Lucian Michael Freud, OM CH was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942–43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War.
Thomas Struth is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs, family portraits and 1970s black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York City. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker. She lives and works in Helsinki.
Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti, is a Finnish musicologist and semiologist, currently serving as Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki.
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s, he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism.
Valéry Grancher is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish-American photographer who works in the United States.
Philippe Dodard is a Haitian graphic artist and painter. Born in Port-au-Prince, Dodard worked as an advertising illustrator. His works have been exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas.
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."
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger is an Israeli-born French artist, visual analyst, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and writer.
Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author, composer and musician, film maker and theatre director, visual artist. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemble Giardini Pensili and he has been the artistic director of Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario. He won the Premio Napoli per la lingua e la cultura italiana in 2015.
Francis Acea is an artist known for his inspiration by what The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas describes as "the often anonymous creations of provisional art." Along with artist Diango Hernández, also inspired by the provisional art movement in Cuba, he formed the Ordo Amoris Cabinet. Acea is a graduate of the Havana Superior Institute of Design. As of 2018, Acea lives in New York, NY. Acea has exhibited internationally, solo and group.
Riyas Komu is an Indian artist and sculptor. Komu was born in 1971 in a small town in Thrissur District of Kerala, and received a Bachelor's in Fine Arts and Master's in Fine Arts from the J.J. School of Art in Mumbai. As of 2015 he lived and worked in Mumbai. He was accused in #meToo by multiple women and thereafter resigned from the Kochi Biennale.
Dieter Jung is a German artist working in the field of holography, painting and installation art. He lives and works in Berlin.
Connie Imboden was born in 1953 and is an American photographer known for her work in nudes, using reflections in water and mirrors. Her photographs are represented in many collections including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany as well as many other public and private collections throughout Europe and the Americas.
Pavel Pepperstein is a Russian artist and writer.
Raphie Etgar is an Israeli artist and curator who has served as artistic Director of Museum on the Seam since its establishment in 2000.
Thomas Rusch is a German photographer living in Berlin, Hamburg and Paris.
Svetlana Kopystiansky is an American artist, active in New York City since 1988. She has a multimedia practice, including painting, photography, film, and video, with an investigation of language as her primary paradigm. On works in media of film and video, she collaborates with her husband Igor Kopystiansky. Her independent works and their joint works are shown internationally and held in museum and private collections around the world.
Sini Manninen was a Finnish painter and artist, trained at the Académie des Beaux Arts de Helsinki in Finland. She produced the majority of her works in France, where she moved to in 1973, more precisely, to Montmartre region of Paris. Mastering many painting techniques under various disciplines, naïve art remained her fondest style.
