Sculptors active after the Second World War who are tied to movements such as Pop art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, photorealism and conceptual art, or who are described as contemporary artists working in installation and public sculpture. A sculptor belongs here when the cited article names one of these movements or calls the artist contemporary. It excludes earlier Modernist sculptors, who sit in the Modernist group.
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Wikipedia: Niki de Saint Phalle
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Nouveau réalisme, Feminist art
Wikipedia: Antony Gormley
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His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo (2012) and Hong Kong (2015-16).
Wikipedia: Jeff Koons
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He documented his work through photography, using it as a means of exploring different installation techniques. === The Pre-New, The New, and Equilibrium series === Since 1979 Koons has produced work within series.
Kiki Smith (Wikipedia)
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In 2005, Smith's installation, Homespun Tales won acclaim at the 51st Venice Biennale.
Wikipedia: Belu-Simion Fainaru
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Fainaru was chosen as the recipient of the Israel Prize for interdisciplinary design and art for the year 2025. == Biography == Belu Simion Fainaru, an Israeli sculptor and installation artist, was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1959 and in 1973 moved to Israel.
Donald Judd (Wikipedia)
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Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928, February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism.
Yayoi Kusama (Wikipedia)
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Her work was based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content.
Wikipedia: Anish Kapoor
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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art.
Wikipedia: Richard Serra
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Richard Serra (November 2, 1938, March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with postminimalism.
Wikipedia: Claes Oldenburg
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Pop art avant-garde
Rachel Whiteread (Wikipedia)
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Whiteread was one of the Young British Artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997.
Duane Hanson (Wikipedia)
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Photorealism, hyperrealism
Eduardo Paolozzi (Wikipedia)
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He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art.
Marisol Escobar (Wikipedia)
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Pop Art, New Realism
Ai Weiwei (Wikipedia)
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Ai Weiwei ( EYE way-WAY; Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, IPA: [âɪ wêɪ.wêɪ]; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist.
Wikipedia: Lee Ufan
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Lee Ufan (Korean: 이우환; Hanja: 李禹煥, Korean pronunciation: [iːuhwan]; born 1936) is a South Korean minimalist painter, sculptor, and academic, known for innovative bodies of work emphasizing process, materials, and the experiential engagement of viewer and site, and critiques of European phenomenology.
Wikipedia: Sui Jianguo
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Sui Jianguo (Chinese: 隋建國), professor and ex-chairman of the Department of Sculpture in Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, is a contemporary Chinese artist.
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