Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400
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Persia Abbas
"is a young Persian artist who studied in Cairo and worked for jewelry houses making designs and painting miniatures. The advertising illustration symbolizes the transition from traditional scimitar to hand...
Franz Ackermann
Franz Ackermann makes exuberant paintings and installations centred on themes of travel, tourism, globalisation and urbanism. Combining the factual precision of traditional street maps with his own interpretation of the...
Samuel T. Adams
b. 1980 Cincinnati, Ohio lives and works in BrooklynSELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2014 Evidence of Absence, ZieherSmith, New York, NY 2014 Shall I Tell You the Secret of the World?, Contemporary Arts...
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been...
Jonathan Carr Ahearn
"Trained at Brown University and Claremont Graduate School, Ahearn has studied with Mark Rothko and spent a year in Italy on a Fulbright Grant. He had a one man...
Noel Anderson
Matthew Angelo Harrison
b.1989, Detroit, MI; lives and works in Detroit, MI
Ivan Argote
Born in 1983 in BogotáLives and works in ParisSOLO EXHIBITIONS2014 - "STRENGTHLESSNESS", Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France- “Activissime.!”, Sala Muncunill, Espaidos, Barcelona, EspagneUPCOMING: - “Ivan Argote”, CAB Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble,...
Kenneth Armitage
William Kenneth Armitage (b. 18 July 1916, in Leeds, England - d. 22 January 2002 in London, Eng.) was a British sculptor known for his semiabstract bronzes. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Armitage)
Peter Arno
Peter Arno (January 8, 1904 – February 22, 1968) was a U.S. cartoonist. He contributed cartoons and 99 covers to The New Yorker from 1925, the magazine's first year, until...
Boris Aronson
Boris Aronson (October 15, 1898 – November 16, 1980) was an American scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He won the Tony Award for Scenic Design six times in...
David Aronson
David Aronson (born 1923 in Šiluva, Lithuania) is a painter and Emeritus Professor of Art at Boston University. Aronson has taught at Boston University since 1955, where he formed the Fine...
Jean Arp
Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966) was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and...
Gregor Asch
aka DJ Olive
Hellen Ascoli
Hellen Ascoli was born in Guatemala City in 1984. She received her BFA in sculpture from Southern Methodist University, Dallas (2006); and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago...
Michael Ashkin
Michael Ashkin's work spans various media, including sculpture, installation, photography, video, poetry, and text. His work addresses issues of landscape, architecture, and urbanism, specifically the intersection of subjectivity with the...
Assume Vivid Astro Focus
Assume Vivid Astro Focus is a collaborative artist group whose two founders involve at times numerous people in their different projects which are then executed all over the world. The...
Martha Atienza
b. 1981, Bantayan, Philippines; lives and works in Bantayan, Philippines
Lisa Anne Auerbach
George C. Ault
George Copeland Ault (October 11, 1891 – December 30, 1948) was an American painter. He was loosely grouped with the Precisionist movement and, though influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, his...
Milton Avery
Milton Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York...
Marcos Avila Forero
b. 1983, Paris, France; lives and works in Paris, France
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Ernst Barlach
Ernst Barlach (2 January 1870, Wedel – 24 October 1938, Rostock) was a German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years...
Lyndon Barrois, Jr.
b. 1983, New Orleans, LA; lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect, who was widely...
Robert Beaven
"Robert Beaven is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Cincinnati. Born in Evansville, Indiana in 1929, he attended Indiana University. His works have been seen in numerous...
Maurice Becker
Maurice Becker (1889–1975) was a radical political artist best known for his work in the 1910s and 1920s for such publications as The Masses and The Liberator. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Becker)
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the...
Cecilia Bengolea
b. 1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives and works in Paris, France
Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia (San Lorenzo, Pordenone March 10, 1915 – November 6, 1978 Barto, Pennsylvania), was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. At the age of...
Bestue- Vives
http://www.hamacaonline.net/autor.php?id=190
Henry Billings
Henry Billings was a 20th century American artist. He was a painter, illustrator, muralist, and art instructor active in New York City. He was a grandson of John Shaw Billings,...
Hildur Bjarnadottir
Ronald Bladen
Ronald Bladen (1918- 1988) was an American painter and sculptor. He is particularly known for his large-scale sculptures. His artistic stance, was influenced by European Constructivism, American Hard-Edge Painting, and...
Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) taught plant modeling at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin. For over three decades he photographed details of plants as teaching materials for...
Oscar Bluemner
Oscar Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born as Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and since 1933, known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a German-born American Modernist painter. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Florianus_Bluemner)
Peter Blume
Peter Blume (27 October 1906 - 30 November 1992) was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Blume)
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (9 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its...
Mel Bochner
Mel Bochner [born 1940] is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Emerging at a time...
Ilya Bolotowsky
Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 – November 22, 1981) was a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through...
Etienne Boulanger
Etienne Boulanger was born in Longeville-lès-Metz (France) in 1976 and died in New York (USA) in 2008. He studied at Fine Arts in Nancy (France), and graduated in 2000 (...
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. Though she lived in New York from 1938 until her death in 2010, much of her inspiration derived from her early childhood...
Louise Bourgeois
Louise was born on Christmas Day, 1911 in Paris. Her parents, Louis and Josephine owned a small tapestry restoration business. Louise had one sister, Henriette and one brother, Desire, who...
Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers (b.1965) holds a BFA degree from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and an MFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include In Situ...
Constantin Brâncuși
Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm...
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were...
Francis Bruguière
Francis Bruguière (1879–1945), born in San Francisco, was trained by Frank Eugene and became a member of the Stieglitz circle. Living in New York from 1918 to 1927, his interest...
Egle Budvytyte
EGLĖ BUDVYTYTĖ (LT) Born in 1982 in Lithuania. Lives and works in Vilnius and Amsterdam. A graduate in photography from the Vilnius Art Academy and in audio-visual studies from the...
