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Abadgian, Avietik  

Russian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in Moscow.

Born 1952, in Moscow.

Painter. Portraits.

Avietik Abadgian produces paintings in which restrained figures sketched with expansive brushstrokes emerge from a neutral background made up of different flat, wide areas. He has taken part in several national and international exhibitions....

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Abadie, Marie Renée  

French, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 31 May 1947, in the Haute-Garonne.

Painter (mixed media).

Abadie has lived and worked in Paris since 1985, after art and sculpture studies in Toulouse. She also studied fresco techniques in Venice. In Paris, she has exhibited at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture in ...

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Aballéa, Martine  

French, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active in France.

Born 11 August 1950, in New York.

Installation artist, photographer. Multimedia.

Art Narratif.

Aballéa studied epistemology. She lives and works in Paris. Aballéa's work stages natural phenomena and scientific descriptions entirely of her own invention, which she describes using writings in the form of tales. Her work generally involves an environment in which light has a predominant place: 'In my work, I like to tell stories. I tell them through space, image, situation and text. I don't believe in any defined limitation between the real and the unreal, but rather a large, fluctuating zone of possibilities. My works are situated in this large zone.' She willingly refers to Borgès and Lewis Carroll, provoking a mêlée between elements of reality and textual fiction. She often uses photographs re-touched with pastel colours which she accompanies with texts....

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Abate, Alberto  

Italian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1946, in Rome.

Painter. Figure compositions.

Citazionismo.

Work by Alberto Abate appeared in several collective exhibitions from 1977 onwards in Italy, Spain and the USA, and in numerous solo shows in Italian galleries from 1976.

He paints large neosurrealist compositions, peopled by figures from antiquity and mythology....

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Abbas, Akeel  

Iraqi, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active since 1974 active in France.

Born 12 September 1948, in Shamyah (Mesopotamia).

Painter.

Akeel Abbas has shown his works in a number of group exhibitions, including the 2nd Arab Biennale, Kuwait in 1971; Centre Culturel Irakien, Paris in 1975...

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Abbassi, Nasreddine  

Algerian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1949, in Constantine.

Painter, miniaturist. Local scenes, scenes with figures, landscapes.

Nasreddine Abbassi was a student at the Algiers school of art. After doing a number of different jobs, he decided to take up painting as a full-time profession. Since ...

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Abbeel, Jan van den  

Belgian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1943, in Denderbelle.

Painter.

Jan van den Abbeel trained at the academy in Ghent. He explores variations on a single theme.

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Abeles, Kim Victoria  

American, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 28 August 1952, in Richmond Heights (Missouri).

Installation artist, video artist, photographer.

Kim Abeles was an American Field Service student in 1969 in Utsunomiya, Japan, where a Buddhist priest introduced her to traditional Japanese arts. She returned to the USA and studied painting at Ohio University, receiving a BFA in ...

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Abeling, Johan  

Dutch, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1953, in Emmen.

Painter. Landscapes.

Johan Abeling has exhibited with the Galerie Lieve Hemel, Amsterdam, since 1982, having solo shows in 2001 and 2004.

Nieuwendijk, Koen: Met engelengeduld (The patience of a saint), exhibition catalogue, Gal. Lieve Hemel, Amsterdam, 1995....

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Abid, Humaira  

Pakistani, 21st century, female.

Active in Lahore, Pakistan, and Seattle, Washington.

Born in Pakistan.

Miniatures and woodworker.

Women’s issues and refugees.

Acting against her family’s wishes, Humaira Abid attended the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and then decided to master the traditionally male-dominated medium of woodworking. During her studies, she also received a double minor in miniature paintings and continued to push the envelopes of both woodworking and miniature painting through combining the two practices. For her exhibitions it is especially important that the two mediums are married together in order to create a cohesive narrative.

In 2017–2018, Abid had a solo exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington titled Searching for Home. This exhibition immediately transported viewers outside their comfort zones. Upon entering the room the viewer was confronted with a barbed wire fence painstakingly carved from wood. Hanging from the wooden barbed wire was a pair of underwear, again carved from wood, and splotched with red so as to appear stained with blood. Against the other wall was a series of miniature portraits, all of real children from various refugee camps; the wall is littered with bullet holes. Other works displayed in the show included pieces of luggage, baby pacifiers, a breast pump, and a swing, all meticulously carved from wood and often stained with red spots. Each work brings to the forefront the difficult imagery that often accompanies the journey of the refugee and, more specifically, the female refugee....

