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Born December 8, 1957 (age 68) • Quanzhou • China
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (2012)
Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei in 2019, facing the camera and wearing a black zip-up jacket.
Ai Weiwei
Chinese activist and artist
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Christo
Bulgarian artist
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist
James Turrell
James Turrell
American artist
Bill Viola
Bill Viola
American artist
Huang Yong Ping stands in front of his giant octopus sculpture with sprawling tentacles filling the museum hall behind him.
Huang Yong Ping
Chinese-born French artist
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Zhang Huan
Chinese artist
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas
American mixed-media artist
Banksy: Girl with Balloon
Banksy
British graffiti artist
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson
American multimedia artist
Artist Mark Bradford smiles in front of a textured abstract artwork at the 57th Venice Biennale art exhibition in Italy.
Mark Bradford
American multimedia artist
Lee Ufan
Lee Ufan
Korean artist, critic, philosopher, and poet
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Eduardo Kac
Brazilian American artist
Maurizio Cattelan: Mini-Me
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian artist
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Marcel Broodthaers
Belgian artist
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Lawrence Weiner
American artist
Francis Alÿs: REEL-UNREEL
Francis Alÿs
Belgian-born conceptual artist