Artists

100 Contemporary Artists A-Z (ISBN 978-3836514903) is a two-volume edition contemporary art compendium. It is the 25th anniversary special edition and…

3Steps (German pronunciation: [θɹiːˈstɛps]) is a German-based contemporary artist collective between the twins Kai Harald Krieger and Uwe Harald Krieg…

Abdelhalim Hemche (5 February 1908 – 1 April 1979) was an Algerian figurative painter.

Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968) is a Mexican visual artist. He is best known for his work with found objects, and particularly his ongoing "autoconst…

Abraham Schöpfer (fl. 16th century) was a German Northern Renaissance painter. His best known work is probably Mucius Scaevola before King Porsena, fr…

Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an American abstract painter and art theorist active in New York City for more th…

Adam Robert Higgins (born 1989) is an American contemporary painter. His work reinterprets the tradition of still life painting. Higgins creates paint…

Adam Stennett (born 1972 in Kotzebue, Alaska) is an internationally exhibited American painter based in Brooklyn, New York best known for his hyperrea…

Szentpétery Ádám (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsɛntpeːtɛri ˈaːdaːm]; born 24 February 1956) is a Hungarian artist in Slovakia and the Department Head/Pr…

Adolf Höfer (10 October 1869, in Munich – 14 March 1927, in Parsberg) was a German painter, illustrator, and graphic artist.

Adolf Jebens (19 March 1819 – 8 May 1888) was a German painter, best remembered for his portraits of Leopold von Ranke and Friedrich Curschmann. He tr…

Adolf Schaller (1956 – August 9, 2024) was an American visual artist known for his work for Astronomy. He was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Outst…

Afewerk Tekle (Amharic: አፈወርቅ ተክሌ; 22 October 1932 – 10 April 2012) was an Ethiopian artist, particularly known for his paintings on African and Chris…

Agaate Veeber (also known as Agathe Veeber, born Agaate Wilhelmine Kanto; 23 February 1901 – 8 April 1988) was an Estonian graphic artist and illustra…

Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on i…

Ahmad Fuad Osman (born 1969) also known as Fuad, is a contemporary artist and painter in Malaysia known for installation art inspired by social and cu…

Ai Weiwei ( EYE way-WAY; Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, IPA: [âɪ wêɪ.wêɪ]; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and …

Alan Charlton (born 1948 in Sheffield, England) is a British conceptual artist. He lives and works in London. The constant characteristics of Charlton…

Alan Lynch (August 27, 1926 – April 15, 1994) was an American painter associated with post-war California art. Throughout the 1950s, he was active amo…

Alberto Giacometti (, US also , Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and print…

Aldo Chaparro (born December 18, 1965) is a Peruvian sculptor whose artistic work is centered in sculpture and design, best known for his works on sta…

Alex Kanevsky (born 1963) is a painter currently based in New Hampshire. His works combine abstraction and figuration in multilayered portraits that c…

Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Since 1951, Katz's work has been the …

Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by m…

Alexander Kanevsky (1959 – August 11, 2025) was a Russian-born American painter and sculptor.

Alexandre de Latour or Delatour (22 May 1780, Brussels – 5 November 1858, Brussels) was a Belgian miniaturist. He also produced a few small format oil…

Alfred Basbous (28 December 1924 – 1 January 2006) was a Lebanese modernist artist and sculptor. His works are often abstract or figurative variations…

Alfred Jean-Marie Paris (1848–1908) was a French painter, illustrator, and lithographer. As a genre painter, he worked figuratively and specialized in…

Alfred Gustav Christian Roloff (19 March 1879, Lassan - 7 December 1951, Rade bei Rendsburg) was a German artist and illustrator; best known for his d…

Alfredo Jaar (English: ; Spanish: [ˈɟʝaɾ]; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Lisbon, P…

Alice Mumford is a Colombia-born painter born in 1965.

Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist. Recognized for her paintings of friends, family, lovers, poets, artist…

Alison Chapman-Andrews (born Alison Armstrong, November 30th 1942- June 1st 2025) was a renowned Barbadian painter. Born in Hertford, Chapman-Andrews …

Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is n…

Alméry Lobel-Riche (born Alméric Joseph Riche; 3 May 1877 – 11 May 1950) was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator.

