ARTS1301: Social Conflict Project -- artists

This artist deals with the limits of the body/mind and the relationship between artist
and audience through the art of Performance
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
Violence and the Body

This artist deals with social issues of power and control through Performance and
Installation works
TANIA BRUGUERA
Human Rights, Power, and Privacy/Violence and the Body

This artist deals with social issues of subversion and confrontation by utilizing his
own body in the art of Performance
VITO ACCONCI

This artist deals with issues of personal danger and physical endurance by utilizing
his own body in Performance art
CHRIS BURDEN

This artist deals with issues of gender difference and the confines of the domestic
world through Sculpture and Installation
MONA HATOUM

This artist deals with issues of the spiritual made manifest through the corporeal by
utilizing the art of Performance
ZHANG HUAN

This artist deals with gender, class, and social identity issues by utilizing
Performance art
YOKO ONO

This artist deals with gender and body issues through self-modification, photography,
and Performance art
ORLAN

This artist deals with human rights, colonialism, and racism issues by conflating
commonplace items and personal histories
DORIS SALCEDO

JANINE ANTONI
Gender/Sexuality
This artist deals with gender issues by utilizing her own body and everyday activities
in transitions between making and a finished product

This artist deals with issues of identity politics and voyeurism through works of
Performance and audience participation
VANESSA BEECROFT
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of the historical and cultural roles of women by utilizing
collaborative installation and stereotypical women’s artistic skills
JUDY CHICAGO
Gender/Sexuality

These artists deal with gender and racial inequality issues through anonymous
intervention and activism
GUERRILLA GIRLS
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with ideas of fetishism and sado-masochism in relation to women
through his use of the female figure in Sculpture
ALLEN JONES
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of gender and feminism through the appropriation of
graphic design and fashion photography aesthetics
BARBARA KRUGER
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of gender, sexuality, romantic love, violence, and
mortality through anthropomorphic depictions of furniture, weapons, and animals
LARI PITTMAN
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of gender and the body through large-scale figure
paintings of nude women
JENNY SAVILLE
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of gender and feminism through the
utilization of her body in works of Performance art
CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of identity as it relates to nationality, gender, and
sexuality by blending photographic realism with fiction and fantasy
COLLIER SCHORR
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of gender representation and stereotype by taking
photographs of herself dressed up as other people
CINDY SHERMAN
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of feminism and the nature of domestic work through her
service-oriented work in Performance
MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with cultural issues surrounding feminine beauty, fashion, and
ceremonial scarification through the use of self-portraiture and Performance
HANNAH WILKE
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of feminine sexuality through a combination of
pornographic imagery, painting, and needlework
GHADA AMER
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues surrounding the process of creation through the use of
video and Performance
MATTHEW BARNEY
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of sexuality from an autobiographical and confessional perspective
in artworks created by sculpture, drawing, video and installation, photography, and painting
TRACEY EMIN
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues surrounding violence and the sexuality of LGBT-related
individuals through the use of a stark, voyeuristic, and gritty approach to photography
NAN GOLDIN
Gender/Sexuality/Photography and Victimization

This artist deals with issues surrounding AIDS and the process of dying through the
use of minimalist materials in Installation
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with, among other things, issues exploring explicit sexuality as art
with particular reference to early Modern painters (Courbet, Manet)
JEFF KOONS
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with cultural issues surrounding sado-masochism and
homosexuality with a high level of formalism through Black & White photography
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues of pornography, glamour, and high-fashion in eroticism
for a female audience through the use of photography and painting
MARILYN MINTER
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues surrounding sexuality and identity by taking photographs
of transgendered and homosexual individuals
CATHERINE OPIE
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues surrounding the historical depiction of women through a
blending of ignoble subject matter and classical painting technique
LISA YUSKAVAGE
Gender/Sexuality

This artist deals with issues surrounding political resistance, social relationships, and
betrayal in her meticulous gouache on paper works
LAYLAH ALI
Race/Identity/Human Rights, Power, and Privacy

This artist deals with issues surrounding public voice, social consciousness, and
activism through large-scale, community mural projects
JUDITH BACA
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues of racial identity by reconfiguring stereotypical images of
African-Americans in paintings
MICHAEL RAY CHARLES
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues of civil rights and Black Power movements through the
use of commonplace, abject, or discarded materials to create narrative commentary
DAVID HAMMONS
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding cultural and social identities through found
texts reconfigured into formal images that engage ideas of legibility
GLENN LIGON
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding racial identity through Performance art and
multi-media installation
JAMES LUNA
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding Mexico/U.S. border culture and the politics
of the brown body through a multitude of artistic mediums
GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues of racial stereotypes within contemporary American
society through paintings that employ extremely dark figures
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues of ostracism, otherness, racial "passing," and racism by
utilizing a multitude of artistic mediums
ADRIAN PIPER
Race/Identity

