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Top 30 contemporary art, all artists - on Art Report

 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 Andy Warhol US New York 1928 Pittsburgh painting 35944
 
2 Joseph Beuys DE Düsseldorf 1921 Kleve installation 33121
 
3 Bruce Nauman US Galisteo, New Mexico 1941 Fort Wayne installation 31612
 
4 Gerhard Richter DE Cologne 1932 Dresden painting 28894
 
5 Pablo Picasso ES Cannes 1881 Malaga painting 24456
 
6 John Baldessari US Santa Monica 1931 National City mixed media 21366
 
7 Cindy Sherman US New York 1954 Glen Ridge photography 20823
 
8 Sigmar Polke DE Cologne 1941 Oels painting 19958
 
9 Lawrence Weiner US New York 1942 New York mixed media 19818
 
10 Ed Ruscha US Los Angeles 1937 Omaha painting 19077
 
11 Rosemarie Trockel DE Cologne 1952 Schwerte mixed media 18733
 
12 William Kentridge ZA Johannesburg 1955 Johannesburg drawing 18465
 
13 Mike Kelley US Los Angeles 1954 Detroit installation 17686
 
14 Georg Baselitz DE Munich 1938 Deutschbaselitz painting 17551
 
15 Franz West AT Vienna 1947 Vienna sculpture / plastik 17446
 
16 Louise Bourgeois FR New York 1911 Paris sculpture / plastik 17332
 
17 Martin Kippenberger DE Düsseldorf 1953 Dortmund painting 17002
 
18 Paul McCarthy US Los Angeles 1945 Salt Lake City installation 16667
 
19 Fischli & Weiss CH Zurich 1952 Zurich photography 16659
 
20 Olafur Eliasson DK Berlin 1967 Copenhagen installation 16658
 
21 Thomas Ruff DE Düsseldorf 1958 Zell photography 16222
 
22 Sol LeWitt US New York 1928 Hartford mixed media 16126
 
23 Nam June Paik KR New York 1932 Seoul video / film 15972
 
24 Francis Alÿs BE Mexico City 1959 Antwerp painting 15929
 
25 Robert Rauschenberg US Captiva 1925 Port Arthur painting 15756
 
26 Douglas Gordon GB Glasgow 1966 Glasgow installation 15350
 
27 Anri Sala AL Paris 1974 Tirana installation 15260
 
28 Pipilotti Rist CH Los Angeles 1962 Grabs video / film 15026
 
29 Isa Genzken DE Berlin 1948 Bad Oldesloe installation 14990
 
30 Bill Viola US Long Beach 1951 New York video / film 14830