New York, California. Born 1943
Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre
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Born 1969 Stockton, California. Known for: Silhouette figures, racial themed work.
Known for black paper cutout silhouettes, Kara Walker also does wall texts, and many of her images depict sex, bestiality, and sadism in what is intended as anti-racist parody. She is part of a... Read full biography
Known for black paper cutout silhouettes, Kara Walker also does wall texts, and many of her images depict sex, bestiality, and sadism in what is intended as anti-racist parody. She is part of a generation of controversial African-American artists who deals with stereotypical black images in a... Read full biography
Known for black paper cutout silhouettes, Kara Walker also does wall texts, and many of her images depict sex, bestiality, and sadism in what is intended as anti-racist parody. She is part of a generation of controversial African-American artists who deals with stereotypical black images in a confrontational way. One of her prints tilted A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, was pulled from a show in 1999 at the Detroit Institute of Arts because it was an antebellum plantation scene... Read full biography
Known for black paper cutout silhouettes, Kara Walker also does wall texts, and many of her images depict sex, bestiality, and sadism in what is intended as anti-racist parody. She is part of a generation of controversial African-American artists who deals with stereotypical black images in a confrontational way. One of her prints tilted A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, was pulled from a show in 1999 at the Detroit Institute of Arts because it was an antebellum plantation scene that offended some of the African-American artists. In 2002, she was selected to represent the United States at the Sao Paulo Biennial, running from March 23 to June 2nd. Walker was born in Stockton, California where her father was an art teacher at... Read full biography
Known for black paper cutout silhouettes, Kara Walker also does wall texts, and many of her images depict sex, bestiality, and sadism in what is intended as anti-racist parody. She is part of a generation of controversial African-American artists who deals with stereotypical black images in a confrontational way. One of her prints tilted A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, was pulled from a show in 1999 at the Detroit Institute of Arts because it was an antebellum plantation scene that offended some of the African-American artists. In 2002, she was selected to represent the United States at the Sao Paulo Biennial, running from March 23 to June 2nd. Walker was born in Stockton, California where her father was an art teacher at the University of the Pacific. When she was 13, she moved with her family to Atlanta, Georgia, where her fat... Read full biography
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United Kingdom, Scotland. Born 1964
Painting and sculpture
New York, Connecticut. Born 1970
Contemporary realism-figure and genre painting
New York. Born 1973
Abstract expressionist painting-religious subjects
New York, Illinois. 1922 - 2004
Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage
New York. Born 1969
Rorschach sculpture, social commentary
New York, Massachusetts. Born 1962
Large-size realistic portrait painting, charcoal close-ups
New York / Netherlands, South Africa. Born 1953
Abject figurative and portrait painting and drawing-narrative
New York. Born 1933
Minimalism, conceptualism, installation sculpture
New York / Japan. 1936 - 2010
Modernist genre-caligraphy, graphics
New York / England. Born 1962
Large scale minamal form richly colored painting
Texas, New York. Born 1957
Torn ornate fabric and text image painting, punk propaganda, conceptual
Arizona, California. 1925 - 2009
Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects
India, United Kingdom. Born 1954
Modernist object sculpture, installation
New York, Illinois. Born 1977
Found object, multi-media sculpture, photography, black art themes
New York, Nevada. Born 1979
Paintings, sculpture
England, Scotland. 1920 - 2014
Naive iconic abstract painting
Germany. 1930 - 2025
Painting, assemblage, sculpture
New York. Born 1969
Abstract figurative, animal, landscape
New York, California / Canada. 1945 - 2003
Performance art-light explosions, video art
Switzerland, Germany. 1952 - 2013
Painting, graphic design, sculpture, photography, teaching
Illinois / South Africa. Born 1973
Urban planning themes, installations, performance art, sculpture
Connecticut, New York. 1945 - 2017
Black portrait figure social commentary painting
New York. 1936 - 2024
Multi-media, modernist figure, collage-assemblage, happenings
New York. 1939 - 2018
Abstract mosaic-like paintings, African-American themes, wood carved sculpture
New York / Austria. 1947 - 2012
Large-scale and whimsical sculpture, installation, painting
New York, California. 1934 - 2011
Minimalist sculpture-dark lacquered, shining forms, painting
New York, New Mexico / Greece, India. Born 1941
Sculpture-knot shaped 'environments', fountains, graphics
Germany. 1941 - 2010
Pop art painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography
New York, Connecticut. Born 1953
Neo-conceptual abstract painting, printmaking, teaching
California / Germany. Born 1972
Geometric block sculpture, collage, abstraction, video installation, painting
France, Germany. 1904 - 1989
Painter-abstraction