Zhan Wang

Zhan Wang (Chinese: 展望; pinyin: Zhǎn Wàng; born 1962 in Beijing) is a Chinese sculptor. “Zhan Wang’s career as an iconoclast began with In a Twinkling (1993), an installation of superrealist figurative sculptures. The figures’ style was not new, but the method of installation was: after creating a group of figures in poses of arrested … Read more

Tomas Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) is an Argentine contemporary artist whose projects, consisting of floating sculptures, international collaborations, and interactive installations, propose and dialogue with forms of inhabiting and sensing the environment that have been suppressed in the Capitalocene era. For more than two decades, Saraceno has activated projects aimed towards an ethical … Read more

Chris Dercon

Chris Dercon (born 1958), is a Belgian art historian, curator, and museum director. Dercon has worked and published extensively on the future of museums, working with architects Rem Koolhaas, Robbrecht en Daem, Herzog and De Meuron, Gunther Vogt and Francis Kéré.[1][2] Early lifeDercon studied History of Art at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, then Theatre Research and … Read more

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, About this sound English pronunciation (help·info); born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. His father’s (Ai Qing) original surname was written Jiang (蔣).[1][2][3] Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for … Read more

Nam June Paik

The native form of this personal name is Paik Nam June. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.The native form of this personal name is Paik Nam June. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.Paik Nam JunePortrait of Nam June Paik-by Lim Young-kyun-1981.jpgNam June Paik in New York City, 1983. Photo … Read more

Ronald Ventura

Ronald Ventura (Filipino, born 1973) Ronald Ventura (Filipino, b.1973) was born in Manila, Philippines. In 1993, the artist earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Santo Tomas. After graduating, he worked at the university as an instructor. Ventura had his first solo exhibitions in 2000, called All Souls Day, which was held at … Read more

Robert Irwin

Beginnings Robert Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California, to Robert Irwin and Goldie Anderberg Irwin. After serving in the United States Army from 1946 to 1947, he attended several art institutes: Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1948 to 1950, Jepson Art Institute in 1951, and Chouinard Art Institute in Los … Read more

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic: Ólafur Elíasson; born 1967) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather … Read more

Kuzgun Acar

Abdülahet Kuzgun Çetin Acar (28 February 1928 – 4 February 1976) was a Turkish sculptor[1] from Kuzguncuk in Üsküdar, Istanbul well known for his works in metal. He is best known for his abstract sculpture and is considered one of the pioneers of modern sculpture in Turkey.[2] One of his famous sculpture is Kuşlar (“The … Read more

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso[a][b] (UK: /ˈpæbloʊ pɪˈkæsoʊ/, US: /ˈpɑːbloʊ pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæs-/,[2][3][4] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for … Read more

Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana (Italian: [ˈluːtʃo fonˈtaːna]; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist.[1] He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina to Italian immigrant parents, he was the son of the sculptor Luigi Fontana (1865 — 1946).[2][3] Fontana … Read more

Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan 7 March 1872 Amersfoort, Netherlands Died 1 February 1944 (aged 71) Manhattan, New York, U.S. Nationality Dutch Education Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Known for Painting Notable work Evening; Red Tree, Gray Tree, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow, Broadway Boogie Woogie, Victory Boogie Woogie Movement De Stijl, abstract art Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈmɔndrijaːn]), after 1906 Piet Mondrian (/piːt ˈmɒndriɑːn/,[1][2] also US: /- ˈmɔːn-/,[3][4] Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 – … Read more

Hermann Obrist

Hermann Obrist (23 May 1862 at Kilchberg (near Zürich), Switzerland – 26 February 1927, Munich, Germany)[1] was a German sculptor of the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) movement. He studied Botany and History in his youth; the influence of those subjects is detected in his later work in the field of applied arts. As a teacher, Hermann … Read more

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist.[2] She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay “Notes on ‘Camp’”, in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way … Read more

Refik Anadol

founder of RAS and DatalandDirector and Visual Artist refikanadol.co/ograduated from UCLA Media Arts Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. He is working in the fields … Read more

Sol LeWitt

Solomon “Sol” LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.[1] LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and “structures” (a term he preferred instead of “sculptures”) but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, … Read more

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York. Childhood Kelly was born the second son … Read more

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the Young British Artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition in 1997. Among her … Read more

Richard Serra

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal.[1] Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Early life and education[edit] Serra was born on … Read more

Maurits Cornelis Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪt͡s kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for long somewhat neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was … Read more

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist.[1] Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as “you”, “your”, “I”, “we”, and “they”, addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger lives and … Read more

