- Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick (born January 1 1967) is an American artist. Tunick was born in Middletown, New York, USA. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College in 1988. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations. In these images the nude form becomes abstract due to the sheer number so closely placed together. Known as installations, they are often situated in urban locations throughout the world. - Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff (born 1957) is a Canadian installation artist. - Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans (born August 15, 1968) is a German photographer. Born in Remscheid in Germany, Tillmans lived and worked in Hamburg at the end of the 1980s before moving to England. He studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art from 1990 to 1992. Since 1996 he has lived and worked in London. Since the mid-1980s, Wolfgang Tillmans has reinterpreted representational genres from portraiture to still life to landscape through the medium of photography. - Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller (born 1966) is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner. - Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler is an artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974). Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. - Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an African-Canadian installation artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. - Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson (born 1953) is a British installation artist. Wilson was born in Islington, London and studied at Hornsey College of Art and the University of Reading. He was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1988 (when Tony Cragg won) and 1989 (when Richard Long won). Wilson often works on an architectural scale, often changing large spaces in some dramatic way. One of his best known pieces, "20:50" (1987), … - Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works in video, installation, and photography. He has created a number of television interventions, including "Telemistica" (1999), in which he asks Italian television psychics if his new art work will be successful (the video he then created is comprised of recordings of these psychics answering his question), and "The Holy Artwork" (2001), in which he collaborated with a televangelist pastor. - Afrika
Sergei Bugaev (also known as Afrika) (born 1966) is a Russian artist. He was born in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, and in the early 1980s moved to St. Petersburg, where he met and became friends with leaders of the art scene there, such as the painter Timur Novikov and musician Boris Grebenshchikov. Shortly thereafter he adopted the artistic moniker "Afrika" and began working as an artist himself. - 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. - Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist. She was born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone and emigrated to Australia in 1972 with her family. She studied economic history before enrolling at art school in Melbourne. Her mixed media works include the series "Truck Babies", and the installation "We are Family" which was chosen to represent Australia at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, video, … - Michael Landy
Michael Landy (born 1963) is an English artist, one of the so-called Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece-cum-installation, "Breakdown" (2001), in which he destroyed all of his possessions. Landy was born in London. He first studied art in Loughton and Loughborough, then at Goldsmiths College in London. It was while studying at Goldsmiths that he exhibited in the "Freeze" exhibition organised by Damien Hirst, … - David Mach
David Mach (born 20 March 1946) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced found art objects. Typically these include magazines,teddy bears but vicious,newspapers, car types, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of Mach installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces. One example of his early magazine pieces, "Adding Fuel to the Fire", … - Edward Kienholz
Edward Kienholz was an American installation artist whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. He often collaborated with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, from 1972 until his death. Collectively, they are referred to as "Kienholz". - Fareed Armaly
"Fareed Armaly" (*1957 Iowa) is an Arab American artist, curator, and editor who lives and works in the US and Berlin, Europe. He became known as an important agent in the field of Context-Art (developed and influenced from Conceptual Art) during the 1990s through several major exhibition projects combining Installation / Architecture, Media, and Information Design. His productions focus on a contemporary artistic practice linked to issues of culture, … - 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. - Eberhard Bosslet
Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) is a German contemporary artist who has been producing side-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation and painting, both indoors and outdoors, since 1979. Born in Speyer, Germany, and living in Dresden, he co-founded the artist group, "Material & Effect" ("Material & Wirkung") in Berlin in 1981, and since 1980, … - Kim Dingle
Kim Dingle (1951-) is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation. Dingle grew up in Pomona, California. In 1988 she earned a BFA from Cal State Los Angeles and in 1990, an MFA from Claremont Graduate School. - Don Simmons
Don Simmons (Born 1973 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian experimental artist and writer whose work materializes itself as robotics, electronics, audio, installation and performance. Simmons' work addresses problematic concepts like the automation and the psychological effects of simulated processes. He often treats the body as a machine and tool for collecting data/information. Simmons will create situations for 'false' emotional states to occur in the audience, … - Alison Wilding
Alison Wilding (born July 7, 1948) is an English sculptor. Born in Blackburn in Lancashire, Wilding studied at the Nottingham College of Art, the Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in Chislehurst and, from 1970 to 1973, the Royal College of Art in London. She rose to prominence around the late 1970s, about the same time as Richard Deacon, Tony Cragg, Bill Woodrow and others. - Sean Slemon
Sean Slemon is a South African artist who works in sculpture, installation and printmaking. Slemon graduated from Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town in 2001. He currently lives and works in New York City, New York and completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at Pratt Institute, in New York City in 2007. Slemon’s interest in public space and architecture evolved during his work with the production and installation of museum and heritage sites in South Africa and abroad. - Jim Drobnick
