- 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, …
- Zao Wou Ki
Zao Wou-Ki (born 13 February 1921 in Beijing) is a Chinese-French painter.
- Richard Estes
Richard Estes (born May 14, 1936 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with painters such as Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson. At an early age, Richard's family moved to Chicago.
- Caran D'Ache
Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satiric and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré. "Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word "karandash" (карандаш), meaning lead-pencil (of Turkic origin; "kara dash" meaning black stone). The Swiss art products company Caran d'Ache is named after him. While his first work glorified the Napoleonic era, …
- Meg Cranston
Meg Cranston (b. 1960) is an artist who works in sculpture and painting as well as a writer. She has exhibited internationally since 1988. She received and M.F.A in Studio from California Institute of the Arts in 1986 and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology in 1982. She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1988. She is on the Faculty at Otis College of Art and Design.
- Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman (b. 1966, Detroit, US) is an American painter living and working in New York. She received an MFA from Bard College and an Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship in 1995. She has exhibited at Galleria Marabini in Bologna, Italy.
- Laura McPhee
Laura McPhee (Born New York City, NY, 1958) is a Boston-based, portraiture and documentary photographer. She is the daughter of award winning author John McPhee. McPhee earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Princeton University in 1980, and an Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. McPhee was awarded a Fulbright Scholars fellowship in 1998 for work in India and Sri Lanka.
- Patterson Beckwith
Patterson Beckwith holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, NY and an M.F.A. from University of California Los Angeles His editorial photography has appeared in "Artforum", "Details", "Index", "Jane", and "Vice". His photos are featured in "Art at the Millennium" (Taschen, 2000) and have been exhibited widely throughout North America and Europe. Exhibitions include Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria, …
- Peter Bialobrzeski
Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961 in Wolfsburg) is a Photographer and a professor of photography at the University of the Arts Bremen. Peter Bialobrzeski originally studied politics and sociology in Germany before gaining considerable celebrity as a photographer. His photographs have been published in many magazines, and Bialobrzeski has worked for corporate clients such as Daimler-Chrysler, Philip Morris, Siemens, and Volkswagen.
- Bruce Barber
Bruce Barber (born in New Zealand) is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at NSCAD University. His artwork has been shown at the Paris Biennale, the Sydney Biennial, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walter Phillips Gallery, London Regional Gallery, and ArtSpace Auckland. Barber is the editor of "Essays on Performance and Cultural Politicization" and of "Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection 1967-1973".
- Larry Elmore
Larry Elmore is a fantasy artist. Larry Elmore grew up in rural Kentucky. Although fantasy art was not a line of study at the time, Larry knew that he wanted to work in a field different from the norm that was offered at Western Kentucky University. It was the Celts and Celtic influence that led him into fantasy artwork. In 1971 he received his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, married and was drafted into the army all within 4 months.
- Saul Ostrow
Saul Ostrow is an art critic and Chair of Visual Arts and Technologies at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Trained as an artist he is best known as a critic and curator, having curated over 80 exhibitions since 1985. He also writes for various arts publications and is art editor for BOMB Magazine as well as the editor for the book series Critcal Voices in Art, Theory and Criticism, published by Routledge, UK.
- Ian Breakwell
Ian Breakwell (May 26 1943 - October 14 2005) was a world renowned British fine artist. He was a prolific artist who took a multi-media approach to his observation of society. Breakwell was born in Derby and studied at Derby College of Art, graduating in 1964. During the 1970s Breakwell worked with the Artist Placement Group (APG), which dropped artists into government departments in the perhaps forlorn hope that their intuition would improve the decision-making process.
- Barthélémy Toguo
Barthélémy Toguo, is a Cameroonian painter born in 1967. He lives in Paris and Bandjoun. He has also worked with photographs, sculpture, videos. He studied Fine Arts in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale in the Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas. He studied fine arts at the University of Cape Town and became a committed opponent of the policy of apartheid. He left South Africa for Paris in the early 1960s.
