discussion, and "My Bed" — an installation in the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition, …
- Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien (born 1960 in London, England) is a gay installation artist and filmmaker.
- David Rokeby
David Rokeby (born 1960 in Tillsonburg, Ontario) is an artist who has been making works of electronic, video and installation art since 1982.
- Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) is a Turner Prize winning sculptor. Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, Kapoor attended the Doon School, located in Dehra Dun, India. He moved to England in 1972, where he has lived since. He studied art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art Design. He currently works in London, although he frequently visits India and has acknowledged that his art is inspired by both Western and Eastern cultures.
- Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff (born 1957) is a Canadian installation artist.
- Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment.
- Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 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 one of the so-called Young British Artists, and exhibited at the Royal Academy's "Sensation" exhibition in 1997. She is probably best known for "Ghost", a large plaster cast of the inside of a room in a Victorian house, …
- Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle 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 of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives.
- Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is an American conceptual artist. She was born in Newark, New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. After a year at Syracuse, she moved to New York, where she began attending Parsons School of Design. She studied with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, who, as a graphic designer and art director for Harper's Bazaar in the 1960s, introduced Kruger to photographers and fashion/magazine sub-cultures.
- Chris Burden
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and the University of California, Irvine from 1969 to 1971. In 1978 he became a Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, …
- Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken is a multimedial American artist. On January 16, 2007, Aitken’s sleepwalkers—a video installation projected onto the outdoor facades of the Museum of Modern Art opened. The project represents a collaboration between the artist, the Museum, and the public arts organization Creative Time. Aitken was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1968 and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
- Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler (American, born 1957). Oursler is known for video, performance and installation art. He is married to the abstract painter Jacqueline Humphries. He's part of the rock group, Poetics, with fellow CalArt students Mike Kelley and John Miller. He has collaborated with Constance DeJong, Tony Conrad, and Dan Graham and Sonic Youth. Oursler is best known for his sculptural video installations where faces are projected onto ball-like screens to present faces that talk, …
- Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin (born Sep 12, 1928) is an American Installation artist.
- Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Judy Chicago is a feminist artist who has been making work since the middle 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevancy. Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project.
- Richard Long
Richard Long (born June 2, 1945) is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long was born in Bristol, and studied art there at the West of England College of Art from 1962 to 1965, and graduated from St Martin's School of Art in London in 1968. Several of his works are based around walks that he has made, and often consist of photographs or maps of the landscape he has walked over.
- Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn (24 March, 1944, Michelstadt) is a German installation artist most famous for her body modifications such as "Einhorn" (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and "Pencil Mask", a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out. In May-August, 2005 the Hayward Gallery in London held a Rebecca Horn retrospective.
- Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson (born 1953) is a British installation artist. Wilson was born in Islington, London and studied at Hornsey College of Art and the University of Reading. He was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long won). Wilson often works on an architectural scale, often changing large spaces in some dramatic way. One of his best known pieces, "20:50" (1987), …
- Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson (born May 24, 1953) is a sculptor, installation artist and musician. Born in Islington, London in, he studied at the London College of Printing, Hornsey College of Art and Reading University. He was the DAAD residenct in Berlin in 1992, Maeda Visiting Artist at the Architectural Association in 1998 and nominated for the Turner Prize in both 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long won).
- Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an African-Canadian installation artist from Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin (born 1935 in New York City, New York) is a performance artist, film-maker and installation artist. For more than three decades, Antin has been a notable presence on the American art scene. A native of New York, she eventually made her home in Southern California. She has been granted dozens of solo exhibitions, as well as represented in countless group exhibitions. Sometimes compared to contemporaries such as Carolee Schneemann and Judy Chicago, …
- Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare MBE (born 1962) is a contemporary artist living in Britain.
- Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker (born 1956) is an English sculptor and installation artist. She is generally associated with Britart. She was born in Cheshire; she studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (1974-75) and Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975-78). She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton in 2000. In 1997, she was a Turner Prize nominee.
- Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is an English artist associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs). He was nominated for the Turner Prize. He works in various media, including video, computer animation and installation art.
- Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov, Russian Илья Иосифович Кабаков (September 30 1933) is an American conceptual artist of Russian-Jewish origin, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island. He was named by ArtNews as one of the "ten greatest living artists" in 2000. Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov has produced a wide range of paintings, drawings, …
- Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson is a contemporary British artist who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for an installation which replicted a storeroom. The prize was won by Martin Creed. He has subsequently been nominated for the 2007 Turner Prize. His installations exist only for the time period of the exhibition which they were made for. They are generally extended labyrinths, which the viewer is free to find their own way through, …
- Max Neuhaus
Max Neuhaus (b.1939 in Beaumont, TX) was a percussionist and interpreter of contemporary music in the 1960s who moved on to pioneer artistic activities with sound. He has created numerous sound works (including sound installations) that have extended sound as an autonomous medium into the domain of contemporary art. In the early sixties, he toured America as a percussion soloist and gave solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and in European capitals.
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961 and pronounced RICK-rit Tira-VAN-it) is a Buenos Aires-born contemporary artist who divides his time in New York, Berlin and Bangkok.
- Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works in video, installation, and photography. He has created a number of television interventions, including "Telemistica" (1999), in which he asks Italian television psychics if his new art work will be successful (the video he then created is comprised of recordings of these psychics answering his question), and "The Holy Artwork" (2001), in which he collaborated with a televangelist pastor.
- Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli (born in Santa Monica, California in 1956) is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin. Tomaselli is represented by the legendary White Cube gallery in the UK and the James Cohan Gallery in USA.
- Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas (born 1962 in London, England) is an artist who came to prominence as one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) in the 1990s. Her work is known for its sly wit - addressing the low level misogynist sexual stereotyping that is a feature of British tabloid newspapers - and the use of readymade elements. She studied at the London College of Printing before switching to fine art at Goldsmiths College from 1984 - 1987, where she had a relationship with Damien Hirst, …
- John Duncan
John Duncan (born 1953) is an artist who has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam, currently lives and works in Bologna. His range of work, including performance art, installations, contemporary music, video and film, is considered to be a form of existential research, usually involving the extensive use of recorded sound. His music is composed mainly of recordings from shortwave radio, field recordings and voice.
- David Mach
David Mach (born 20 March 1946) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced found art objects. Typically these include magazines,teddy bears but vicious,newspapers, car types, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of Mach installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces. One example of his early magazine pieces, "Adding Fuel to the Fire", …
- Alison Saar
Alison Saar was born in Los Angeles in 1956 to celebrated African American artist Betye Saar and painter-conservator Richard Saar. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 1981. Her work has been exhibited internationally with key exhibitions at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, L.A. Louver Gallery, and Pasadena Museum of California Art and was an artist in residence at Dartmouth College.
- Devorah Sperber
Devorah Sperber is an American installation artist known for creating works out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners and map tacks that act as optical illusions. Some of her work has involved using thousands of spools of thread to create pixilated versions of iconic works of art by famous artists. Her naming scheme for these works generally follows the format "After [Artist]/[Work]".
- Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo is a Colombian-born sculptor. Salcedo completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Universidad de Bogotá in 1980, before travelling to New York, which she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at New York University. She then returned to Bogotá to teach at the Universidad. Her work is influenced by her experiences of life in Colombia, and is generally composed of items of furniture.
- Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun (AKA MoBen) is a pioneering new-media artist whose work has been seen, and honored, around the globe. Born in Mascara, Algeria, in 1957, Benayoun is based in Paris, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His work employs various media — including (and often combining) video,virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, public-space large-scale art installations and interactive exhibitions.