Altoon Sultan (born 1948) is an American artist known for her small-scale egg tempera paintings depicting details of agricultural machinery. Working i…

Alvaro Guillot (French: [alvaʁo ɡijo]; 1931–2010) was an artist born in Uruguay. He was a notable exponent of the "new surrealist school". Guillot's p…

Amanda Bintu Holiday (born 1964) is a Sierra Leonean-British artist, filmmaker and poet.

Amaya Salazar (born 1951, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican artist and painter. She known for her faceless personas that inhabit mysti…

Amelia Hotham (c 1776 – 1812) was a British watercolour painter. She was the daughter of Susannah Hankey and Beaumont, 2nd Lord Hotham. She married Jo…

Amy Sillman (born 1955) is a New York-based visual artist, known for process-based paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, and engage …

Ana Lupaș (; born 1940, Cluj) is a Romanian installation artist, textile artist, and photographer. She studied at the Institute of Fine and Decorative…

Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist who is best known fo…

Anagarika Govinda (born Ernst Lothar Hoffmann, 17 May 1898 – 14 January 1985) was the founder of the order of the Arya Maitreya Mandala and an exposit…

Andrea (Drew) Bacigalupa (26 May 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland – 22 March 2015 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American liturgical artist. Bacigalupa wa…

Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German artist best known for his photography. He is a former professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Ger…

Andreas Heumann (born 1946 in Munich) is a photographer and painter. Heumann was raised in Switzerland. After leaving school, he began a four-year app…

Andrés "Andreas" Fischer Muñoz (born 1965) is a Colombian-American realist painter living in Switzerland.

Andrew Tift (born 1968) is a British realist portraitist.

Andrew Newell Wyeth ( WY-eth; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle…

Andy Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most importa…

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who h…

Angelito "Mang Lito" Antonio (February 3, 1939 – September 24, 2025) was a Filipino painter. He studied at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and obt…

Aníbal Villacís (11 November 1927 – 7 March 2012) was an Ecuadorian painter. He used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint …

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor…

Annalee Davis (born 1963) is a visual artist from Barbados whose occupation consists of drawing, painting, object making, art installation and video p…

Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943) is a French visual artist. She is known for championing the techniques and materials of outsider art. In 2005…

Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works in…

Anthony McCall (born 1946) is a British-born New York based artist known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with "Lin…

Antoine Paillet (1626–1701) was a French painter. He was inducted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on August 2, 1759. Some of his …

Antoinette Lubaki (Atoinet Lubaki, Atoinet Mfumbi) (Bukama, Congo Free State) (1895-?) was a Congolese watercolourist, and Congo's first known female …

Anton Doll was born the son of a teacher in Munich on 3 March, 1826 (1826-1887) was a German painter and was a member of the Munich Kunstverein. Notab…

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead i…

Anur Hadžiomerspahić (2 June 1971 – 29 November 2017), also known as Anur, was an artist and graphic designer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was nota…

Arahmaiani (Arahmayani Feisal; born May 21, 1961) is an Indonesian artist born in Bandung and based in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Arahmaiani…

Arevik Tserunyan (Armenian: Արևիկ Ծերունյան, born on August 6, 1987, in Yerevan) is an Armenian artist.

Harry Jacques (born 1937), known by the pseudonym Arijac, is a Haitian painter. He was born in Gonaïves, Haiti. After completing high school, Arijac t…

Armando (18 September 1929 – 1 July 2018), born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd, was a Dutch painter, sculptor and writer.

Armando Morales (January 15, 1927 – November 16, 2011) was an internationally renowned Nicaraguan painter. Morales is considered one of the most impor…

Armine A. Tumanyan (Armenian: Արմինե Թումանյան; born July 12, 1975, in Yerevan, Armenian SSR), is an Armenian painter, designer, coordinator of painti…

Arshile Gorky ( AR-sheel GOR-kee; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-Ameri…

Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi (US: JEN-til-ESK-ee, -⁠teel-; Italian: [arteˈmiːzja ˈlɔːmi dʒentiˈleski]; 8 July 1593 – after January 1654) was an Italian …

Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first Americ…

Arthur Goldreich (25 December 1929 – 24 May 2011) was a South African-Israeli abstract painter, architect, professor and a key figure in the anti-apar…

Karl Wilhelm Arthur Illies (9 February 1870 – 27 May 1952) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Arthur Jafa (; born Arthur Jafa Fielder, November 30, 1960) is an American video artist and cinematographer.

