José Manuel Ciria was born in Manchester (UK) in 1960 but grew up in Spain. Ciria is one of the most active and internationally successful contemporary Spanish painters. His abstract work is featured in the collections of Spain’s most important museums, such as the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía and t

Abstract, Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Enigmatic, Erotic, Monumental, Visceral

Kent Monkman is a filmmaker, illustrator, painter and performance artist, of Swampy Cree and English/Irish descent. He was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is now based in Toronto. His postmodernist, postcolonialist work revises the Romantic tradition of nation-building, ethnography and representati

Homoerotic, Ironic, Playful, Political, Queer

Along with many other artists in the 1980s and early 1990s, Jin-me Yoon’s work has critically foregrounded – through formal and conceptual means – the processes of racialization as well as sexual difference to subvert stereotypes and dominant discourses. Jin-me Yoon’s more recent video work e

Conceptual, Contemplative, Deconstructive, Feminine, Nostalgic, Sophisticated, Visceral

Dave Hickey is one of contemporary art's most unpretentious critics. He has written for Rolling Stone, Art in America and Artforum, and he's published a slew of books on art and pop culture. He's far more interested in the democratic aspects of the art world--the way people make and buy objects simpl

Playful, Psychedelic, Sardonic, Witty