British, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1966, in Merseyside.
Sculptor, draughtswoman, installation artist. Wordscapes, film. Artist’s books. Artist’s multiples..
Fiona Banner has a BA in Fine Art from Kingston Polytechnic in London, and an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in London. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in ...
German, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1950.
Painter, lithographer, performance artist, photographer. Artists' books.
Fluxus.
Wolf Adam Bottinelli trained at the art academy in Kassel. He appears to have a very free idea of the act of creation, which has brought him close to the ...
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 26 May 1943, in Long Eaton (Derbyshire); died 14 October 2005, in London.
Painter, printmaker, draughtsman, photographer, film maker. Artists’ books.
Artist Placement Group.
Ian Breakwell studied at the Derby College of Art (1961-1965). After graduation, he moved to Smithfields in London. In the 1970s he was a member of the Artist Placement Group (APG) and was posted to the Department for Health and Social Security where he produced a film, ...
French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1953 , in Paris.
Installation artist, photographer, film producer. Artists’ books.
Conceptual Art, Art Narratif.
Starting from a narrative framework, Sophie Calle creates installations, books, films, and even CDs, illustrating an autobiographical experience or exploring the limits between private and public space. Texts accompany the photographs as part of the exhibit on the wall. Artists’ books she has published include: ...
American, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1973, in Hong Kong.
Video artist, multi-media artist, activist, and publisher. Artists’ books
Paul Chan spent his early childhood in Hong Kong but immigrated to Omaha, Nebraska, in his youth. He began his BFA in video and digital arts at the Art Institute of Chicago in ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 22 May 1963, in Paris.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, mixed media, assemblage artist, video artist. Multimedia, artists' books.
Neo-Conceptual Art.
Groupe des Frères Ripoulin.
Claude Closky studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and was a founder member of the Frères Ripoulin group. He was awarded the ...
(b Toronto, 1958).
Canadian photographer, video artist, and writer, active in USA. Davey variously studied design, drawing, and painting at Montreal’s Concordia University, finally settling on photography, in which she received a BFA in 1982. She later earned an MFA at the University of California San Diego, and began post-graduate studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1988. Frustrated by the tendencies of such contemporaries as Andreas Gursky and Gregory Crewdson to, as she put it, ‘overproduce, overenlarge, overconsume’, Davey sought rather to draw on ‘the inherently surrealist, contingent, “found” quality of the vernacular photograph’(Davey 2014).
Davey’s photographs and videos consist predominantly of quiet vignettes from everyday life: homes filled with dusty, over-stuffed shelves, crammed with books, albums, bottles, and art supplies, and tables with momentary arrangements of these objects in use; lovingly rendered still-lifes of the near extinct, ad-hoc displays of button vendors, newsstands, and hi-fi equipment; always suggesting but rarely depicting the acquisitive, inquisitive people living and working in these humble, very much lived-in spaces. Her breakthrough ...
British, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in Germany.
Born 12 November 1965, in Canterbury (England).
Painter, draughtswoman, filmmaker, photographer, installation artist. Artists’ books.
Tacita Dean studied painting at the Falmouth School of Art (graduated 1988), the Supreme School of Fine Art in Athens (1989), and the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1990 to 1992. She lives and works in Berlin.
Dean works in a variety of media, but her preferred medium is 16mm film. The themes of time and memory inform her work, particularly the relationship between fact and fiction in the past and the present. Her films are inherently elusive and attempt to embrace the poetic middle ground between inner and outer worlds. Held together by a sparse narrative, Dean's films observes empty houses, open stretches of water, and vestiges of a forgotten and obsolete past on the verge of disappearance. An overwhelming stillness is generated by lengthy, static takes that excite a curious expectation in viewers as they search for meaning within and beyond the film. There is no narration, but the noises in the streets or gardens penetrate the silence and heighten the sense of foreboding. The sea and the elements are recurring themes in her work and address Romantic notions of the sublime. Her ...
British, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1952, in Galashiels, Scotland.
Book artist, photographer, educator.
Helen Douglas was brought up on a farm in the Scottish Borders. In 1974 Douglas joined Weproductions, which had been started in London by Telfer Stokes in 1971. They made unlimited, paperback offset lithographic editions of their own artists’ books. In ...
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1946, in London.
Painter (mixed media), sculptor, photographer. Artists' books.
Conceptual Art, Land Art.
