- Richard Serra
Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. Serra was born in San Francisco and he went on to study English literature at the University of California, Berkeley and later at the University of California, Santa Barbara between 1957 and 1961. He then studied fine art at Yale University between 1961 and 1964. - David Bowie
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide range of fine art, philosophy and literature. He is also a film and stage actor, … - Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Avedon was able to take his early success in fashion photography and expand it into the realm of fine art. - 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, … - Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, born in Bivange, Luxembourg. His family moved to the United States in 1881 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1900. Having established himself as a fine art painter in the beginning of the 20th century, Steichen assumed the pictorialist approach in photography and proved himself a master of it. In 1905, … - Terry Frost
Sir Terry Frost (born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost was an English artist noted for his abstracts. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, in 1915, he did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. During his army service in World War II, he met and was taught by Adrian Heath while a prisoner of war. Subsequently, he attended Camberwell School of Art and the St Ives School of Art. In 1951, he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. - Robert Altman
Robert Mark Altman (born October 20,1944) is an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation, Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams. He was soon hired as a photojournalist by "Rolling Stone" magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for "Rolling Stone" he expanded into the realm of fashion photography and fine art. - Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (born 1969) is an English artist. He is best known for his films, but has worked in other forms also. He is a winner of the Turner Prize. - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (11 March 1965 in London) is an English interior designer and television personality best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme "Changing Rooms". He is noted for his flamboyant personality and for affecting a dandyish appearance. He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn Bowen", and the components of his name are frequently misspelled "Llewellyn" and/or "Lawrence". - Gary Baseman
Gary Baseman (born 1960) is a visual artist, particularly known as an illustrator and cartoonist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Baseman received a degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from UCLA in 1982. He has since worked as a fine artist, commercial artist, editorial artist, and as a television and film art director and producer of animation. His work is distinguished by big-eyed characters in slapstick situations and vivid use of colour. - Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze, (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular books were the two volumes of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia": "Anti-Oedipus" (1972) and "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980), both co-written with Félix Guattari. - Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which bounded the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Born as Panagiotis Harry Voulkopoulos, the third of five children to Greek immigrant parents Aristovoulos I. Voulkopoulos, anglicized and shorten as Harry (Aris) John Voulkos and Effrosyni (Efrosine) Peter Voulalas, … - Thomas Hill
Thomas Hill (September 11,1829 - June 30, 1908) was an important American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the California landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire. - Randy West
Randy West (born 1960, Indianapolis, Indiana) is a noted American fine art photographer, perhaps best known for his distinctive and avant-garde use of the photographic medium, as seen across several series of his work. West is also on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, and a director of the school's Master of Fine Arts program for photography, video, and related media. - Daniel Merriam
Daniel Merriam is a painter who was born on 1963 in York, Maine and grew up in Naples, Maine, a rural town in central Maine. He was one of seven children in an artistic family and taught himself to paint at an early age. He studied mechanical and architectural design at Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute. While still in school he applied his skills in architecture to his family’s design and construction business. - Dave White
Artist Dave White was born in Liverpool, England in 1972. He went to art school at the age of 16 where he discovered oil painting. His first solo exhibition at the age of 18 entitled 'Animals and Other Thingies' at the Bridewell Gallery in Liverpool was a sell out success and reviewed by Adrian Henri with whom Dave later became friends. Dave was part of the unofficial Liverpool school of painters including the likes of Dick Young and others whom now have sadly departed. - Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (b.1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000). She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on Mylar, then adding detail with photographic fragments of idealised women collected from print magazines. - Anthony Frost
Anthony Frost (born 1951) was born in St. Ives, England, the son of Sir Terry Frost. He is a prominent member of the artistic community of West Cornwall, noted for his abstract works consisting of brightly-coloured prints and collages. From 1970-1973 Frost studied at the Cardiff College of Art gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Since then he has lectured on his subject at Falmouth School of Art, Canterbury School of Art, University of East London and Anglia University. - Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock is an American fine artist who was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hancock received a BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock makes prints, drawings, and collaged felt paintings which tell stories of a fantastical nature. The characters which populate his imaginary worlds include the Mounds, half-animal, half-plant creatures, … - John Decker
John Decker (b. Leopold von der Decken, 1895 in Germany, d. 1947 in Hollywood) was a notable painter, set designer and caricaturist in Hollywood during the 1930's and 1940's. As a teenager, he lived in London, painting scenery in theatres; this was interrupted by the advent of the First World War, when he was arrested as an enemy alien and interned on the Isle of Man. - Marco Almera
Marco Almera (born November 1969) is a Southern California Artist. His work centers around the Southern Calfiornia themes of Surfing, Punk and Rock Music, Hot Rods, Religion, and Pin-up girls. Originally creating album covers and rock posters, he has moved into the medium of Fine Art and freestyle graphics. Almera's work includes album covers for Dropkick Murphys and posters for Gwar, The Misfits, Sublime, and Turbonegro. - Robert Fawcett
Robert Fawcett (1903-1967) trained as a fine artist, but achieved fame as an illustrator. He was born in England, and grew up in Canada and later in New York. His father, an amateur artist, encouraged Robert's interest in art. While in Canada, he was apprenticed to an engraver. He attended the Slade School of Art in London, then returned to the United States to pursue a career in fine arts, although he had to work as a commercial artist to support himself. - Jon Thompson
