Themes & Artists
The Sacred Realm: Religion, Ritual and Spirituality
Georges Roualt, Andres Serano, Marc Chagall, Annette Messager
Politics and Society
Kiki Smith, Barbara Kruger, Leon Golub, Banksy, JR, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Rockwell, Nancy Spero, Ai Weiwei, Andy Warhol, Ellen Gallagher, Lorna Simpson
Stories and Histories
Diego Rivera, Georgia OʼKeefe, Frida Kahlo, Raymond Pettibon, Kara Walker
Documenting Experience (Here and Now)
Edward Hopper, Sally Mann, Johannes Vermeer, Katsushika Hokusai, George Bellows, Elizabeth Peyton
The Human Experience (Looking Inward)
Louise Bourgeois, Egon Schiele, Kathe Kolowitz, Ellen Gallagher, Lorna Simpson
Invention & Fantasy
Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Hermonios Bosch, Paul Klee, Yayoi Kusama Art & Nature Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, Maya Lin, Alfred Steiglitz, Eugene Atget, Thomas Cole, Henri Rousseau, Albert Bierstadt, George Inness, Shen Zhou
Art & Art (Aesthetics)
Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, Sol Lewitt, El Anatsui, Marcel DuChamp, Julie Mehretu
Identity
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob), Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe),Revital Cohen, John Coplans, Robert Gober, Frida Kahlo, Deborah Kass, Wifredo Lam, Glenn Ligon, Ana Mendieta, Mariko Mori, Senga Nengudi, Adrian Piper,Richard Prince, Shahzia Sikander, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson
Georges Roualt, Andres Serano, Marc Chagall, Annette Messager
Politics and Society
Kiki Smith, Barbara Kruger, Leon Golub, Banksy, JR, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Rockwell, Nancy Spero, Ai Weiwei, Andy Warhol, Ellen Gallagher, Lorna Simpson
Stories and Histories
Diego Rivera, Georgia OʼKeefe, Frida Kahlo, Raymond Pettibon, Kara Walker
Documenting Experience (Here and Now)
Edward Hopper, Sally Mann, Johannes Vermeer, Katsushika Hokusai, George Bellows, Elizabeth Peyton
The Human Experience (Looking Inward)
Louise Bourgeois, Egon Schiele, Kathe Kolowitz, Ellen Gallagher, Lorna Simpson
Invention & Fantasy
Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Hermonios Bosch, Paul Klee, Yayoi Kusama Art & Nature Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, Maya Lin, Alfred Steiglitz, Eugene Atget, Thomas Cole, Henri Rousseau, Albert Bierstadt, George Inness, Shen Zhou
Art & Art (Aesthetics)
Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, Sol Lewitt, El Anatsui, Marcel DuChamp, Julie Mehretu
Identity
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob), Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe),Revital Cohen, John Coplans, Robert Gober, Frida Kahlo, Deborah Kass, Wifredo Lam, Glenn Ligon, Ana Mendieta, Mariko Mori, Senga Nengudi, Adrian Piper,Richard Prince, Shahzia Sikander, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson
Art 21 Links
Season 1: Place, Spirituality, Identity, Consumption
Artists: Laurie Anderson, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois,Michael Ray Charles, Mel Chin, John Feodorov, Ann Hamilton,Margaret Kilgallen, Beryl Korot, Barbara Kruger, Maya Lin, Sally Mann, Zaneli Muholi, Kerry James Marshall, Barry McGee, Bruce Nauman,Pepón Osorio, Ellie Perez, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, James Turrell,William Wegman, Andrea Zittel
Season 2: Stories, Loss & Desire, Time, Humor
Artists: Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni, Charles Atlas, Vija Celmins,Walton Ford, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tim Hawkinson, Elizabeth Murray, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Martin Puryear, Collier Schorr, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker
Season 3: Power, Memory, Play, Structures
Artists: Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Natalia Armada, Ellen Gallagher, Cai Guo-Qiang, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring, Roni Horn, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Barbara Kasten, Mike Kelley, Josiah McElheny, Matthew Ritchie, Susan Rothenberg, Jessica Stockholder, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Krzysztof Wodiczko
Season 4: Romance, Protest, Ecology, Paradox