David Burliuk
David Davidovich Burliuk (July 21, 1882 – January 15, 1967) was a Ukrainian Futurist, Neo-Primitivist, book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism. Burliuk is often described as "the...
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Margarita Cabrera
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard...
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor best known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced...
Pia Camil
Pia Camil was born in 1980 in Mexico City, where she continues to live and work. Her work has been shown in Mexico, Colombia, France and the U.S. Camil received...
William H. Campbell
"born in Philadelphia in 1915. Studied in the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, La France Art Institute, Graphic Sketch Club, University of Pennsylvania, and also under Earle Horter. ...
Andrea Carlson
b. 1979, Grand Portage Ojibwe, USA; lives and works in Chicago, IL
Jean Carlu
Jean Carlu (Bonnières-sur-Seine, France, 1900 - 1997) was a French graphic designer, specialised in posters. He was member of a family of architects; his brother Jacques Carlu for example designed...
Los Carpinteros
Los Carpinteros, collective founded in 1991 in Havana.Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes, was born on September 18, 1971 in Camaguey, Cuba. Graduated in 1994 from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA),...
Mario Carreño
Mario Carreño y Morales (May, 24, 1913 in Havana, Cuba – December 20, 1999 in Santiago de Chile, Chile) was a Cuban painter. He studied painting at the Academia de San...
Roy Cartwright
"Royden Cartwright is . . . a Professor of Art at the University of Cincinnati. Born in 1937, he received his M.F.A. degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In...
A.M. Cassandre
Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron (24 January 1901 – 17 June 1968) was a Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandre_(1901%E2%80%931968))
Carolina Caycedo
b. 1978, London, UK; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Lynn Chadwick
Lynn Russell Chadwick (24 November 1914 – 25 April 2003) was an English artist and sculptor trained as an architectural draughtsman, but began producing metal mobile sculpture during the 1940s. (source:...
Marc Chagall
Marc Zakharovich Chagall (24 June 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Belarussian-Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century"...
John Chamberlain
John Angus Chamberlain (April 16, 1927 – December 21, 2011) was an American sculptor. At the time of his death he resided and worked on Shelter Island, New York. Chamberlain is...
Jean Charlot
Louis Henri Jean Charlot (February 8, 1898 – March 20, 1979) was a French and naturalized American painter and illustrator, active mainly in Mexico and the United States. Jean Charlot...
Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007. He is best known for...
Jonathan Christensen Caballero
b. 1988, Salt Lake City, UT; lives and works in Lawrence, KS
Robert Colescott
Robert Colescott’s paintings evoke powerful emotions and thoughtful contemplation – engaging themes of race, gender, and social inequality. His art is both highly charged and intrinsically beautiful. In 1997, Colescott...
Ron Cooper
Ron Cooper is a west-coast based American artist born in 1943 who started his career in the late ’60s in Los Angeles. He currently resides in Taos, New Mexico. ...
Mary Corse
Mary Corse (born 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is a member of the male-dominated Light and Space art movement of the...
Miguel Covarrubias
José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (22 November 1904 — 4 February 1957) was a Mexican painter and caricaturist, ethnologist and art historian. Miguel's artwork and celebrity caricatures have been featured in The...
Rachel Cox
b. 1984, Irving, TX; lives and works in Iowa City, IA
Ralston Crawford
Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was an American abstract painter,lithographer, and photographer. Crawford was best known for his abstract representations of urban life and industry. His early work placed him with...
Peter Crnokrak
Peter Crnokrak is a London-based computational artist who uses data visualisation as a medium for social critique. Creating work under the nom de guerre The Luxury of Protest, projects address...
Ben Culwel
Ben L. Culwell (September 8, 1918 – 1992) was an American painter and early participant in the abstract expressionist movement. He is most widely known for his participation in the...
Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 24, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham refined her style, taking a greater interest in...
Zdzislaw Czermanski
"born in Cracow, Poland, 1896. Chief artist 'Barber of Warsaw,' satirical political weekly 1926-29. In 1930 his album of caricatures of political figures was popular throughout easter Europe....
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist...
Stuart Davis
Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and...
Michel de Broin
Ranging from assemblage to video and photography, Michel de Broin has developed a constantly expanding visual vocabulary. Piece by piece, the objects involved are sometimes universally recognizable but their behaviour...
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which...
Julio de Diego
Julio de Diego (1900 - 1979) was a Spanish-born painter. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_de_Diego)
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In the post-World War II era, de...
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas; (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified...
Robert Del Tredici
Robert Del Tredici is a photographer and artist who has been teaching cinema history and the art of animated film in Montreal since the 1970s. He has also been documenting...
Charles Demuth
Charles Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an Americanwatercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism. Demuth was a...
André Derain
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Derain)
Mark di Suvero
Marco Polo "Mark" di Suvero (born September 18, 1933) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor.
David Diao
David Diao (born 1943) is a Chinese American artist and teacher based in New York City. Diao is currently represented by Postmasters in New York and Office Baroque in Brussels, Belgium (source:...
Preston Dickinson
William Preston Dickinson (September 9, 1889 - November 25, 1930) was an American modern artist, best known for his paintings of industrial subjects in the Precisionist style. Dickinson was one of...
Marjolijn Dijkman
Marjolijn Dijkman was born in 1978 in Groningen, The Netherlands. She received her BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2001), and held post-graduate positions at the Piet Zwart Institute,...
Jim Dine
Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935) is an American pop artist. He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine)
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the...
Stan Douglas
Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings,...
Werner Drewes
Born:Canig, Germany 1899Died:Reston, Virginia 1985 Werner Drewes was born in Canig, Germany, and began studying art in 1920 at the Stuttgart School of Architecture. A year later he transferred to the...
Elsie Driggs
Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992, New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for...
