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Lonnie Holley is an American artist, musician, and filmmaker known for his "art from the spirit" sculptures made from found objects. A prominent outsider artist, his work explores African American history, environmental justice, and spiritual transformation through layered, symbolic assemblages.

Sean Mullins is an American artist known for his distinctive figurative paintings. His work often features enigmatic narratives and stylized figures, rendered with a bold palette and expressive brushwork, exploring themes of human connection, memory, and the complexities of contemporary social dynamics.

Arlette is an American artist known for her vibrant, often fantastical, paintings that blend figuration with surreal elements. Her work explores themes of identity, memory, and the subconscious, creating dreamlike narratives with a distinctive, whimsical aesthetic and rich symbolic content.

Jan Gatewood is an American artist known for his vibrant, expressive paintings that often feature stylized figures and dynamic compositions. His work explores themes of contemporary life, social interactions, and personal narratives with a bold palette and a keen sense of observation.

Tony DeLap was an American artist, a key figure in West Coast Minimalism and Op Art, known for his precisely crafted, illusionistic paintings and sculptures. His work explored perception, light, and geometry, creating elegant forms that played with spatial ambiguity and visual paradox.

Mitchell Syrop is an American artist known for his conceptual works across photography, text, and installation. His practice critically examines media, advertising, and the construction of meaning, often using deconstructed imagery and linguistic interventions to expose underlying power structures.

Glenn Ligon is an American artist known for his conceptually rich works across painting, neon, and photography. His practice explores race, language, and American history, often using text and appropriation to challenge representations of Black identity and expose societal narratives.

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.

Paul Pfeiffer is an American artist known for his technologically advanced video installations, sculptures, and photographs. His work often manipulates iconic sports and media imagery, exploring themes of spectacle, power, and the mediated nature of contemporary experience with analytical precision.

Myra Greene is an American artist known for her photographic works that explore themes of race, identity, and the materiality of the photographic image. Her practice often involves experimental processes and abstract forms, challenging conventional portraiture and the historical representation of Black bodies.

Juergen Teller is a German photographer renowned for his raw, unvarnished style in fashion, portraiture, and commercial photography. His distinctive aesthetic often features natural light, direct gazes, and a candid approach, blurring the lines between art and commercial work while capturing an authentic intimacy.

Sarah Lucas is a British artist, a pivotal YBA figure, known for her provocative sculptures and installations. Her work boldly confronts gender, sexuality, and the human body using everyday objects and raw materials, often with dark humor and an unflinching, visceral directness.

Gauri Gill (b. 1970) is a seminal Indian contemporary photographer. Her practice is distinguished by long-term, collaborative engagements with marginalized communities across rural India, producing empathetic and profound visual narratives that explore themes of resilience, identity, and the human condition.

Lisa Dalfino and Sacha Kanah are a collaborative duo whose practice explores the intersection of performance, photography, and conceptual art. Their work challenges conventional representations, often employing staged scenarios to investigate societal norms and mediated realities.

Annette Frick, a German photographer, is renowned for her intimate and unflinching portraits and documentary series. Her work captures subcultures, marginalized communities, and personal narratives with profound empathy and raw authenticity. Frick's black-and-white photography often possesses a timeless quality, offering candid glimpses into the lives of her subjects and challenging societal stereotypes.

British-Egyptian visual artist creating intimate conceptual noirs in film, video, installation, and photography that meditate on memory, sound, and female experience.

Self-taught Brazilian painter, draftsman, and sculptor known for figurative, primitivist-inspired works. Born in Pernambuco, lives in São Paulo.

Alom's photography captures the essence of Cuban life, exploring themes of identity and social dynamics.

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.

Darren Bader is an American conceptual artist known for his witty, often absurd, interventions and juxtapositions of found objects, text, and digital media. His practice questions artistic authorship, value, and the very definition of art through unconventional exhibitions and projects that challenge viewer expectations.

French polymath: sculptor, stage director, painter, photographer, and scenographer. His surreal, contrarian works interrogate history and form. Based in Paris/Mexico.

American filmmaker, photographer and sound artist whose poetic, narrative-driven works reflect on memory, identity, and place within Black diasporic discourse.

Iranian contemporary artist creating surreal mixed-media installations and paintings that explore memory, socio-political history, and material transformation.

Feal's photography captures the urban landscape of Havana, exploring themes of identity and social dynamics.

Chagas's photography captures the urban landscape of Angola, exploring themes of identity and social dynamics.

Lien/Camacho's collaborative practice explores themes of identity, technology, and cultural production. Their work often incorporates digital media and performative elements.

Stilinović's conceptual work explores the relationship between language, ideology, and power. His minimalist interventions, often employing text and repetition, critique political and social systems.