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Top 30 contemporary art artists alive - on Art Report

Find the most established contemporary art artists worldwide, regardless of their preferred medium, such as painting, installation, drawing, sculpture, photography or video - ranked by attention since 2004, as measured by the method of Art Report.



ranking artist's name country lives in birth date born in medium total AR-points
1 Bruce Nauman US Galisteo, New Mexico 1941 Fort Wayne installation 25836
 
2 Gerhard Richter DE Cologne 1932 Dresden painting 22086
 
3 John Baldessari US Santa Monica 1931 National City mixed media 17622
 
4 Cindy Sherman US New York 1954 Glen Ridge photography 15837
 
5 Lawrence Weiner US New York 1942 New York mixed media 14855
 
6 William Kentridge ZA Johannesburg 1955 Johannesburg drawing 14694
 
7 Olafur Eliasson DK Berlin 1967 Copenhagen installation 14243
 
8 Georg Baselitz DE Munich 1938 Deutschbaselitz painting 14225
 
9 Franz West AT Vienna 1947 Vienna sculpture / plastik 14207
 
10 Paul McCarthy US Los Angeles 1945 Salt Lake City installation 13855
 
11 Francis Alÿs BE Mexico City 1959 Antwerp painting 13659
 
12 Ed Ruscha US Los Angeles 1937 Omaha painting 13564
 
13 Rosemarie Trockel DE Cologne 1952 Schwerte mixed media 13125
 
14 Thomas Ruff DE Düsseldorf 1958 Zell photography 13099
 
15 Fischli & Weiss CH Zurich 1952 Zurich photography 13004
 
16 Pipilotti Rist CH Los Angeles 1962 Grabs video / film 12768
 
17 Douglas Gordon GB Glasgow 1966 Glasgow installation 12524
 
18 Bill Viola US Long Beach 1951 New York video / film 11930
 
19 Wolfgang Tillmans DE London 1968 Remscheid photography 11672
 
20 Anri Sala AL Paris 1974 installation 11406
 
21 Jonathan Monk GB Berlin 1969 Leicester installation 11331
 
22 Anselm Kiefer DE Paris 1945 Donaueschingen painting 11309
 
23 Rodney Graham CA Vancouver 1949 Vancouver video / film 11267
 
24 Dan Graham US New York 1942 Urbana mixed media 11213
 
25 Isa Genzken DE Berlin 1948 Bad Oldesloe installation 10999
 
26 Richard Serra US New York 1939 San Francisco sculpture / plastik 10994
 
27 Tacita Dean GB London 1965 Canterbury video / film 10954
 
28 Erwin Wurm AT Vienna 1954 installation 10924
 
29 Andreas Gursky DE Düsseldorf 1955 Leipzig photography 10855
 
30 Hans-Peter Feldmann DE Düsseldorf 1941 Düsseldorf mixed media 10842