Russell Drysdale
Sir George Russell Drysdale, AC (7 February 1912 – 29 June 1981) was an Australian artist. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for Sofala in 1947, and represented Australia at...
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art, although not directly...
Alan Dunn
Alan Dunn (1900–1974) was a cartoonist known for his work in The New Yorker. He also had architectural expertise and submitted work to Architectural Record. He was married to fellow...
Mara Duvra
b. 1989, Silver Spring, MD; lives and works in Minneapolis, MN
Natsuko Dyer
Natsuko Hirata Dyer was born and raised in Tokyo. She graduated from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, with B.F.A. in Communication Art with emphasis in Graphic Design.She spent the last 5...
Dušan Džamonja
Dušan Džamonja (31 January 1928 – 14 January 2009) was a contemporary Croatian sculptor of Macedonian ancestry. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_D%C5%BEamonja)
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Harold E. Edgerton
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the...
Conrad Egyir
b.1989, Accra, Ghana; lives and works in Detroit, MI
James Ensor
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for...
Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein (New York 10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and...
Max Ernst
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement...
Adrian Esparza
Simon Evans
Brooklyn-based British artist Simon Evan’s delicate text-based works are collaged and assembled from prosaic materials including found paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white out. They describe a...
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Jes Fan
b. 1990, Ontario, Canada; lives and works in New York, NY
Cleo Fariselli
b. 1982, Cesenatico, Italy; lives and works in Turin, Italy
Didier Faustino
“Didier Fiuza Faustino works reciprocally summons up art from architecture and architecture from art, indistinctly using genres in a way that summarises an ethical and political attitude about the conditions...
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. Feininger...
Rafael Ferrer
Rafael Ferrer (born 1933 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican artist.[1] He was a 1993 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a 2011 recipient of...
Spencer Finch
Spencer Finch (born 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American artist. In 1985, he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in comparative literature from Hamilton College; Finch then...
Spencer Finch
Finch carefully records the invisible world, while simultaneously striving to understand what might lie beyond it. Whether he is relying on his own powers of observation or using a colorimeter,...
John Flannagan
John Bernard Flannagan (April 7, 1895 – January 6, 1942) was an American sculptor. Along with Robert Laurent and William Zorach, he is known as one of the first practitioners...
Jon Flannery
Jon Flannery is a designer, printmaker and director of Cryptogram studio in Cincinnati. His inclination to involve several teammates in various capacities allows the studio to cultivate a diverse range...
James Flora
James "Jim" Flora (January 25, 1914
Clovernook Center for the Blind
Mark Fox
Born 1963 in Cincinnati, Ohio; lives and works in New York City 1988 Master of Fine Art, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1985 Bachelor of Fine Art, Washington University, St. Louis,...
Wiebke Grösch & Frank Metzger
“(…) What underlies the working methods Wiebke Grösch and Frank Metzger have consistently pursued throughout their artistic collaboration and their formal handling of elements and media is clarity of vision....
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her...
Free Soil
Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, Nis Romer
Suzy Frelinghuysen
Suzy Frelinghuysen (1911–1988) was an American abstract painter and erstwhile soprano. In 1935, she married the artist George L.K. Morris, who encouraged her painting, and in 1938 she was the first...
Alix French
" . . . was born in New York City and attended Cooper Union School of Art and the Cambridge School of Art. She is now living in Dayton, Ohio...
Arnold Friedman
Arnold Friedman (1874–1946) was an American Modernist painter. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Friedman)
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Naum Gabo
Naum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1890 – 23 August 1977) was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of...
Isa Gagarin
b. 1986, Guam; lives and works in Minneapolis, MN
A. E. Gallatin
Born:Villanova, Pennsylvania 1881Died:New York, New York 1952 Painter, writer, patron, founder of the Gallery of Living Art at New York University, Albert Gallatin's contributions to abstract art in New York took...
Lee Gatch
Lee Gatch (September 10, 1902 – November 10, 1968) was a twentieth-century American artist known for his lyrical abstractions and his ability to find "a fresh approach" to painting the...
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized...
Yun Gee
"has shown his paintings in both Europe and America, and has represented the Orient in the great pre-war French Colonial Exhibition. He now lives in the United States. ...
Tibor Gergely
Tibor Gergely (1900–1978) was an artist best known for his work in several popular children's books. Born in Budapest in 1900, he studied art briefly in Vienna before emigrating to...
Shaun Gladwell
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Shaun Gladwell: BMX Channel, Mark Moore Gallery, California, USAShaun Gladwell: Field Recordings, Samstag Museum, University of...
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953), was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes...
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky (April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have...
Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Throughout his career Adolph Gottlieb had 56 solo exhibitions and was included in...
John Graham
John D. Graham (1886–1961) was a Ukrainian-born American Modernist / figurative painter. He was born Ivan Gratianovitch Dombrowsky in Kiev, Ukraine. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Graham)
Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the...
El Greco
El Greco, born Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – 7 April 1614), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to...
Gertrude Greene
Gertrude Glass Greene (1904 – November 25, 1956) was an abstract sculptor and painter from New York, New York. Gertrude and her husband, artist Balcomb Greene, were heavily involved in...
Juan Gris
José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked...
George Grosz
George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member...
O. Louis Guglielmi
Born: Cairo, Egypt 1906Died: Amagansett, New York 1956 Born in Egypt, brought to New York City in 1914. Artist who worked as a WPA muralist in the 1930s, compassionately portrayed the...
Dan Gunn
b. 1980, Prairie Village, KS; lives and works in Chicago, IL
MK Guth
Small shifts in what is familiar amplify human presence and speak to the intricacies of social relations in MK Guth¹s work. Her videos depart form everyday scenarios into the site...
Robert Gwathmey
Robert Gwathmey (January 24, 1903 – September 21, 1988) was an American social realist painter. Throughout his studies, Robert Gwathmey was influenced by many artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Vincent...
