American, 20th century, male.
Born 17 June 1931, in National City (California).
Painter, video artist, photographer. Artist’s books.
Conceptual Art.
John Baldessari lives and works in Santa Monica, California. At the end of the 1950s, he decided to abandon painting and burned his pictures. He has stated that he profoundly disagreed with art in general, and therefore decided to give people what they understood best: written language and photography....
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: ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1941, in Düsseldorf.
Assemblage artist, painter, draughtsman, photographer. Artists' books.
Conceptual Art.
A conceptual artist who was recognised in the 1960s, Hans-Peter Feldmann left the art world in 1976 and only resurfaced in the 1980s. He lives and works in Düsseldorf. He works from reproductions, photocopies or plaster busts, which he might paint and retouch. In his unsigned images and objects produced as series, he increases the references to his own culture. His work could also draw on the concept of plagiarism as a criticism of the world of art and culture, invaded by these mass-produced images....
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 ...
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....
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 ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1946, in Carcassonne.
Sculptor, installation artist, draughtsman, illustrator, photographer, film maker.
Conceptual Art.
Patrick Raynaud studied cinema and has produced and directed films.
In 1972 he directed a series of films including one on Robert and another on Sonia Delaunay. He also produced children's books and a series of graphic compositions. From ...
Canadian, 20th–21st century, male.
Active in USA 1964–1972.
Born 10 December 1928, in Toronto.
Painter, sculptor, collage artist, lithographer, video installation artist. Artists’ books.
Conceptual Art.
Michael James Snow was a student at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto from 1948 and graduated in 1953. He spent time in Europe in 1954–1955. He also made a name for himself as a jazz musician. He mainly chooses the most ordinary subjects and objects from everyday life, which he empties of their usual significance in order to transmute them by making their place in space and time perceptible. His early works were figurative, interiors and figures. However, from 1961, he particularly exploited the theme of the ...
