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Lee Bul, Perdu XI, 2018, Mother of pearl and acrylic paint on lacquered wooden base panel with steel frame, 32 x 74 inches, © Lee Bul

ART CITIES:N.York-Lee Bul

Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the 1990s. Her artistic practice represents humanity’s desire for a utopian existence. It’s a desire that is doomed to failure, but it is still driven by humankind’s wanton need for …

Irving Penn, Tuberous Begonia, New York, 1973, Pigment print mounted to board, print made 2007, Image, paper and mount 42,5 x 52,7 cm, Frame 66,9 x 67,6 x 3,9 cm, © The Irving Penn Foundation

ART CITIES:Paris-Irving Penn

Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the 20th Century. In a career that spanned almost 70years, …

Gerhard Richter, Betty, 1991, color offset print on cardboard, mounted on plastic board, in frame, 50 1/4 × 40 inches (127.5 × 101.5 cm), edition of 25 © Gerhard Richter 2019

ART CITIES:N.York-Gerhard Richter

Throughout his career, Gerhard Richter has remained at the forefront of contemporary abstraction and image-making, embracing haptic process and technological advancements in …

Left: Allan Sekula, Replica of door to blacksmiths’ shed, in situ (original in collection of Warsaw Ethnographic Museum.) Ochojno, Poland July, 2009, detail from “Polonia and Other Fables”, Right: Allan Sekula, Art Isn’t Fair, 2012, (video still) [detail]

ART CITIES:Paris-Allan Sekula

Allan Sekula revitalized documentary photography, provided critical foundations for theorizing the relationship between word and image, and was one of the earliest …

Yukinori Yanagi, Akitsushima Instruction, 2000, Acrylic on canvas, 97 7/8 x 131 1/4 inches, © Yukinori Yanagi, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Yukinori Yanagi

Yukinori Yanagi focuses on large-scale and site-specific installations that interrogate the politics of institutional borders and boundaries often drawing from systems of …

Carol Bove, The First Braid (detail), 2019, © Carol Bove, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Carol Bove

Known for works that incorporate found and constructed elements with a unique formal, technical, and conceptual inventiveness, Carol Bove stands as one …

ART CITIES:Brussels-Rudolf Polanszky

Rudolf Polanszky is considered a key figure in the Actionist and Post-Actionist Movement with his conceptual oeuvre which aims to bring abstract …

Left: Alina Szapocznikow, Cendrier de Célibataire I (The Bachelor's Ashtray I), 1972, Coloured polyester resin and cigarette butts, © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, Photo: Fabrice . Right: Alina Szapocznikow, Tumeur (Tumor), 1970, Coloured polyester resin and gauze, 4.6 x 6.5 x 8 cm, © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, Photo: Fabrice Gousset

ART CITIES:N.York-Alina Szapocznikow

A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint …

Jason Rhoades, Tijuanatanjierchandelier (2006), Installation view: CAC Málaga (2006), © The Estate of Jason Rhoades, Courtesy The Estate of Jason Rhoades, David Zwirner, and Hauser & Wirth

ART CITIES:New York-Jason Rhoades

Jason Rhoades is known for monumental, room-filling installations. These idiosyncratic sculptures incorporate a wide range of objects including products of mass culture …

ART CITIES:Basel-Len Lye

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand (ΝΖ), Len Lye (is one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the period 1930-1960. Living first …

James Siena, Cascade Effect, Installation view, Xippas Gallery Paris, 2019, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-James Siena

James Siena is a seminal artist on the New York art scene. His work, by turns lithographs, engravings, drawings and paintings, involves …

Ali Banisadr, The Builder, 2019, Oil on Linen, 66x88 inches, © Ali Banisadr, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

ART CITIES:Paris-Ali Banisadr

Born in Tehran in 1976, Ali Banisadr grew up during the Islamic revolution and the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. In 1988, he and …

Raymond Pettibon, No Title (The after-sense o'...), 2018, Acrylic, watercolor, and ink on paper, 66 x 101.6 cm, © Raymond Pettibon, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Raymond Pettibon

Influenced by the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers and comics of the Southern California punk-rock scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, …

Kiki Smith, Woman with Dog, 2003, © Kiki Smith, Courtesy Place Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith has been known since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and the natural world. She …

Artwork © Urs Fischer

ART CITIES:Paris-Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer mines the potential of materials like: clay, steel, and paint to bread and dirt to create works that disorient and …

Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors, 2012, 9-channel video projection, Duration: 64 minutes, Photos: Elisabet Davids Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine-New York and i8 Gallery-Reykjavik

ART CITIES:Helsinki-Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An …

Danh Vo, Cathedral Block Prayer Stage Gun Stock, Exhibition view at Marian Goodman Gallery-London, 2019, © Danh Vo, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Danh Vo

Danh Vo was born in Vietnam and currently lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous …

Kara Walker, 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, 2005, Video, black & white, audio; 15 min 57 sec, © Kara Walker. Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

ART CITIES:London-Kara Walker

Kara Walker’s instantly recognizable cut-paper silhouettes are visually striking and charged with racial, sexual, and historical tension, commenting on slavery, the Black …

Jeff Preiss. 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981-1988, 2019, 8mm transferred to Digital Media, 90 min. Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jeff Preiss

During the ’80s Jeff Preiss became involved in the production of experimental cinema. Work from this time was included in “Big as …

Sarkis, Vitraux Mobiles, © Sarkis, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES:Paris-Sarkis

Sarkis Zabunyan, who is known only by his first name, is an internationally acclaimed conceptual artist hailing from Turkey. In a prolific …