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Adolfo Halty-Dubé
"born in San Carlos, Uruguay, 1915. Obtained a Bachelor's Degree in mathematics at the Académie de Poitiers, France, in 1935, and received his Master's in Architecture at the University...
David Hare
David Hare (March 10, 1917 – December 21, 1992) was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively...
William M. Harnett
William Michael Harnett (August 10, 1848 – October 29, 1892) was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe l'oeil still lifes of ordinary objects. The style of trompe l'oeil painting that...
Alex Hartley
Working primarily with photography, often incorporating it into sculpture and installation, Alex Hartley's work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments. Encounters with buildings are...
Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsden_Hartley)
Stanley W. Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (December 27, 1901 – May 4, 1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded...
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel (31 July 1883, – 27 January 1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the Die Brücke group ("The Bridge") which existed 1905-1913.
Jean Hélion
Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction...
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was "one of the...
Zachary Herrmann
Zachary Francis Herrmann (b. 1977, Ohio, US) received a BFA from Georgia Southwestern State University in 2001 with a focus in glass. He taught courses in glass art at the...
Hilaire Hiler
Hilaire Hiler (1898-1966) was an American artist, psychologist, and color theoretician who worked in Europe and United States during the mid-20th century. At home and abroad, Hiler worked as a...
Sarah Francis Hollis
To Collect: My position with this work is both as creator and curator. I make and arrange collections. I am inspired by objects to build collections; and my collections inspire...
Carl Holty
Carl Robert Holty (1900-1973) was a German-born American abstract painter. Raised in Wisconsin, he was the first major abstract painter to gain notoriety from the state. Harold Rosenberg described Holty...
Pao Houa Her
b. 1982, Laos; lives and works in Blaine, MN
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Venancio Igarta
Born:Sinait, Philippines 1912 Died:New York, New York 2000 (source: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=2380) "is a native of Luzon. His work is exhibited in a number of galleries in America. His painting for Container Corporation...
Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana, also known as Robert Clark (born September 13, 1928), is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially...
Saodat Ismailova
b. 1981, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; lives and works in Tashkent, Uzbekistan andParis, France
Iman Issa
Iman Issa (born 1979, Cairo) is an artist living and working in Cairo and New York. Recent group and solo exhibitions include: The Ungovernables, New Museum, New York (2012); Seeing...
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Jane Palmer and Marianne Fairbanks
Stephen James
"Born in New York in 1948, he is the nephew of Duke Ellington. He has studied at Milton College in Wisconsin and at the Berklee School of Music in...
Christo Javacheff
Christo (born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, June 13, 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, 1935 – November 18, 2009) were a married couple who created environmental works...
Alexei Jawlensky
Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (13 March 1864 – 15 March 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association...
Yudhisthira Jean Piqué
"born in Louisiana, 1918. His father came from France as a young man and married Anita Edith Phelps, a daughter of an old Louisiana Family. On his mother's...
Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison was born in 1981 in Berkeley, CA and raised in Cincinnati. She received her BA from Columbia University (2003) and her MFA from The School of the Art...
Melissa Joefsoef
*probably not the right spelling, but this is how it was on the checklist
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Johns)
Allan Jones
" . . . the recipient of an MFA from Claremont Graduate School, Jones served on the faculty of the University of Southeastern Louisiana before joining the department at Antioch....
James Jordan
"Now chairman of the art department, Jordan received a BA from the University of Texas, an MFA from the University of Illinois and was a graduate fellow in art history...
Donald Judd
Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed). In his work, Judd sought autonomy and...
Brian Jungen
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (6 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract...
John Kane
John Kane (August 19, 1860 – August 10, 1934) was an American painter celebrated for his skill in Naïve art. He was the first self-taught American painter in the 20th century...
Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian’s varied practice includes sculpture, sound, video, photography, and public projects. Her Sorted Books project spans over 20 years and has taken place at over 10 different sites to...
Edward McKnight Kauffer
Edward McKnight Kauffer (14 December 1890 – 22 October 1954) was an American-born artist noted for his avant garde graphic design and poster art, especially in Britain. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_McKnight_Kauffer)
Mike Kelley
Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954-2012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and...
William Kentridge
William Kentridge studied at the Johannesburg Art Foundation and the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He was a founding member of the Free Filmmakers Co-operative in 1988. His work...
György Kepes
György Kepes (October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the...
Ernst Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The...
Matt Kish
Ying Kit Chan
In the 70's, he studied art in several colleges in Hong Kong including Hong Kong Baptist College, Hong Kong Polytechnic, and Hong Kong Buddhist College. In 1979, Chan continued...
Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976) lives and works in Reykjavík. He has had solo exhibitions at institutions including the New Museum, New York, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, the Migros Museum fur...
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a painter born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered to be a German-Swiss. His highly individual style was influenced by...
Karl Knaths
Karl Knaths (Born: Eau Claire, Wisconsin 1891, Died: Hyannis, Massachusetts 1971) applied his system of color theory to his abstract landscapes and scenic depictions, which were highly Cubist in style....
Knifeandfork
Knifeandfork, founded by Brian House (http://brianhouse.net) and Sue Huang (http://sue.knifeandfork.org) while on a coffee break during a figure-drawing class in Sweden, currently operates out of Providence, RI and Northampton, MA....
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Kokoschka)
Georg Kolbe
Georg Kolbe (15 April 1877 – 20 November 1947) was the leading German figure scultpor of his generation, in a vigorous, modern, simplified classical style similar to Aristide Maillol of...
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and...
George Korff
"born in Russia, 1905. Also known as Jean Morin. He completed art school in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Studied at the Écoledes Beaux-Arts, Paris. For three years did all the publicity work,...
Kim Krause
Kim Krause is a Cincinnati native whose paintings have been included in more than 100 exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including eight solo exhibitions. The artist’s work has been purchased...
Nico Krebs
Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement. Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at...
