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 20 January 1951, in Paris.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator.
Agid began his studies in 1970-1971 by taking one course of teaching and research on the environment. He studied architecture between 1971 and 1976, before registering in fine arts at the Université de Paris VIII....
Venezuelan, 20th century, male.
Born 1935, in Santo Domingo.
Environmental artist, sculptor.
Domingo Alvarez was an architect and his sculptural work was limited to the creation of practical environments, a form of plastic expression that was characteristic of the 1960s and 1970s.
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....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1932, in New York.
Collage artist.
Harold Jacobs has shown his work in solo exhibitions in 1964 at the Portland Art Museum, 1973 at the American Institute of Architects in Philadelphia, 1978 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1938, in Milan.
Sculptor, environmental artist, painter.
Ugo La Pietra studied architecture in Milan, where he lives and works. He has exhibited at a number of group exhibitions: in 1968, 1973 and 1974, at the Milan Triennale; in 1968 and ...
American, 20th–21st century, female.
Active in New York and Colorado.
Born October 1959, in Athens (Ohio).
Sculptor, landscape artist, architect.
Environmental Art, Land Art.
Maya Lin studied architecture at Yale University, obtaining a BA in 1981 and an MA in 1986. In 1987, Yale awarded her an honorary doctorate in fine arts. She taught in the Yale art history department, the school of landscape design at Harvard University, and the Phillips Exeter Academy. She also worked as a design consultant and an architectural designer....
Canadian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1947, in Vancouver.
Sculptor, environmental artist.
Murray MacDonald studied architecture and the history of art in Vancouver, and then received a diploma in sculpture from the Vancouver School of Art.
In his favourite forms, which include arches and tunnels on a reduced scale, which he repeats in steel or aluminium in a size progression, he asks questions about space, putting forward the notion of infinity....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1945, in New York; died 1978, in New York.
Performance artist, intervention artist.
Land Art.
Matta-Clark was the son of Roberto Matta. He studied architecture at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), but his studies were interrupted about 1965. In his early years Matta-Clark practised artistic performances in his New York loft, and was interested in graffiti. From his architectural studies he remained absorbed in the analysis of the relationship of man with his habitat in the urban environment. His interventions, especially in New York, but also in Paris with the exploration of the basements of the Opéra and Notre-Dame, and in Milan in ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 18 February 1953, in Paris.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman. Scenes with figures.
Didier Mazuru graduated in architecture in 1980. In a technique indebted to Salvador Dali, he sets, in a hostile environment with constructions inspired by Egypt, figures made up of bits of sculptures randomly pieced together. They appear to be playing some sort of chess game with little sculptures in their own image. He exhibits mainly in solo shows: in Belfort, Montluçon and St-Étienne, Paris, St-Niklaas (Belgium) and the Institut Français in Stockholm....
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 ...
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Active from 1959 in France.
Born 7 July 1916, in Bruges; died 7 February 1994, in Paris.
Painter, engraver, environmental artist. Architectural integration.
Groupe Mesure.
Luc Peire trained at the art school in Bruges, at St Luke's art school in Ghent, and from 1936 to 1939 at the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where his teacher was Van de Woestijne. In 1954 he formed a friendship with Michel Seuphor in Paris, whose aesthetic views he shared. He belonged to various different progressive movements. He travelled a great deal, notably to Spain, Italy, the Congo, Morocco, South Africa and the USA, and settled in Paris in 1959....
Italian, 20th century, male.
Active from 1936 in Argentina then, from 1953, in France.
Born 8 August 1920, in Teana (Basilicata).
Sculptor, environmental artist. Architectural integration.
When very young, barely 15 years old, Teana had to work for a living before leaving Italy for Argentina in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 4 October 1941, in Waco (Texas).
Painter, pastellist, draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, environmental artist.
Bob Wilson studied architecture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn before becoming involved in theatre productions. In 1964, he studied painting under George MacNeill in Paris. He worked with the visionary architect Paolo Soleri in Phoenix Arizona before giving in to his love of the theatre and dance. The dancer Byrd Hoffman had helped him overcome a speech disability, firing Wilson's interest in his discipline, as well as a commitment to people with learning disability. ...