Artists: Robert Adams, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla,Mark Bradford, Mark Dion, Jenny Holzer, Pierre Huyghe, Alfredo Jaar, An-My Lê, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittman,Robert Ryman, Laurie Simmons, Nancy Spero, Catherine Sullivan, Ursula von Rydingsvard
Season 5: Compassion, Fantasy, Transformation, Systems
Artists: John Baldessari, Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Jeff Koons, Florian Maier-Aichen, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum, Julie Mehretu, Doris Salcedo, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Jeff Wall, Carrie Mae Weems
Season 6: Change, Boundaries, History, Balance
Artists: Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, David Altmejd, El Anatsui, Charles Atlas, Lynda Benglis,Rackstraw Downes, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mangold, Mary Reid Kelley, Catherine Opie, Sarah Sze, Tabaimo, Richard Mirasch
Season 7: Investigation, Secrets, Legacy, Fiction
Artists: Tania Bruguera, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Leonardo Drew,Omer Fast, Katharina Grosse, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elliott Hundley, Graciela Iturbide, Joan Jonas, Wolfgang Laib, Trevor Paglen, Arlene Shechet
Complete Art 21 Artist Index
Artists: Laurie Anderson, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois,Michael Ray Charles, Mel Chin, John Feodorov, Ann Hamilton,Margaret Kilgallen, Beryl Korot, Barbara Kruger, Maya Lin, Sally Mann, Zaneli Muholi, Kerry James Marshall, Barry McGee, Bruce Nauman,Pepón Osorio, Ellie Perez, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, James Turrell,William Wegman, Andrea Zittel
Season 2: Stories, Loss & Desire, Time, Humor
Artists: Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni, Charles Atlas, Vija Celmins,Walton Ford, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tim Hawkinson, Elizabeth Murray, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Martin Puryear, Collier Schorr, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker
Season 3: Power, Memory, Play, Structures
Artists: Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Natalia Armada, Ellen Gallagher, Cai Guo-Qiang, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring, Roni Horn, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Barbara Kasten, Mike Kelley, Josiah McElheny, Matthew Ritchie, Susan Rothenberg, Jessica Stockholder, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Krzysztof Wodiczko
Season 4: Romance, Protest, Ecology, Paradox
Artists: Robert Adams, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla,Mark Bradford, Mark Dion, Jenny Holzer, Pierre Huyghe, Alfredo Jaar, An-My Lê, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittman,Robert Ryman, Laurie Simmons, Nancy Spero, Catherine Sullivan, Ursula von Rydingsvard
Season 5: Compassion, Fantasy, Transformation, Systems
Artists: John Baldessari, Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Jeff Koons, Florian Maier-Aichen, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum, Julie Mehretu, Doris Salcedo, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Jeff Wall, Carrie Mae Weems
Season 6: Change, Boundaries, History, Balance
Artists: Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, David Altmejd, El Anatsui, Charles Atlas, Lynda Benglis,Rackstraw Downes, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mangold, Mary Reid Kelley, Catherine Opie, Sarah Sze, Tabaimo, Richard Mirasch
Season 7: Investigation, Secrets, Legacy, Fiction
Artists: Tania Bruguera, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Leonardo Drew,Omer Fast, Katharina Grosse, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elliott Hundley, Graciela Iturbide, Joan Jonas, Wolfgang Laib, Trevor Paglen, Arlene Shechet
Complete Art 21 Artist Index
Questions to Consider
Questions to Consider:
- Which theme does your work most clearly address? Explain how your work aligns with that theme. Use descriptive language.
- Describe how the subject of your current work fits the theme that you identify. Describe how your research influenced your choices in developing it.
- Compare and contrast: In what ways does your current artwork address similar issues, imagery, ideas – or utilize the material(s) and technique(s) in comparison to an artwork that you have researched?
