“. . . the show as a whole is perhaps the most glamorous in effect that the Whitney has ever staged.” —The New York Times “If there are few surprises and still fewer masterpieces present, and if the ...

Chiura Obata (小圃 千浦, Obata Chiura, November 18, 1885 – October 6, 1975) was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher. A self-described "roughneck", Obata went to the United States ...

Ann Parker (1934–2022) was an American artist and photographer. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Museum Los ...

Mika Rottenberg (born 1976) is a contemporary Argentine born US based video artist who lives and works in New York. Rottenberg is best known for her video and installation work that often ...

William Ronald Smith (August 13, 1926 – February 9, 1998), known professionally as William Ronald, was an important Canadian painter, best known as the founder of the influential Canadian abstract art ...

Manuel John Neri Jr. (April 12, 1930 – October 18, 2021) was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri's work with the ...

Paul Thek (November 2, 1933 – August 10, 1988) was an American painter, sculptor and installation artist. Thek was active in both the United States and Europe, exhibiting several installations and ...

Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is ...

Ethel Kremer Schwabacher (born May 20, 1903, New York, New York, U.S.— died November 25, 1984, New York, New York, U.S.) was an influential abstract expressionist painter, represented by the Betty ...

Lucia Autorino Salemme (1919–2010) was an American artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Michael E. Smith (born 1977) is an American artist whose minimal sculptures often juxtapose appropriated, discarded everyday items found in urban decay and on eBay. His works have been shown in MoMA ...

Angela Strassheim (born 1969) is an American photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York and Jerusalem. Prior to receiving her MFA from Yale in 2003, Strassheim worked as a certified ...