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Top 30 contemporary art, all artists - 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 Andy Warhol US New York 1928 Pittsburgh painting 28889
 
2 Joseph Beuys DE Düsseldorf 1921 Kleve installation 26177
 
3 Bruce Nauman US Galisteo, New Mexico 1941 Fort Wayne installation 26103
 
4 Gerhard Richter DE Cologne 1932 Dresden painting 22545
 
5 Pablo Picasso ES Cannes 1881 Malaga painting 20335
 
6 John Baldessari US Santa Monica 1931 National City mixed media 17734
 
7 Cindy Sherman US New York 1954 Glen Ridge photography 16366
 
8 Sigmar Polke DE Cologne 1941 Oels painting 16299
 
9 Lawrence Weiner US New York 1942 New York mixed media 14967
 
10 William Kentridge ZA Johannesburg 1955 Johannesburg drawing 14694
 
11 Martin Kippenberger DE Düsseldorf 1953 Dortmund painting 14528
 
12 Georg Baselitz DE Munich 1938 Deutschbaselitz painting 14321
 
13 Franz West AT Vienna 1947 Vienna sculpture / plastik 14295
 
14 Olafur Eliasson DK Berlin 1967 Copenhagen installation 14243
 
15 Louise Bourgeois FR New York 1911 Paris sculpture / plastik 14081
 
16 Paul McCarthy US Los Angeles 1945 Salt Lake City installation 14074
 
17 Francis Alÿs BE Mexico City 1959 Antwerp painting 13819
 
18 Ed Ruscha US Los Angeles 1937 Omaha painting 13676
 
19 Rosemarie Trockel DE Cologne 1952 Schwerte mixed media 13568
 
20 Robert Rauschenberg US Captiva 1925 Port Arthur painting 13516
 
21 Thomas Ruff DE Düsseldorf 1958 Zell photography 13229
 
22 Mike Kelley US Los Angeles 1954 Detroit installation 13207
 
23 Fischli & Weiss CH Zurich 1952 Zurich photography 13158
 
24 Pipilotti Rist CH Los Angeles 1962 Grabs video / film 12948
 
25 Sol LeWitt US New York 1928 Hartford mixed media 12900
 
26 Nam June Paik KR New York 1932 Seoul video / film 12896
 
27 Douglas Gordon GB Glasgow 1966 Glasgow installation 12604
 
28 Bill Viola US Long Beach 1951 New York video / film 11930
 
29 Wolfgang Tillmans DE London 1968 Remscheid photography 11672
 
30 Jonathan Monk GB Berlin 1969 Leicester installation 11439