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Abramović, Marina  

Yugoslav, 20th–21st century, female.

Active in the Netherlands.

Born 30 November 1946, in Belgrade (now in Serbia).

Performance artist. Multimedia.

Conceptual Art, Body Art.

Marina Abramović studied at the fine arts academy in Belgrade from 1965 to 1970 and began executing her first performance pieces, films, and videos between 1973 and 1976. She taught at the fine arts academy of Novi Sad from 1973 to 1975, the year she met Ulay in Amsterdam. They not only shared the same birth date but also the same artistic concerns. That meeting was described thus: ‘When we met for the first time in Amsterdam in 1975, we decided to meet up again on neutral territory, somewhere between Amsterdam and Belgrade. We chose Prague, which is exactly in the middle.’ From that time until the late 1980s, they lived and worked together. They describe their collaborative works as ‘relation-work’, a phrase that expresses their desire for total fusion....

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Abrams, Elizabeth  

American, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 26 March 1954, in New York.

Painter. Figures, landscapes.

Elizabeth Abrams studied at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts from 1971 to 1975 and from 1975 to 1976 at the Pratt Institute of Design in New York. Overlapping with this, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in ...

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Abu-Shakra, Asim  

Israeli, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 11 November 1961, in Umm el Fahm.

Painter (including mixed media), draughtsman. Military subjects, figures, still-lifes, animals.

Asim Abu-Shakra was educated at the college of fine arts in Tel Aviv, where he worked as a teacher in 1987 and ...

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Abueva, Napoleon Veloso  

Filipino, 20th century, male.

Born 1930, in Bohol, Philippines.

Sculptor. Figures, historical subjects, religious subjects, allegory, myths.

Napoleon Veloso Abueva graduated in 1953 from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA), where he was mentored by the first National Artist for Sculpture, Guillermo Tolentino. He received another scholarship from the Fulbright/Smith–Mundt Foundation and in 1955 finished his master’s degree at the Cranbook Academy of Art in Michigan. He also studied at the University of Kansas and Harvard University. Regarded as pioneer of Philippine modern sculpture, Abueva also works in the figurative style and uses a variety of material, such as local hardwood, metal, marble, adobe, and cement. Among his early innovations are his ‘buoyant sculptures’, which he introduced in 1951. Many of his works are at the University of the Philippines campus in Quezon City, including the Crucifix of the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice (1957...

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Achard, Michel  

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1967.

Painter, engraver, photographer.

Achard took some courses at the École d'Arts Décoratifs in Nice, and studied drawing with Velickovic at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in 1987. He has participated in group exhibitions since 1981.

Achard is also an active photographer, working for periodicals, magazines, and especially in film. He draws, paints in oil, acrylic, as well as using airbrushing and engraving. His painted works are directly derived from photography....

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Achour, Boris  

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1966, in Marseilles.

Installation artist, sculptor, action artist, photographer.

Conceptual Art.

Boris Achour, who was a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, received a three-month extra-mural bursary from the Villa Médicis that he spent in Los Angeles in ...

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Ackling, Roger  

British, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1947, in Isleworth (Middlesex); died 5 June 2014.

Sculptor, installation artist.

Process Art.

Roger Ackling was educated at St Martin's School of Art and Ealing College of Art, and held his first exhibition at the London College of Fashion Gallery. He teaches at Chelsea School of Art and Norwich School of Art and Design....

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Ackroyd, Norman  

British, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 26 March 1938, in Leeds.

Engraver, printmaker. Landscapes.

Norman Ackroyd studied at Leeds College of Art (1956-1961) and then went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London for three years, graduating in 1964...

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Adalbert, Per  

Swedish, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1953.

Painter (mixed media).

Stockholm, 30 May 1989: The Original Electric Desert Hotel (1987, mixed media/paper, 21 × 26¼ ins/52.5 × 66.5 cm) SEK 7,200

Stockholm, 19 May 1992: Composition (mixed media, 56¾ × 86½ ins/144 × 220 cm) ...

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Adamowicz, Ewa  

Polish, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active in France from 1988.

Born 1953.

Painter (mixed media).

Ewa Adamowicz graduated from the university college of Cracow. Her work featured in the Salon Comparaisons in Paris in 1990, and she had two solo exhibitions in Poland in 1984...