Modern Archives - Page 5 of 9

Doris Salcedo

Colombian sculptor and installation artist, born in Bogotá where she lives and works. Her art reflects the political climate of her country, which has been

Adrián Villar Rojas

Adrián Villar Rojas (born 1980 in Rosario, Argentina) is a sculptor known for his elaborate, fantastical works which explore notions of the Anthropocene

Félix González-Torres

Félix González-Torres was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres’s openly gay sexual orientation is often seen as influential in his work

Jesús Rafael Soto

Venezuelan Kinetic artist, active mainly in Paris. He was born in Ciudad Bolívar and in 1942–7 he studied at the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Caracas

Gabriel Orozco

Mexican artist, born in Jalaga. His work combines elements of performance, sculpture, drawing, and installation, and is rooted in paradox, games play,

Zilia Sánchez

Zilia Sánchez is a Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist. She started her career as a set designer and an abstract painter for radical theatre groups in cuba

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Scottish artist and poet, born in Nassau, Bahamas, of Scottish parents. His father had gained and lost a fortune by smuggling. He studied briefly at Glasgow

Joaquín Roca Rey

Peruvian sculptor, born in Lima, where he studied at the National School of Fine Arts. Between 1948 and 1952 he lived in Europe, exhibiting in Florence

Janine Antoni

American sculptor, born in the Bahamas. She has made sculpture out of food. Gnaw (1992, MoMA, New York) consists of three 600 pound cubes of lard

Joaquín Torres García

Uruguayan painter and art theorist, born in Montevideo. Most of his life was spent in Spain, to which he moved with his family in 1891 (his mother was