Kenojuak Ashevak

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Kenojuak Ashevak (1927 – 2013). Kenojuak Ashevak | ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ | Qinnuajuaq Aasivak was a Canadian Inuk artist. Recognized as one of the most significant modern Inuit artists she was also among the leaders of a generation of Arctic...

George Grosz

Our next Artist You Need To Know is George Grosz (1893 – 1959). Grosz (born Georg Ehrenfried Groß) was a German artist renowned for his drawings and paintings of Berlin, especially in the 1920s and capturing post WW I Germany, that employed satire and caricature in a...

Dieter Roth

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Dieter Roth (1930 – 1998). Roth was a German | Swiss | Icelandic artist who gained recognition for his diverse body of work, which included artist’s books, editioned prints, sculpture, and creations from found materials,...

Hairy Who | 1966–1969

Our next Artists You Need To Know are the group known as the Hairy Who (1966–1969, also sometimes called The Chicago Hairy Who) :  Art Green (b. 1941), Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940), Jim Nutt (b. 1938), Jim Falconer (1942 – 2022), Suellen Rocca (1943 – 2020)...

Telford Fenton

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Telford Fenton (1932 – 2004). Fenton was born in Chesley, Ontario in 1932 and exhibited a unique, spontaneous style, employing strong colour and with an energetic sense of improvisation that complimented his discipline in...