- Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906- January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA and later (1978), as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1979. - Antonio Citterio
Antonio Citterio was born in Meda in 1950, lives and works in Milan. He graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milan and from 1972 he has worked for many leading manufacturers such as Ansorg, B&B Italia, Flexform, Flos, Hackmann, Inda, Pozzi e Ginori, Kartell, Arclinea and Vitra. He has also been engaged in architectural works dealing with construction projects and interiors both in Italy and abroad. - Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture. Eisenman's fragmented forms are identified with an eclectic group of architects that have been, at times unwillingly, labelled deconstructivists. Although Eisenman shuns the label, he has had a history of controversy aimed at keeping him in the public (academic) eye. - Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel is a computer artist whose work is concerned with technology's relationship to culture and the creative process. He is a founding member of BEIGE, a group of computer programmers and enthusiasts who recycle obsolete computers and video game systems to make art and music, and a member of RSG (Radical Software Group). - Glenn D. Lowry
Glenn D. Lowry is the current Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. He became the sixth director of the Museum in 1995 and heads a staff or around 600 people. Born in 1954 in New York City and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Lowry received a B.A. degree (1976) magna cum laude from Williams College, Williamstown, and M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees in the history of art from Harvard University. - Lee Bontecou
Lee Bontecou is an American artist who was born January 15, 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended New York's Arts Students League from 1952 to 1955 where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome in 1957-1958 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 1959. During the 1960s, she taught at Brooklyn College. - Dana Schutz
Dana Schutz (b.1976) is a painter in New York. She graduated with a BFA the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000 and a MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She grew up in suburban Michigan. Her work is already present in all the major museums in North America and Europe, as well as in several important private collections. A number of her works are in the Saatchi Gallery and a large canvas titled "How we cured the plague, … - Matthew Ritchie
Matthew Ritchie is a British painter long active in New York City. In addition to painting, he has worked in sculpture, digital art, and installations. Institutions that have displayed Ritchie's art include MoMA, the Andrea Rosen Gallery, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Ritchie attended the Camberwell School of Art 1983-86. He describes himself as "classically trained" but also points to a minimalist influence. - Mark Wigley
Mark Antony Wigley is a New Zealand-born architect, author, and (since 2004) Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, USA. Wigley received both his Bachelor of Architecture (1979) and Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Mike Austin was his doctoral supervisor. Wigley left Auckland in 1986 and taught at Princeton University, from 1987 to 1999, … - Jules de Balincourt
Jules de Balincourt (born 1972 in Paris) is a French painter. He was educated at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco receiving a BFA (1998) and went on to study at the Hunter College, New York graduating in 2005 with an MFA. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He uses stencils, tape, knives and spray paint in the style of Outsider art. - Carlos Amorales
Carlos Amorales (born 1970) is a Mexican artist who works and lives in Mexico City. Amorales studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam between 1992 and 1995 and at the Rijksakademie in 1996. Known for his flat, bold forms, Amorales works in a wide variety of media, including video animation, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. Images of his "liquid archive" - birds, spiders, trees, wolves, etc. - recur throught his work in blacks, reds, and grays. - Inka Essenhigh
Inka Essenhigh is a painter based in New York. Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio (1991) and the School of Visual Arts in New York (1993). Essenhigh’s work has been shown widely internationally at galleries and museums including SMAK in Belgium, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bienal de Sao Paulo, SITE Santa Fe, MOMA in New York, and The Royal Academy in London. - Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Buffalo, New York where he attended Lafayette High School, an architecturally significant building, Bunshaft was a modernist whose early influences included Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. His best-known design is the Lever House, built as a corporate headquarters for the soap company Lever Brothers. - Jens Martin Skibsted