Walt Kuhn
Walt Kuhn (October 27, 1877 – July 13, 1949) was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to...
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1 September 1893 - 14 May 1953) was an American painter, photographer and printmaker. Kenneth Hayes Miller introduced Kuniyoshi to Intaglio printmaking, and made approximately 45 prints between 1916...
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Jaana Laakkonen
b. 1985, Joensuu, Finland; lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
Gaston Lachaise
Gaston Lachaise (March 19, 1882 – October 18, 1935) was an Americansculptor of French birth, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he was most noted for...
Gerald Laing
Gerald Ogilvie Laing (11 February 1936 – 23 November 2011) was a British pop artist and sculptor. He lived in the Scottish Highlands. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Laing)
Antal Lakner
Antal Lakner is one of the Hungarian artists emerging in the 1990s, who have achieved international recognition. Working at the border between reality and fiction, he creates works of a...
Chris Land
Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated...
Henri Laurens
Henri Laurens (February 18, 1885 – May 5, 1954) was a French sculptor and illustrator. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Laurens)
Learning Group
Brett Bloom, Julio Castro, Rikke Luther, Cecelia Wendt
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which...
Matthew Leibowitz
"born in Philadelphia, 1918. Attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art during the evenings and acquired practical experience as layout man and lettering designer. Went to France...
Anissa Lewis
b. 1974, Covington, KY; lives and works in Cincinnati, OH
Fred Lewy
"Fred Lewy [1893 - 1950] arrived in Cincinnati in 1939 as the Modern Art Society was forming. Soon his skills and experience as a graphic designer were put to the...
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he...
Glenn Ligon
Throughout his career, Glenn Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting...
Richard Lindner
Richard Lindner (November 11, 1901 –April 16, 1978) was a German-American painter. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindner_(painter)) "born in Hamburg, Germany, 1901. Studied music in Bavaria. Was a concert pianist from 1919 to...
Leonardi Lionni
Leo Lionni (May 5, 1910 – October 11, 1999) was an author and illustrator of children's books. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving...
Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz (August 22 1891 – May 16, 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lipchitz)
Seymour Lipton
Seymour Lipton (6 November 1903 – 15 December 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the...
Morris Louis
Morris Louis, born Morris Louis Bernstein (November 28, 1912 – September 7, 1962), was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field...
Lucius LTD
The artists Amy Lynch, Joel Masters and J.D. Loughead formed a collaborative design group called Lucius LTD. Lynch and Masters met in middle school, while Loughead was introduced to the...
Calista Lyon
b. 1986, Nagambie, Australia; lives and works in Charlottesville, VA
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Dakota Mace (Diné)
b. Albuquerque, NM; lives and works in Madison, WI
Liz Magic Laser
Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981, New York) works across performance, video and installation. Emerging from an interest in movement and the body, her work explores current events and their mediation...
Alberto Magnelli
Alberto Magnelli (1 July 1888 – 20 April 1971) was an Italian modern painter who was a significant figure in the post war Concrete art movement. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Magnelli)
Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fall...
Paul Maheke
b. 1985, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France; lives and works in London, UK
Aristide Maillol
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker. The subject of nearly all of Maillol's mature work is the female body,...
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (23 February 1879 – 15 May 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the...
Franz Marc
Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member...
Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 Boston – August 29, 2000 Parma) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist...
Gerhard Marcks
Gerhard Marcks (February 18, 1889 – November 13, 1981) was a German artist, known primarily as a sculptor, but who is also known for his drawings, woodcuts, lithographs and ceramics. (source:...
John Marin
John Marin (December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953) was an early American modernist artist. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors. John Marin was among the...
Thomas Marioni
Tom Marioni (born 1937, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) is an American conceptual artist currently living and working out of San Francisco, California. Marioni received his training at the Cincinnati Art...
Noel Martin
Noel Martin (April 19, 1922 – February 23, 2009) was an American graphic designer. Not to be confused with the British born actor and singer Noel Martin born 1988. He studied drawing,...
Arturo Martini
Arturo Martini (1889–1947) was a leading Italian sculptor between World War I and II. He moved between a very vigorous (almost ancient Roman) classicism and modernism. He was associated with...
André Masson
André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. His early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealism, and he was...
Henri Matisse
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker,...
Roberto Matta
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century...
Herbert Matter
Herbert Matter (April 25, 1907 – May 8, 1984) was a Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer known for his pioneering use of photomontage in commercial art. The designer's innovative...
Gisela McDaniel
b. 1995, Guam; lives and works in Detroit, MI
Ryan McGinness
Clement Meadmore
Clement Meadmore (9 February 1929 – 19 April 2005) was an Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures. Meadmore used COR-TEN steel, aluminum, and occasionally bronze to create colossal outdoor...
Ludwig Meidner
Ludwig Meidner (18 April 1884 – 14 May 1966) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker born in Bernstadt, Silesia. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but the apprenticeship was...
Carlos Mérida
Carlos Mérida (b. December 2, 1891 – d. December 21, 1984) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes,...
Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (June 24, 1883 – November 3, 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, born in Nantes, France, who, along with Pablo...
Paul D. Miller
aka DJ Spookey that Subliminal Kid
Edgar Miller
"born in Idaho, 1899. Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to easel and mural painting, his works include sculpture, etching, ceramics and wood engravings. ...
David Milne
David Milne, (January 8, 1882–December 26, 1953) was a Canadian painter, printmaker, and writer. The prestigious American art critic Clement Greenberg described Milne as one of the three greatest North American...
MIR
Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació...
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a...
Alison Moffett
Born in 1979, Knoxville, Tennssee, USAL Lives and works in London, UK education 2010-2011 2002-2004 1997-2001 MA, History and Critical Thinking, Architectural Associaition, London, UK MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK BA, University of Tennessee, USA solo...
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and...
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group,...
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around...
