- Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas (born August 3, 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist combining elements of Expressionism with conceptual art into ink and watercolour pieces and oil paints on canvas. Dumas studied at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975. The aim of her work is to show the relationships between art, female models and even pornography. Many of the starting points for her work are polaroid photographs of her friends and lovers, … - Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is a Belgian contemporary artist, considered one of today's most influential painters. Tuymans was born in Mortsel, Belgium. He began to study fine art at the Sint-Lukasinstituut in Brussels in 1976, and subsequently also studied art history at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. He first exhibited in 1985. His first U.S. exhibition was at The Renaissance Society in Chicago in 1995. - Takashi Murakami
is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist. Murakami works in both fine arts media, such as painting; as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies. Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, … - Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist born in Padova, Italy, in 1960. He is probably best known for his satirical and controversial sculptures, particularly "La Nona Ora" ("The Ninth Hour"), depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite. - Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957) is an American artist and sometime musician and lyricist. Known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ironic or ambiguous captions, Pettibon's subject matter is sometimes violent and anti-authoritarian. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, he was closely assocated with the punk rock band Black Flag and the record label SST Records, both founded by his older brother Greg Ginn. - Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a Swiss curator and art critic. In 1993, he founded the Museum Robert Walser and began to run the Migrateurs program at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where he served as a curator for contemporary art. He presently serves as the Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, in London. - Fisher Landau Center
The Fisher Landau Center for Art is a private foundation located in Long Island City, Queens. It offers regular exhibitions of contemporary art, open to the public from 12 to 5pm, Thursdays through Mondays. The center, established in 1991, was accessible by appointment only until regular public hours were established in April 2003. The 25,000 square-foot, three-story facility is devoted to the exhibition and study of the contemporary art collection of Emily Fisher Landau. - Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft (Genoa, Italy, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist living in New York City. - Leo Castelli
Leo Castelli (born September 4, 1907 at Trieste as Leo Krauss - died August 21, 1999) was an art dealer of Italian and Austro-Hungarian Jewish origin. He was best known to the public as the art dealer who showed Andy Warhol's paintings, and whose gallery showcased cutting edge Contemporary art for five decades. Castelli showed Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Op Art, Color field painting, Hard-edge painting, Lyrical Abstraction, … - Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel an "expanded cinema". It is inspired by the American Expanded Cinema and reflects the ideological and technological conditions of cinematic representation. Peter Weibel elaborates these reflections as from 1969 in his video tapes and installations. With his television action "tv und vt works", … - Rosemarie Trockel
This article or section does not cite its references or sources.<br> You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952 in Schwerte, Germany) is a German artist, and an important figure in her country's contemporary art movement. From 1970–1978, Trockel studied anthropology, sociology, theology, and mathematics in pursuit of teaching career. She later studied painting at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne. - Miltos Manetas
Miltos Manetas (Athens, Greece, 1964) is a Greek contemporary artist living in Los Angeles. Manetas' work consist of depictions of computer-related items such as oil paintings of computer hardware and videos where videogames are used as the source material. He received art training in Brera-Milan, Italy. In 2003, Manetas created JacksonPollock.org, a Website which managed to get included in the list of the 25 Important Websites of 2006 according to the Times Magazine, … - Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher. Arthur C. Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1924, and grew up in Detroit. After spending two years in the Army, Danto studied art and history at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) and then pursued graduate study in philosophy at Columbia University. From 1949 to 1950, Danto studied in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, … - Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero (born as Marco Polo di Suvero) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He came to San Francisco, California in 1941 with his father. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study fine arts and where he ultimately earned a degree in Philosophy. He later moved to New York City where he was surrounded by an explosion of Abstract Expressionism. - Colab
Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects. Colab was formed in 1978 after a series of open meetings. Throughout its roughly ten years of activity, Colab was distinguished from contemporary New York artists' groups by its regular open meetings and open membership. Among the group's numerous accomplishments include the New Cinema screening room for punk and no wave films (1979); the Times Square Show, … - Jay Jopling
Jay Jopling (born 1963) is a British contemporary art dealer and gallerist. He is married to the artist Sam Taylor-Wood. After school at Eton and graduating from Edinburgh University Jopling began by selling fire extinguishers before starting dealing in post-war American art. In 1991 probably the most significant event of Jopling's career occurred as Jopling formed a friendship with the artist Damien Hirst. - Alexis Rockman
Alexis Rockman is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings depicting the precarious relationship between man and nature. He has been exhibiting his work internationally since 1985, when he received a BFA in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts. His artworks are information-rich depictions of how our culture perceives and interacts with plants and animals, and the role culture plays in influencing the direction of natural history. - Annika Larsson
Annika Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden, 1972) is a contemporary artist living in New York. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm. Since the late 1990s, she has produced a body of work in video often consisting of men in highly-charged scenarios. Presented with a surface banality or with implied or explicit violence, and filmed in a sleek, polished style, without voiceover or dialogue, they are made up of slow gestures, … - Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975, Vienna) is artist, writer, curator, director. He attended many international symposia and published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art, science and philosophy. He writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF, FM4, Telepolis, Boing Boing). Johannes Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz). - Lucy R. Lippard
