Fiber and textile artists of the later twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose work in weaving, knotting and hemp or thread ties to Minimalism, Postminimalism, conceptual art or the contemporary art world. A fiber artist belongs here when the cited article or its infobox names one of these. It excludes the Bauhaus weavers. Their hanging forms, knotted works and installations are shown in galleries and museums as sculpture as well as textile, and a fiber artist is placed here by the movement or description the cited article names for the person.
All Contemporary and Conceptual Fiber Artists
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Sheila Hicks - Wikipedia
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is an American artist and a pioneering figure in fiber art
Wikipedia: Kay Sekimachi
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is an American fiber artist and weaver
Wikipedia: Claire Zeisler
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was an American fiber artist who expanded the expressive qualities of knotted and braided threads
Wikipedia: Olga de Amaral
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She was one of the few artists from South America internationally known for her work in fiber art during the 1960s and 1970s.
Wikipedia: Ed Rossbach
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was an American fiber artist
Wikipedia: Dominic Di Mare
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known for his weaving, abstract mixed-media sculpture, watercolor paintings, cast paper art, and fiber art
Wikipedia: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
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is an American fiber artist, known for her pieces that focus on immigration issues
Wikipedia: Ferne Jacobs
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is an American fiber artist and basket maker
Wikipedia: Lia Cook
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is an American fiber artist noted for her work combining weaving with photography, painting, and digital technology
Judith Scott (Wikipedia)
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There, Judith discovered her passion and talent for abstract fiber art
Rosie Lee Tompkins (Wikipedia)
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a widely acclaimed African-American quiltmaker and fiber artist
Wikipedia: Bisa Butler
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is an African American fiber artist
Magdalena Abakanowicz - Wikipedia
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Postminimalism
Wikipedia: Lenore Tawney
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Minimalism
Wikipedia: Mrinalini Mukherjee
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Known for her distinctly contemporary style and use of dyed and woven hemp fibre, an unconventional material for sculpting, she had a career lasting over four decades from the 1970s to the 2000s.
Wikipedia: Faig Ahmed
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Faig Ahmed (Azerbaijani: Faiq Əhməd) (born 1982 in Sumqayit, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani contemporary visual artist who is best known for his surrealist weavings, which integrate visual distortions into traditional oriental rugs.
Wikipedia: Kimsooja
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Kimsooja is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist who travels between her three homes and places of work in New York City, Paris, and Seoul.
Wikipedia: Rosemarie Trockel
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Rosemarie Trockel (born 13 November 1952) is a German conceptual artist.
Wikipedia: Alighiero Boetti
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Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti, known as Alighiero e Boetti (16 December 1940-24 April 1994) was an Italian painter, sculptor and conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.
Wikipedia: Sopheap Pich
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Sopheap Pich (Khmer: ពេជ្យ សុភាព; born 1971) is a Cambodian American contemporary artist.
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