Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 11 February 1881, in Quargnento (Alessandria); died 13 April 1966, in Milan.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, collage artist, engraver (including etching), lithographer, decorative designer, art theorist. Landscapes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes, seascapes. Frescoes.
Futurism, Pittura Metafiscia (Metaphysical Painting), Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism...
Native American (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation), 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1946, in Montana.
Printmaker, photographer, conceptual artist, installation artist.
Corwin Clairmont, or ‘Corky’, received his MFA from California State University, Los Angeles in 1971. His early work, concerning social and environmental issues, earned him a Ford Foundation Grant (...
French, 20th century, male.
Active in Paris.
Installation artist, art theorist.
Computer Art.
Edmond Couchot is director of research projects and professor at the Université Paris VIII. He directs the department Arts et Technologies de l'Image (Arts and Technologies of the Image). As a theoretician, Couchot is interested in the relationship between art and technology, notably image arts and computer techniques. He has published several articles and a book on the subject. As an artist, he stresses the notion of the interactivity between man and computers using sound and the voice. Techno-scientific capability with regard to computer visualisation is an invitation to more extended thinking about the range of the so-called numerical image. The latter is not a representation of reality, but rather it gives a simulation of it, or more precisely according to F. Popper's definition, 'the numerical image of synthesis is no longer the optical projection of a pre-existing object, but the visualisation of a numerical model that simulates the object'. Virtuality follows on from the discovery of digitizing, from the possibility of handling all support material according to a logical mathematical matrix of numbers, which reciprocally becomes speech, sound, music, painting, drawing, writing or noise. The numerical image includes images of synthesis, images of graphic, photographic, cinematographic or videographic origin. This new image is no longer static once and for all; it continually reacts to programmed data. From the reality of life, it is towards the virtuality of experience that we are oriented, where space and time are, in principle, recreated....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 7 June 1931, in Eatonton (Georgia).
Painter, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, print artist, sculptor, collector, art historian. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, figure compositions, scenes with figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.
David C. Driskell earned a BFA at Howard University in ...
(E.A.T.)
Not-for-profit organization, founded 1966.
In late 1965, the artist Robert Rauschenberg and the engineer Billy Klüver organized a project for 10 artists – John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman – to collaborate with a group of 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop performances that incorporated the new technology.
9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering took place at the 69th Regiment Armory at 25th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City from 13 to 23 October 1966, with more than 10,000 people attending the performances. The energy and excitement generated by the collaborations and the performances led Rauschenberg and Klüver, the artist Robert Whitman, and the engineer Fred Waldhauer, in September 1966, to found Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a not-for-profit organization to promote collaborations between artists and engineers like the ones that had developed during their work on ...
Native American (Okanagan), 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1953, in Omak, Washington.
Printmaker, muralist, sculptor, mixed-media artist. Collage, glass.
Born in 1953, Joe Feddersen is an Okanagan member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, and a Native American artist. He earned his BFA at the University of Washington (...
Native American (Cheyenne and Arapaho), 20th–21st century, male.
Born 22 November, 1954, in Wichita (Kansas).
Painter, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, conceptual artist, educator.
Edgar Heap of Birds is one of the most distinguished North American indigenous artists of his generation. His works reveal a distinctly critical and historical awareness of the ways that American Indian peoples, their histories and their viewpoints have been ignored and written over under colonialism. He has received numerous honours, presenting his work in competition for the United States Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (...
German, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1961, in Brussels.
Installation artist, video artist.
From 1979 to 1985, Carsten Höller studied agronomy in Kiel, before embarking on his artistic career. His work is based on the future and the Darwinian theory of the evolution of the species as developed most famously by biologist Richard Dawkins. This theory repudiates, as far as evolution is concerned, any notion of romanticism about universal love and the well-being of species. Effectively, genes programme the living organism in a selfish way; their primary function is replication. So Höller’s works, which are mainly interactive installations, take pleasure in demythologising our so-called altruistic, but unconsciously selfish, behaviour and propose new approaches to the subject, particularly in the fields of sex and passion. Nevertheless, the human species has the ability to operate in the cultural domain, as demonstrated in his video, Chaffinches of Love, in which the artist teaches love songs to chaffinches....
