100 Artists that Art Students Must Know

Thomas Kinkade
Gerhard Richter
Bruce Nauman
Louise Bourgeois
Mike Kelley
Bill Viola
Christian Boltanski
William Kentridge
Franz West
Pipilotti Rist
Antony Gormley
Tino Sehgal
Richard Tuttle
Ai Weiwei
Cindy Sherman
Kara Walker
Mark RothKo
Erwin Wurm
Luc Tuymans
Ray Johnson
Olafur Eliasson
Yayoi Kusama
Tim Hawkinson
Janine Antoni
Carsten Höller
Felix Gonzales-Torres
Wolfgang Tillmans
Rebecca Horn
David Hockney
Andrea Zittel
Rachel Whiteread
Sol LeWitt
Andy Warhol
Gillian Wearing
Ana Mendieta
Cy Twombly
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Frank Stella
Kiki Smith
William Pope. L
Richard Serra
Jenny Saville
Edward Ruscha
Robert Rauschenberg
Nam June Paik
Orlan
Chris Ofili
Robert Morris
Carl Andre
Paul McCarthy
Agnes Martin
Ad Reinhardt
Barbara Kruger
Jeff Koons
Edward Kienholz
Ellsworth Kelly
Anish Kapoor
Donald Judd
Jasper Johns
Jenny Holzer
Gordon Matta Clark
Robert Smithson
Chris Burden
Damien Hirst
Eva Hesse
Keith Haring
Hans Haacke
Nan Goldin
Gilbert and George
Helen Frankenthaler
Andrea Fraser
Tom Friedman
Tara Donavan
Dan Flavin
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Charles Ray
Ólafur Elíasson
Tracey Emin
Marcel Duchamp
Matthew Barney
John Baldessari
Marina Abramovic
Vito Acconci
Maurizio Cattelan
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Francis Alys
Joseph Beuys
Jonathon Keats
Chuck Close
Judy Chicago
Robert Irwin
James Turrell
Guy Debord
Robert Maplethorpe
Andres Serrano
Bas Jan Ader
Openhiemer
Ann Hamilton
Carolee Schneemann
John Currin
Takashi Murakami
Sally Mann
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Gabriel Orozco
Tony Oursler
Ernesto Netto
Cai Gua-Quiang
Alexander Caulder