Explore Figurative & Portraits Artists

Meghdad Lorpour is an Iranian artist whose practice spans painting and drawing, often focusing on surreal or allegorical narratives. His work features detailed compositions and a distinctive style that blurs reality with dreamlike elements, exploring psychological landscapes and societal commentaries.

Elke Silvia Krystufek is an Austrian artist known for her provocative, often autobiographical, works across painting, photography, and performance. Her practice boldly explores themes of gender, sexuality, and the body, challenging societal norms with raw honesty and an unflinching, visceral directness.

Joanna Woś is a Polish-British artist known for her dramatic and evocative narrative paintings. Her work often features stylized figures and rich, dark palettes, drawing from historical events, literature, and personal memory to create emotionally charged scenes that explore human vulnerability and psychological states.

Hurvin Anderson is a British painter of Jamaican heritage, known for his vibrant, layered canvases that explore themes of identity, memory, and cultural hybridity. His distinctive work blends figuration and abstraction, often depicting barbershops or landscapes with a unique sense of fractured reality.

Lari Pittman is an American painter known for his complex, densely layered canvases that blend figuration, abstraction, and decorative motifs. His vibrant, often grotesque, works explore themes of sexuality, identity, and the history of painting with a maximalist aesthetic and intricate symbolism.

Ella Kruglyanskaya is a Latvian-American painter known for her bold, graphic paintings of women in various poses. Her distinctive style employs vibrant colors and strong outlines, blending figuration with abstraction and humor to explore themes of femininity, art history, and the female gaze.

Amy Sillman is an American painter known for her vibrant, energetic canvases that blend figuration and abstraction. Her work often explores emotional states, the human body, and language, characterized by a playful yet rigorous approach to form, color, and expressive gesture.

Paul Winstanley is a British painter known for his meticulously rendered, often desolate, large-scale paintings of interiors and non-places. His work explores themes of presence, absence, and the psychological impact of architectural spaces, creating a sense of quietude and profound observation.

Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-American painter known for his vibrant, densely layered canvases that blur abstraction and figuration. His work often evokes chaotic, fantastical battles or cityscapes, drawing from historical Persian miniatures and personal memories of war to explore themes of conflict and sound.

Georgia Gardner Gray is an American painter known for her distinctive, often whimsical, figurative canvases. Her work frequently depicts surreal narratives and stylized figures, exploring themes of femininity, social dynamics, and identity with a unique blend of humor, irony, and melancholic introspection.