Lucy Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist and curator from the United States. Lippard was among the first writers to recognize the de-materialization at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art, and the recipient of a 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism. - Marilyn Minter
Marilyn Minter(1948-)is an American artist who works in the mediums of photography and painting. - Matthieu Laurette
Matthieu Laurette (born 1970 in Villeneuve Saint Georges, France) is a media and conceptual contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions. He lives and works in Paris, Amsterdam and New York. - Jens Hoffmann
Jens Hoffmann is one of the most active and most influential exhibition makers working in the field of contemporary art today. He has worked as a curator since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. - Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine (born January 4 1973) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and author. He is best known for the screenplay "Kids" and for directing the movies "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey-Boy". He has been a seminal figure in independent film, music and art throughout the past decade. - Lawrence Rinder
Lawrence R. Rinder is the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Previously, he was the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he organized exhibitions including “The American Effect," "BitStreams," the 2002 Whitney Biennial, … - Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps (Eagle Rock, California, 1932 - Los Angeles, March 20, 2005) was an American museum director and curator of contemporary art. His obituary in the Washington Post described him as a "sort of a gonzo museum director -- elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules." Hopps opened the Syndell Gallery in 1955, where his exhibitions included "Action 1" and "Action 2". - Thierry de Duve
Thierry de Duve (1944-) is a Belgian professor of modern art theory and contemporary art theory, and both actively teaches and publishes books in the field. He also curates exhibitions. He has been a visiting professor at: the University of Lille III (France), the Sorbonne (France), MIT, and Johns Hopkins University, and was the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Distinguished Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art in Penn's History of Art Department. - Henry Geldzahler
Henry Geldzahler (1935, Antwerp, Belgium-August 16, 1994, Southampton, New York<sup></sup>) was a well-known curator of contemporary art in the late 20th century. Unlike most curators at the time, he befriended many of the artists he was interested in, and socialized with them as if he were just another artist. Artists he associated with included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Larry Stanton. - Karsten Schubert
Karsten Schubert is an Austrian artists representative and former gallerist, working in England. Backed by Richard Salmon from 1986 to 1993, Schubert ran a gallery on Dering Street in London and was the first person to represent the Young British Artists, most notably Gary Hume and Rachel Whiteread. However, he is remembered primarily as the man who turned down Damien Hirst-a decision that contributed to Schubert being eclipsed by other dealers. - Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart is an American poet, university professor and literary critic born in 1952. She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University. Recent works of criticism include "Poetry and the Fate of the Senses", (winner of the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism in 2003 from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2004), … - David Moos
David Moos is the the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Moos received a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and is a contributing editor to Art Papers and Art US. Moos served as curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama. In this position, he organized the traveling exhibitions, Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, and Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City. - Willoughby Sharp
Willoughby Sharp (b. 1936, New York City), the co-founder, with writer/filmmaker Liza Bear, of Avalanche magazine (1970-1976), is an internationally known artist, independent curator, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist. - Abraham Lubelski
Abraham Lubelski (born 1940) is an American contemporary artist and founder of the NYArts Magazine. He was born in Siberia, USSR, and emigrated to the United States with his parents, becoming a U. S. citizen in 1954. He is widely known as a media artist and as a curator. .He is also active as a lecturer and panelist. He has worked on paintings, conceptual projects, theater set designs and installations. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2001. - Mark Sheinkman
Mark Sheinkman (born 1963) is an American contemporary artist. His primary mediums are oil painting and drawing. Sheinkman was born in New York City, where he currently lives and works. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University "summa cum laude" in 1985. His works are handled by Von Lintel Gallery. - Holly Crawford
Holly Crawford is an artist and art historian. She is the Director of AC Institute, a nonprofit organization for research in contemporary art. Her doctorate was conferred by the University of Essex in Art History and Theory. Her other degrees, M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Behavioral Science, were earned at UCLA. She taught art issues in the UCLA Art Department, and new genre at SVA in New York. - George Shaw
George Shaw (born 1966 in Coventry) is a Nottingham based contemporary artist who is noted for his highly detailed naturalistic approach and English suburban subject matter. His favoured medium is Humbrol enamel paints which lend his work a unique appearance as they are more commonly used to paint Airfix models. - Mary Beth McKenzie
Mary Beth McKenzie, N.A. ; is an American painter of contemporary figures in the realism style. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently resides in New York City where she teaches art at National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York. Her works of art are currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, … - Rodolfo Morales
Rodolfo Morales (May 8 1925 - January 30 2001) was a surrealist Mexican painter. Morales is best known for his brightly coloured surrealistic dream-like canvases and collages often featuring Mexican women in village settings. He was notable for his restoration of historic buildings in Ocotlan, Mexico and together with Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo, helped make Oaxaca in Southern Mexico a centre for contemporary art and tourism. - Rob Scholte
Rob Scholte is a Dutch contemporary artist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and works in Bergen. His work has been shown in Galerie Witteveen Amsterdam (2004, 2005, 2006), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2005), Groninger Museum (2002); Fries Museum (2000), Paleis Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1995), Sprengel Museum, Hannover (1994), … - Josef Herman
Josef Herman (b. 1911, d. February 19 2000) was a highly regarded realist painter who had an undeniable impact on contemporary art, particularly in Britain. Herman was born in Poland to a Jewish family. He attended the Warsaw School of Art for two years before working biefly as a graphic artist. He left Poland for Brussels in 1938 where he was introduced to many of the prominent artists working in the city at the time.
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