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- Mira Schendel
- Mira Schendel or Myrrha Dagmar Dub, 1919 - 1988, was a Swiss artist living in Brazil, was considered as one of the exponents of contemporary Brazilian art. In 1994, his works were exhibited in a special room on the 22th International Biennial of São Paulo. The artist is represented in the following museums: MoMA, Tate Modern in London, and more. ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Mira-Schendel-Artist-1680/
- Absalon
- Absalon, 1964–1993, Israeli installation artist. During his short career he achieved widespread recognition for the 1:1 scale architectural models that he constructed of idealised living units. The installations can be viewed as the reduction of the utopian aims of early modern architecture to the level of individual subjectivity.Source: tate.org.uk ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Absalon-Artist-1681/
- Man Ray
- Man Ray, 1890 – 1976, was an American visual artist involved in painting, photography, collage, and film; was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements. He was best known for his photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. In 2013, Man Ray's photograph Noire et Blanche (1926) was featured in the United States Postal Service's Modern Art in America series of stamps.Source: wikipedia ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Man-Ray-Artist-1684/
- Maurice Benayoun
- Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen), 1957-, is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong, got over 30 awards internationally. His multimedia work employs various media, including (and often combining) video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.Source: wikipedia ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Maurice-Benayoun-Artist-1686/
- Jeremy Blake
- Jeremy Blake, 1971 – 2007, was an American digital artist and painter. His work included projected DVD installations, Type C prints, and collaborative film projects. He was selected to participate in the Renaissance Society group exhibition, "All the Pretty Corpses", in 2005. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Source: wikipedia ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Jeremy-Blake-Artist-1687/
- Maurizio Bolognini
- Maurizio Bolognini, 1952-, is an Italian post-conceptual media artist. His installations explore the potential and implications of new media technologies starting from the minimal and abstract activation of processes that are beyond the artist's control, at the intersection of generative art, public art and e-democracy. Source: wikipedia ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Maurizio-Bolognini-Artist-1688/
- Janet Cardiff
- Janet Cardiff, 1957-, is a Canadian female artist of sound installations; especially a form she calls audio walks. Janet Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995. Janet Cardiff got National Gallery of Canada Millennium Prize.Source: wikipedia ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Janet-Cardiff-Artist-1689/
- Lewis L.
- Lewis L. (1979 - ) is contemporary Chinese artist who often creates works through painting (or drawing), computer aided method, photo taking, collage, mixed media and other complex methods. In the early period, the style of his works tends to be conceptional and critical realistic. The artist confessed that “Personality and value determine one’s fate. Living in a society where money means everything, it seems that I was wrong in the early part of my life.” He has devoted himself to explore ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Lewis-L.-Artist-1698/
- Wu Guanzhong
- Wu Guanzhong (1919.8.29-2010.6.25, Chinese name 吴冠中), born in the city of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China, was a contemporary Chinese painter, and an educator of modern painting. He taught at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and won many honors at home and abroad, for example, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, corresponding academician of Académie des Beaux-Arts. The artist was famous for both his artistic achievements and his moral character. He had published more than 40 alb ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wu-Guanzhong-Artist-1675/
- Wu Zuoren
- Wu Zuoren (1908.11.3-1997.4.9, Chinese name 吴作人), born in the city of Suzhou, was a contemporary Chinese artist famous for oil painting and traditional Chinese painting. He was the chairman of China Artists Association and the Dean of China Academy of Fine Arts, and was also in charge of other positions. He was honored with “Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture and a top level Belgian royal honorary order. Between 1966 and 1972, due to the ongoing G ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wu-Zuoren-Artist-1674/
- Chu Teh-Chun
- Chu Teh-Chun (1920.5.22-2014.3.26, Chinese name 朱德群) was a Chinese-French painter who was born in Xiao County, Anhui Province. He was the first academician of Chinese origin in the Académie des Beaux-Arts. The famous Chinese painter Wu Guanzhong claimed him to be “the one who has influenced my whole life”. The artist held more than 50 exhibitions at home and abroad. His works are collected by Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Saint Louis University, Musée royal d'art moderne à Bruxe ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Chu-Teh-Chun-Artist-1669/
- Zhang Xiaogang
