German, 20th century, female.
Born 1934, in Frankfurt am Main.
Painter, installation artist.
Bauermeister lives and works in Cologne. In 1961, her work was featured in a group exhibition alongside American Pop artists Jaspar Johns and Robert Rauschenberg at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; all three artists were unknown at that time. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1959, in Barbados.
Sculptor, installation artist.
Neo-Conceptual Art (Neo-Geo), Appropriation Art, Neo-Pop Art.
Ashley Bickerton lives and works in Los Angeles. He arrived on the American art scene in the mid-1980s. With Peter Halley, Jeff Koons and Meyer Vaisman, Bickerton, he belongs to the group of artists known as the ...
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....
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 25 June 1932, in Dartford, England.
Painter, collage artist, draughtsman, illustrator, sculptor.
Pop Art.
The Brotherhood of Ruralists.
Peter Blake is a well-known and sought-after British Pop artist who initially gained fame and notoriety with his images created for musical entertainment, sporting events and other advertisements, which included both collage and painted elements. Blake studied at the Royal College of Art in London between 1953 and 1956, where the second wave of English Pop Art was launched by the pupils there. He was awarded the Leverhulme Research Award in 1956 to study popular art. Between 1956 and 1957, he made an extended journey to Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Holland, and Belgium), and, in 1961, he was awarded the first Junior Prize from the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. In 1964, he was appointed a lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London and at the Walthamstow School of Art. In 1975, he was a founder member of the group of artists called The Brotherhood of Ruralists, whose artists had an interest in the romantic connotations of the countryside and landscape. Blake left the group in 1983, at the time of his retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. From 1994 to 1996, he was Associate Artist at the National Gallery in London....
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1938, in Berlin.
Painter.
Pop Art.
Initially, K.P. Brehmer's work was formally very close to American Pop Art to the extent that he produced collages based on everyday objects, excerpts from the media and photographic or mechanical reproduction techniques to arrive at a distorted image of today's world and the consumer society. Subsequently, however, his work acquired more pronounced political undertones by the interpolation of two key elements - postage stamps and fragments of geopolitical maps. Brehmer also worked in cinema, directing films which focused on the problem of perception....
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 18 November 1933, in McPherson (Kansas); died 7 July 2008, in San Francisco.
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker, collage artist, assemblage artist, sculptor, filmmaker.
Pop Art, Funk Art.
Bruce Conner studied at Wichita University; at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he received a BFA in 1956; at Brooklyn Art School (1956); and at the University of Colorado (1957). He moved to San Francisco in 1957, where he was a prominent figure in the Beat community. In the 1950s, Conner began to create complex assemblages of found objects such as costume jewellery, bicycle wheels, broken dolls – often shrouded in women’s nylon stockings or combined with collaged and painted surfaces. His assemblages explored the concepts of beauty, death, and loss of innocence, and often displayed a sense of morbid eroticism, as in The Bride (1960) and Ratbastard (1958). Conner began to produce short films in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1935, in Cincinnati.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, assemblage artist, happenings artist, draughtsman, lithographer, photographer.
Neo-Dadaism, Pop Art.
Jim Dine spent his childhood in his father’s painting and plumbing tool shop. He studied at the University of Cincinnati and then at Ohio University, leaving with a Bachelor of Arts in 1957. He also followed courses at Boston Museum School. In 1958 he settled in New York, participating in the birth of Pop Art and, more especially, Happening Art, participating in avant-garde group exhibitions. However, this allegiance to Pop Art has to be moderated to some extent; even though historically he lived this experience, he always added a somewhat poetic, sentimental nuance and retained an attachment to pictorial problems, something that brought him closer to another artist who found himself isolated during this period: Cy Twombly.
Influenced by Allan Kaprow, he took an interest in the environment, exhibiting in ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 2 September 1939, in Godalming (Surrey).
Painter, collage artist, sculptor. Figures.
Pop Art.
Anthony Donaldson studied at the Slade School in London until 1962 and then at the Chelsea School of Fine Art. He was quick to pick up on the Pop Art that was popular in the 1960s and that derived its imagery from advertising, the cinema and magazines, and he soon became one of the major figures of British Pop Art. He used a collage technique to evoke striptease shows, showing a preference for muscular, sporty beauties. Later his painting became disengaged from the anecdotal element while still relying on images drawn from the mass media, advertising and photography....
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1941, in Naples.
Painter.
New Representationalism.
Bruno Donzelli uses images based on figurative Pop Art and creates collages in which he juxtaposes these images with assemblages of forms. Since 1961 he has exhibited in all the principal Italian cities: Florence, Genoa, Venice, Rome, Milan and Naples....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 15 April 1934, in Sevran.
Painter (mixed media).
Pop Art.