Arturo Faldi (27 July 1856, Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany - 30 May 1911, Florence) was an Italian painter; associated with the Macchiaioli.

Asilia Guillén (1887–1964) was a Nicaraguan folk artist, specializing in embroidery and painting. Guillén was born in Granada, Nicaragua, into a patri…

Athena LaTocha is an American artist based in New York. Her work focuses on humans' relationships to natural and industrial landscapes. She is of Hunk…

The Audran family was a French family of engravers and painters, mainly active in Paris and Lyon. The first well-known member was Charles Audran (1594…

August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (14 August 1858 – 14 December 1940) was a German painter and illustrator, associated with the Munich painting school.

François Auguste René Rodin (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst(ə) ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor considered a founder …

Aung Aung Taik (born 1948) is a Burmese artist.

Axel Jonas Halbach (18 March 1934 – 12 December 2022) was a German economist, development cooperation expert, writer, poet, and painter. He worked for…

Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculptu…

Barbara Klünder (néé Barbara Koch, 28 September 1919 – 8 April 1988) was an East German ceramist and painter. She is known for the development of the …

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for h…

Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American painter. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expr…

Basil Barrington Watson (9 January 1931 – 26 January 2016) was a Jamaican painter.

Beatrice Pauline Hewitt (1873–1956) was a British painter who created many works which consisted of ocean-themed landscapes, coastal scenes, flower su…

Beatriz Cortez (born 1970) is a Los Angeles-based artist and scholar born in San Salvador, El Salvador. Cortez draws her inspiration for many of her s…

Beatriz González (16 November 1932 – 9 January 2026) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, critic, curator, and art historian. González was often associa…

Belkis Ramírez (1957–2019) was a Dominican contemporary visual artist mainly working in the mediums of printmaking (i.e., woodcut and wood engraving) …

Benjamin Jamie (born 1978) is a British painter based in London. He was educated at the University of Gloucestershire and the Ecole Cantonale D'Art Du…

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political view…

Bernhard "Hadti" Dilling (May 4, 1932, in Pfarrkirchen, Lower Bavaria, Germany – March 22, 1994) was a German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and st…

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (English: mor-ee-ZOH, French: [bɛʁt mɔʁizo]; 14 January 1841 – 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker and a membe…

Berthold Woltze (24 August 1829 – 29 November 1896) was a German genre painter, portrait painter, and illustrator. Berthold Woltze was a professor at …

Estelle Betty Manyolo (1938–1999) was a Ugandan art painter and printmaker. Her work was inspired by black and white house murals created by the Bahim…

Bill Moore is an American painter.

BMPT was a Paris-based late Modern art group formed in the mid-1960s by painters Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni, wh…

Bryce Watanasoponwong (Thai: ไบรซ์ วัฒนโสภณวงศ์; born Wongkot Watanasoponwong, Thai: วงกต วัฒนโสภณวงศ์) is a Thai–Australian photographer and galleris…

Carl Schmitz-Pleis, originally Karl Schmitz (21 September 1877 – 1943) was a German painter.