- Zhang Xiaogang (1958- ; Chinese name 张晓刚), born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, was a world-renowned contemporary Chinese painter. He has been taking part in important exhibitions at home and abroad frequently since early 1990s and has won many international prizes. He began to be known world-wide when his “Bloodline: the Big Family” series were collected by many European museums in the beginning of 21st century. The artist expressed collective psychological memories and emotions by using the ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Zhang-Xiaogang-Artist-1667/
- Yue Minjun
- Yue Minjun (1962- ; Chinese name 岳敏君), a famous contemporary Chinese painter who was born in the city of Daqing, has held many solo exhibitions at home and abroad. His works are collected by many museums at home and abroad, for example, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Francois Mitterrand Cultural Center. His typical male images that close their eyes and smile exaggeratively with their mouth wide open are regarded as a kind of nationalization and marketization. They are often connect ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Yue-Minjun-Artist-1665/
- Wang Yidong
- Wang Yidong (1955-; Chinese name 王沂东), born in the city of Penglai, Shandong Province, is one of the most talented contemporary Chinese oil painting artists. He is a member of the council of China Artists Association and also teaches at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has been holding solo exhibitions in the US, Hong Kong, Macao, Germany and other countries and regions. He integrates the classical western oil painting and the aesthetic connotation of Chinese ethnic culture into his w ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wang-Yidong-Artist-1664/
- Wang Guangyi
- Wang Guangyi (1957- ; Chinese name 王广义), born in Harbin, is a Chinese installation artist and painter and a main participant in the “Chinese New Art Movement” (“85 New Wave Movement”). He went through the 10-year Great Cultural Revolution in China when he was young. His traditional Chinese paintings are collected by Jiang Zemin, Li Peng and other Chinese State Leaders. He has held many solo art exhibitions at home and abroad since 1990s. His representative work “Great Criticism” Series, which ar ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Wang-Guangyi-Artist-1663/
- Ai Xuan
- Ai Xuan (1947- ; Chinese name 艾轩), born in the city of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, is a Chinese painter known to the world for his realistic oil paintings about Tibet. He is a son of the poet Ai Qing and the elder brother of artist Ai Weiwei. He held many positions such as a member of Chinese Artists Association. He has taken part in exhibitions at home and abroad and his works are collected in many academic art books at home and abroad. Ai Xuan is good at painting sceneries of Tibet Plateau and ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Ai-Xuan-Artist-1638/
- Chen Haiwei
- Chen Haiwei (1971-; Chinese name 陈海威) is a contemporary Chinese painter who was born in Xianyou County, Fujian province. He is now a lecturer of oil painting major at Putian University, Fujian province and a member of Fujian Artist Association. ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Chen-Haiwei-Artist-1634/
- Bryce Brown
- Bryce Brown, born in 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand, is a full-time artist living in the Bay of Plenty. He had many solo exhibitions since 1999. Bryce is largely self-taught, though has studied graphic design as well as taking every opportunity to study works of the masters and modernists in galleries throughout Europe during extensive travels. His main focus is on the figure, often in context of New Zealand Landscapes. Bryce Brown sells internationally, including to the John Deere International ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Bryce-Brown-Artist-1721/
- Pavel Mitkov
- Pavel Mitkov (1977 - ) is a contemporary Bulgarian painter who was born in Sofia, is treated as one of best selling living painters in the country. He has been awarded a number of prizes in Europe, USA, and Russia; and had numerous international exhibitions in many countries. "Mitkov’s art conveys a message of peace, kindness and harmony". The artist got international recognition in 2004 when the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral Board of Trustees made a gift of Mitkov’s paintin ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Pavel-Mitkov-Artist-1747/
- Slobodan Peladić
- Slobodan Peladić (1962 - ) is a Serbian contemporary painter, sculptor and multimedia artist who was born in Šabac (Yugoslavia, now Serbia), was founder of Independent Artistic Association Kolektiv and director of The Association of Fine Artists of Šabac since 2000. Peladić artworks can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, National Museum in Šabac; and were exhibited at some group exhibitions in the country and abroad. ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Slobodan-Peladić-Artist-1752/
- Jeff Green
- Jeffrey Stuart Green (1956 - ) is a Canadian multimedia artist who worked in a variety of media including radio, television, computer, DVD-based multimedia, and in live nightclub settings. He earned critical acclaim and a number of awards, was instrumental in the evolution of broadcast radio in the Ottawa market, e.g., the Carleton University non-profit radio station CKCU-FM and the commercial album-oriented rock radio station CHEZ-FM. His interactive multimedia CD-ROM based Midnight Stranger ha ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Jeff-Green-Artist-1753/