American, 20th century, female.
Born 5 April 1938, in Worcester, Massachusetts; died 8 February 2014, in New York.
Sculptor, installation artist, filmmaker, photographer. Land Art, Environmental Art, Public Art, Post-Minimalism.
Nancy Holt received a BA in Biology from Tufts University in 1960 and then briefly travelled through Europe, before moving to New York City. There, she met influential Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists, many of whom would become collaborators, including: Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Joan Jonas, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Richard Serra. Holt’s early artistic output was primarily photography, video, and Concrete poetry, mediums in which she continued to work throughout her career....
Russian, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 8 August 1943, in Tripoli, USSR (now Republic of Georgia)
Photographer, painter, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist.
Soviet Nonconformist Art; Moscow Conceptualism.
Collective Actions (group).
Igor Makarevich grew up Tbilisi, Georgia before moving to Moscow in 1951. From 1955 to 1962...
American, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 27 May 1944, in New York City.
Installation artist, sculptor, designer. Land Art, environmental art, site-specific art.
Mary Miss studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara, graduating with a BA in 1966. She received her MFA from the Rhinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Art Institute in ...
Canadian First Nations (Kwakwaka’wakw), 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1969, in Comox (British Columbia).
Conceptual artist, installation artist, sculptor.
Marianne Nicolson is a Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations artist and intellectual. In 1996 she graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and went on to earn an MFA from the University of Victoria in ...
Native American (Crow), 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1981, in Billings (Montana).
3D, collage and installation artist, photographer, printmaker.
Wendy Red Star, member of the Crow Nation and niece of noted Crow painter Kevin Red Star, works in a variety of media to produce multi-layered artworks which point to complexities in indigenous North American experience today. Drawing particularly on her years growing up near to the Crow Indian Reservation in Northern Montana, in collages such as ...
Native American (Tuscarora), 20th century, female.
Born 1956, in Sanborn (New York).
Photographer, installation artist, curator, and professor.
Jolene Rickard received her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, an MS from Buffalo State College and her doctorate from the University of Buffalo. Rickard is particularly interested in the transfer of Native oral traditions and cultural knowledge both on and off the reservation. Her art installations and photographs reference her Haudenosaunee/Tuscarora heritage and the importance of teaching and learning in the Native community. In the exhibit ...
Lithuanian, 20th century, female.
Born 5 November 1894, in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania; died 20 May 1958, in Moscow.
Painter (including gouache), collage artist, photomontage artist, designer, graphic designer, illustrator, poet, writer and theorist. Figures, landscapes. Stage sets, artist's books.
Constructivism. Productivist group. VKhUTEMAS.
Varvara Stepanova studied at the Kazan School of Art in Moscow in ...
Native American (Muscogee Creek and Seminole), 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1951, in Wewoka (Oklahoma).
Sculptor, installation artist.
C. Maxx Stevens was born in Oklahoma but raised in Wichita, Kansas. Her training began in the 1970s when she gained an Associate of Arts degree from Haskell Indian Junior College in ...
African American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 17 March 1976, in Plainfield (New Jersey), United States.
Photographer, conceptual artist. Appropriation art. Mixed media.
The New York–based artist Hank Willis Thomas received a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography and Africana studies from New York University and later received his master of fine arts degree in photography and visual criticism from the California College of Arts. As a photo-conceptual artist, he uses found imagery from advertisements and mass media to explore and provoke themes related to identity, race, gender, history, and popular culture. He refers to himself as ‘a visual cultural archaeologist’ and has spoken at length about the influence of Carrie Mae Weems and of his mother, the photographer Deborah Willis.
In 2006, Thomas presented two exhibitions wherein he reproduced found advertisements and digitally removed the accompanying logos, products, and taglines to obscure the saleable item and reveal the ugly truths about representation. For ...
