Important Contemporary Artists (you might consider researching)

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Contemporary and Pop

Roy Lichenstein

Andy Warhol

Yayoi Kusama

Cornelia Konrads

Felice Varini

Daniel Arsham

Bruce Munro

Yulia Brodskaya

Young-Deok Seo

Kumi Yamashita

Guy Laramee

Hebru Brantley

URNY
Banksy
Shepard Fairey

Alexander Mijares

Kenny Scharf

Tang Chiew

Sally Fuerst

Ron English

Charlie McCarthy

Austyn Weiner

Feminism

Cindy Sherman

Sandy Skolund

Ellen Lupton

June  Leaf

Liz Larner

Marina Abromovic

Paula Scher

Barbara Kruger

Judy Chicago

Andrea Bowers

Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Louise Bourgeois

Zoe Strauss

Louise Lawler

Adrian Piper

Jenny Saville

Mariko Mori

Racial Identity
Gabriel Orozco
Ernesto Neto

Carrie Mae Weems              

Kara Walker

Xaviera Simmons

do suh ho

Nick Cave (not the musician!) 

Shinique Smith

Kerry James Marshall

Jean Michelle Basquiat

Kehinde Wiley 

Hank Willis Thomas 

Mickalene Thomas

Rashid Johnson 

Barkley L. Hendricks 

Iona Rozeal Brown 

Glenn Ligon 

Young British Artists (punk Aesthetics)

Jake and Dinos Chapman

Douglas Gordon

Marcus Harvey,

Gary Hume

Rachel Whiteread

Gillian Wearing

Mark Wallinger

Marc Quinn

Steve McQueen
Chris Ofili