- Martha Schwartz
Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect who through her designs has almost single handedly redefined the notion of landscape design. Her projects range from private to urban scale. Schwartz background is in the fine arts as well as landscape architecture. She studied at the University of Michigan and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design consecutively.
- Vicente Manansala
Vicente S. Manansala (January 22, 1910- August 22, 1981) was a Philippine cubist painter and illustrator. Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada. In 1950, he received a nine-month scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris by the French government.
- Ian Carr-Harris
Ian Carr-Harris (b. 1941) is a Canadian artist living in Toronto. In addition to exhibiting internationally, Carr-Harris is a professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
- Ingrid Mattson
Ingrid Mattson , the recently elected president of the 43-year-old Islamic Society of North America, is the first convert, first non-immigrant and first woman to lead the largest Muslim umbrella organization on the continent. Her rise to prominence comes as more women and native-born Muslims are defining the faith, making Islam more of an American religion.
- Richard Eaton
Richard S. Eaton (1914 January 16 - 1968 January 25) was the founder of the University of Alberta University Singers, which went on to become the Richard Eaton Singers after his death. Eaton was born in Victoria, British Columbia and took his first musical position as an assistant organist at Victoria's Christ Church Cathedral. He began his studies at McGill University in 1936, and from 1939 to 1944, he was a music master at Toronto's Upper Canada College.
- Stan Sakai
Stan has been asked to contribute a story for Marvel's mini-series, Marvel Underground . The story will star The Hulk in Feudal Japan as an oni samurai, to keep the continuity with Japanese folklore. Check out a preview of page 6 from Samurai Hulk ! You can read more about Stan's Hulk at the DojoBoard here and here .
- Laurent de Brunhoff
Laurent de Brunhoff, author and illustrator. After studying fine arts at the Académie de La Grande Chaumière in Paris, de Brunhoff took over the Babar series of books first begun by his father, Jean de Brunhoff. After the war, he also did work in other creative fields, such as posters, jackets for record albums, and animated cartoons. Since 1985, he has lived in the United States, splitting his time between Middletown, Connecticut and Key West, Florida.
- Luis Mandoki
Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a film director of the Cinema of Mexico and Hollywood. Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film School. While attending this last institution he directed his first short film "Silent Music" which won an award at the International Amateur Film Festival of Cannes Film Festival in 1976.
- Gareth Morgan
Gareth Morgan is a British artist known for his acrylic on Perspex paintings of a robotic man. He is a Fine Arts graduate of Goldsmiths College in London, and is based in the United Kingdom. He has exhibited extensively all over the United Kingdom as well as in Moscow, Tel Aviv and Sotheby's in Amsterdam. His Robotman series of pictures has been featured on The Big Breakfast.
- Chris Cran
Chris Cran is a Canadian painter, based in Calgary, Alberta. Cran’s work investigates perception and illusion, and the viewer’s role in how images are formed. He has been described in The New York Times as a painter who "…has built a career on tampering with people’s perceptions." Widely exhibited across Canada and internationally recognized, Cran has become known for turning nothing into something, with the slightest push.
- Cathy Busby
Cathy Busby is a Canadian artist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Toronto, Ontario, on April 20, 1958, Busby is an artist who has a long-time interest in posters and printed matter and their potential for grassroots communication. She worked as an artist-activist in the 80’s and has had exhibitions in Berlin at the Emerson Gallery of posters collected in Halifax entitled The North End. Other recent exhibitions include Sorry, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, …
- Eldon Garnet
Eldon Garnet (1946 -) is a multi disciplinary artist and novelist based in Toronto and a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Designhttp://www.eldongarnet.com/about.html. From 1975 - 1990 he was the editor of "Impulse", a Canadian magazine of art and culture. Surveys of his sculptures and photographic work have been held at the National Gallery of Canada, …
- Richard Stone Reeves
Richard Stone Reeves (November 6, 1919 - October 7, 2005) was an American equine painter whom Blood-Horse magazine described as perhaps the greatest modern-day horse painter. Born in New York City, Reeves grew up in Garden City on Long Island. His father's family included a painter and his mother's owned race horses. Those influences, plus living near Belmont Park, resulted in his love of horses and desire to paint them.