Jens Martin Skibsted founder / co-founder of Biomega, Actics, and Skibsted Ideation and designer. Has worked with Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove and Karim Rashid. Designs for Biomega and for Puma (see Urban Mobility). See this article in Wired by Mark Frauenfelder, Designaddict, New Scandinavian Design by Christopher Mount (Author), Katherine Nelson (Author), Raul Cabra (Author), Bicycledesign, What is Product Design? by Laura Slack or ID magazine. - Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams (born May 20 1932 in Wiesbaden) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun. Rams was a key figure in the German Functionalist design renaissance of the late 1950s and 1960s. Eventually becoming head of Braun's design staff, Rams' influence in the advent of clean and simple Rationalist design was soon evidenced in many products. Rams once explained his design approach in the phrase "Weniger, … - Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an American architectural historian and professor at Smith College. Hitchcok is best known for his collaboration with Philip Johnson in 1930. Together they coined the term "International School" to describe the European functionalist movement in modern architecture. The exhibition he and Johnson staged at MOMA called "The International Style" (1932), and the book of the same name, made his reputation. - Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha is a sculptor based in New York. Her sculptures are composed from basic construction media and found objects. Bhabha studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 1985) and Columbia University (MFA, 1989). Bhabha has been widely exhibited in North America and Europe, and has been included in several important shows including “Greater New York” at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and MOMA in New York, and “USA Today” at The Royal Academy in London. - Banks Violette
Banks Violette is an artist based in New York. Violette studied at the School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University in 2000. Violette’s work has shown internationally at galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Museum Boijmans van Beuningeng in Rotterdam, the Migros Museum in Zurich. - Ed Fella
Ed Fella(born 1938) is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. - Iran do Espirito Santo
Iran do Espirito Santo is a prominent Brazilian artist, based in São Paulo. His works are included in major international collections such as MOMA in New York. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo. - Fred Williams
Fred Williams (1927-1982) is an Australian painter, known particularly for his landscapes. He studied at the Gallery School in Melbourne from 1943 to 1947 and at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London from 1951 to 1956. He had more than 70 solo exhibitions during his career throughout Australia's art galleries, as well as the exhibition "Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent" at the MoMA in New York in 1977. - Martín Chambi
Martín Chambi Jiménez was photographer, originally from southern Peru, the only major indigenous Latin American photographer of his time. Recognized for the profound historic and ethnic documentary value of his photographs, he was a prolific portrait photographer in the towns and countryside of the Peruvian Andes. In 1979, New York's MOMA held a Chambi retrospective, which later travelled to various locations and inspired other international expositions of his work. - Enrico Donati
Enrico Donati is an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth. He studied economics at the Università degli Studi, Pavia, and in 1934 moved to the USA, where he attended the New School for Social Research and the Art Students’ League in New York City. His first one-man shows were in New York in 1942, at the New School for Social Research and the Passedoit Gallery. At this stage he was clearly drawn to Surrealism. - Charles O. Perry
Charles O. Perry (born 1929) is an American sculptor particularly known for his large scale public sculptures. Perry initially studied architecture at Yale University graduating in 1958. He then joined the firm of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill in San Francisco where he continued to work as an architect until 1963. At the same time, Perry started developing some of his own ideas in sculpture and in 1964 staged his first one-man show of sculptural models in San Francisco, … - Laurence Gartel
Laurence Gartel, born June 5 1956, is considered a pioneer of Digital Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, PS 1, Norton Museum and in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History and the Bibliotheque Nationale. Born and raised in New York City, Gartel had the opportunity to teach Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga Computer, … - Kivi Sotamaa
Kivi Sotamaa is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ohio State University, a 2006 visiting professor at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Institut für Architektur in Vienna and the principal of Sotamaa Architecture Design, Ltd. Until 2006 he was one of the principals of Ocean North. - Timothy Hutchings