- Joseph Nechvatal
- Joseph Nechvatal (1951 - ) is an American post-conceptual digital artist, multimedia artist, painter, and art theoretician, he creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses. The artist developed a few art theory terms including Viractualism and Cybism. From 1979, Nechvatal exhibited his works in many countries such as German, France, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, etc.. From 1999 to 2013, the artist taught art theories of immersive vi ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Joseph-Nechvatal-Artist-1754/
- Deryk Houston
- Deryk Houston (1954 - ) is a contemporary Canadian installation artist, sculptor, and painter who was interviewed by many televisions, radios, and newspapers. The subject of his artworks is about peace and exploring “why we are here”, as the artist said. Houston travelled to Baghdad and created large-scale art installations to call attention to the situation of the children of Iraq. Houston's artworks were featured in the documentary film “From Baghdad to Peace Country” by the National ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Deryk-Houston-Artist-1755/
- Claude Cehes
- Claude Cehes (1949 - ) is a contemporary French sculptor who lives in Paris and get commissions from many French cities. She often uses assorted materials to create artworks, such as bronze, marble, granite, polyester resin, wood, sponge, glass, rubber, even computer cables. Since 1975 the artist takes part in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad. She won a lot of honors and awards including laureate of the General Council of Ile de France, Neuman Prize of the Paris Jewish Museum, ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Claude-Cehes-Artist-1757/
- Philippe Halaburda
- Philippe Halaburda (1972 - ) is a contemporary French painter and photographer who lives & works in South of France & New York, USA. His works attempt to reflect the ongoing exploration of the abstract in human nature, moving between the accidental and the consciously structured, juxtaposing spontaneous or geometric forms. The artist has won some awards at a lot of French art fairs. Halaburda’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited throughout the US, in Canada, Europe (France, ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Philippe-Halaburda-Artist-1761/
- Yiannis Melanitis
- Yiannis Melanitis (also named as Ioannis Melanitis; Greek: Γιάννης Μελανίτης; 1967 - ) is a contemporary conceptual artist, performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, and digital artist who was born in Athens, Greece. Melanitis is a PhD Fellow; he was elected as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor at the Sculpture Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts.He held many personal exhibitions and joined numerous group exhibitions, often publish academic texts, and his works are collected by a ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Yiannis-Melanitis-Artist-1969/
- NatHalie Braun Barends
- NatHalie Braun Barends (1970? - , also known as Petsiré) is a Germany born Brazilian contemporary artist who is both pretty and intelligent. Her works take part in exhibitions and solo exhibitions over the world and are collected by many museums and art institutions. The artist is versatile and creates works as they come to her mind. She touches upon painting, photography, installation art, video, lighting project, architectural design, semiology and so on.NatHalie keeps an open artistic mind an ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/NatHalie-Braun-Barends-Artist-1773/
- Lin Xinghu
- Lin Xinghu (1949.8- ) is a contemporary Chinese ink cartoonist who was born in Xiapu county, Fujian province. His pen name is “Master of Lanxin House”. He is a member of Fujian Artists Association and Fujian Cartoon Association.Based on real life experience, this artist has created more than 300 pieces of works. His ink cartoon is bold and creative, which praises the healthy atmosphere and criticizes the ugliness of the society. The purchasers of his works include collectors in Southeast Asia an ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Lin-Xinghu-Artist-1781/
- Yang Xiyuan
- Yang Xiyuan, born in 1945 in Beijing, Contemporary Traditional Chinese painter, and Member of Artist Association of Shanxi Province. Due to his family’s nurturing, he was fascinated by Chinese ink painting since his childhood, and was coached by Li Keran and Liu Haisu later; the style of his works tends to be decorative. In 1987, he studied in Senior Workshop of Academy of Chinese Painting (directly subordinate to the Ministry of Culture). In 1988, his on-site painting was collected in the Great ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Yang-Xiyuan-Artist-1883/
- Song Jiangcen
- Song Jiangcen (1988 - ) is a contemporary Chinese ink painting artist who was graduated from art department in Guizhou Normal University and values art creation as well as theory. He is now teaching at a high school in Guizhou province. His traditional Chinese painting works and artistic essays has won many prizes hosted by Ministry of Education, Guizhou Education Association, Guizhou Literary Federation and so on. His works was selected by China National Philatelic Corporation as postage stamp ......
- www.contemporary-art.org/Song-Jiangcen-Artist-1780/