Larry Bell

Larry Bell (born 1939) is an American contemporary artist and sculptor. He is best known for his glass boxes and large-scaled illusionistic sculptures. He is a grant recipient from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his artworks are found in the collections of many major cultural institutions. He lives and works in Taos, New Mexico, and … Read more

Marieke van den Heuvel

co-founder of Mann Office Marieke van den Heuvel graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1999 during the early days of Lidewij Edelkoort’s directorship, when the school adapted its more practical, product driven design approach towards a more conceptual informed direction. Following a scholarship year at Fabrica in Italy, she set up camp in Amsterdam. … Read more

Stephan Petermann

co-founder of Mann Office previously Associate at OMA Stephan Petermann holds a Master’s degree in the History of Architecture and the Theory of Building Preservation from the University of Utrecht (2001-2007) and studied Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2001-2005).He worked for architecture magazine VOLUME in 2005 and joined OMA in 2006 assisting OMA’s … Read more

Tudor Vlăsceanu

founder of unulaunu and Tegmark Tudor was born in 1981 Brasov, Romania. Tudor studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” in Bucharest and at TU Delft. Since 2007, he worked for several architecture offices: OMA/Rem Koolhaas – Rotterdam, Graft – Berlin, On Office – Oslo/Dubai, Spacegroup – Oslo. In 2010, Tudor … Read more

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour, depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite), Him (2001), and Love Lasts Forever (1997).[1] Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Artistic style 2.1 Selected works 2.2 … Read more

Erwin Hauer

Erwin Hauer (January 18, 1926, Vienna, Austria – December 22, 2017, Branford, Connecticut) was an Austrian-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna’s Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers at Yale.[1] Hauer was an early proponent of Modular Constructivism and an associate of Norman Carlberg. Like Carlberg, he was especially known for … Read more

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends. His abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical cage like spaces, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon … Read more

Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films are known for their distinctive visual and narrative styles.[1] Anderson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001, Moonrise Kingdom in 2012 and The Grand Budapest Hotel in … Read more

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg (1968).jpg Rauschenberg in 1968 Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg October 22, 1925 Port Arthur, Texas Died May 12, 2008 (aged 82) Captiva, Florida Education Kansas City Art Institute Académie Julian Black Mountain College Art Students League of New York Known for Assemblage Notable work Canyon (1959) Monogram (1959) Movement Neo-Dada, Abstract Expressionism … Read more

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] (About this soundlisten); 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010)[1] was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity … Read more

Einar Thorsteinn

Einar Thorsteinn , Icelandic Einar Þorsteinn Ásgeirsson (* 17th June 1942 in Reykjavik , † 28. April 2015 ibid) [1] , was an Icelandic architect , theorist and pioneer of academic research on geometric structures. Thorsteinn was scientifically influenced by the Dymaxion worldview and the biomorphic, polyhedral, spherical and spherical forms of Richard Buckminster Fuller … Read more

Ivan Kliun

Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, or Klyun, born Klyunkov (Russian:Иван Васильевич Клюн; 1 September 1873, Bolshiye Gorky, Petushinsky District – 13 December 1943, Moscow) was a Russian Avant-Garde painter, sculptor and art theorist, associated with the Suprematist movement. BiographyHis father was a carpenter. In 1881, seeking to improve their economic condition, the family moved to Kyiv. In 1890, they moved again, to Russian Poland. He received his initial artistic … Read more

Beatriz Colomina

Beatriz Colomina is an architecture historian, theorist and curator. She is the founding director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University,[1] the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and Director of Graduate studies (PhD program) in the School of Architecture.[2] Contents 1 Early Life and education 2 Career 2.1 … Read more

Constant Nieuwenhuys

Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys (21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005), better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician. Early periodConstant was born in Amsterdam on 21 July 1920 as the first son of Pieter Nieuwenhuijs and Maria Cornelissen. Their second son, Jan Nieuwenhuys, was born a year later. Both sons became artists although their … Read more

Klaus Peter Brehmer

K.P. Brehmer, in full, Klaus Peter Brehmer (12 September 1938 in Berlin, Germany – December 16, 1997 in Hamburg, Germany), was a German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker. From 1971 to 1997 he was professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.Most of his works can be considered as political art or the visualization of political trends. Biography[edit]Brehmer was … Read more

Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer (born 1944) is a land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. A pioneer of 20th century Land Art or earthworks movement he is widely recognized for … Read more

Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer (born 1944) is a land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. A pioneer of 20th century Land Art or earthworks movement he is widely recognized for sculptures and environmental … Read more

Pelin Derviş

Architect, Researcher pelindervis.com Architect. Lives and works in Istanbul as an independent researcher, writer and editor. Her research and related activities focus mainly on 20th century architecture and design in Turkey.  Graduated from Istanbul Technical University, completed her master’s degree at the History of Architecture Program of the same institution. After working in her architectural … Read more

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction. Personal lifeChildhood and … Read more

Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic and author based in New York. She is the architecture critic for Curbed, and has bylines published The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Metropolis, Architect magazine, Architectural Digest; Architectural Record, The Architect’s Newspaper, Cite; Domus; Domino; Dwell; GOOD; Icon, The Nation, New York magazine, … Read more

Iwan Baan

Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975 in Alkmaar)[1] is a Dutch photographer. He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building’s environment,[2] trying “to produce more of a story or a feel for a project”[3] and “to communicate how people use the … Read more

John Baldessari

John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020)[1] was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid-1960s. In 1970 he began … Read more

Giacometti Alberto

Alberto Giacometti (UK: /ˌdʒækəˈmɛti/,[1] US: /ˌdʒɑːk-/,[2][3][4] Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic … Read more

John Baldessari

John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020)[1] was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid-1960s. In 1970 he began working in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture … Read more

Oliver Wainwright

Oliver Wainwright is a British architecture and design critic. He has written for the British newspapers The Guardian[1] and The Times[2] and is the Features Editor for the industry magazine Building Design.[3][4] He trained and worked as an architect before becoming a journalist[1] As well as being a writer and journalist, Wainwright has collaborated on … Read more

Jack Self

Jack Self (1987) is an architect based in London. He is Director of REAL and Editor-in-Chief of Real Review. Jack’s architectural work promotes social equality through the design of homes, housing, and domestic space. He specialises in radical new typologies (including co-housing), alternative models of ownership, finance and procurement. In 2016, Jack curated the British … Read more

Defne Koz

Award-winning industrial designer Defne Koz was born in Turkey and raised professionally in Italy. Her idea of design is influenced by her training in Ettore Sottsass’ studio in Milan, by the combination of her Turkish and Italian culture and by her curiosity for very different product types. Her interests span from humanizing new technologies to … Read more

Aziz Sariyer

Born in 1950 in Istanbul, Aziz Sarıyer started to design furniture and interior design professionally after founding Derin Design in 1971. Sarıyer’s interest in the profession and his consistent work placed him in a major position in the world’s design arena. In 1999, he developed his collection he designed for Derin and a year later, … Read more

Atilla Kuzu

Atilla Kuzu was born in 1963. In 1987 he graduated from Marmara University, faculty of Fine Arts of department of Industrial Design, interior design branch of main art. In 1994 he founded Zoom / Tpu (Design Project and Implementation) with Levent Çırpıcı. Same year, he was the finaslist with his design “Taklamakan” in wooden furniture … Read more

Roberto Matta Echaurren

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto ˈmata]; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile’s best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art. BiographyMatta was of Spanish, Basque and French descent.[1] Born in Santiago, he studied architecture and interior design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, and graduated in 1935. That spring, he journeyed from … Read more

Idil Kantarci

Associate at Foster+Partnersfounder of IKApreviously architect at UN Studio Idil gratuated from Yasar Unviersity, Izmir / Turkey and worked at Perkins+Will North Carolina, Dubai offices before joining UN Studio in Hong Kong. After working at Foster+Partners Hong Kong more than two and a half years, she moved to London office of Foster+Partners and became associate … Read more

Mathias Goeritz

Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) (April 4, 1915 in Danzig (Gdańsk), Germany (now in Poland)) – August 4, 1990 in Mexico City) was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, Goeritz and his wife, photographer … Read more

Neyran Turan

Neyran Turan is professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding partner at NEMESTUDIO. Turan’s work explores the role of architecture in the climate crisis. Her most recent work expands this scope into the interaction between alternative forms of planetary imagination and architectural practice. Turan’s practice, NEMESTUDIO, has received widespread recognition … Read more

Terence Koh

Terence Koh (born 1977 in Beijing, China ) is a Canadian artist who has also worked under the alias “asianpunkboy”.[3] The artist’s work spans a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and the internet. Originally working under the alias asianpunkboy, Koh designed zines and custom-made books. His recent work has expanded to include … Read more

