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 ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 5 June 1947, in Chicago.
Installation artist, performance artist, photographer, musician.
Computer Art (Multimedia Art).
Laurie Anderson graduated in art history at Barnard College in 1969, and obtained a second degree of Fine Arts in sculpture from Columbia University in ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Installation artist, video artist, photographer, sculptor, film maker. Multimedia.
Beth B. attended art school as a child. She studied at University of California, Irvine, and at San Diego State University, and obtained a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She took her initial as a surname from 'B-Movies', the film company she founded in New York City in the late 1970s. Beth B. has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the New York State Council on the Arts. She is co-founder of the artists' group Collaborative Projects Inc. She lives in New York City....
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in New York and Berlin.
Born 1949, in Columbus (Ohio).
Installation artist, sculptor, mixed media, video artist. Multimedia.
Judith Barry studied finance, architecture and art at the University of Florida, graduating in 1972. She received an MA in Communication Arts from New York Institute of Technology in ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1952.
Sculptor, video artist. Multimedia.
Ken Feingold took part in the 1995 Lyons Biennale, with an interactive sculpture entitled Childhood/Hot and Cold Wars.
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 27 September 1965, in Billings (Montana).
Installation artist, performance artist, video artist, writer. Multimedia.
Andrea Fraser studied at the School for Visual Arts (1982(1983) and at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York (...
(b Cleveland, OH, 1959).
American printmaker, film maker, installation and conceptual artist and writer.
Green, of African descent, has worked primarily with film-based media, and has published criticism and designed installations that reveal her commitment to ongoing feminist and black empowerment movements. She earned her BA from Wesleyan University in 1981 and also spent some time at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1980, returning in the late 1980s to study in the Whitney Independent Study Program, graduating in 1990. At the age of 24 she began exhibiting her comparative compositions containing found objects, images, and texts that question recorded history.
Green’s work deals with issues of anthropology and travel. By undertaking projects via the methodology of the 19th-century explorer, she exposed the arbitrary and prejudiced nature of classification, as in Bequest (1991; see 1993 exh. cat.), an installation she made at the invitation of the Worcester Museum of Art to commemorate their 50th anniversary. Using the museum as a ready-made stage set, she installed works of art alongside 19th-century texts explaining stereotypes of whiteness and blackness. Green characteristically intervened in the history of her chosen site to produce a fiction that included her own responses as an African American woman to her findings. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1956, in Lima (Ohio).
Performance artist, installation artist, photographer, video artist. Multimedia.
Ann Hamilton studied at the University of Kansas, and at Yale (geology, sculpture and textiles). She lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. A multimedia artist, her earliest shows featured numerous performance works in complex, often vast environments. Her installations are conceived as 'temporal intersections', incorporating the cultural history, geography and socio-economic characteristics of a particular site. Her work engages every area of the human experience, based on the principle that an object should 'take physical possession' of the viewer, before an attempt is made to name it (and hence to 'pin it down'). Each installation implicates a specific sensory environment and highly personal gestures. In ...
(b Lima, OH, June 22, 1956).
American installation artist, photographer, and video artist. Hamilton is known for creating complexly structured, highly sensual, site-specific environments that investigate visual and aural relationships with the human body. Hamilton studied textile design at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and sculpture at Yale University School of Art in New Haven. Using a wide range of metaphorical and associative materials, her installations function in the chasm between immediate experience and memory and frequently address the antinomy of creation and destruction in art.
In Privations & Excesses (1989; San Francisco, CA, Capp Street Project), Hamilton sat in a room whose floor was covered with 750,000 pennies, while obsessively wringing her hands in a hat filled with honey and, in an barred space behind her, several sheep grazed. In topos (1993; New York, Dia Center for the Arts), a figure seated in the midst of an expansive sea of interwoven horsehair, fastidiously erased printed letters from a book with a heating coil. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1941, in Cleveland (Ohio).
Photographer, video artist, digital artist, performance artist.
Lynn Hershman studied at the Case Western Reserve University, graduating with a BA in Education, Museum Administration and Fine Arts in 1963. In 1972 she obtained a Master's degree in Fine Art from San Francisco State University. In the 1970s Hershman created a series of pseudonyms, including the art critics invented for her Master's dissertation, ...
American, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1955, in York (Pennsylvania).
Assemblage artist, installation artist, photographer, mixed media. Multimedia.
Neo-Conceptual Art (Neo-Geo), Appropriation Art, Neo-Pop Art.
Jeff Koons trained for three years at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and subsequently at the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives and works in New York, Germany and Italy. Before embarking on an artistic career he worked on Wall Street as a commodities broker, and his artwork and his conception of the role of the artist remain suffused with ideas and concepts drawn from this earlier experience: the artist survives by supplying commodities to a specific market, governed by the laws of consumerism, speculation and marketing....
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in Canada.
Born 1946.
Video artist. Multimedia.
Montreal (MAC): Dutch Light; Textual Actions (1991)
Ross, Christine: Perspectives holistiques dans la vidéo-fiction féministe au Quebec (1978-82), dissertation, Department of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, 1984....American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 6 August 1945, in Salt Lake City.
Sculptor, draughtsman, performance artist, installation artist, photographer. Multimedia.
Paul McCarthy received a BFA in 1969 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA in film at the University of Southern California in ...
(b Fort Wayne, IN, Dec 6, 1941).
American conceptual artist. Recognized as one of the most influential, innovative, and provocative 20th century American artists, Nauman extended the media of sculpture, film, video, photography, and sound with performance and spatial explorations. Nauman attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1960 to 1964, with early studies in mathematics and physics, which broadened to the study of art under Italo Scanga (1932–2001). He received a master’s degree in Fine Art from the University of California, Davis in 1966 under William T. Wiley, Robert Arneson, Frank Owen (b 1939), and Stephen Kaltenbach (b 1940) and honorary degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute (1989) and California Institute of Art (2000). In 1966 he began to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Nauman’s interactive artworks and performances explore the syntactical nuances of language, text, and figurative gesture to create material culture and in-between places, which often result in a heightened sense of physical and emotional awareness. Nauman’s artistic explorations of spatial perception, bodily consciousness, physical and mental activity, and linguistic manipulation were demonstrated in interactive spatial compositions that accentuated various relationships between the human body and built environments. Early works included body castings and holographic self-images with subsequent works situating the viewer within their own mental and bodily perceptions. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in New York.
Born 1959, in Honolulu.
Sound installation artist, photographer.
Kristin Oppenheim trained at the San Francisco State University from 1981 to 1984, and gained an MFA from Hunter College in New York in 1989. Although she has gained recognition for her photographic work - several of her portraits of children were shown both in the ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 19 May 1957, in New York.
Painter, draughtsman, sculptor, installation artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Tony Oursler studied at the California Institute of Arts, receiving a BFA in 1979. He is interested in the creative use of new video technology as an artistic tool. Oursler is best known for his surrealistic installations in which he combines a moving image, spoken text and sculptural objects, creating a complete mediated environment for the viewer to enter, like ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Belgium.
Born 1947, in Brooklyn (New York City).
Painter, sculptor, performance artist, video artist, assemblage artist, musician.
Charlemagne Palestine lives and works in Brussels. He is a multimedia artist who experiments with all forms of art: painting, sculpture, music, video and performance....
American, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 12 October 1939, in Fox Chase (Pennsylvania).
Performance artist, assemblage artist, installation artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Neo-Dadaism, Feminist Art, Body Art.
Carolee Schneemann received a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, and an MFA from the University of Illinois. She also studied at Columbia University School of Painting and Sculpture, New York; the New School for Social Research; and Universidad de Puebla, Mexico. She has taught at the University of Illinois (...
Native American (Chitimacha/Choctaw), 21st century, female.
Born 1980, in Sacramento (California).
Photographer, filmmaker, installation artist, curator.
Sarah Sense is a multimedia artist who started her artistic education at California State University, Chico, gaining a BFA in 2003. She then continued her studies at New York City’s Parsons School of Design, obtaining an MFA in ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 3 October 1949, on Long Island (New York).
Installation artist, photographer. Multimedia.
Neo-Conceptual Art.
Laurie Simmons studied art at the Tyler School of Art in Temple University, Philadelphia, and graduated in 1971. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship in ...