This artist challenges racial myths and stereotypes through
her work in assemblage
BETYE SAAR
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding race and ethnic divisions in society through
her documentary work in photography and film
LORNA SIMPSON
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding underlying racism in everyday activities
through painting, quilting, sculpture, and performance
FAITH RINGOLD
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding race, gender, sexuality, violence and
identity primarily through the use of silhouetted black cutouts
KARA WALKER
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding racism, gender relations, politics, and
personal identity primarily through the medium of photography
CARRIE MAE WEEMS
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding social justice and political activism through
the medium of museology and installation
FRED WILSON
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding sexism and racism with her bold, politically
motivated self-portraits that play upon and subvert classical art historical images
RENEE COX
Race/Identity

This artist deals with the questioning of racial and sexual stereotypes in a humorous
way through paintings that reference blaxploitation films and gangsta rap
CHRIS OFILI
Race/Identity

This artist deals with issues surrounding society, spirituality, and politics through the
mediums of photography, film, and sound works
YAEL BARTANA
Religion/Spirituality

This artist deals with issues of Native American spiritual stereotypes present in American
culture through the juxtaposition of “sacred” items and recognizable consumer products
JOHN FEODOROV

This artist deals with issues surrounding nature, sexuality, religion, and politics
through meticulously handcrafted sculptures and installation
ROBERT GOBER

This artist deals with issues surrounding contrasts between Islam and the West
through film, video and photography
SHIRIN NESHAT
Religion/Spirituality/Human Rights, Power, and Privacy

This artist uses photography to play on the relationship between beautiful imagery and
vulgar materials with potentially controversial and willfully provocative subject matter
ANDRES SERRANO

This artist deals with issues surrounding the juxtaposition and mixing of Hindu and
Muslim iconography through installation and the historic genre of miniature painting
SHAHZIA SIKANDER

This artist deals with issues surrounding space and light as a physical entity primarily
through his construction of a naked-eye observatory inside a crater
JAMES TURRELL

This artist deals with ideas of fundamental human experience such as birth, death
and aspects of consciousness through painterly, slow-motion video and installation
BILL VIOLA

This artist deals with feng shui, the natural world, and such tenets as, “destroy
nothing create nothing,” in his works with coordinated gunpowder explosions
CAI GUO-QIANG

This artist deals with ideas surrounding shamanism and the ritualistic through
performance works frequently involving animals related to symbology
JOSEPH BEUYS

This artist deals with issues surrounding resistance to political oppression in Brazil
through large-scale, phenomenological installation work
CILDO MEIRELES
Religion/Spirituality/Human Rights, Power, and Privacy

This artist deals wth issues surrounding authenticity and community through his work
in low relief sculpture
JOHN AHEARN
Public Space/Public Housing

MARK BRADFORD
This artist deals with issues of cultural identity and place through his utilization of
found printed material in his collage and multi-media paintings

This artist deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, craft, and the
revitalization of poor neighborhoods through a combination of urban planning and art
THEASTER GATES

This artist deals with issues surrounding the ideal of making a place for individuals
within the landscape through sculpture and landscape art
MAYA LIN

This artist deals with issues surrounding the transformation of community through
social practice and revitalization
RICK LOWE

This artist/architect deals with the need to create meaningful, vital, and inclusive
spaces that enhance community through innovative architectural projects
MOSHE SAFDIE

This artist uses large-scale and public sculpture to engage with ideas surrounding
the physical experience of constructed spaces
RICHARD SERRA

This artist deals with ideas surrounding the residue of years and use by casting the
negative spaces of ordinary domestic objects and structures
RACHEL WHITEREAD

This artist addresses public vs. private neglect, and formation of public opinion
without factual evidence through the use of live and photo-documented animals
GUILLERMO VARGAS
Animal Rights?

This artist deals with ideas surrounding the existential nature of death, decay, and
the nature of memory in works that utilize animals displayed in formaldehyde
DAMIEN HIRST
Animal Rights?

