Artists

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…