Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art. By May 2017 the initial group of 13 British artists had expanded to 236 groups in 52 countries.
Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom.
The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of almost 45,000 works of art, making it the second largest state art collection in Australia. As part of North Terrace cultural precinct, the Gallery is flanked by the South Australian Museum to the west and the University of Adelaide to the east.
Inka Essenhigh is an American painter based in New York City. Throughout her career, Essenhigh has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Deitch Projects, Mary Boone Gallery, 303 Gallery, Stefan Stux Gallery, and Jacob Lewis Gallery in New York, Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, and Il Capricorno in Venice.
Tomma Abts is a German-born visual artist known for her abstract oil paintings. Abts won the Turner Prize in 2006. She currently lives and works in London, England.
Adam Cvijanovic is a painter based in New York City who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He paints in large-scale format often using Tyvek sheeting as a substrate, which allows his work to be easily installed at multiple locations. His work is concerned with exposing the historical and enduring hubris of American culture, painting forms that depict the search for and physical manifestation of American power and success on a monumental scale. He is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York.
Guram Dolenjashvili is a Georgian painter often working in a monochrome technique. He is a Meritorious Artist of Georgia and an honorary member of Russian Academy of Arts.
Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov is a Russian artist and performer. Ostretsov represented Russia during the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.
Daria Kozmova Vassilyanska (1928-2017) was a Bulgarian artist.
Tatiana Vasilyevna Badanina is a Russian visual artist.
Kaliningrad, until 1946 known as Königsberg, is the largest city and the administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, the westernmost oblast of Russia. The city is situated on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon on the Baltic Sea, with a population of 489,359 residents, up to 800,000 residents in the urban agglomeration. Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg, the third-largest city in the Baltic region, and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea.
The A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts is the largest art museum in Kazakhstan, located in Almaty.
Alexander Morozov is a Russian artist based in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Vladimir Grig is the pen name of Russian, St. Petersburg-based artist and musician Vladimir Grigorashchenko.
Nadia Baher Sirry is a Cairo-born painter of Turkish-Lebanese descent, born in 1958.
Pavel Aleksandrovich Otdelnov is a Russian contemporary artist known for Industrial landscape paintings. Pavel Otdelnov included in the list of the Best contemporary Russian artists (ARTEEX), and also in the Russian Investment Art Rating 49ART.
Thomas Brent Funderburk is an awarded visual artist and W. L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Art at Mississippi State University where he has worked for over three decades receiving top academic honors for faculty, teaching and research excellence. He is known in the American art scene for his countless illustrated-lecture performances and workshops, as well as for many exhibitions of his complex, colorful watercolors and other visual artwork, which have taken place over the years at universities, galleries, museums and related centers across the U.S.. His art has been repeatedly featured in specialized art magazines. Funderburk is married to choreographer/dancer Deborah Funderburk. They have two sons, Wyatt and Jackson.
Milica Tomić is a contemporary Yugoslav-born artist. Her artistic practice traverses boundaries between photography, video, installation art and discursive, educational art, performance, and socio-political engagement. Her work encompasses collaborative and cross-disciplinary work.
Alexey Orlovski – Russian painter, graphic artist, photographer, illustrator. Fellow of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1990–1991). Member of the Moscow Union of Artists (1993–present).
Syeda Marium Gulshan Hossain is a painter and installation artist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her work has been exhibited extensively. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Painting at University of Development Alternative Dhaka and is a member of the International Miniature Art Society of Florida, USA.
