Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese conceptual artist and a social activist. His work encompasses diverse fields including fine arts, curating, architecture and social criticism. Born in Beijing in 1957 as son of the famous poet and activist Ai Quing. The … Continued

Alex Katz

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A seminal figure in postwar American art, 1927 Brooklyn-born artist Alex Katz’s distinctive style and decades-long career has made him a recognizable and widely lauded artist. Though he emerged in the New York art world in the 1950s during the … Continued

Julian Schnabel

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Julian Schnabel, born 1951 in Brooklyn, New York is a painter and filmmaker (i.a.Basquiat). Julian Schnabel’s first solo exhibition was held at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1976. However, his rise to prominence occurred a few years later following … Continued

Jeff Koons

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Born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons became one of the most important, but contraversial living artists. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop and Conceptual art with popular culture … Continued

Campana Brothers

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The work of Brazilian designers Humberto Campana (b. 1953) and his brother Fernando Campana (b. 1961) rests principally on the idea of transformation and reinvention. Building on their established reputation, their work is presented by the world’s grand museums such … Continued

Cindy Sherman

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Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954. In the late 1970s, Sherman began a series of black and white photographs, which she named Untitled Film Stills, (1977 to 1980), and were first exhibited at the Contemporary … Continued

Mel Ramos

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Melvin John Ramos born 1935 to Portuguese-Azorean immigrants in Sacramento, California. He studied art at Sacramento Junior College and Sacramento State College. He lived and worked in Oakland,California, died in 2018. As a student of Wayne Thiebaud, Mel Ramos was … Continued