Jeff Wall is a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. He received his MA from the University of British Columbia in 1970, with a thesis titled, "Berlin Dada and the Notion of Context," and did postgraduate work at the Courtaul

Epic, Figurative

In 1999, Ryan McGinley, then a graphic design major at Parsons School of Visual Arts in New York, sent his 50-page home-cooked book of urban idyllic photographs The Kids Are Alright, which he had produced on his desktop computer, to 100 magazine editors and artists he admired. At the time, fashion ph

Figurative, Hallucinatory, In-your-face, Profane, Psychedelic

Heavily influenced by the otaku culture of sexually explicit manga, Kunikata's work adopts the genres conventions to explore and communicate issues of abandonment, masochism, and depression. Often filling notebook after notebook with nightmarish depictions of cruelty, Kunikata's personal drive to pr

Anime & manga, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Kinetic, Sexy, Superflat

Chiho Aoshima (青島千穂) is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She had a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas in 2006. This young graphic artist began in Murakami's factory wi

Anime & manga, Cartoonish, Fantastic, Figurative, Graffitists and cartoonists, Hi-tech, Polychromatic, Superflat, Surreal