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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 |