Jon Thompson (born 1936) is an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the so called YBA artist generation. Thompson was instrumental is changing the way the art school system in the UK worked. He opened up the departments at Goldsmiths College in London and allowed students to move freely between the different specialisms, such as painting, sculpture, photography and printing etc. - Alison Lapper
Alison Lapper MBE (born 7 April 1965 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) is an English artist who was born without arms. She is also the subject of the sculpture "Alison Lapper Pregnant", which is on display in Trafalgar Square until April, 2007. Alison Lapper has a congenital disorder, phocomelia, which caused her to be born without arms and with truncated legs. Her mother met her for the last time during her childhood when she was four months old, … - Elena Dorfman
Elena Dorfman is an American fine art photographer. She was born in Boston and received her degree from Sarah Lawrence College. She now lives in New York and San Francisco. Dorfman is most acclaimed for her photography of Real Dolls, the subject of the book "Still Lovers". She is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York. Her current work concerns cosplayers, and will be the subject of the book "Fandomania: Characters and Cosplay", … - Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler is an American dream-folk musician and fine artist born in Washington D.C. Growing up in a small town in Massachusetts, Nadler came from an artistic family —"My mother is an abstract painter and very eccentric. She is a clairvoyant, I'm not sure how much I believe in that kind of thing but there was always birds flying around in the house. My brother is a guitarist and a novelist, so I had a kind of renaissance family, … - Scott Snibbe
Scott Snibbe is an interactive media artist. He often works with projector-based interactivity, where a computer-controlled projection onto the floor or ceiling changes in response to people moving across its surface. His first full-body interactive work "Boundary Functions" (1998), premiered at Ars Electronica 1998. In this floor-projected interactive artwork, people walk across a four-meter by four-meter floor. - John Goto
John Goto, a British artist best known for his photoshopped montage colour photography, notably coming to wider attention with the "High Summer" section of his "Ukadia" series of pictures. He began using computers in his work in the early '90s with a series made in Russia entitled "The Commissar of Space" which dealt with the final years of the artist Kasimir Malevich’s life during the early Stalinist era. - Gerard Hemsworth
Gerard Hemsworth (b. 1945, London) is a contemporary artist. He studied at St. Martin's College from 1963-1967 and has exhibited his work internationally since the 1970s. Initially his work was associated with the conceptual art practices of the late 1960s/1970s, however since the early 1980s it has expanded to include painting and print-making. In 2000 he was the winner of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Charles Wollaston Prize. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a prominent early twentieth century Scottish Protestant Christian minister and teacher. Chambers was born 24 July 1874 in Aberdeen, Scotland to devout Baptist parents. He converted in his teen years. While walking home from a service conducted by Charles Spurgeon, he mentioned to his father that, had there been an opportunity, he would have become a Christian. - Faile
Faile (Pronounced like "fail") is an international artist collective formed in 1999 and based in Brooklyn, New York. They are recognised as some of the pioneers of global contemporary street art. The three founding members are Patrick McNeil (Canada), Patrick Miller (USA) and Aiko Nakagawa (Japan). From initially wheatpasting screen printed posters on the streets of New York and major world cities, they progressed to the more permanent medium of stencil graffiti. - Jasper Joffe
Jasper Joffe is a painter and novelist. He was born in the United States in 1975 and moved to England when he was eight. He studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. He completed an MA in painting at The Royal College of Art in London and received a scholarship to the British School at Rome, where he spent nine months. He has had solo exhibitions in London, Rome and Milan. He is the author of "Water" published by Telegram Books in 2006. - Lawrence Grecco
Lawrence Grecco is an American writer and fine art photographer known for a well-rounded body of work and his refusal to be bound by an easily identifiable signature style. His work is concerned with both the human condition and the aesthetic uniqueness of every topic he pursues, including environmental portraits of people living on the margins of life, self portraits, video stills, and the sport of Turkish Wrestling. - Judy Baca
Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, 1946) is an American artist, activist, and University of California, Los Angeles professor of fine arts. She is the founder and executive director of the Venice, California-based Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a community arts center, and is best known as the director of the mural project that created one of the largest murals in the world, the "Great Wall of Los Angeles". - Mary Ross
Mary Ross is a fine art photographer and visual artist. In 1976, she began using video and computers to produce still images on film. As one of the first fine art photographers to do so, her photographs provide some of the earliest examples of how photography, video and computer technology converged in the 1970’s, emerged in the 1980’s, and eventually evolved into digital photography. She has worked with photography, video and computer art since the early 1970s. - Stuart Pearson Wright
Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975, Northampton) is an award winning English artist who works mainly in paint. He was educated at Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London (1995-1999), where he graduated with honours, receiving a B.A. in Fine Art. He won the BP Travel Prize in 1998, the BP Portrait Prize in 2001, and the Garrick/Milne Prize in 2005. - Beezy Bailey
Beezy Bailey (born July 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and ceramics. In 1985 Bailey worked together with Young British Artist, Lennie Lee creating sculptures in an empty warehouse in East London. He received a fine art degree from Byam Shaw School of Art in London in 1986. Bailey created a black, female alter-ego for himself in 1991, named Joyce Ntobe, … - Joseph Highmore
Joseph Highmore (3 June 1692-1780), a portrait and historical painter. Born in London in 1692, he displayed early a strong ability, particularly for the fine arts, which was discouraged by his family, who rather saw him as a solicitor. However, all his spare time was dominated by his favourite pursuit and, upon the ending of his clerkship at the age of seventeen, … - Christer
Swedish-born photographer Christer, AKA Christer Rosewell, specializes in fine art and erotic images, exploring the human condition through the medium of photography. His images evoke the deep-seated and often hidden fears and fantasies of his subjects, compelling both model and viewer to explore aspects of themselves of which they may have previously been unaware. Christer's work has been influenced by his life experiences. - Bernd Behr
Bernd Behr is a London-based, German-born artist. Behr was born in Hamburg, and went to the United States to study at the San José State University, California in 1995. From 1999 he read fine art at London's Goldsmiths College. Several of his works explore architecture: "Ectoplasmic", for example, features debris falling down the side of a block of flats, …
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