George L.K. Morris
Born:New York, New York 1905Died:Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1975 A writer and editor as well as a painter and sculptor, George L. K. Morris used various publications as platforms for advocating abstract art...
Robert Morris
Robert Morris (born February 9, 1931, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along...
Mother Moses
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), better known by her nickname of "Grandma Moses," was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as...
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark’s love of art started early in his childhood, just after it was discovered that he was extremely nearsighted and legally blind.His first correctional glasses offered Mark a new view...
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he...
Stephen Mueller
Stephen Mueller (born September 24, 1947 in Norfolk, Virginia - D. September 16, 2011 in New York City, New York) was an American painter whose color field and Lyrical Abstraction...
Martin Mull
Martin Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has appeared in many television and film roles. He is also a comedian, painter, and recording artist. As an...
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of...
Oscar Muñoz
Born in Popayán, Colombia, Oscar Muñoz studied art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cali in the 1970s. As an art student, he began making drawings based on photographic...
Robert Murray
Robert Gray Murray (born March 2, 1936) is a Canadian sculptor, printmaker, painter, and art teacher whose large outdoor works resemble abstract stabile style of Alexander Calder. Some of his...
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. (source:...
The National
The National formed in 1999 and consists of vocalist Matt Berninger fronting two pairs of brothers: Aaron (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott (bass, guitar) and Bryan...
Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Czarist Russia, she emigrated...
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost...
Andrew Neyer
Andrew Neyer is an American Artist & Designer. He received his BFA in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. Andrew currently lives in Cincinnati with his...
Huong Ngo
b. 1979, Hong Kong; lives and works in Chicago, IL
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Born in 1968 to a Japanese mother and and a Vietnamese father, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba spent his childhood in Japan before moving to the USA to get an education, he now...
Ben Nicholson
Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was a British painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nicholson)
Costantino Nivola
Costantino Nivola (Orani, Sardinia, Italy; July 5, 1911 - Long Island, New York, USA; May 6, 1988) was an Italian sculptor. He is the grandfather of actor Alessandro Nivola and...
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for...
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color Field painters, although in the 1950s he was...
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German Danish painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is...
Paul Nonnast
"born in Carlisle, Pa., 1918. Studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. First worked in a lithograph shop, then in an adevrtising agency in Richmond, Virginia....
Josèfa Ntjam
b. 1992, Metz, France; lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community...
Mollie Oblinger
Solo Exhibitions 2013 in fringes among battered, Allan Priebe Annex Gallery, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh,...
B. Ingrid Olson
b. 1987, Denver, CO; lives and works in Chicago, IL
Taiyo Onorato
Hans Op de Beeck
Visual artist Hans Op de Beeck lives and works in Brussels, where he has developed his career through international exhibitions over the past fifteen years. His work consists of sculptures,...
Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim lived and worked in New York City from 1968 and also in Springs, East Hampton, since 1985. Amy Plumb began as his assistant in 1977 and became his...
Jose Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego...
Yvonne Osei
b. 1990, Hamburg, Germany; lives and works in St. Louis, MO
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Genesis P-Orridge
(COUM Transmissions)
James Paulius
James Paulius was born and raised in Chicago. During high school, he was introduced to industrial design and immediately knew this was the field he wished to pursue. He graduated...
Todd Pavlisko
Born 1974, Cincinnati, OH, USA / Lives & works in NYC, NY Education 2002 Master of Fine Arts, New Genre, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture &...
Alfred Pellan
Alfred Pellan (16 May 1906 – 31 October 1988) was an important figure in twentieth-century Quebec painting. He was born in Quebec City in 1906. From the age of fourteen...
Claudia Peña Salinas
b. 1975, Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico; lives and works in Brooklyn,NY
Alicia Penalba
Alicia Penalba (August 7, 1913 – November 4, 1982) was an Argentine sculptor, tapestry designer, and weaver. Penalba specialized in vertical organic forms and drew inspiration from fellow sculptors Etienne Martin...
Beverly Pepper
Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922) is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was...
I. Rice Pereira
Irene Rice Pereira (August 5, 1902 – January 11, 1971) was an American abstract artist, poet, and philosopher who played a significant role in the development of modernism in America....
Natalie Petrosky
b. 1989, Akron, OH; lives and works in Cleveland, OH
Mary Petty
Mary Petty (April 29, 1899 - March 6, 1976) was an illustrator of books and magazines best remembered for a series of covers done for The New Yorker featuring her...
Antoine Pevsner
Antoine Pevsner (30 January 1886 – 12 April 1962) was a Belarusian sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo. Both Antoine and Naum are considered pioneers...
Pablo Picasso
Picasso was born in 1908 in Malaga, Spain. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the...
George Picken
Born:New York, New York 1898Died:Pittsfield, Massachusetts 1971 (source: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=3796)
Louis Pohl
Louis Pohl (1915 – December 22, 1999) was an American painter, illustrator, art teacher, printmaker and cartoonist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1915. A childhood illness made it...
Sreshta Rit Premnath
Sreshta Rit Premnath (b. 1979, Bangalore, India; lives in Brooklyn, NY) is an artist and the founding editor of Shifter, an issue-based journal focused on contemporary art, creative writing, and...
George Price
George Price (June 9, 1901 – January 12, 1995) was a United States cartoonist who was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After doing advertising artwork in his youth, Price started...
Adam Putnam
Born: 1973Hometown: New York, NYLives and Works: New York, NYEducation: MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2000BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1995 Adam Putnam engages...
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Walid Raad
Walid Raad was born in 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon. After receiving his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1989, he completed his MA and Ph.D. in Cultural and...
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his...
Man Ray
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty,...
Hans Richter
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 – February 1, 1976) was a German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died...
John Ritterskamp
"Working in both sculpture and drawing, Ritterskamp received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University. He has studied with George Rickey, and was the recipient of grants from...
Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers (August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York...
Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (December 23 November] 1891 – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian...
Pia Ronicke
Born in 1974 in Roskilde, DenmarkLives and works in CopenhagenPia Rönicke's videos are collages of heterogeneous sounds and images offering a commentary on urban structure and the modernist conception of...
James Rosati
James Rosati (1911, Washington, Pennsylvania 1911- 1988, New York City) was an American abstract sculptor. Rosati is perhaps best known for his sculptures in stone from the 1960s, and the stainless...
Kay Rosen
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933) is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. Rosenquist was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of...
Bernard Rosenthal
Bernard J. Rosenthal (August 9, 1914 - July 28, 2009), also known as Tony Rosenthal, was an American abstract sculptor. He was the creator of the outdoor cube, Alamo that:...
Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak (May 1, 1907 – September 2, 1981) was an American sculptor and painter. He was born in Posen, Prussia (German Empire), now Poznań, Poland, as a son of...
Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting...
Georges Rouault
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Rouault)
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the...
Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) was a student of Bernd Becher and is one of the leading figures of the acclaimed Düsseldorf School in Germany. For the last...
Edward Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (roo-SHAY; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography,...
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Michael Sailstorfer
Michael Sailstorfer was born in 1979 in Vilsbiburg, Germany, and currently lives in Berlin. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich and Goldsmiths College in London, and has been part of...
Christian Schad
Christian Schad (August 21, 1894 – February 25, 1982) was a German painter associated with Dada and the New Objectivity movement. Considered as a group, Schad's portraits form an extraordinary...
Xanti Schawinsky
"born in Switzerland, 1904. Studied in Zurich, Cologne, and Berlin. Joined the Bauhaus in 1924, where he worked with Schlemmer, Kandinsky and Gropius. Taught stage design there...
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, one of the four founder-members of the artist group Die Brücke. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schmidt-Rottluff)
John Seery
John Seery (born 1941) is an American artist who is associated with the lyrical abstraction movement. He was born in Maspeth, New York, was raised in Flushing, Queens and as...
Peter Sekaer
Peter Sekaer (born Peter Ingemann Sekjær 1901 - 1950) was a Danish-American photographer and artist. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sekaer came to New York in 1918 to seek freedom and opportunity....
Richard Serra
Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art...
Gino Severini
Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time...
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his...
Paul Sharits
Paul Jeffrey Sharits (February 7, 1943, Denver, Colorado—July 8, 1993, Buffalo, New York) was a visual artist, best known for his work in experimental, or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became...
Honoré Desmond Sharrer
Honoré Desmond Sharrer (July 12, 1920 – April 17, 2009) was an American artist. She first received public acclaim in 1950 for her painting Tribute to the American Working People,...
Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American painter andcommercial photographer. He is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the...
Devan Shimoyama
b. 1989, Philadelphia, PA; lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA
Karen Shirley
"An artist working in ceramics, Ms. Shirley is a product of Antioch and Mills College. She has worked in both Japan and Mexico under grants from the Ford Foundation....
Katrin Sigurdardottir
In her work, Katrin Sigurdardóttir explores the way physical structures and boundaries define our perception. Through unexpected shifts in scale, she examines distance and memory and their embodiments in architecture,...
Simparch
SIMPARCH creates large-scale interactive artwork playing upon themes of travel, leisure, frontier myths and popular culture. It will grab the attention of the children as they continue to seek adventure...
Jerome Sirlin
"Holding a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, he received a Master's degree in Urban Design from UCLA. He teaches both architecture and design at Antioch. ...
Tony Smith
Tony Smith (September 23, 1912 – December 26, 1980) was an American sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer, and a noted theorist on art. He is often cited as a pioneering...
David Smith
Roland David Smith (March 9, 1906 – May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. Smith often worked...
Robert Smithson
Smithson is most well-known for his provocative earthwork, Spiral Jetty, made in 1970. He gained international recognition for his groundbreaking art which was not limited by genre or materials as...
Kenneth Snelson
Kenneth Snelson (born June 29, 1927) is a contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity'. Snelson...
Sigurd Sodergaard
"is a well-known Norwegian artist. He studied in Oslo, Norway, and in Paris, and worked as an illustrator on Sunday newspapers and magazines. He fled Norway via England after the...
Joseph Solman
Joseph Solman (January 25, 1909 – April 16, 2008) was a Jewish American painter, a founder of The Ten, a group of New York City Expressionist painters in the 1930s....
Vian Sora
b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq; lives and works in Louisville, KY
Monika Sosnowska
Born in Ryki, Poland, 1972 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznań, Poland, 1993 – 1998 Studied at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 1999 – 2000 S-air, Sapporo, Japan, 2002...
Chaim Soutine
Chaïm Soutine (January 13, 1893 – August 9, 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian Jewish origin. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired...
Carl Sparks
"Working in both photography and drawing, he has had one man shows at the Dayton Art Institute, and the Center for Photographic Studies in Louisville, since joining the Antioch faculty....
Niles Spencer
Niles Spencer (1893–1952) was an American painter who worked in a loose Precisionist style.
Willson Stamper
"Stamper is, at present [1941], teaching in the Art Academy of Cincinnati. His paintings, varied in style, have tremendous emotional content, achieved by a complete abandon to his feelings...
William Steig
William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was a prolific Americancartoonist, sculptor and, late in life, an illustrator and writer of popular children's books. Best known for the...
Kari Steihaug
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Jewish Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of...
Pat Steir
Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker. Steir was born in 1938 in Newark, New Jersey, and currently lives and works in New York City. She attended the Pratt...
Frank Stella
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella continues to live and work...
Michael Stillion
Michael Stillion received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design, and his MFA from Indiana University in Bloomington. He has been the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Full...
Sebastian Stumpf
*1980 in Würzburg, Germany, lives in Leipzig and Berlin Looking at the recent works of Sebastian Stumpf one finds an interplay between performance and the recording of performance, between the execution...
