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 ...
Israeli, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 1964, in Tel-Aviv; died 10 October 1993, in Paris.
Installation artist, environmental artist, video artist.
Absalon lived and worked in Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Christian Boltanski.
Absalon produced maquettes for ‘Utopian’ furniture upholstered entirely and uniformly in aseptic white plastic. Totally impractical, his furniture simply represents a desire to mark a departure from everyday convention. There is a strong element of play in some of his work, as in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 24 January 1940, in New York.
Painter, sculptor, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Body Art, Conceptual Art.
Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He studied at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and at the University of Iowa. He has taught in various art schools and universities and in particular at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and the Parsons School of Design in New York....
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 15 November 1948, in Des Moines (Iowa).
Environmental artist, video artist, installation artist.
Dennis Adams lives and works in New York and Berlin. Adams' work focuses on the relationship between architecture and images taken from political literature. He creates architectural environments that act as frameworks for text, photographs and other images. These environments, which are either temporary or permanent, are public places. The series of ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 3 August 1955, in Bristol (Pennsylvania).
Painter, sculptor, video artist, installation artist.
Lisa Adams studied at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1976; Scripps College, Claremont, California, obtaining a BA in 1977; and Claremont Graduate University, receiving an MFA in ...
Uruguayan, 20th century, female.
Born 1928, in Montevideo.
Painter, engraver.
Having taught herself to paint at a very early age, Afamados de Sans enrolled in the engraving course at the national college of fine arts in Montevideo. She participated regularly in the national salon, where she obtained first prize in ...
French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1953, in Troyes.
Sculptor, draughtsman, installation artist, video artist.
Hélène Agofroy lives and works in Paris. The origins of Hélène Agofroy's sculptures can be found in the paintings of the Quattrocento. She is interested in the positioning of objects in Italian frescoes and paintings. She studies their multiple perspectival effects, then incorporates them into her sculpture. From common elements, such as wood, plaster and resin, Agofroy builds light, open worked sculptures of complex geometric design. They invoke overturned hulls, light cradles, or, as in ...
Finnish, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in Helsinki.
Born 1959, in Hämeenlinna.
Video installation artist, film producer, photographer, performance artist.
Conceptual Art.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila was a student at the university of Helsinki from 1980 to 1985 and studied film and video at the London College of Painting. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1954, in Pittsburgh.
Video artist, film maker.
Peggy Ahwesh learned her craft by working with the horror director George Romero and as a film programmer at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Inc. She was assistant professor of Film and Electronic Media at Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College (...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1968, in Redondo Beach (California).
Installation artist, photographer, film maker. Multimedia.
Doug Aitken is a graduate of the Pasadena Art Center College of Design. He started as art director for Fatboy Slim, Iggy Pop and Barenaked Ladies' video clips. He operates from New York and Los Angeles. His installation ...
Belgian, 20th–21th century, female.
Born 1950, in Brussels, Belgium; died 2015, in Paris.
Installation art, video, film, documentary.
Chantal Akerman was an artist whose films, documentaries, videos, and installations revolve around women’s inner lives and the ever-present possibility of an explosive disruption of the domestic sphere. Akerman was born to Holocaust survivors from Poland, a topic that further inspired and influenced her experimental and feminist films. Akerman passed away in 2015 at the age of 65. Her death is believed to have been a suicide.
Akerman’s rising interest in the unpredictability of the everyday can be seen in her very first film from 1968, Saute Ma Ville (Blow Up My City), which she conceived at the age of 18 after she dropped out of film school. For 13 minutes the viewer watches the artist dance through the kitchen, accompanied by cheerful humming and singing that is brutally silenced when she leans her head against the gas-lit burners and the room explodes....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 7 May 1943, in Wichita (Kansas).
Sculptor, environmental artist, performance artist, video artist.
Terry Allen studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, receiving a BFA in 1966. His work is inspired by his travels in Mexico, Thailand, China and Colorado. He has taught at California State University Fresno (...
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 30 October 1971, in Wigan.
Sculptor, film maker, video artist.
Young British Artists.
Darren Almond graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1993. He won the Toshiba Art and Innovations Prize in 1996. He was nominated for the 2005...
Belgian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Mexico.
Born 1959, in Antwerp.
Painter, draughtsman, video artist, photographer, installation artist.
Francis Alÿs is of Belgian origin but has lived in Mexico since 1986. He trained as an architect at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice....
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born January 1957, in Montpellier.
Painter, draughtsman, photographer, film maker.
Amarger met the group
His sculptural works occupy the domain of letters and the hypergraphic, meaning that of new signs having no previous meaning. Most often his graphic compositions in mixed media contain photographic materials....
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 19 February 1946, in Washington DC.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, photographer, video artist, glassmaker, decorative designer. Theatre design.
AfriCobra Group.
Akili Ron Anderson attended the Corcoran School of Art and Howard University in Washington DC where he lives and works. He is a member of AfriCobra (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) founded in ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1955, in Caen.
Painter, draughtsman, installation artist. Posters.
As well as being a painter and an installation and video artist, Jean-Luc André is also a theoretician and a member of the experimental music group Déficit des Années Antérieures (DDAA). He also teaches at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Bourges. He has initiated a series of movements, among them the Front de Brouillage International in ...
American, 20th century, female.
Born in Montevideo (Uruguay).
Sculptor.
Juanita d'Aniello was taught by Jean d'Aniello and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1929.
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1912, in Ferrara.
Film maker, painter, writer. Landscapes.
An intuitive painter, Michelangelo Antonioni uses watercolour, oil and sometimes unexpected materials. He then makes photographic enlargements of his paintings and exhibits the enlargements. On several occasions he has taken his painter's brush to his films, colouring in natural settings artificially, notably in ...
Greek, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Germany.
Born 1954, in Athens.
Draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, video artist. Multimedia.
Michalis Arfaras first studied painting at the school of fine arts in Athens between 1972 and 1974. He continued his studies at the college of fine arts in Brunswick in Germany where he specialised in engraving and produced book illustrations and comic strips. He now lives and works in Hildesheim where he teaches graphic art at the university....
