Welcome to Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- A comprehensive and definitive resource for artists’ biographies, published since 1911
- Includes 149,000 biographies as well as auction records, exhibition histories, and over 11,000 images of artists’ signatures and stamps of sale
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Wu Tsang
Wu Tsang’s work grapples with the idea of “in-betweenness,” eschewing binaries and instead exploring ideas and people as fluid, porous entities.
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Lauren Halsey
Installation artist Lauren Halsey works across painting, sculpture, and architecture, infusing her identity as a Black woman with references to her South Los Angeles roots and issues of social and civic urgency.
In this update, Grove Art Online publishes 156 articles with updated structure, as well as related emendations.
Explore the full list of what has been recently published and revised on Oxford Art Online.
Letter from the Editor
Read a letter from Benezit’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Valerie Cassel Oliver, discussing her editorial approach and the work underway to expand Benezit’s coverage of emerging artists, varied media, and artists of diverse social and cultural backgrounds.
Collection Guides
Join Benezit on a tour of unique art collections around the world! Written by experts and curators, our Collection Guides present the history and highlights of museums and galleries. Follow links to related texts in Oxford Art Online and around the web to learn more about the artists in these outstanding collections.
