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Contemporary Artists (1970 – present)

If you are a student of Art or Art History, here is a more detailed list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
Abakanowicz, Magdalena
 NB955 .A2335
1930 PolishSocialist RealismSculpture
Fiber Art
Agora
Abakans
War Games
Abramovic, Marina
 N7253 .A25
1946 SerbianConceptual ArtPerformance Art
Body Art
Seven Easy Pieces
Rhythm (series)
Basquiat, Jean-Michel
 N6537 .B233
19601988AmericanNeo-expressionism
Primitivism
PaintingScull
Profit I
Bucklow, Christopher
 
1957 BritishNeo-romanticismPainting
Photography
Guest (series)
Hirst, Damien1965 BritishYoung British ArtistsPainting
Installation Art
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
For the Love of God
Spot Paintings
Koons, Jeff1955 AmericanNeo-popSculpture
Installation Art
Balloon Dog (Orange)
Puppy
Noble, Paul1963 Britishoften labeled
Young British Artists
Sculpture
Drawing
Nobson Newtown
The Doley Game
Noland, Kenneth
 ND237 .N594
19242010AmericanColor FieldPaintingBeginnings
Mysteries: Infanta
Price, Elizabeth1966 British Installation ArtThe Woolworths Choir of 1979
The User Group Disco
Prouvost, Laure1978 French Installation ArtIt, Heat, Hit
For Forgetting
Salle, David
 
1952 AmericanNeo-expressionism
Postmodernism
Painting
Printmaking
Muscular Paper
Mingus in Mexico
Schnabel, Julian
 
1951 AmericanNeo-expressionismPaintingPlate Paintings
Sonanbul
Stella, Frank
 ND237 .S683
1936 AmericanMinimalism
Modernism
Painting
Printmaking
Harran II
Scarlatti K Series
Weiwei, Ai
 
1957 ChineseConceptual Art
Thinkism
Sculpture
Installation Art
Sunflower Seeds
S.A.C.R.E.D.
White, Wayne
 
1957 AmericanSurrealism
Pop Art
Painting
Sculpture
Cinema
Nixon
Sarge
Yamashita, Kumi
 
1968 Japanese Installation Art
Shadow Art
Light & Shadow (series)
Constellation (series)