Medium

Medium

Medium can refer to both the artistic category (such as painting, sculpture or printmaking) and the materials used (such as bronze, clay or oil paint) when creating an artwork.

In the realm of art, this term carries two main, slightly overlapping, and sometimes bewildering connotations. On one hand, it denotes painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking as different artistic categories, each representing a specific type of art. Simultaneously, it can describe the materials employed in crafting an artwork.

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Carmen Herrera

For decades, Cuban painter Carmen Herrera was the unsung hero of Minimalism, but now she holds her rightful place in history.

Carmen Herrera
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Laila Shawa

Laila Shawa (1940-2022) was a Palestinian pop artist who championed the arts in Gaza.

Laila Shawa
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Beeple

Mike Winkelmann was born in 1981 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Today, he works from his home in Charleston, South Carolina, where he lives with his wife and two children. His parents and brother also live nearby.

Beeple
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DeeKay

DeeKay (he/him) is the artist name of DeeKay Kwon who was born in 1989, South Korea, and now lives and works in San Francisco, United States.

DeeKay
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Jake Fried

Jake Fried (he/him) is an American artist born in 1984. Today, he lives and works in Boston.

Jake Fried
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Maxwell Mustardo

Maxwell Mustardo (he/him) was born in 1993 in rural New Jersey. He lives and works in Quakertown, New Jersey.

Maxwell Mustardo
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Shigeki Matsuyama

Shigeki Matsuyama (he/him) was born in 1973 in Japan. He currently lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan.

Shigeki Matsuyama
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Liang Fu

Liang Fu was born in Sichuan, China in 1993. He lives and works in Paris.

Liang Fu
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Evgen Čopi Gorišek

Evgen Čopi Gorišek was born in 1994 in Slovenia. He now lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Evgen Čopi Gorišek
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Larry Bell

Larry Bell (he/him) was born in 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. He is based in Taos, New Mexico where he currently works. He also has a studio on Venice Beach, California.

Larry Bell
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Grant Riven Yun

Grant Yun (he/him) was born in San Jose, California. He is based in Milwaukee where he currently works and studies.

Grant Riven Yun
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Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021) was born and grew up in the South Bronx, New York City.

Lawrence Weiner
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Michael Kozlowski

Michael Kozlowski (he/him) was born in Kalispell, Montana. He is currently based in Seattle. Kozlowski is best known for the generative art projects Metropolis (2023), Tectonics (2022), Parnassus (2022) and Chimera (2021).

Michael Kozlowski
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Six N. Five

Six N. Five is the studio of Ezequiel Pini’s work, an award-winning Argentinian designer and digital artist based in Barcelona.

Six N. Five
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A-Lei

YehHsin-Hong, known as A-Lei (he/him), was born in 1976 in Taiwan, where he continues to live and work.

A-Lei
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Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel (he/him) was born 1951 in Brooklyn, New York. He now lives and works between his New York City home Palazzo Chupi and Montauk, Long Island.

Julian Schnabel
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Gina Beavers

Gina Beavers (she/her) was born in 1974 in Athens, Greece. She now lives and works in Newark, New Jersey.

Gina Beavers
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Khari Turner

Khari Turner (he/him) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1991, and now lives and works in New York.

Khari Turner

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Parra's studio, with Parra at the centre, his back to the camera as he works on the large painting takes centre stage, showing a faceless blue woman in a striped dress, painted in red, purple, blue and teal. The studio is full of brightly coloured paints, with a large window on the right and a patterned rug across the floor under the painting.