Timothy Hutchings, 1974, is a visual artist living and working in New York City. He uses a diverse range of media, ranging from video to sculpture to drawing. Hutchings has exhibited work internationally, notably at P.S.1/MOMA and the New Museum in New York City, Western Bridge in Seattle, the Centro de Arte de Salamanca and Museo de Arte Contemporane in Spain, and the Borusan Cultural Center in Istanbul among many others. - Rachid Koraïchi
Rachid Koraïchi is an Algerian artist. Koraïchi was born into an ancient Sufi family, which has informed much of his work. He studied first at the École des Beaux-Arts in Algeria before attending the École des Arts Décoratifs and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He works in many media, including ceramics, textiles, installation art, metallurgy, painting, and printmaking, and often collaborates with local artisans in his work. - Tim Head
Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist. Born in London, He studied at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. His contemporary students included Roxy Music frontman Brian Ferry. They remain friends, in spite of Ferry's enthusiasm for Nazi-related art and near obsession with buying galoshes from Marks and Spencer. - Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting (born 1929) is a New York based visual artist. His colorful paintings have attracted critial admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals. He was born in Shanghai in 1929. He left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong, then settling in Paris in 1952. Here he associated with artists such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group, COBRA. - Daniel Hesidence
Daniel Hesidence is an United States painter based in New York. He studied at the University of Tampa, Florida, graduating with a BFA in 1998, and completed his MFA at Hunter College in New York in 2001. Hesidence’s work has been featured in several important exhibitions including "Greater New York" at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and MOMA in New York, and "USA Today" at The Royal Academy in London. He is represented by Feature Inc. Gallery in New York. - Mirella Bentivoglio
Mirella Bentivoglio (b.1922) is an Italian sculptor, poet and performance artist. In the 1960s she joined the international concrete poetry movement. She has participated in exhibitions all over the world, including the Venice Biennale (eight times from 1969 to 2001) and the Museum of Modern Art (1992). - Tobi Wong
Born in Vancouver in 1974, Tobi Wong moved to New York to study art and become an artist and a designer. His conceptual art pieces borrow forms and ideas from contemporary industrial design and luxury objects. The presentation of his work in the context of design stores and industry magazines challenges his audience and criticizes the consumer products of his generation. Wong studied art at Cooper Union School of Art where he graduated in sculpture. - Hein Heckroth
German art director Hein Heckroth began his career working with the German national ballet. He later moved to Great Britain and worked as a set and costume designer in films such as "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946) and 1948's "The Red Shoes", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction). - Santiago Cohen
"'Santiago Cohen (b. 1954) is a cartoonist, animator, fine artist, graphic novel illustrator based in Hoboken, NJ. ---- Santiago was born in Mexico City and received a BA in Communication Design at the Metropolitan University in Mexico, and a MS from Pratt Institute on the same subject. He has designed greeting cards for MOMA, he designed the Comedy Central logo, illustrations for the New York Times and other major publications. - Bishin Jumonji
is a photographer who has done advertising, portrait, architectural, and other work. Jumonji was born in Yokohama on 4 March 1947. After studying at the Tokyo College of Photography he worked as an assistant to Kishin Shinoyama and went freelance in 1971, when he was the cameraman for advertisements for Matsushita Electric and Shiseido products. The association with Matsushita would later bring awards from the Art Directors Club every year from 1975 till 1979. - Donna Tracy
Donna Tracy is a visual effects artist whose work on numerous feature films over more than 25 years includes Star Wars and Spider-Man. She deflty moved from traditional film, animation and visual effects to the digital production process in an ever shifting and fickle industry. She applies this deftness to her installation artwork. A fine example is, "Cloudwoman", shown at the old Los Angeles Jail in 1998. - Damien Smith
Damien Smith is a Canadian artist whose career is based in the United States. (Born 1969, Ottawa, Canada). Artist known for his drawings of the architectural and social legacy of modernist design and its failed utopian agenda. BA Honours, University of Guelph. Exhibitions; Paul Morris Gallery (1998, 2001), Works On Paper Inc., 2000, 2002, Experiments, SFMOMA, 2001, Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum 2002. - Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals ("The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the "zone system". - Moma Moma
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