Carl Vinnen (28 August 1863, Bremen - 16 April 1922, Munich) was a German landscape painter. He was also a writer, on various topics of local interest…

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (7 March 1781, Berlin - 8 April 1853, Berlin) was a German painter. He was generally referred to as The Younger to distinguish him …

Charles Frederick William Mielatz (né Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Mielatz; May 24, 1864 – July 2, 1919) was a Prussian-born American etcher, graphic artist…

Chavalit Soemprungsuk (Thai: ชวลิต เสริมปรุงสุข, 30 July 1939 – 27 April 2020) was a Thai painter, sculptor, and printmaker based in Thailand and the …

Christopher Ofili (born 10 October 1968) is a British painter who won the Turner Prize in 1998. He has used resin, beads, oil paint, glitter, lumps of…

Kristiaan Reuder or Christian Reder (1656–1729) was a German painter who travelled to Rome, Papal States, where he then lived for several years. He wa…

Dala Nasser (born 1990) is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist based between Beirut and London. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in publications inc…

Damián Ortega (born July 1967) is a Mexican visual artist, known for his contemporary sculpture, installation art, and mixed-media art. He lives in Me…

Damien Steven Hirst (; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who domina…

Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr. (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installati…

Dana Schutz (born 1976 in Livonia, Michigan) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Schutz is known for her gestural, figura…

Danguolė Raudonikienė (born 1937) is a Lithuanian painter and Naïve art representative. She was born in Rokiškis region. At the age of 11 she and her …

Danh Võ (born Võ Trung Kỳ Danh, August 5, 1975) is a contemporary artist of Vietnamese descent. He lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.

Daniel Brustlein (1904–1996) was an Alsatian-born American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and author of children's books. He is best known for the c…

Darío Escobar (born 1971, Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan artist. His work is characterized by the investigation of formal and conceptual aspects of o…

Darren Vigil Gray is a Jicarilla Apache painter and musician. He draws inspiration for his work from abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock a…

Darryl Pottorf (born July 16, 1952, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American visual artist. He grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati. He studied art, dance,…

David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for…

David Cobb (15 March 1921 – 18 June 2014) was a British marine artist and served as president of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In the early 194…

David FeBland is an artist who paints urban landscapes. He has studios in Arizona and in New York City, in the United States. His work has elements of…

David Hammons (born July 24, 1943) is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 19…

David Hancock (born 1973) is a British contemporary artist, curator, and academic based in Manchester. He is a lecturer in Fine Art at the University …

David Hockney (9 July 1937 – 11 June 2026) was a British painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement…

David Schnell (born 1971, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) is an internationally exhibited German painter. From 1995 until 2000 he studied painting at the …

David Smith may refer to:

David Spiller (28 August 1942 - 5 June 2018) was a British artist whose work was influenced by Pop Art and often featured Disney cartoon characters.

Denise Duchâteau (née Destours) was a French painter, master draughtsperson, and etcher active in Paris at the turn of the 19th century. She trained u…

Di Gaspar (born Dimitrije Lorenca Gaspar; 12 April 1938 – 15 September 2022) was a painter and graphic artist whose work combined elements of surreali…

Diamantis Stagidis (born 1959) is a contemporary artist; primarily a painter in oils. He lives in Kavala. Although his artwork seems abstract, nothing…

Theodore Cornelius de Groot (December 15, 1920 – July 20, 2019), better known as Dick de Groot, was a Dutch-American painter. He was born in Schevenin…

Didier William is a mixed-media painter originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His work incorporates traditions in oil painting, acrylic, collage and …

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo riˈβeɾa]; Decembe…

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Phi…

Don Kunz (1932 – 2001), is known for his work as a calligrapher, painter, and teacher. Kunz served the Cooper Union for 33 years. He was devoted to th…

Johann Gottfried Edmund Koken (4 June 1814, Hanover - 30 October 1872, Hanover) was a German landscape and portrait painter.

Edward Melcarth (January 31, 1914 – December 13, 1973), was born as Edward Epstein in Louisville, Kentucky to Eva Epstein (born Ehrmann) and Edward "E…

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field p…

Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique (English: The sun fell asleep over the Adriatic) is an oil on canvas painted in 1910 by the tail of a donkey …

Francis Gibson (16 January 1753 (baptised) – 24 July 1805) was an English writer and occasional painter. Gibson was born and baptised in Whitby on 16 …

For the Italian architect, see Franco Stella Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted…

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many p…

Fritz Wilhelm Faiss (March 6, 1905 – October 1, 1981) was a German-American abstract expressionist artist.

