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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 (...
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 ...
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.
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 century, male.
Born 17 June 1931, in National City (California).
Painter, video artist, photographer. Artist’s books.
Conceptual Art.
John Baldessari lives and works in Santa Monica, California. At the end of the 1950s, he decided to abandon painting and burned his pictures. He has stated that he profoundly disagreed with art in general, and therefore decided to give people what they understood best: written language and photography....
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 century, male.
Active naturalised in France.
Born 9 September 1874, in Moscow, USA; died 1947, in Montevideo (Uruguay).
Painter. Figure compositions, portraits.
Manuel Barthold learned the art of drawing in the USA, then went to Paris in 1894, where he was a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1972.
Installation artist, video artist.
Julie Becker creates architectural interiors, such as Researchers, Residents, a Place to Rest of 1996. These models, which look like tiny cells, contain the possessions (such as furniture and diaries) of the various occupants (for example, the son of the psychopathic killer in Stanley Kubrick's film ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1951, in Seaford (Delaware).
Screen printer.
Gretchen Bender lives and works in New York.
Bender's work addresses the issue of media that use new technology such as computers and videos for marketing purposes. She aims to highlight the way in which works of art are appropriated and used in advertising, thus trivialising them and blurring the distinction between art and publicity, in a way that threatens to erode the nature of creativity. ...
American, 20th century, female.
Born 1934, in Los Angeles.
Sculptor, ceramicist, draughtswoman, print artist, photographer, film maker. Figures, scenes with figures. Murals.
Camille Billops has a BA from California State College and an MFA from City College in New York. She settled in New York, where in ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 29 October 1946, in New York.
Video artist, installation artist.
Dara Birnbaum studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, receiving a degree in architecture in 1969. She also obtained a degree in 1972 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and studied at the New School of Social Residence in New York in ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1950, in Brook Alexander, New York.
Installation artist, video artist, poet.
David Bunn graduated with a master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and has received several awards and fellowships including two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships, the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship and the Ethel Fortner Award for creative writing....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1937, in New York.
Installation artist, video artist.
Peter Campus trained in psychology and cinematography. In the early 1970s, as part of a trend started by Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci, Campus, who was a proponent of video environments, became interested in the body, in how it is perceived and its identity. During the 1980s his work moved towards the perception of elements of nature with his 'lithic portraits' - black and white photographs of stones projected onto walls....
American, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 4 February 1959, in Fulton (Missouri).
Mixed media artist, video artist.
Nick Cave received his BFA at Kansas City Art Institute in 1982, and in the summer of 1979 studied at the Alvin Ailey School of Dance. He continued with graduate studies at North Texas University and then completed his MFA in 1989 at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His Soundsuits, in addition to his other series, are inspired both by fine art and elements of contemporary culture. Ultimately, these sculptures, which are both worn and displayed statically, are inspired by his materials. The highly textured fabrics and found materials are often sourced from flea markets and then assembled into loosely anthropomorphic costumes that are hand constructed by Cave himself and his assistants. He also creates two-dimensional works in addition to a variety of mixed media sculptures and video works such as his 2012 film, Blot...