Susanne Suba
"Born in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the U.S. as a small child. She is a water colorist and illustrator of children's books and a regular contributor to the...
George Sugarman
George Sugarman (1912–1999) was an American artist working in the mediums of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Often described as controversial and forward-thinking, Sugarman's prolific body of work defies a definitive...
Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh (b.1962, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. Interested in the malleability...
Kamila Szejnoch
born27.04.1978 Warszawa, Poland Education:2006-2008Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, The NetherlandsDAI public Research & Practice in Art1999-2005Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Department of SculptureAudio-Visual Space SectionArt in the Public Area Section1997-2003Warsaw UniversityDepartment...
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Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.[1][2] Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in...
Yves Tanguy
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter.
Tony Tasset
b.1960 Cincinnati, OH Lives and works in Chicago, IL
Richard Taylor
Rhichard Taylor (1902 - 1907) was a Canadian-born cartoonist whose works were featured in the New Yorker, Esquire, and other publications. (source: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/cartoons/2012/04/19/found-in-the-collection-richard-d-taylor-1902-1970/)
Temporary Services
Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer
Anne Thompson
Anne Thompson is a visual artist whose practice includes writing and curating. Her work draws on systems of communication, with a focus on how context alters meaning and understanding. As...
James Thurber
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, journalist, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published...
Alice Tippit
b. 1975, Independence, KS; lives and works in Chicago, IL
Mark Tobey
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his...
George Trakas
George Trakas is a sculptor who was born in Quebec in 1944 and has lived in New York City since 1963. Many of his projects are site-specific installations, and he...
Ernest Trova
Ernest Tino Trova (February 19, 1927 – March 8, 2009) was a self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor. Best known for his signature image and figure series,...
Nahum Tschacbasov
Born:Baku, Russia 1899Died:New York, New York 1984 Painter, graphic artist. Originally an accountant and efficiency expert, Tschacbasov turned to painting in 1930 and specialized in encaustic. His style was expressionistic and...
Frohawk Two Feathers
Two Featherʼs latest body of work has continued to develop his fictionalized historical narrative, where colonists from the European super-power “Frengland” wage battle against “New Holland.” Blending colonialism and contemporary...
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Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas
Collaborators since 1997; live and work in Vilnius, Lithuaniaand Cambridge, MA
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Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg (30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practised painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader...
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color,...
Allard Van Hoorn
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Jean Varda
Jean (Yanko) Varda (11 September 1893, in Smyrna (now İzmir) - 10 January 1971) was an artist. He was of mixed Greek and French descent. As a child he was...
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh is a designer, illustrator and animator based in Cincinnati. Working from his studio in Mt Auburn, he manages client work while also developing personal projects and designing limited...
Gene Walther
Born:Switzerland 1910Died:San Francisco, California 1968 (source: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=5221) "He studied in Paris under Cassandre and worked as a free lance in Holland, specializing in the field of transportation. Has traveled extensively in...
Lee Walton
Education Walton earned his Masters in Fine Art from the California College of Arts in 2000. He attended three undergraduate programs; Sonoma State University, Chico State University, and San Jose State...
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore...
Marie Watt
Marie Watt is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Born in 1967 to the son of Wyoming ranchers and a daughter of the Turtle Clan of...
Max Weber
Max Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish...
Jordan Weber
b. 1984, Des Moines, IA; lives and works in Des Moines, IA
Andro Wekua
Through his photographs and sculptures, Andro Wekua pieces together fragmented fictions pictorially representing no-where worlds of mystery and intrigue. Born in Georgia and living in Europe, Wekua often bases his...
Tom Wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931, Cincinnati – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wesselmann)
Rondle West
Rondle Royce West was born an artist in 1965 and has been one since! “I believe life experiences have helped me become that artist and have inspired much of my...
Harold Weston
Harold Weston (February 14, 1894 - April 10, 1972) was an influential American modernist painter whose work included impressionism, realism and abstraction, as well as a highly regarded political activist. (source:...
Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one...
Gluyas Williams
Gluyas Williams (July 23, 1888 – February 13, 1982) was an American cartoonist, notable for his contributions to The New Yorker and other major magazines. Born in San Francisco, California, he...
Carmen Winant
b. 1983, San Francisco, CA; lives and works in Columbus, OH
Saskia Olde Wolbers
Saskia Olde Wolbers was born in The Netherlands in 1971. She lives and works in London and is a lecturer at Goldsmith University. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include Yes, these...
Margo Wolowiec
b. 1985, Detroit, MI; lives and works in Detroit, MI
Mike Womack
MIKE WOMACK BIO 1976 Born in Houston, TX Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Boulder, COEDUCATION2005 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn1999 BFA, University of Georgia, AthensSOLO EXHIBITIONS2013Observer Effect, ZieherSmith, New...
Nikki Woods
b. 1990, Cleveland, OH; lives and works in Cleveland, OH
Fritz Wotruba
Fritz Wotruba (April 23, 1907 in Vienna – August 28, 1975 in Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho-Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the most notable sculptors of...
Cedric Wright
George Cedric Wright (April 13, 1889 – 1959) was an American violinist and wilderness photographer of the High Sierra. He was Ansel Adams's mentor and best friend for decades. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Wright)
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Carey Young
Born: Lusaka, Zambia, 1970 Education: MA, 1997, Photography, Royal College of Art, London BA (Hons), 1992, University of Brighton Fellowships, Residencies & Awards: 2013 Honorary Research Fellow, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London 2009...
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Hector Zamore
Héctor Zamora is a Mexican artist based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Working extensively in public space over the past decade, the artist creates major works that often rearticulate the physical...
Toni Zepf
"is a German artist well known in the field of publicity and display. His work was noticed in German publications, and his designs for Container Corporation were contracted for...
Andrea Zittel
Andrea lives and works in Joshua Tree, CA