Jim Drobnick is a curator, critic and editor, and has worked in installation, audio, dance and performance. Drobnick is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has held research affiliations at the University of Manchester and the National Gallery of Canada. He has published on performance art, video, dance and interdisciplinary practices in catalogues and anthologies such as Crime and Ornament (2002), … - Christian Bernard Singer
Christian Bernard Singer (born 1962) is a contemporary environmental installation artist born in Paris, France. He currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. - Elyasaf Kowner
¿Elyasaf Kowner is a Filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist working in Video art, Photography, Graffiti and Installation. Received the Sandberg award for ‘After My Death’ Project (1999), America Israel Cultural Foundation award (2001) and won the First Portrait prize (2002). Received a grant for an experimental film from the New Foundation for Cinema (2003). Since 1993, his work was shown in numerous festivals and art institutions. - Daniel Dugas
Daniel Dugas is an experimental artist, who engages with new media, sound art, performance and installation. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta. His art practice has evolved around themes of Economy, and issues of Power. Boom or bust economies, mechanisms of exchange, the rise and the collapse of opportunities, all are elements that he has used to explore the nature of wealth. - Nicola Pellegrini
Nicola Pellegrini (born Milan, Italy, 1962) is an artist, curator and architect; a conceptual artist working with photography, installation and video. Pellegrini is a former member of the London-based art collective, the ARC group. In 1988 he and other ARC members lived and worked in a large art house in the Highgate area, known as Chumley Dene. Later he took part in building large-scale installations in London, Milan, … - Shahin Afrassiabi
Shahin Afrassiabi, born 1963 in Tehran, Iran, moved to the UK at the age of 13, is a painter, sculptor, installation artist. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was a member of the ARC group along with artists Nicola Pellegrini, Ottonella Mocellin, Lennie Lee and Emma Holmes. He studied for an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and after helping to run the gallery "Trade Apartment" he was one of ten artists selected for the Beck's futures competition. - Angie Bonino
Angie Bonino ia an artist and graphic designer, she studied at the ENSABAP Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú (National School of Beux Arts), and has a degree in Painting. She has realize an artistic labor inside the disciplines of electronic arts, such video art, video installation, net art, performance. She has one bipersonal and four individual exhibitions, the last one named Entremedios (2003). - Jill Trappler
Jill Trappler (born July 1957 in, Gauteng, Benoni, South Africa) is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting, Weaving, and installation. Jill's Work in various private and corporate, including the National Museum of African Art, public collections, including SANG, Vodacom, SABC, Investec, Nandos UK - Húbert Nói
Húbert Nói Jóhannesson Is a contemporary artist working in painting, installation, movies, sculpture, photography and music. Húbert Nói studied biology, chemistry and geology before changing direction into art. Out in October 2006, Music for Astronauts and Cosmonauts, a collaboration project with Howie B. - Garth Erasmus
Garth Erasmus (born July 1956 in, Eastern Cape, Uitenhage, South Africa) is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting, sculpture, drawing with fire and installation as well as performance art. Garth's work is represented in several art collections, including the National Museum of African Art, the Smithsonian Institution - James Jaxxa
James Jaxxa is an American artist who lives and works in New York City, New York. Jaxxa's work includes painting, sculpture, site specific installation, appropriation and collage. Jaxxa attended School of Visual Arts and Rhode Island School of Design, and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Michigan State University. - Sylvia Bourdon
Sylvia Bourdon (born 1949 in Cologne, Germany) is a former French porn star. She made her first appearances in loops shot in the Netherlands and distributed clandestinely in France. In 1975, she played an insatiable mature lady named Barbara in "Le Sexe qui parle". The years 1975 and 1976 proved to be very fruitful for her, crowned with a compilation film named after her; "Sylvia dans l'extase". - Mihael Milunović
Mihael Milunović is a Serbian, French and Croatian, painter working in many different mediums, using them and interconnecting them, such as painting, photography, sculpture, installation, sound, video and objects. His main interests focus on social and political issues, as well as on the phenomenon of contextualization of the common object. His main pictorial works deals with geography and mapping. - L Lidströmer
L (Louise) Lidströmer (1948-) is a Swedish artist. Academy of Fine Arts 1967-1972. Works with paintings, sculpture and object installation. Has presented large series of exhibitions in and outside Sweden. The installation ”Tabula Rasa” at Stockholm Art Fair 1994 and attracted a lot of attention. Instead of “hommage” she has created the concept “femmage” (a female celebration). - Richard John Garcia
Richard Joseph Garcia (born April 24, 1947, San Francisco, California) is an American Roman Catholic bishop. He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to be the fourth ordinary bishop of the Diocese of Monterey in California on December 19, 2006, and was installed at a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Roger Mahony on January 30, 2007. Garcia was ordained to the priesthood on June 15, 1973 for the Archdiocese of San Francisco at Sacred Heart Parish in San Jose, California. - Janna Holmstedt
Janna Holmstedt is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. In 2004 she earned her MFA from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2004, and her recent awards include artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (2007), the IASPIS International Exchange (2006), a Swedish Visual Arts Fund Project Grant (2005), NIFCA Nordic Air Residency in Tallinn, Estonia (2005) and two grants from the JC Kempes Foundation (2003/2004). - Martin John Callanan
Martin John Callanan, (born 1982, Birmingham) is an English artist and academic who works with digital media, audio, installation, and video. He obtained degrees from both The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) and University College London. Callanan is a Honorary Research Fellow to Susan Alexis Collins, (Head of Electronic Media, and Head of Undergraduate Fine Art Media, for the Slade School of Art, University College London). - Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark (1920 - 1988) was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. - Rebecca Belmore
Anishinabe-Vancouver artist Rebecca Belmore's highly political work has long addressed history, place, and identity through the media of sculpture, installation, video and performance. Throughout her career she has manifested a great sensitivity to her materials and a corresponding feeling for the well made object. Her installations and performances are marked by simplicity of form and gesture and an understanding of the human need for ritual.
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