Alain Dufo studied at the College of Decorative Arts in Nice before spending five years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. It seems probable that he also studied fine arts inasmuch as he went on to teach in various high schools and colleges, rising to the grade of assistant professor. His early work saw him participating in various Pop Art exhibitions and happenings, where his largely figurative work was distinguished by its inherent sense of humour. Overall, Dufo's painting divorces itself from conventional materials and formats, preferring to generate a sense of illusion which goes beyond trompe l'oeil. He paints 'plays on images' (analogous to 'plays on words') using transparent foundations to achieve unusual effects, such as a woman in her bath on the recto face and, on the verso, the submerged parts of her anatomy. His body of work and his choice of material is such that he continually poses the question: what is image and what is reality?...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1949, in New Haven (Connecticut).
Painter (mixed media), draughtswoman, watercolourist, engraver, lithographer.
Neo-Pop Art.
Carroll Dunham almost always paints on panels, integrating the natural unevenness of the wood into the structure of the work. Influenced by Pop Art, she creates biomorphic abstractions and tragi-comic figures combining grotesqueness and power. These creatures, which come from comic book culture and what is known as 'low art', are nevertheless painted with a skill that places them in the pictorial tradition of 'high art'. Peter Schjeldahl has compared her work to a confrontation between and a graffitist in a public toilet and Helen Frankenthaler. The interior violence of the paintings became more accentuated in the 1990s, expressing the multiple contradictions of contemporary American society....
French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 20 June 1953, in Paris.
Painter (mixed media), screen printer.
Pop Art.
Dominique Fury points to the influence of Pop Art in her work, with its techniques, silk-screen transfers to canvas and images borrowed from the media, which she has freely put to her own use....
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 ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1942, in Turin.
Painter, sculptor, installation artist, performance artist.
Computer Art (Virtual Art).
Gilardi came into favour with the great wave of Pop Art that broke over the USA, but stood apart from it, sympathising more with the exponents of Arte Povera. He creates his ...
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 ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1937, in Oklahoma City.
Installation artist.
Joe Goode studied at the Chouinard Institute in Los Angeles. He takes objects from popular culture and uses Pop Art to turn them from their original function and place them into a monotone or empty 'spiritual' context. He began exhibiting in ...
real name Charles Rogers Grooms
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1 June 1937, in Nashville (Tennessee).
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, performance artist, environmental artist, installation artist, filmmaker.
Neo-Dadaism, Pop Art.
Born Charles Rogers Grooms, the red-headed Red Grooms studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1955), the New School for Social Research in New York (1956), and under Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts (1957). He was one of the first performance artists amongst others such as Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, and Robert Whitman. Grooms introduced his ‘happenings’ in New York City as early as 1957, the most famous being The Burning Building at the Delancey Street Museum. Grooms’ style of performance art, non-verbal yet with its theatrical narrative flow and comedic elements, quickly transferred into filmmaking, and he produced Shoot the Moon (1962), after A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 20 November 1936, in Paris.
Painter, mixed media. Scenes with figures.
Nouvelle Figuration, Figuration Narrative.
Influenced by Pop Art, and with something distinctly European about him (although in some respects he puts one in mind of Peter Saül, among others), Gérard Guyomard has developed his own individual brand of humour, with much erotic innuendo. In what he calls his 'studio strategy', he brings together seemingly unrelated observations and actions. He sometimes refers to celebrated works from the past, and transfers elements of everyday life into unfamiliar situations. When he deals with the difficulty of interpreting a situation, which can seem like an unsolvable jigsaw puzzle, his work is reminiscent of the enigmatic sculptures of Hervé Télémaque. Unlike artists such as Rancillac or Jan Voss, who frequently vary their themes and styles, Guyomard's work displays a high degree of continuity. His compositions, which are entirely painted, are constructed in the manner of collages. The draughtsmanship is efficient and confident, and though the execution is often deliberately shaky, the vivid acrylic coloration, skilfully applied, can seem electrifying. The profusion of characters, situations and events in his art, and the graphic and pictorial means he employs to depict them, have created a uniquely personal universe that never ceases to fascinate....
British, 20th century, male.
Born 24 February 1922, in London, England; died 13 September 2011, in Oxford, England.
Painter, collage artist, draughtsman, engraver.
Pop Art.
Independent Group.
Richard Hamilton began his artistic training as a student at Westminster Technical College, followed by St Martin’s School of Art in 1936, the Royal Academy (1938–1940), and finally the Slade School in London (1948–1951). He was a draughtsman in a factory from 1940 to 1946, a lecturer at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1952 to 1966, and a professor in design first at the Royal College of Art (1967–1961) and then at the University of Durham (1956–1958), where he taught with Victor Pasmore. In 1952, he was a member of the Independent Group, which included Eduardo Paolozzi and Reyner Banham, amongst others. In 1966 he organised the Marcel Duchamp retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London. In 1982, his Collected Works...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1930, in Valrico (Florida).
Painter, assemblage artist, happenings artist.
Neo-Pop Art.
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
Alex Hay combined real objects and printed images in the spirit of Pop Art. He produced happenings and wrote experimental theatre pieces. In ...
