Absalon
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online December 2000 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Architecture; Sculpture and Carving; 20th-Century Art; Art of the Middle East and North Africa; Contemporary Art. 244 words.
[Eshel, Meir]
(b Tel Aviv, Dec 26, 1964; d Paris, Oct 10, 1993).
Israeli sculptor. He adopted the name Absalon on his arrival in Paris in the late 1980s. During his...
Adams, Dennis
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
P ublished online October 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Architecture; Film and Video Art; Installation Art, Mixed-Media, Assemblage, and Collage; Photography and Photographs; Public Art, Land Art, and Environmental Art; Contemporary Art; 20th-Century Art; Art of the United States. 326 words.
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 15 November 1948, in Des Moines (Iowa).
Environmental artist, video artist, installation artist.
Dennis Adams lives and...
Agid, Olivier
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
P ublished online October 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Painting; Architecture; Book Arts and Illustration; Public Art, Land Art, and Environmental Art; Sculpture and Carving; Contemporary Art; 20th-Century Art. 431 words.
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 20 January 1951, in Paris.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator.
Agid began his studies in 1970-1971 by taking one...
Ai Weiwei
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online September 2005 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Installation Art, Mixed-Media, Assemblage, and Collage; Architecture; 20th-Century Art; Contemporary Art; East Asian Art. 928 words.
(b Beijing, May 13, 1957; official birthdate Aug 28, 1957).
Chinese conceptual artist, curator and architect. Son of the poet Ai Qing (Jiang Haicheng) (1910–96). For 25...
Albacete, Alfonso
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
P ublished online October 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Painting; Architecture; Contemporary Art; 20th-Century Art. 104 words.
Spanish, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1950, in Antequera.
Painter. Figures, landscapes, urban landscapes, interiors.
Alfonso Albacete studied architecture and...
Albenda, Ricci
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
P ublished online October 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Painting; Architecture; Installation Art, Mixed-Media, Assemblage, and Collage; Sculpture and Carving; Contemporary Art; 20th-Century Art; Art of the United States. 286 words.
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1966, in New York.
Sculptor, painter, installation artist. Murals.
Ricci Albenda studied at the Rhode Island School of...
Albrecht, Jürgen
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
P ublished online October 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Architecture; Sculpture and Carving; Contemporary Art; 20th-Century Art. 58 words.
German, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Hamburg.
Born 1954.
Sculptor.
Jürgen Albrecht has had solo shows in Germany and France.
His...
Alfaro, Brooke
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online January 2003 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Painting; Architecture; Latin American and Caribbean Art; 20th-Century Art; Contemporary Art. 265 words.
(b Panama City, Sept 5, 1949).
Panamian painter. A graduate of the University of Panama’s Architecture School, he became a full time painter following his first solo...
Alÿs, Francis
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
P ublished online October 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Painting; Architecture; Film and Video Art; Installation Art, Mixed-Media, Assemblage, and Collage; Photography and Photographs; Contemporary Art; 20th-Century Art. 451 words.
Belgian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Mexico.
Born 1959, in Antwerp.
Painter, draughtsman, video artist, photographer, installation artist.
Franc...
Alÿs, Francis
in Oxford Art Online
P ublished online December 2000 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Installation Art, Mixed-Media, Assemblage, and Collage; Painting; Performance Art and Dance; Architecture; Latin American and Caribbean Art; 20th-Century Art; Contemporary Art. 806 words.
(b Antwerp, Aug 22, 1959).
Belgian-born interdisciplinary artist, active in Mexico. He studied architecture at the Institut d’Architecture de Tournai in Belgium (1978–83)...
