List of Contemporary Sculptors (not kinetic)

If you are excited about learning more about sculpture, here is a list of contemporary sculptors. For your artist presentations, you may choose an artist from this list or the list of kinetic sculptors.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

John Ahearn

Diana Al-Hadid

David Altmejd

El Anatsui

Carl Andre

Janine Antoni

Siah Armajani

Anne Arnold

Robert Arneson

Alice Aycock

Saul Baizerman

Stephan Balkenhol

Hans Bellmer

Lynda Benglis

Huma Bhabha

Xu Bing

Christian Boltanski

Lee Bontecou

Christine Bourdette

Louise Bourgeois

Reg Butler

Deborah Butterfield

Alexander Calder

Anthony Caro

Maurizio Cattelan

Nick Cave

John Chamberlain

Jake and Dinos Chapman

Judy Chicago     

Eduardo Chillida

Mel Chin

U-ram Choe

Lygia Clark

Christo and Jean Claude

Anne Chu

Nancy Cohen

Willie Cole

Joseph Cornell

Petah Coyne

Tony Cragg

Meg Cranston

James Croak

Nancy Davidson

Richard Deacon

Walter Demaria

Stephan DeStaebler

Thornton Dial

Nathalie Djurberg

Jim Dine

Tara Donovan

Tom Doyle

Leonardo Drew

Janet Echelman

Olafur Eliasson

Mark di Suvero

Tory Fair

Heide Fasnacht

Vincent Fecteau

Jackie Ferrara

Leon Ferrari

Carole Feuerman

Rob Fisher

Dan Flavin

Lucio Fontana

Carson Fox

Judy Fox

Viola Frey

Tom Friedman

Katarina Fritsch

Naum Gabo

Arthur Ganson

Isa Genzken

Robert Gober

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Antony Gormley

Nancy Graves

Nancy Grossman

Cai Guo-Qiang

Ann Hamilton

David Hammons

Duane Hanson

Rachel Harrison

Jacob Hashimoto

Maren Hassinger

Mona Hatoum

Tim Hawkinson

Jene Highstein

Thomas Hirschorn

Michael Heizer

Carol Hepper

Eva Hesse

Damien Hirst

Jim Hodges

Rebecca Horn

Martin Honert

Roni Horn

Choi Jeong Hwa

Eve Ingalls

Magdalena Jetalova

Rashid Johnson

Donald Judd

Ilya Kabakov

Anish Kapoor

Edward Keinholz

Mike Kelley

Elizabeth King

William King

Jeff Koons

Janis Kounellis

Charles Ledray

Zoe Leonard

Barry Leva

Sol Lewitt

Maya Lin

Donald Lipski

Christiane Lohr

Charles Long

Richard Long

Whitfield Lovell

Marisol

Gordon Matta-Clark

Paul Mccarthy

Allan Mccollum

Josiah Mcelheny

Ana Mendiata

Mario Merz

Annette Messager

Mary Miss

Robert Morris

Ree Morton

Ron Mueck

Juan Munoz

Takashi Murakami

Ron Nagle

Bruce Nauman

Manuel Neri

Ernesto Neto

Louise Nevelson

John Newman

Ben Nicholson

Isamu Noguchi

Claes Oldenberg

Rune Olsen

Meret Oppenheim

Gabriel Orozco

Lucy Orta

Damian Ortega

Tony Oursler

Ana Maria Pacheco

Nam June Paik

Roxy Paine

Cornelia Parker

Giuseppe Penone

Beverly Pepper

Judy Pfaff

Rona Pondick

Liliana Porter

Ken Price

Martin Puryear

Charles Ray

Matthew Ronay

Ugo Rondinone

Nancy Rubins

Alison Saar

Betye Saar

Tom Sachs

Doris Salcedo

Paloma Varga Weisz

Niki de Saint Phalle

Lucas Samaras

Fred Sandback

Arlene Shechet

George Segal

Beverly Semmes

Richard Serra

Joel Shapiro

Judith Shea

Jean Shin

Yinka Shonibare

Michael Singer

Kiki Smith

Tony Smith

Robert Smithson

Kenneth Snelson

Keith Sonnier

Linda Sormin

Jana Sterbak

Ruby Sterling

Jessica Stockholder

George Sugarman

Do Ho Suh

James Surls

Erick Swenson

Sarah Sze

Jean Tinguely

Lee Tribe

Rosemarie Trockel

William Tucker

James Turrell

Richard Tuttle

Ursula Von Rydingsvard

Peter Voulkos

Meg Webster

Franz West

Mia Westerlund Roosen

Mark Wallinger

Rachel Whiteread

Hannah Wilke

Christopher Wilmarth

Jackie Winsor

Erwin Wurm

Rob Wynne

Daisy Youngblood

Sculptors Addressing Issues surrounding body and figure:

Magdalena Abakanowicz

John Ahearn

Sunday Jack Akpan

Pawel Althamer

Miroslaw Balka

Stephan Balkenhol

Gilles Barbier

Hanneke Beaumont

Frank Benson

Huma Bhabha

Berlinde de Bruyckere

Maurizio Cattelan

Nick Cave

Anne Chu

Revital Cohen

James Croak

John Davies

John DeAndrea

Wim Delvoye

Stephen DeStabler

Martin Disler

Keith Edmier

Tracy Emin

Tory Fair

Carole Feuerman

Urs Fischer

Katharina Fritsch

Judy Fox

Viola Frey

Katsura Funakoshi

Robert Gober

Steven Gontarski

Antony Gormley

Duane Hanson

Siobha Hapaska

Thomas Hirschhorn

Christian Holstad

Martin Honert

Thomas Houseago

Pierre Huyghe

Penelope Jencks

Pat Keck

Elizabeth King

William King

Yves Klein (body casting, painting)

Jeff Koons

Abigail Lane

Ted Lawson

Antonio Lopez Garcia

Whitfield Lovell

Teresa Margolles

Piero Manzoni

Marisol

Tony Matelli

Paul McCarthy

Ana Mendiata

Ron Mueck

Juan Munoz

Manuel Neri

Olaf Nicolai

Ousmane Sow

Ana Maria Pacheco

Rona Pondick

Paloma Varga Weisz

Cornelia Parker (some work)

Giuseppe Penone (early work)

Evan Penny

Adrian Piper

Juliana Porter

Marc Quinn

Charles Ray

Ugo Rondionne

Alison Saar

Karin Sander

Carolee Scheneemann

Claudette Schreuders

George Segal

Gil Shacahr

Jonathan Shahn

Judith Shea

Yinko Shonibare

Lorna Simpson

Kiki Smith

Mathilde Ter Heijne

Gavin Turk

Jan van Oost

Mark Wallinger

Rebecca Warren

Andro Wekua

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