After studying in London at St Martin's from 1966 to 1968, Hamish Fulton went on to study photography in 1969. Fulton is interested in landscape and has much in common with Land Art, although his approach is quite different. Unlike Richard Long - with whom he travelled in South America - Fulton does not intervene on site. He builds his work around the physical impression that a space leaves on the body when walking, first in timeless photographs with brief captions and then, from ...
Native American (Eastern Band of Cherokee), 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1957, in Baltimore.
Multimedia artist, photographer, illustrator, basket-weaver with paper.
Shan Goshorn, given the Cherokee Wolf Clan name of Yellow Moon, began training in silversmithing at the Cleveland Institute of Art and transferred to the Atlanta College of Art for her final year, receiving a BFA degree in painting and photography (double major) in ...
Swiss, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1963, in Geneva.
Installation artist, video artist. Multimedia, artists' books.
In 1989, Graumann graduated from the École Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva. He has participated in group exhibitions, including 1995, the Biennale de Lyons with his work Raoul Pictore Tries to Find his Style...
Canadian, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1957 in Toronto.
Active in London.
Printmaker (etching, offset lithography, digital prints), installation artist, film and video artist, curator. Artists’ books
DeniseHawrysio studied fine art at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario before completing a master’s degree at San Francisco Art Institute. Her work includes site-specific installations (often involving plasterboard), super-8 film, etching, and lithography but using social engagement, reminiscent of performance. Her artists’ books are typically small in edition and involve cutting up pre-existing materials, for example, ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1955, in New York.
Sculptor, painter, collage artist, installation artist, photographer, draughtswoman. Artists' books.
Conceptual Art.
Roni Horn studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 and at Yale in 1978. She lives and works in New York, where she teaches at the School of Arts, Columbia University....
American, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1950, in Prague.
Active in Rosendale (New York).
Printmaker, photographer, draughtsman, paper maker. Installation art, artists’ books.
Women’s Studio Workshop.
Tatana Kellner was born in Prague and grew up in communist Czechoslovakia as the daughter of Holocaust survivors. After the Soviet invasion in ...
American, 20th century, female.
Born 15 April 1947, in Lexington (Kentucky).
Artist, printmaker, writer, teacher, photographer. Artists’ books
Susan King was born and grew up in Kentucky, where she graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BA in art. After college she worked for Byron Temple Pottery in Lambertville, New Jersey. From there she moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico and obtained an MA at New Mexico State University. After hearing Judy Chicago speak at her school, she travelled to Los Angeles to be part of the experimental Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building, a public centre for women’s culture. King stayed in Los Angeles and began making artists’ books at the Women’s Graphic Center. She founded Paradise Press and opened her own studio in West L.A. King returned to Kentucky in ...
American, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1955, in Germany.
Active in England and Brittany, France.
Installation artist, photographer, printmaker, writer, editor, educator. Artists’ books, artists’ multiples.
Sharon Kivland studied at Liverpool School of Art and at the London College of Printing. Later she took a masters degree at Goldsmith’s College, London (...
Austrian, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in Rotterdam and Vienna.
Born 1970, in Vienna.
Painter, draughtswoman, engraver, video artist, performance artist, installation artist, photographer, mixed media. Artists' books.
Elke Krystufek paints her own body, produces self-portraits and writes her thoughts across her works; a woman's life constantly historiated and revisited. Her work is a feminist claim that also illustrates the increasingly artificial boundary between private and public life today and the logical consequences of this: the representation of our emotions, 'déjà-vu' replacing the true 'ego' that the artist is actually trying to reach. Though she accepts an affinity with the Expressionist Egon Schiele, she does not recognise any association with Viennese Actionism. Among her performances, mention may be made of the following: ...
American, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 22 July 1955.
Graphic designer, writer, photographer, teacher. Artists’ books.
Warren Lehrer received his BA degree in fine arts from Queens College and an MFA from Yale University. Writing and bookmaking, the combination of words and images, were central to his practice throughout his career. He is best known for his books made in the 1980s, which featured experimental design and typography to express multiple narrative voices, in what he often referred to as ‘plays’ or ‘theatre’. He has said that after these early works, he became more serious about the stories he was telling, and shifted to cleaner, more legible, designs, as in the ...
Canadian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1956, in Vancouver.
Painter, performance artist, installation artist, photographer. Artists' books.
Conceptual Art.
Ken Lum graduated from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he began teaching in 1990. He was a visiting professor in the late 1990s in institutions in Paris, Munich and China. He was awarded a Killam Award for Outstanding Research in ...
