Donald Judd

Donald Judd

male, deceased (1994)
painter, minimalist, Minimalist artist, New York artist, sculptor, artist…whitneymuseumofamericanart, American, college of william and mary, Columbia University School of General Studies
Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994) was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed) whose work sought autonomy and...
Bill Viola

Bill Viola

male, 58 years old
MacArthur Fellow, Installation artist, American, Video artist, video art, artist…whitneymuseumofamericanart
Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video...
Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

female, 59 years old (Hodsick, New York, United States)
rhode island school of design, Rhode Island School of Design alumni, Feminist, Ohio University, Ohio University alumni, led…American, whitneymuseumofamericanart, abstract art
Jenny Holzer (born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio), Rhode Island School...
Alex Katz

Alex Katz

male, 82 years old
New York State Museum, printmaker, The Cooper Union, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine artist, Skowhegan…American, Jewish American, pop art, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University
Alex Katz (born July 24 1927) is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings,...
Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle

male, 68 years old
Contemporary artist, artist, American, The New York Times, Jessica Stockholder, Michael Oman-Reagan…san francisco museum of modern art, whitneymuseumofamericanart
Richard Dean Tuttle (born 12 July, 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works....
Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann

male, deceased (1966)
Weißenburg in Bayern, German, Weißenburg, German-American, Search for the Real, painter…Art Students League of New York, American, University of California, Berkeley, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Art Students League
Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21 1880 the son of Theodor and F...

Lorna Simpson

female, 49 years old
Necklines, Call Waiting, Guarded Conditions, “feel the ground sliding from under you,”, Square Deal, University of California, San Diego…School Of Visual Arts, whitneymuseumofamericanart, American, African American
Lorna Simpson (Born 1960-) is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as "Guarded...
Lawrence Rinder

Lawrence Rinder

male
Columbia University, Reed College, Art curator, Deep Springs College, Whitney Biennial, Zyzzyva…Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, American, whitneymuseumofamericanart, Berkeley Art Museum, contemporary art
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...
Paul Pfeiffer

Paul Pfeiffer

male
Honolulu, found footage, UCLA Hammer Museum, Whitney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Barbican Arts Centre…San Francisco Art Institute, American, video art, whitneymuseumofamericanart
Paul Pfeiffer (born Honolulu, Hawaii, 1966) is an American video artist whose work incorporates the use of found footage. He studied at the San...