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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 – 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 ...

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 21 July 1948, in Toulon.

Sculptor, environmental artist, assemblage artist.

Jean Allemand is one of the co-founders of the Space group. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1967. He creates environments by assembling geometric structures.

Allemand has participated in collective exhibitions in Paris: since ...

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.

Graffiti art, street art, political art.

Banksy is an anonymous English street artist who emerged in the art world in the early 1990s. Originally a freehand graffiti artist, he transitioned to using stencils by the early 2000s. Satirical and political in nature, his works typically depict rats, children, celebrity figures, policemen, and apes to who address issues of capitalism, urban decay, war, consumer culture, greed, and corruption. He usually works illegally, painting directly onto the facades of buildings and other structures.

Often, Banksy will appropriate canonized art works. Such is the case in his transformation of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, wherein Banksy copies the older painting but includes urban detritus like shopping carts and traffic cones. Another provocative spoof, completed in 2004, was the Banksy of England £10 Notes, wherein he replaced the image of the Queen of England with that of Princess Diana and circulated the high-quality counterfeit bills....

British, 20th–21st century, male.

Born 1963, in England.

Book artist, printmaker, graphic designer, installation artist, art director, writer, educator. Community art, environmental art.

After a Foundation course at Lanchester Polytechnic, Lanchester (1981–1982), Les Bicknell studied graphic design at the London College of Printing (...

Belgian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in Antwerp.

Born 1946, in Antwerp.

Installation artist.

Neo-Conceptual Art.

Guillaume Bijl did his first installation in 1979. In his installations, he recreates the functional environments of the world of work, setting up incongruities in contrast with the artistic domain they are presented in. An artificial sun-tanning salon is perfectly recreated with a bike and blue neons, a 'found sculpture' is a polling booth or an ensemble of four street lamps around a tub of flowers - a perfect example of street furniture. Bijl's work might be construed as a critique of the art of the object based on the simple technique of displacement of context....

Swedish, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1957, in Stockholm.

Painter (mixed media).

Ernst Billgren studied at the Valand art academy (1982-1987). HIs paintings are presented with a flourish not dissimilar to Pop Art practices, the complexity of which adds a theatrical, distancing dimension. He has had many solo exhibitions in Sweden, and has participated in collective exhibitions in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Brasil and Mexico....

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1945, in Paris.

Painter, installation artist, intervention artist, performance artist, photographer. Multimedia.

Conceptual Art, Land Art, Body Art.

The beginnings of Borgeaud's work, as it was to develop subsequently, can be dated from 1969, the year of the exhibition event ...

British, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1967, in Glasgow.

Sculptor, installation artist.

Martin Boyce studied in the Environmental Art Department at Glasgow School of Art from 1986 to 1990. He completed an MFA there in 1997. In 1991 he participated in the seminal Windfall exhibition which served as an important catalyst for drawing attention to Glasgow as a major centre for conceptual art....

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Active since 1973 active in England, after Germany.

Born 28 January 1924, in Brussels; died 28 January 1976, in Cologne.

Painter (including gouache/mixed media), engraver, installation artist, environmental artist.

Conceptual Art.

Marcel Broodthaers bowed to his father's wishes and enrolled at university in 1942 to study chemistry, but quickly dropped out to become a poet. By the late 1940s, he was running a small bookshop and moving in literary circles, frequenting the Surrealists and becoming a willing co-signatory to the various tracts levelled at the time against André Breton. He was a close friend of René Magritte. In 1957, Broodthaers published his first volume of poems: ...

British, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1965, in Glasgow.

Video artist, multimedia artist.

Roderick Buchanan studied Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art and completed an MA in Fine Arts at the University of Ulster. He lives and works in Glasgow.

In his videos, installations, screen projections, sculptures and photographs, Buchanan takes his hometown of Glasgow as a vantage point from which to explore global issues of national, social, cultural and religious identity. Glasgow has a long history of sectarian tension that is reflected in the rivalry between the city's two major football clubs, Celtic and Rangers. In works such as ...

French, 20th century, male.

Born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-sur-Seine.

Painter, installation artist, environmental artist.

Conceptual Art.

BMPT Group.

Daniel Buren was a pupil in Paris at the École des Art Appliqués, then the École des Beaux-Arts, where he was a fellow student of Parmentier, Viallat and Kermarrec. In the 1960s he travelled very widely. Daniel Buren seldom takes part in group exhibitions, though there have been a few exceptions, such as the Paris Biennale des Jeunes of ...

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1958.

Sculptor, installation artist, assemblage artist, environmental artist.

Bernard Calet lives and works in Tours. His sculpture - 'assemblies', 'installations' or 'environments' - is clearly anchored in architecture; its principal components are tiled floors, steps, bull's-eye windows, and so on. On occasion, he integrates dull metallic mirror surfaces, notably in the form of steps. Significantly, these 'mirrors' - typically made from tin foil or matt photographic paper - distort and dissipate rather than reflect. This imparts a decided ambiguity to his work, articulating paradoxes and ambiguities rather than holding a mirror up to reality....

Portuguese, 20th century, female.

Active in France from 1958.

Born 1930, in Funchal (Madeira).

Painter, installation artist, environmental artist, illustrator. Multimedia.

Lourdes Castro studied at the school of art in Lisbon for ten years. Following a stay in Munich, she went to Paris in 1958...

Canadian, 20th century, male.

Monique born in 1944 in Montreal, Yvon born in 1942 in Saint-Servant (Morbihan), France.

Painters, assemblage artists, environmental artists.

Monique and Yvon Cozic have worked together since 1968, assembling discarded objects that they have rescued. They often use plush fabric to create relationships between hard and soft. In their later work they have explored the ritual of wrapping, but in a different way from Christo, using zips and washing line. They have also flirted with Arte Povera, conceptual art and other forms of experimentation, but as far as environmental art is concerned have tended to intervene on the existing environment rather than create environments of their own. The phenomenon of intervention art, which has become internationally established in recent years, came to public attention at the Paris Biennale exhibition of ...

Canadian, 20th century, male.

Born 1936, in Montreal.

Painter, print artist (woodcuts), ceramicist, installation artist, mixed media. Murals.

Land Art.

During the 1950s, René Derouin studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal and the Institut des Arts Graphiques. For some years, he studied with Pablo O'Higgins, one of the founders of the Mexican popular studios, and at the Esmeralda School of the University of Mexico, which had been founded by Diego Rivera. He settled in Val-David, in the Laurentians, north of Montreal. In ...

British, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1948, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sculptor, environmental artist, installation artist.

Land Art. Eco Art.

Chris Drury studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1966 to 1970. He works with nature to create original forms such as cones, tumuli, sheafs, bundles and fungi....

Swiss, 20th century, male.

Born 1940, in Geneva.

Intervention artist, mixed media.

Conceptual Art.

Gérard Ducimetierre stages interventions and events, making observations on what he calls the planetary environment. He will launch an event simultaneously in different places around the world; these are ephemeral moments with no real importance, intended as an examination of the behaviour of a neutral object (such as a piece of paper) which is discarded at the same time in several towns around the globe. Alternatively, he will look at an object from a different angle, for example by planting a tree upside down....

Canadian, 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1937, in Marquette (Manitoba).

Sculptor, mixed-media artist. Fabric art, environmental art.

Aganetha Dyck is best known for her sculptural work that involves a long-term collaboration with bees. Dyck places ready-made items in beehives, often repeatedly, and the bees build honeycombs onto the surfaces of these objects. An early example is her series ...