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 ...
Canadian First Nations (Oji-Cree), 20th century, female.
Born 28 March 1971, in Yorkton (Saskatchewan).
Installation artist, ceramicist, photographer, sculptor, printmaker.
KC Adams studied at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, where she received her BFA in Studio Arts in 1998. Her artistic practice was further developed through artists’ residencies in Canada, at institutions in Banff, Charlottetown and Winnipeg. During her ...
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, male.
Born 12 November 1948, in Kankakee (Illinois).
Painter (mixed media). Scenes with figures, figures.
Born into a family of Sicilian immigrants, Nicholas Africano was raised in Kankakee, a small town south of Chicago. He studied art and literature at Illinois State University, graduating in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1913, in New York; died 1993.
Sculptor, assemblage artist.
Peter Agostini studied at the Leonardo da Vinci School in New York. He took part in international collective exhibitions such as the 1963 São Paulo Biennale. After 1960 he held numerous solo exhibitions in New York and a few in Chicago. He taught at Colombia University ...
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 – 21st century, male.
Born 1966, in New York.
Sculptor, painter, installation artist. Murals.
Ricci Albenda studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, including courses in architecture, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988. His interest in architecture (as well as in graphic design and physics) figures prominently in his installation art, in which he creates environments which challenge the viewer's spatial perceptions. He uses such materials as fibreglass, wallboard, aluminium and acrylic paint. In his exhibition ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1939, in Los Angeles.
Sculptor, painter, collage artist.
Minimal Art, Finish Fetish, Light and Space.
Peter Alexander studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1962, the Architectural Association of London from 1960 to 1962, and the University of California ...
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, female.
Born 1974, in Philadelphia.
Installation artist.
Jennifer Allora collaborates with the Cuban artist Guillermo Calzadilla. She operates from Cambridge (Massachusetts) and Puerto Rico.
2003, Common Wealth, Tate Modern, London
2004, Ciclonismo, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2004, How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1925; died 1969.
Painter (mixed media), watercolourist, draughtsman.
John Altoon appears to have dealt with a variety of subjects.
2005, West! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach 1962-1978, Weismand Art Museum, Minneapolis (a selection of sixteen artists who influenced the development of Frank Gehry's architectural career)...
American, 20th century, female.
Born 1937, in El Paso (Texas).
Assemblage artist, mixed media.
Celia Alvarez Munoz was of Mexican ancestry but lived and worked in Arlington, Texas.
She assembles photographs that ask questions about her childhood through words and pictures and tell anecdotes about initiatory experiences....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1954; died January 2001.
Painter (mixed media).
New York, 7 May 1991: Untitled (soft chalk, lead and graphite/wood, 24 × 19¼ ins/61.2 × 48.8 cm) USD 2,860
New York, 30 June 1993: Untitled (1987, wood and lead, h. 24 ins/61 cm) ...
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 – 21st century, male.
Born 1954, in Syracuse (New York).
Painter (mixed media).
Doug Anderson has taken part in several group exhibitions, including shows at the Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California, in 1989; the Galerie Arteunido in Barcelona; the Stux Gallery in New York; in ...
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 century, male.
Born 13 November 1930, in Plainview (Georgia); died 10 November 2006, in New York (New York).
Painter, collage artist, installation artist, sculptor, photographer, illustrator, draughtsman, watercolourist, print artist. Figures, portraits, interiors with figures, landscapes, animals.
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, Rhino Horn Group
African-American artist Benny Andrews was the second of ten children born to George and Viola Andrews in the small rural farming town of Plainview, Georgia. He served in the US Air Force during the Korean War. Upon his honorable discharge, Andrews moved to Chicago and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating with a BFA in 1958. He then moved to New York, where, in 1969, with Cliff Joseph and Valerie Maynard, he founded the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), the aim of which was to force the major museums to include work by African-American artists in their shows. Andrews helped organize protests of several major museum shows including the Whitney Museum of American Art’s ...