- Gerald Ferguson
Gerald Ferguson is a Canadian conceptual artist and painter living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ferguson, born in the USA, came to Canada in 1968 to teach at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Ferguson is represented in numerous public and private collections and has had solo exhibitions at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada. In 1996 he was the recipient of The Molson Prize.
- Pheoris West
Pheoris West is an associate professor at the Ohio State University College of the Arts since 1976. He was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University. His areas of expertise are painting and drawing, computer graphics, and design. His art has been shown in various art displays since 1970. Some of his highlights are the Philadelphia Museum, the Boston Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, …
- Auseklis Ozols
Auseklis Ozols is an American painter and fine arts educator, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ozols was born in Latvia in 1941. He moved to the USA with his family in 1950. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Trenton School of Industrial Arts. Inspired by the model of Thomas Eakins and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, …
- Fatih Akın
Fatih Akın is a Turkish-German film director. In 1994 he attended Hamburg's College of Fine Arts to study visual communications and graduated in 2000. Akın made his debut as director of a full length film already in 1998 with "Kurz und schmerzlos" ("Short Sharp Shock"), which brought him the award "Bronze Leopard" at Locarno, Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for the best young director in Munich the same year.
- Sharon Lowen
Sharon Lowen is a renowned Odissi dancer, trained since 1975 by Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. She has performed and choreographed for film and television and presented hundreds of concerts throughout India, North America, Asia, Africa, the United Kingdom. and the Middle East. Sharon came to India in 1973 after degrees in Humanities, Fine Arts, Asian Studies and Dance from the University of Michigan as a Fulbright Scholar to study Manipuri and later Chhau and Odissi.
- Setenay Özbek
Setenay Özbek Is a Turkish writer, artist and documentary maker. From 1984 to 1986, Özbek studied art informally at the "Istasyon Art House", under the tutelage of several artists, Sabri Berkel, Hülya Düzenli, Erkan Özdilek and Ergül Özkutan. Her abstract expressionist paintings make frequent use of acrylic and oil techniques, they have a bold appearance due to the contrasting colours and shapes employed.
- Maya Guez
Maya Guez was born in 1980 in Israel. She is a noted fashion photographer and makeup artist based in New York. She has worked with many publications and companies across the world doing fashion, beauty and glamour photography. Guez was brought up in a poor family with 4 siblings and a sick father. She put herself through school and after finishing a 4 year study of fine arts in Israel, she continued onto private photography school and fashion design school.
- Wilson Tortosa
Wilson "Wunan" Tortosa is a Filipino comic book artist best known for his works on "Tomb Raider" and the American re-launch of "Battle of the Planets" for Top Cow Productions. Wilson studied in the Philippine Cultural High School and graduated in the University of Santo Tomas in 2000 with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, majoring in advertising.
- Eileen Strempel
Eileen Strempel is a notable soprano and musical force from Syracuse, New York. She has performed with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Opera Theatre St. Louis, Amato Opera, Bolshoi Opera, the National Chorale, New York Philharmonic, As a recording artist, she has been featured on 5 recordings, three of which were recorded in the presence such notable composers as Libby Larsen, Gregg Smith, and Anthony Ascioti.
- Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.)
- Dick Averns
Dick Averns (Born 1964 in London), is an artist, who produces installations, sculptures, photography, text and performances. Averns' interdisciplinary art practice addresses the commodification of space. Gallery exhibits, public art projects and performative interventions explore issues of language, media convergence and identity. His interdisciplinary approach places audience as a central component to works that engage with the commodification of space.
- Samuel Bayer
Samuel Bayer is an American music video director. His most famous works to date are the ones with the bands Nirvana and Green Day. With Nirvana he directed the video for the legendary Smells Like Teen Spirit, and he directed all the videos from Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot. A graduate of New York City’s School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a degree in Fine Arts, …