Artists Studied by Art Spirit

• Yayoi Kusama / 草间弥生

  Yayoi Kusama is a core postwar and contemporary artist for collectors studying repetition, immersive experience, and the long arc between avant-garde practice and global recognition.

  Japanese | b. 1929 | Painting, sculpture, installation

• Julie Mehretu / 朱莉·梅雷图

  Julie Mehretu is one of the most important painters of her generation for collectors studying abstraction, migration, architecture, and political memory.

  Ethiopian-American | b. 1970 | Painting, drawing, printmaking

• David Hockney / 大卫·霍克尼

  David Hockney is a cornerstone artist for collectors studying postwar figuration, image-making, landscape, and the transition from analog to digital seeing.

  British | b. 1937 | Painting, drawing, photography, digital image

• Li Hei Di / 李黑地

  Li Hei Di is a young Chinese-born, London-based painter whose biomorphic abstraction has entered a major gallery context early in the artist's career.

  Chinese | b. 1997 | Painting

• Yuan Fang / 方媛

  Yuan Fang is a young Chinese-born abstract painter worth sustained attention within the international contemporary art system. Her work brings bodily experience, landscape, cultural memory, and gestural abstraction into a distinctive visual language.

  Chinese | b. 1996 | Painting

• Lena Baumgartner / 莉娜·鲍姆加特纳

  Lena Baumgartner is included as a mock emerging-artist profile for testing Art Spirit's collector research structure.

  European | b. 1994 | Painting, mixed media