Iconic Conceptual Artists
Artist↕ | Born↕ | Country↕ | Famous Work↕ | Movement↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marcel Duchamp | 1,887 | France | Fountain (1917) | Dada | Urinal signed R. Mutt, readymades, conceptual art godfather, Large Glass |
Joseph Kosuth | 1,945 | United States | One and Three Chairs | Conceptual art | Art as idea, tautological works, linguistic focus, Art After Philosophy essay |
Lawrence Weiner | 1,942 | United States | A 36-Inch Square Removal | Conceptual art | Text-based wall works, declaration of intent statements as art, typographic installations |
Barbara Kruger | 1,945 | United States | Your Body Is a Battleground | Conceptual art | Bold Futura Bold Oblique text over found images, feminist critique, Supreme logo aesthetic |
Sol LeWitt | 1,928 | United States | Wall Drawings | Minimalism/Conceptual | Wall drawings executed by others from his instructions, idea as machine that makes art |
Yoko Ono | 1,933 | Japan | Cut Piece | Fluxus/Conceptual | Cut Piece performance, Grapefruit instructions book, Fluxus, later Lennon collaborations |
Jenny Holzer | 1,950 | United States | Truisms | Conceptual art | LED text installations, Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, projection on buildings |
On Kawara | 1,932 | Japan | Today series | Conceptual art | Date paintings, I Got Up postcards, telegrams stating I am still alive |
Felix Gonzalez-Torres | 1,957 | Cuba/USA | Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA) | Conceptual art | Candy piles weighing partner's body weight, take-one poster stacks, melancholic minimalism |
John Baldessari | 1,931 | United States | I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art | Conceptual art | Cremation Project, dots over faces in photos, CalArts teacher, dry humor |
Hans Haacke | 1,936 | Germany | Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings | Institutional critique | Museum critiques, exposing donor politics, condensation cube |
Martin Creed | 1,968 | United Kingdom | Work No. 227 The lights going on and off | Conceptual art | Turner Prize 2001 for empty room with lights, numbered works, pop bands |
Tino Sehgal | 1,976 | Germany | This Progress | Relational aesthetics | Constructed situations, no photos allowed, live encounters as artworks, Golden Lion |
Maurizio Cattelan | 1,960 | Italy | Comedian (banana duct-taped to wall) | Conceptual art | Comedian banana, America gold toilet, La Nona Ora pope hit by meteor |
Marina Abramovic | 1,946 | Serbia | The Artist Is Present | Performance/Conceptual | The Artist Is Present at MoMA, Rhythm 0, Balkan Baroque, grandmother of performance |
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