Gary Charles Visconti (born May 10, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American former figure skater. He won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating C…

George Edward Robertson (1864–1920) was a British painter, best remembered for his oil paintings of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. He exhibited regula…

George Francklin Atkinson (1822–1859), was a British artist and writer and an officer of the Bengal Engineers. His paintings depicted colonial life an…

Gilles Garcin (1647–1702) was a French painter.

Gilles Sacksick (French: [ʒil saksik]; 31 August 1942 – 13 October 2025) was a French painter, engraver and lithographer.

Giuseppe Boccaccio (1790/91, Colorno - 5 February 1852, Parma) was an Italian painter and scenographer.

Gunther Gerzso (June 17, 1915 – April 21, 2000) was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre.

Hank Willis Thomas (born 1976) is an American conceptual artist. Based in Brooklyn, New York, he works primarily with themes related to identity, hist…

Hassan Hajjaj (born 1961), is a Moroccan contemporary artist and photographer. He lives and works between London, United Kingdom, and Marrakesh, Moroc…

Hazel Soan is a British artist working out of studios in London and Cape Town and on location throughout the world. She paints in watercolour and oil …

Ian Felice (born January 18, 1982) is an American musician, painter and poet born and raised in the Catskill Mountains of New York. He is the lead gui…

Ibrahim El-Salahi (Arabic: إبراهيم الصلحي, born 5 September 1930) is a Sudanese painter, former public servant and diplomat. He is one of the foremost…

Ibrahima Kébé (Kaolack, October 2, 1955 – Dakar, September 8, 2019) was a Senegalese Soninke painter. He lived his entire life in Village des Arts de …

Ida Sofia Maly (22 October 1894 – 20 February 1941) was an Austrian painter of modern art who was murdered by the Nazi regime as part of their euthana…

Ignatius Sserulyo (born c. 1937- December 2018) is a Ugandan painter, a former student and lecturer at Margret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Ar…

Ilana Savdie (born 1986) is a visual artist working primarily as a painter. Savdie was raised between Barranquilla, Colombia and Miami, Florida. Her s…

Iqbal Geoffrey (1939–2021) was a Pakistani-American modernist painter.

Irene Duleep Singh (25 October 1889 – 8 October 1926) was an Anglo-Indian princess and painter who was the daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh and his s…

Irvin Masličić (born December 16, 1981) is a Montenegrin artist recognized for his paintings that explore themes of nature, particularly underwater la…

Isa Genzken (born 27 November 1948) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide v…

Isabelle Pinson (, French: [pɛ̃sɔ̃] ; née Proteau; 26 June 1769 – 18 November 1855), commonly known as Madame Pinson, was a French genre and portrait …

Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, Noguchi Isamu; Japanese: [noꜜgɯtɕi isamɯ], English: ; November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was an American artist, furniture de…

Ismaïla Manga (August 8, 1957 – March 13, 2015) was a Senegalese Jola painter. Born in Kamoya, he studied at the Senegal's national fine arts academy …

Issa Samb, also known as Joe Ouakam (31 December 1945 – 25 April 2017) was a Senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright and poet.

Ivars Hiršs (1931–1989) was a Latvian-born American painter.

Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was not…

Jalal Khoury (born in Beirut on 28 May 1933 – died on 3 December 2017) was a Lebanese playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor.

Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty, or simply Gautier d'Agoty (15 September 1740, in Paris – 1786, in Paris) was a French painter who specialized in p…

Johann Georg Seitz (14 March 1810, Nuremberg – 16 April 1870, Vienna) was a German-Austrian painter known primarily for his still-life compositions fe…

Johann Martin von Wagner (born as Johann Martin Wagner; 24 June 1777 – 8 August 1858) was a German painter, sculptor and art collector. Through the do…

José María Velasco may refer to: José María Velasco Gómez (1840–1912), Mexican painter José María Velasco Ibarra (1893–1979), president of Ecuador Jos…

Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환; Hanja: 李禹煥, Korean pronunciation: [iːuhwan]; born 1936) is a South Korean minimalist painter, sculptor, and academic, known for…

Leopoldo Presas (1915-2009) was an Argentine artist. He experienced different styles throughout his life. He had academic training and started as a fi…

