Chinese installation artists

Some of his works, such as the Polyrhythm and the atomic bomb themed Sea Breeze , reflect on his experiences of post-war US-Japan relations. He has collaborated with many luxury fashion brands and artists including Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West.

He also wrote and directed the sci-fi film Jellyfish Eyes. Early in her career, she explored a printmaking technique of the intaglio family known as drypoint before shifting to textiles. From intricately layered paintings on paper to encompassing sculptures, her art displays human emotions, her inner thoughts and other sensory experiences. Ay Tjoe is also one of the highest-grossing female Indonesian artists at global auction houses.

She uses everyday objects to convey important socio-political messages, raise questions on identity, and discuss the subject of isolation. She is sensitive to and critically investigates the post-modern condition, contemporary civilisations and themes such as limits. Handles second picture , her recent exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, comprises geometrical sculptures covered with bells, industrial design handles, vinyl patterns on walls and sounds of birds.

The bells represent the ones used in Korean shamanistic rites. Her political activism forced her into exile to the US in , where she began her career as an artist. Her travel experiences shaped her artistic style, and she graduated from drawing tropical landscapes to producing abstract art.

She is known for mastering a technique called trapunto, inspired by an Italian quilting method of stuffing different materials in the canvases to give an elevated effect. Her famous artwork Caught at the Border second picture — a powerful message on immigration — was created using this method. Abad created over 5, artworks, had more than 60 solo and over 70 group exhibitions at various museums and galleries till her death in Her work is displayed in various art collections in over 70 countries.

A graduate and master of Fine Arts, Chung uses her knowledge of archaeology and cartography to create paintings in the form of meticulously drawn maps chronicling geological events and recent humanitarian crises. Her solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum titled Vietnam, Past is Prologue — comprising paintings, maps and videos presenting the stories of Vietnamese refugees spread around the world — is just one of the examples. One of the most critically acclaimed modern sculptors in Asia, she is also the only dedicated stone sculptor in Singapore and has hewn outstanding pieces of art usually from granite and marble.

One of her works 20 Tonnes — Physical Consequences second picture is notable because the monolithic blocks have been carved from a single block of granite. She has also produced masterpieces using sandstone and trunks of tembusu trees.

She has since featured in international institutions, public spaces and private collections in countries such as Malaysia, India, Japan, the UK and the US. At this show, Paik presented 13 television sets laid on one side with their reception altered so that each set had a different display.

After moving to the US in , he created a remote-controlled robot called Robot K — that played snippets of John F. Kennedy speeches — in collaboration with engineer Shuya Abe.

Over the next two decades, Paik went on to garner appreciation for his television and video-based art. In , a year after his death, Paik was honoured with the highest class in the Order of Cultural Merit by the South Korean government.

Cai was born in in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from to and then left for Japan to learn gunpowder techniques for nine years.

In , he moved to New York City where he has lived ever since. In the exhibition, one of the installations was Inopportune: Stage One , where Cai suspended nine cars from the ceiling and created an exploding effect with timed light displays.

In , he also participated in the Beijing Olympics as the director of visual and special effects. After an artistic and personal relationship that lasted over fifty years, Jeanne-Claude died in Christo continued working, and this year, he created the most ambitious project ever. Conceived by the couple, but executed by Christo alone, Floating Piers was a monumental installation in Italy that consisted of 3 kilometers long runway that floats on water, allowing people to walk freely across it.

Featured images: Christo, via katep. The wealthiest living British artist, Damien Hirst is a self-styled enfant terrible of contemporary art. Involving an entire zoo of dead animals , his famous series Natural History included various preserved creatures placed in steel and glass tanks filled with formaldehyde solution. Featured images: Damien Hirst, via newsweek.

Sculptures and installations of Doris Salcedo function as political and mental archeology. Using domestic materials charged with different meanings, she depicts burdens and conflicts with precise economical means. Recently, her works became increasingly installation-based, turning the gallery space into vertiginous environments charged with politics and history. The piece Noviembre 6 y 7 from commemorating the seventeenth anniversary of the violent seizing of the Supreme Court in Bogota involved wooden chairs that were slowly lowered against the facade of the new Palace of Justice building.

Featured images: Doris Salcedo, via wmagazine. A Belgian poet, filmmaker, and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art, Marcel Broodthaers has indirectly written the history of art as we know it today, but has remained in the shadows of his more famous colleagues.

Regarded as a father of installation art , his practice involved many unconventional materials such as eggshells or mussels mixed with more traditional art. His practice was regarded highly innovative during the transformative decades of the s and s.

Featured images: Marcel Broodthaers, via villagevoice. An American artist, art educator and writer, Judy Chicago is best known for her large collaborative art installation pieces which examine the role of women in history and culture.

Her most celebrated piece The Dinner Party from celebrated the achievements of women throughout history, featuring explicit vaginal imagery. Featured image: Judy Chicago, via jewishlouisville. An African-American installation and conceptual artist, Kara Walker has been exploring the history of the American South with her wall-sized cut paper silhouettes. Exploring and illustrating histories of racism , these vignettes are drawn from various sources such as historical novels or slave testimonials.

She invites the public to explore the origins of racial inequality , but also the vast social and economic inequalities that persist in America. Relying on humor and viewer interaction, her works are deeply engaging. Featured images: Kara Walker, via thenewyorker. Working with the purpose of turning thinking into doing, the art of Olafur Eliasson is relevant to the individual as well as the public. Concerned with the environment and its safety, he uses natural elements such as light, water, air temperature and fog with makeshift technical devices to transform museum galleries and public areas into immersive environments.

One of his most famous works is The Weather Project from when Eliasson installed a giant artificial sun inside the Tate Modern. Among his famous art installations created outdoors, the project Green River included dying the rivers of Moss, Los Angeles, Bremen, Tokyo, and Stockholm with nontoxic powder to remind their inhabitants of its fluidity.

Featured images: Olafur Eliasson, via theguardian. A famous provocative avant-garde artist from Japan, Yayoi Kusama is one of the most prominent figures in her country's present-day culture. Becoming active in New York avant-garde circles during the formative years of Pop Art and Minimalism, her practice was seminal to the development of assemblage, environmental art, performative practices, and later, installation art. In the mids, she began developing her interests in the optics and interactive elements of mirrors, electric lights, sound and kinetics.

Becoming famous for her provocative happenings and exhibitions, her extraordinary artistic endeavors spans various media and continues to appeal to the imagination and the senses. She has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution since , traveling often to her studio in Tokyo.