This artist captures likenesses of the people and culture of Appalachia utilizing a
documentary style of photography
SHELBY LEE ADAMS
Photography and Victimization

This artist photographed marginalized people and others whose normality was
perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal
DIANE ARBUS

This artist deals with issues of appropriation by re-photographing works of art
previously made famous by other artists
SHERRIE LEVINE

This artist utilizes antiquated photographic processes to capture images of her
family, the landscape, and the ordinary and mundane
SALLY MANN

This artist captures likenesses of nude adolescents and their families through
photographs that are highly controversial in the United States
JOCK STURGES

This artist utilizes video to deal with issues surrounding identity through tiered and
nuanced presentations of a narrative unfolding over time from multiple viewpoints
OMER FAST
Human Rights, Power, and Privacy

This artist utilized painting to deal with issues surrounding power, the sexual, and the
political through figural representations
LEON GOLUB

This artist critiques social and political systems with the use of real-time, site-specific
installations that focus on the relationship between museums and corporations
HANS HAACKE

This artist utilizes public, text-based installations and projections to deal with issues
surrounding violence, oppression, sexuality, feminism, power, war, and death
JENNY HOLZER

This artist explores the public’s desensitization to images of genocides, epidemics,
and famines through installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects
ALFREDO JAAR

This artist utilizes drawings, prints, and animations to address aspects of social
injustice that have transpired over the years in South Africa
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

This artist addresses issues surrounding the subject of surveillance and top-secret
government projects through the use of photography
TREVOR PAGLEN

This artist utilizes an extensive materials list juxtaposed with seemingly simple items
in order to address issues of love, death, eroding memory, and healing
DARIO ROBLETO
Cassette: carved bone and bone dust
from every bone in the body, trinitite,
(glass produced during the first atomic
test explosion, circa 1945 from Trinity
test site, when heat from blast melted
surrounding sand), metal screws, rust,
typeset
Audio tape: an original composition of
military drum marches, various weapon
fire and soldiers’ voices from
battlefields of various wars made from
E.V.P. recordings (Electronic Voice
Phenomena: voices and sounds of the
dead or past, detected through
magnetic audiotape)

This artist explores issues of colonialism alongside those of race and class through
painting, sculpture, photography, installation, film, and performance
YINKA SHONIBARE, MBE

This artist chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of
ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life
NANCY SPERO

This artist works in sculpture and installation,and has been highly and openly critical
of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights
AI WEIWEI

This artist deals with issues of war, conflict, trauma, memory, and communication
through large-scale video projections on architectural facades and monuments
KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO

This artist deals with issues of psychological and sociological anxiety, and
historical/political issues through hyper-realistic watercolors and performance
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN

This group uses any media that will engage a particular socio-political context to create
molecular interventions that seek to diminish the rising intensity of authoritarian culture
CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE

This artist utilizes cloth as a metaphor, and verbal/written language in large-scale
installations that address issues of slavery, oppression, and society as a whole
ANN HAMILTON

This artist uses a documentary style of photography to address issues surrounding
the changing landscape of the American West
ROBERT ADAMS
Environmentalism/Ecology

This artist deals with political, cultural, and social circumstances through his works in
a variety of media that seek to calculate meaning in modern life
MEL CHIN

This artist examines how dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our
understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world through installation
MARK DION

This artist employs elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to
enhance the viewer’s sensory experience of large-scale installations
OLAFUR ELIASSON

This artist uses materials from the natural world to create ephemeral, site-specific
sculptures and installations
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

This artist primarily explores the interface between society, the environment, and
technology through installation and open-source biotechnology projects
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

This artist deals with ideas surrounding the exploration and critique of scientific
exploration through the use of biologic elements in his work
EDUARDO KAC

This artist uses natural forms such as clouds, icebergs, and DNA in sculptures as
metaphors for social issues such as immigration, gun violence, and human cloning
IÑIGO MANGLANO-OVALLE

This artist uses abstract shapes to refer to natural forms and forces, tools, primitive
dwellings, geological formations, the landscape, and the body
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD

This artist has used commonplace and natural items to create intricate sculptures
located in outdoor/public areas
SARAH SZE

This artist creates functional objects and structures that fulfill needs relating to
shelter, food, furniture, and clothing
ANDREA ZITTEL

This artist deals with issues of animal rights through his use of living animals in
precarious installations with the potential for the audience to do them harm
MARCO EVARISTTI

This artist utilizes natural materials in large-scale installations to address ideas about
human scale and the duration of time
WOLFGANG LAIB

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