Mark Gaston Pearce is an American lawyer, arbitrator and university professor who is best known for serving as a member of the National Labor Relation…

Martin Stejskal (born 19 February 1944) is a Czech painter, graphic artist, translator, occasional poet, essayist, and author of texts and books deali…

The Master of the Holy Kinship the Younger is a German painter of the Middle Ages who was active between 1475 and 1515 in Cologne and its environs. He…

Munira Ahmed Muhammad Mosli (Arabic: منيرة موصلي; July 1954 – January 2019) was a Saudi Arabian plastic works artist and painter. She worked with the …

Mwass Githinji (born Benard Mwangi Githinji,1995) is a Kenyan contemporary visual artist whose work explores identity, memory, vulnerability and the h…

Nari Ward (born 1963 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-American artist based in New York City. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Hunter …

Naushad Waheed Hassan Manik (born 15 December 1962) is a cartoonist and painter from the Maldives.

Nicolas Joseph Ruyssen (17 March 1757 – 7 May 1826) was a French painter and the master draughtsman of the royal princesses of England under the reign…

Pablo Echaurren (born 22 January 1951) is an Italian painter, comics artist and writer.

Philip Koch (born 30 March 1948) is professor emeritus at the Maryland Institute College of Art and an American realist painter whose landscapes are h…

Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French contemporary artist, who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventi…

Ramón Alva de la Canal (August 29, 1892 – April 4, 1985) was a Mexican painter, illustrator, and educator, one of the pioneers of the Mexican muralism…

Randy Wray (born 1965) is an American painter and sculptor who makes use of found objects and recycled materials. His work frequently blurs the bounda…

Reyhan Topchubashova (Azerbaijani: Reyhan Topçubaşova; 15 December 1905 – 5 March 1970) was an Azerbaijani painter, Honored Art Worker of the USSR.

Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism …

Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thai: ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช, pronounced [rɯkrit tirawanit]) is a Thai contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City, Berli…

Robert "Rob" Schamberger is an American painter known for his portraiture of professional wrestlers. He was the host of Canvas 2 Canvas on the WWE Net…

Roger de Piles's L'Abrégé de la vie des peintres...avec un traité du peintre parfait (The Art of Painting and the Lives of the Painters), was a major …

Rudolf Schwarzkogler (13 November 1940 – 20 June 1969) was an Austrian performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group that in…

Samson Bakare is a Nigerian-born, multidisciplinary artist based in the United Kingdom, who is known for his portrayal of dark toned bodies with dynam…

Samuel Spode (1798–1872) was a British painter best known for his equestrian sporting scenes, specialising in the portraiture of sporting and military…

Sarah Lucas (born 1962) is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ …

Si Lewen (8 November 1918 – 25 July 2016) was a Polish-American painter and member of the Ritchie Boys, a unit of the United States Army during World …

Simon George Mpata (1942–1984) was a Tanzanian painter of the Tingatinga school. He was the youngest half-brother of Edward Tingatinga, founder of the…

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. …

Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Daughter of the contemporary art coll…

Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp (; 19 January 1889 – 14 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and inte…

The death of the Princesse de Lamballe (French: Mort de la princesse de Lamballe) is a painting by Maxime Faivre. It was first exhibited at the salon …

Theodor Ohlsen (1855 in Klein-Brebel – 1913 in Wiesbaden) was a German landscape, marine and portrait painter.

Tino Sehgal (; German: [ˈzeːgaːl]; born 1976) is an artist of German and Indian descent, based in Berlin, who describes his work as "constructed situa…

Tom Cullberg (born 1972) is a Swedish-born South African artist. He currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Walter Dahn (8 October 1954 – 7 November 2024) was a German painter, photographer, and sound artist. He was born in Tönisvorst, North Rhine-Westphalia…

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is co…

Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, romanized: Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana as オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese retired artist, musician,…

Yoshitomo Nara (奈良 美智, Nara Yoshitomo; born 5 December 1959 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Nasushi…

Yvonne Ziegler (née Yvonne Henriette Marie Lefeuve; 1 June 1902 – 16 January 1988) was a French resistance fighter, painter, sculptor, engraver, and e…