Shumon Basar

Shumon Basar (born 15 October 1974) is a British writer, editor and curator. Contents 1 Life and education 2 Books 3 Magazines 4 Global Art Forum 5 Format 6 Curating 7 External links 8 Notes Life and education[edit] Basar was born in Pabna, Bangladesh, in 1974. His mother Dilruba Basar emigrated with him to the United Kingdom, to … Read more

John Gerrard

born 20th of July 1974 johngerrard.net John Gerrard is an Irish artist, working in Dublin and Vienna, best known for his sculptures, which typically take the form of digital simulations displayed using Real-time computer graphics. Work Western Flag Contents Education Works Working method Farm (Pryor Creek, Oklahoma) 2015 [2015] Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) 2014 [2014] … Read more

Yılmaz Zenger

Yılmaz Zenger, born in Ankara in 1933, is an architect, sculptor and designer who is known worldwide for his works throughout his life. Having graduated from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1958, Zenger made academic studies in his profession, which he started as a city planner. Zenger, who was a founding member of … Read more

Enrique Walker

Enrique Walker is an architect. He is Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP, where he directed the Master of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design from 2008 to 2018. He teaches the lecture course Metropolis, and runs the seminar course and guest lecture series Arguments. He has also taught the decade-long series of studios and seminars, … Read more

Thomas Heatherwick

born 17 February 1970 founded Heatherwick Studio heatherwick.com Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE, RDI, HonFREng (born 17 February 1970) is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. Since the late 1990s Heatherwick has emerged as one of Britain’s most significant designers.[1] Heatherwick works with a team of around 180 architects, designers and makers from a studio … Read more

Nikolai Suetin

Nikolai Suetin (Russian: Николай Суетин, 1897 – 1954) was a Russian Suprematist artist. He worked as a graphic artist, a designer, and a ceramics painter. Suetin studied at the Vitebsk Higher Institute of Art, (1918-1922) under Kazimir Malevich, founder of Suprematism, an early abstract art movement which developed a style based on ‘non objective’ geometric … Read more

Kasimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich[nb 1] (February 23 [O.S. 11] 1879[1] – May 15, 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the 20th century.[2][3][4][5] His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved … Read more

Lazar Khidekel

Lazar Markovich Khidekel (born Vitebsk 1904 – Leningrad 1986) is an artist, designer, visionary architect and theoretician, who is noted for realizing the abstract, avant-garde Suprematist movement through architecture. Contents 1 Early life 2 Contributions 2.1 Suprematism 3 References Early life In 1918 at the age of 14, Khidekel was selected by Marc Chagall to … Read more

Yves Klein

Yves Klein (French pronunciation: ​[iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance … Read more

Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Haring’s work grew to popularity from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways – chalk outlines on blank black advertising-space backgrounds – depicting radiant babies, flying saucers, and deified dogs.[1] After public … Read more

Janet Echelman

Janet Echelman (born 1966) is an American sculptor and fiber artist. Her sculptures have been displayed as public art, often as site-specific installations.[1][2][3] Works include: 1.26, which has been exhibited on five continents; Her Secret Is Patience in downtown Phoenix; Water Sky Garden which premiered for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics; She Changes on the … Read more

Kutlug Ataman

Palanga Mimarlık ve Sanat Çiftliği Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961 in Istanbul Turkey) is an acclaimed Turkish-American[1] contemporary artist and feature filmmaker. Ataman’s films are known for their strong characterization and humanity. His early art works examine the ways in which people and communities create and rewrite their identities through self-expression, blurring the line between reality … Read more

Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959) is a Canadian designer and educator. He started as a graphic designer but later focused on architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, and conceptual philosophy.[1] Mau serves as Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute in the Graduate Architecture & Urban Design department.[2] From 1985–2010, Mau was the creative director of … Read more

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang[a] (Chinese: 蔡国强; born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey. BiographyCai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher and traditional painter who worked in a bookstore. As a result, Cai Guo-Qiang … Read more

Peter Saville

Peter Andrew Saville CBE (born 9 October 1955) is an English art director and graphic designer. He came to prominence for the many record sleeves he designed for Factory Records, which he co-founded in 1978 alongside Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus.[1] Early lifePeter Saville was born in Manchester, Lancashire,[2] and attended St Ambrose College. He … Read more

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums and is held in public collections. He was one of the founders of the … Read more

Salvador Dali

Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 11 May 1904 Figueres, Catalonia, Spain Died 23 January 1989 Figueres Resting place Crypt at Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres Nationality Spanish Education San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain Known for Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, writing, film, jewelry Notable work The Persistence of Memory (1931) … Read more