Explore Conceptual Artists
Discover artists working in the Conceptual style
João Louro
Lisbon, Portugal
João Louro is a Portuguese artist known for his conceptual works across painting, photography, and installation that often reference cinema and literature. His practice explores themes of invisibility, memory, and the power of representation, frequently employing text and minimalist aesthetics to challenge perception.
Nuno da Luz
Lisbon, Portugal
Nuno da Luz is a Portuguese artist whose diverse practice spans sound, installation, and performance, often engaging with concepts of infrastructure, logistics, and resource distribution. His work explores the unseen networks and systems that underpin global economies and daily life, subtly revealing their complexities.
Ignasi Aballí
Barcelona, Spain
Ignasi Aballí is a Spanish artist whose conceptual practice engages with observation, language, and the limits of representation. His minimalist works often use everyday materials, text, and subtle interventions to explore themes of invisibility, absence, and the overlooked details of reality, prompting careful contemplation.
Colter Jacobsen
San Francisco, United States
Colter Jacobsen is an American artist known for his melancholic drawings and mixed-media works. His practice often repurposes found photographs and ephemera, exploring themes of memory, longing, and Americana with a delicate touch, blurring personal narratives with collective nostalgia.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Strasbourg, France
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is a French artist known for her immersive installations, films, and "appartements" that explore memory, literature, and the transformation of space. Her conceptually rich practice creates environments that blur reality and fiction, often evoking literary figures or historical moments.
David Lieske
Hamburg, Germany
David Lieske is a German artist known for his conceptually rigorous practice spanning sculpture, installation, and publishing. His work often explores themes of authorship, authenticity, and the mechanisms of the art market, frequently employing humor and an analytical approach to institutional critique.
Christian Jankowski
Göttingen, Germany
Christian Jankowski is a German artist known for his conceptual art that playfully blurs the lines between art, reality, and mass media. His work often involves collaborations with non-artists, public figures, or institutions, creating humorous and thought-provoking interventions that critique societal conventions.
Uri Aran
Jerusalem, Israel
Uri Aran is an Israeli artist based in New York, whose multidisciplinary practice spans video, sculpture, drawing, and installation. His work often employs disjointed narratives and subtle gestures to explore themes of control, communication, and the uncanny in everyday objects and interactions.
Angus Fairhurst
Kent, United Kingdom
Angus Fairhurst was a British artist, a key figure among the Young British Artists, known for his witty and often melancholic work across various media. His practice, spanning sculpture, painting, video, and performance, frequently explored themes of identity, failure, and the absurd, notably through his recurring gorilla motif.
Richard Prince
Panama
Richard Prince is an American artist recognized for his groundbreaking use of appropriation in photography and painting. His influential practice re-photographs existing images, notably "Cowboys" and "Nurses," challenging notions of originality, authorship, and the pervasive nature of media in contemporary culture.