John Knight (born 1945 in Hollywood, California) is a conceptual artist in Los Angeles, California who works in situ. [1] Since the 1960s, Knight has made pioneering works grounded in site-specificity and institutional critique, works that interrogate underlying economic systems. [2]
Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality.
Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.
Rachel Harrison is an American visual artist known for her sculpture, photography, and drawing. Her work often combines handmade forms with found objects or photographs, bringing art history, politics, and pop culture into dialogue with one another. She has been included in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the US, including the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial and the Tate Triennial (2009). Her work is in the collections of major museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and Tate Modern, London; among others. She lives and works in New York.
Jonathan Lasker is an American abstract painter based in New York City whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
Allan Sekula was an American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death in 2013, he taught at California Institute of the Arts. His work frequently focused on large economic systems, or "the imaginary and material geographies of the advanced capitalist world."
Martin Kersels is an American contemporary artist. Kersels' work is largely installation based, incorporating sculpture, photography and video. Kersels is a professor of sculpture and director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art.
Chloe Piene is a visual artist known primarily for her drawing. It has been described as “brutal, delicate, figurative, forensic, erotic and fantastic.” Chloe Piene was born in the United States and received her BA in Art History at Columbia University and her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Igor Antić is a French-Serbian visual artist.
Stephen Greene was an American artist known for his abstract paintings and in the 1940s his social realist figure paintings.
Jordan Wolfson is an American visual artist who lives in Los Angeles. He has worked in video and film, in sculptural installation, and in virtual reality.
Eric Wesley is an American artist. Wesley was born in Los Angeles, California, where he continues to live and work. He has held solo exhibitions in galleries internationally as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Foundation Morra Greco, Naples, Italy.
Evan Holloway is an American artist. Holloway received his BFA in 1989 and his MFA in 1997 from the University of California. He lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Holloway is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels and David Kordansky.
Mika Rottenberg is a contemporary Argentine born US based video artist who lives and works in New York. Rottenberg is best known for her video and installation work that often "investigates the link between the female body and production mechanisms". Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Patricia Esquivias is a Venezuelan-born Spanish artist who works primarily with video. She was born in 1979 in Caracas. Esquivias received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2001 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2007. Esquivias' work is often characterized as a form of story telling, and Esquivias often acts as narrator, using her own voice as narration in her videos. Many of Esquivias' videos center around themes of history and memory.
Trisha Baga is an American artist living and working in New York City. Her work is installation based and incorporates video, performance, and found objects.
Rita McBride is an American artist and sculptor. She is based in Los Angeles and Düsseldorf. Alongside her artistic practice, McBride is a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and served as its director until 2017. McBride is married to Glen Rubsamen, an American painter from Los Angeles.
Aria Dean is an American artist, critic, and curator. Until 2021, Dean served as Curator and Editor of Rhizome. Her writings have appeared in various art publications including Artforum, e-flux, The New Inquiry, Art in America, and Topical Cream. Dean has exhibited internationally at venues such as Foxy Production and American Medium in New York, Chateau Shatto in Los Angeles, and Arcadia Missa in London. Dean also co-directs As It Stands LA, an artists project space that opened in 2015. Dean lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles. She is represented by Greene Naftali.
Philipp Fröhlich is a German painter who lives and works in Brussels. His figurative paintings are influenced by his studies of scenography in the class of Professor Karl Kneidl at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and he frequently uses models for the composition of his works.
Jeanette Mundt is an American painter, best known for her works in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. In her different bodies of work, Mundt combines iconic references with others that are more personal and intimate in her quest to perpetually reconfigure the image—gesturing towards how our understanding is always in flux and therefore we can’t possibly be consistent in our seeing, in our psychic space.
Jacqueline Humphries is an American abstract painter married to Tony Oursler. She is known for large-scale paintings that reference the history of abstraction, combining traditional painterly techniques with contemporary technologies. She has used metallic silver pigment to suggest the glow of a cinema screen, and incorporated emoticons, emoji, kaomoji, and CAPTCHA tests into recent works that draw on digital communication. Other paintings are produced by scanning her earlier canvases, translating them into ASCII character code, and using custom laser-cut stencils of the resulting images as the basis for new paintings. Humphries lives and works in New York City, where she is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery.
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