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Top 30 Artists contemporary art Video / Film

Here you can find the most established artists worldwide who use mainly video and film as their preferred medium - ranked for attention since 2004, as measured by the Art Report method. This modern medium brought moving pictures in the gallery or the museum scene for the first time. The long existing prejudices against the video art and film medium is slowly but surely dismantled.



ranking artist's name country lives in birth date born in medium total AR-Points
1 Nam June Paik KR New York 1932 Seoul video / film 12896
 
2 Pipilotti Rist CH Los Angeles 1962 Grabs video / film 12768
 
3 Bill Viola US Long Beach 1951 New York video / film 11930
 
4 Rodney Graham CA Vancouver 1949 Vancouver video / film 11267
 
5 Tacita Dean GB London 1965 Canterbury video / film 10954
 
6 Marina Abramovic DE Paris 1946 Belgrad video / film 9556
 
7 Yoko Ono JP New York 1933 Tokyo video / film 9435
 
8 Matthew Barney US New York 1967 San Francisco video / film 9010
 
9 Philippe Parreno DZ Paris 1964 Oran video / film 8376
 
10 Harun Farocki DE Berlin 1944 Neutischein video / film 8239
 
11 Yael Bartana IL Israel 1970 Afula video / film 8171
 
12 Pierre Huyghe FR Paris 1962 Paris video / film 8123
 
13 Allora & Calzadilla US New York 1995 Philadelphia video / film 8090
 
14 Artur Zmijewski PL Warsaw 1966 Warsaw video / film 7878
 
15 David Claerbout BE Brussels 1969 Kortrijk video / film 7492
 
16 Markus Schinwald AT Berlin 1973 Salzburg video / film 7464
 
17 Nathalie Djurberg SE Berlin 1978 Lysekil video / film 7387
 
18 Paul Chan CN New York 1973 Hong Kong video / film 7170
 
19 Candice Breitz ZA Berlin 1972 Johannesburg video / film 6896
 
20 Tony Oursler US New York 1957 New York video / film 6834
 
21 Keren Cytter IL Amsterdam 1977 Tel Aviv video / film 6513
 
22 Isaac Julien GB London 1960 London video / film 6432
 
23 Clemens von Wedemeyer DE Berlin 1974 Göttingen video / film 6156
 
24 Deimantas Narkevicius LT Vilnius 1964 Litauen video / film 6132
 
25 Yang Fudong CN Shanghai 1971 Beijing video / film 6100
 
26 Erik van Lieshout NL Rotterdam 1968 Deurne video / film 6010
 
27 Walid Raad LB New York 1967 Chbanieh video / film 5974
 
28 Cyprien Gaillard FR Paris 1980 Paris video / film 5900
 
29 Omer Fast IL Berlin 1972 Jerusalem video / film 5837
 
30 Darren Almond GB London 1971 Wigan video / film 5820