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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 | Cindy Sherman | US | New York | 1954 | Glen Ridge | photography | 24546 |
| 2 | Rosemarie Trockel | DE | Cologne | 1952 | Schwerte | mixed media | 21943 |
| 3 | Louise Bourgeois | FR | New York | 1911 | Paris | sculpture / plastik | 20935 |
| 4 | Isa Genzken | DE | Berlin | 1948 | Bad Oldesloe | sculpture / plastik | 18798 |
| 5 | Pipilotti Rist | CH | Los Angeles | 1962 | Grabs | video / film | 16921 |
| 6 | Tacita Dean | GB | London | 1965 | Canterbury | video / film | 16891 |
| 7 | Marina Abramovic | DE | Paris | 1946 | Belgrad | video / film | 16403 |
| 8 | Jenny Holzer | US | Hoosick, N.Y. | 1950 | Gallipolis | sculpture / plastik | 15801 |
| 9 | Mona Hatoum | LB | London | 1952 | Beirut | sculpture / plastik | 15158 |
| 10 | Yael Bartana | IL | Israel | 1970 | Afula | video / film | 15006 |
| 11 | Yoko Ono | JP | New York | 1933 | Tokyo | video / film | 14758 |
| 12 | Marlene Dumas | ZA | Amsterdam | 1953 | Cape Town | painting | 14332 |
| 13 | Yayoi Kusama | JP | New York | 1929 | Nagano | painting | 14265 |
| 14 | Martha Rosler | US | New York | 1943 | installation | 13998 | |
| 15 | Candida Höfer | DE | Cologne | 1944 | Eberswalde | photography | 13204 |
| 16 | Valie Export | AT | Vienna | 1940 | Linz | performance | 12840 |
| 17 | Roni Horn | US | New York | 1955 | New York | photography | 12520 |
| 18 | Hanne Darboven | DE | Hamburg | 1941 | Munich | mixed media | 12216 |
| 19 | Barbara Kruger | US | Los Angeles | 1945 | Newark | photography | 11862 |
| 20 | Nan Goldin | US | New York | 1953 | Washington | photography | 11761 |
| 21 | Ulla von Brandenburg | DE | Hamburg | 1974 | Karlsruhe | installation | 10959 |
| 22 | Kara Walker | US | New York | 1969 | drawing | 10956 | |
| 23 | Rineke Dijkstra | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Sittard | photography | 10859 |
| 24 | Kiki Smith | US | New York | 1954 | Nürnburg | painting | 10440 |
| 25 | Sophie Calle | FR | Paris | 1953 | Paris | photography | 10330 |
| 26 | Rivane Neuenschwander | BR | São Paolo | 1967 | Brasilien | installation | 10134 |
| 27 | Louise Lawler | US | New York | 1947 | Bronxville | photography | 9994 |
| 28 | Sherrie Levine | US | New York | 1947 | Hazleton | painting | 9880 |
| 29 | Diane Arbus | US | New York | 1923 | photography | 9681 | |
| 30 | Nathalie Djurberg | SE | Berlin | 1978 | Lysekil | video / film | 9641 |
