Piero Manzoni

The next Artist You Need To Know is Piero Manzoni (1933 – 1963). Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo was an Italian artist whose approach to art making had strong elements of irony and a caustic sarcasm, often with a hint of mockery that exposed some essential truths...

Vik Muniz

The next Artist You Need To Know is Vik Muniz. Muniz is a Brazilian mixed-media artist and photographer who recreates | re interprets | reimagines famous historical artworks and well known contemporary images from the socio political and pop culture sphere with...

Joseph Cornell

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joseph Cornell (1903 – 1972). Cornell was an American visual artist and filmmaker : his pioneering work in assemblage set a standard for many artists who followed him. Primarily self taught – and living in isolation for most...

Lee Bontecou

The next Artist You Need To Know is Lee Bontecou (1931 – 2022). Bontecou was a groundbreaking American artist primarily situated in the art community of New York City. Her works are immediately recognizable : her abstract sculptures (her most prolific period was in...

Tony Urquhart

The next Artist You Need To Know is Tony Urquhart (1934 – 2022). Urquhart was a Canadian painter who was a groundbreaking and widely recognized abstractionist in the 1950s and 1960s and instrumental in helping to define Canadian abstract painting. He is also renowned...