Togolese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 11 November 1968, in Lomé.
Painter (mixed media).
A self-taught artist, Tetevi Azankpo works with recycled materials such as rusting receptacles, lengths of metal wire and rubber to produce fantasy figurines.
He has exhibited at group exhibitions, among them ...
Argentinian, 20th century, male.
Painter, sculptor, mixed media, architect.
Bedel's works are metaphorical. In relief to varying degrees, he combines shiny metal with dull organic materials to create models that resemble towns, while privileging the evocation of the book form. He gives poetic expression to his pessimistic preoccupations concerning the future of humanity....
German, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in London.
Born 1976, in Hamburg.
Video artist.
Bernd Behr is a graduate of Goldsmiths College in London in the arts. His most notable creation is a film on DVD, Theatre of Emptiness ( Théâtre du Vide), which consists of a loop of film of a man climbing a high gateway. This film was shot at the exact spot where Yves Klein took his famous photograph ...
Canadian, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in England.
Born 1966, in Fort Frances (Ontario).
Installation artist.
Angela Bulloch studied at Goldsmith's College in London, where she lives and works. She was awarded the Whitechapel Artists Award in 1989, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 1962, in Lahore, Pakistan; died 1994.
Installation artist.
Hamad Butt graduated from Goldsmiths College in London in 1990. In his installations he explored scientific phenomena and in particular the experience of viral invasion. Butt died from AIDS in 1994.
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British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1966, in Nottingham.
Installation artist, video artist, photographer, sculptor. Multimedia.
Young British Artists.
Mat Collishaw studied at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic from 1985 to 1986, and at Goldsmiths College, London from 1986 to 1989. He held a residency at the Camden Arts Centre ...
British, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in England.
Born 18 April 1948, in Karachi, Pakistan.
Installation artist.
Conceptual art.
Ceal Floyer studied at Goldsmith’s College (1991-1994) in London.
With a marked simplicity and subtlety, Floyer challenges common assumptions regarding representation. Combining a minimalist vocabulary with a conceptual framework and a Dadaist playfulness, she plays with the viewer’s apprehension of art in contrast to everyday objects and confounds the desire to locate signifiers of complex, hidden meaning. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 27 May 1924, in Rodez.
Painter (mixed media), engraver, lithographer, medallist. Landscapes.
After studying at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Pierre Fournel qualified as a teacher of drawing in 1949. In 1950 he was appointed to teach in Montpellier and settled in the village of Castelnau. He produced medals of Joseph Delteil and Jean Hugo for the Paris Mint as well as commemorative medals of the Marquis Jean Pierre and Gabriel Couderc, founder of the Musée Paul Valery in Sète....
British, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in London.
Born 1963, in Paisley, near Glasgow.
Sculptor, installation artist.
Ephemeral material.
Anya Gallaccio studied at the Kingston Polytechnic (1984-1985) and at Goldsmith’s College in London (1985-1988). In 1998 she was awarded the Sargent Fellowship by the British School in Rome. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in ...
Native American (Choctaw, Cherokee), 20th-21st century, male.
Born 31 March 1972, in Colorado.
Painter, sculptor, mixed-media artist.
Jeffrey Gibson received a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago (1995) and an MFA from the Royal College of Art (1998), which was funded by his tribal group, the Mississippi Band of the Choctaw Nation. Since ...
Austrian, 20th century, male.
Born 1936, in Villach.
Sculptor, painter, installation artist, draughtsman.
Bruno Gironcoli first studied to be a goldsmith in Innsbruck, then followed courses in fine arts from 1957 until 1959, and decorative arts from 1960 until 1962, at the academy in Vienna. He then spent two years in Paris. He lives and works in Vienna, where he has taught at the school of decorative arts and the art college since ...
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Ireland from 1990.
Born 1961, in Great Britain.
Painter (mixed media).
Pop Art.
From 1980 to 1984, David Godbold studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design and then at Goldsmiths College in London. In 1999 to ...
British, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 7 June 1965, in Bristol.
Assemblage artist, installation artist, painter.
Conceptual Art, Young British Artists.
Damien Hirst studied at Goldsmiths College, London (1986–1989). In 1988, while still a student, he curated the seminal exhibition Freeze in a disused industrial building in the East End of London. This exhibition launched his career, along with that of a number of other young artists from Goldsmiths such as Mat Collishaw and Michael Landy. It also attracted the attention of collector Charles Saatchi who bought two of his works. In 1992, he was included in the Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. He won the Prize three years later in 1995.
In his glass tank installations, paintings, and cabinet sculptures, Hirst uses media that challenges conventional ideas of high art and popular culture. For his first solo exhibition, In and Out of Love...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in La Charité-sur-Loire (Nièvre); died 1994.
Painter (mixed media), watercolourist, draughtsman, engraver, medallist.
Surrealist group.
Marcel Jean studied at the Paris École des Arts Décoratifs from 1919 to 1921. He did a number of different things until 1924 and then went to the USA to work as an industrial draughtsman. He must have returned to France in the early 1930s, when he was involved in the Surrealist movement. From 1938 to 1945 he lived in Hungary, working mainly as a writer and publishing an essay called ...
Norwegian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1948, in Bergen.
Painter (mixed media).
Lyn Group.
Bjorn Krzywinski trained at the College of Art in Cardiff from 1966 to 1967 and at the Goldsmith College of Art, London from 1968 to 1969. A member of the
British, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1967, in Penzance.
Installation artist, photographer, printmaker.
Young British Artists.
Abigail Lane studied at Bristol Polytechnic (1985-1986), and at Goldsmiths College, London (1986-1989). She co-curated the seminal Freeze exhibition with Damien Hirst and became one of the group of artists that came to be known as the Young British Artists....
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1959, in London.
Painter, installation artist, video artist, curator, writer.
David Mabb was educated at Hastings College (1976-1977), and in London at Goldsmiths College (1977-1980) and Chelsea School of Art (1980-1981). He teaches fine art at Goldsmiths College....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 27 January 1921, in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Died 10 June 2012.
Painter (including mixed media/gouache), watercolourist, performance artist, medallist, ceramicist. Designs for mosaics.
Georges Mathieu was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He left for Versailles in 1933 then, during the war, went to Lille, where he studied law, philosophy and obtained an degree in English. In 1942 he worked as a teacher in a secondary school in Douai. He was then an interpreter and teacher for the American armies in Cambrai, Biarritz and Istres. In 1947 he settled in Paris, and was elected to the Institut de France....
British, 20th–21st century, male.
Active in Amsterdam,
Born 1969, in London.
Installation artist, video artist, filmmaker.
Steve McQueen studied art at the Chelsea School of Art in London and graduated from Goldsmiths’ College at the University of London in 1993. From 1993 to 1994, he studied cinema at the Tisch School of Arts in New York. He lived in Berlin in 1999, supported by a bursary awarded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1999 at the Tate Gallery in London.
McQueen’s first film was Bear (1993), a silent film shot on 16mm in black and white showing two naked fighters in action. He went on to make short films on Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm, which he then exhibited as installation works in darkened rooms. In the Life/Live exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1996...
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1958, in London.
Painter (mixed media), sculptor of assemblages.
New British Sculpture.
From 1979 to 1982, Julian Opie studied at Goldsmith’s School of Art in London. In 1995 he was resident at the Atelier Calder in Saché, where he prepared his ...
