Artist Archive

Bay Area native Marc Barrite created the DJ/production alias Dave Aju as a vehicle for his fresh and expressive take...

J.D. Beltran is a conceptual artist, filmmaker, and writer exploring the contexts, language, and scope of how one can portray...

John Cage (born September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died August 12, 1992, New York, New York) was an American...

A performance by Carole Caroompas titled “Bedroom Eyes” from her 1982 album and performance piece “Target Practice.” “Target Practice” was...

Guy de Cointet (1934-1983) left France for the United States in 1965. He frequented Andy Warhol’s Factory in New York...

Born into a musical family, Paul de Jong began studying the cello seriously at the ripe age of five. He...

Sandro Ðukić was born and lives in Zagreb, Croatia. His works – spatial, architectonic and photographic installations and constructed films...

Allen Ginsberg, the visionary poet and founding father of the Beat generation inspired the American counterculture of the second half...

Nan Hoover initially trained in fine arts, worked in video since the early 1970s. Her interests explored how the borders...

Douglas Huebler began his career as a Minimalist sculptor whose works contained elements that could be moved or repositioned by...

Robert Irwin was born in Long Beach, California, in 1928, and studied in Los Angeles at the Otis Art Institute...

A jazz musician and sound/text performer, Michael Ives’ work with the performance trio, F’loom, was featured several times on National...

Cellist and Composer JOAN JEANRENAUD has been involved in music for over 40 years. Growing up in Memphis Tennessee she...

The Kipper Kids are a performance duo formed by artists Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg and Brian Routh after meeting...

Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on issues of sexual violence,...

Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1932. After fleeing the country during the Korean War, Paik...

Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a dancer in New York at the Martha...

Joan Retallack is an American poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar who has authored seven books, including Circumstantial Evidence (1985),...

Born and raised in California, in the wake of World War II to a family of Japanese descent, Bruce and...

Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California, in 1965. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from...