Art Artists

Artists in the Collection

Discover the biographies, histories, and works of featured artists in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection.

Artists in the Collection

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Artists

Carlos Mérida

Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida is best known for creating Modernist abstract art that integrated Latin American culture with 20th-century European painting.

Anish Kapoor

Throughout his career, Anish Kapoor has been fascinated with exploring negative space through geometric, curvilinear, and reflected forms.

Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes is best known for her colorful, invented landscapes that reference multiple art movements, such as Symbolism, Fauvism, and Surrealism, and defy conventional depictions of light and space.

Louisa McElwain

Louisa McElwain is best known for her abstracted landscapes characterized by strong use of color and bold strokes of thick paint.

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th-century, renowned for her contributions to American Modernism. She produced more than 2,000 artworks throughout her career and is best known for her paintings of flowers, bones, New York City skyscrapers, and landscapes and subjects of the Southwest.

Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley’s figurative paintings and sculptures combine traditional and contemporary modes of representation and present young, urban, black and brown men as heroic, powerful, majestic, and sublime to critique notions of masculinity and physicality that are attributed to them.

EXHIBITIONS

On view for a limited time, exhibitions present art from across the centuries and the globe, from iconic fashion to Old Master paintings, contemporary photography to historical objects of Asia.

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COLLECTIONS

Featuring more than 20,000 objects, the collection spans the globe, bringing the world to our city, and our city to the world.

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ARIZONA ARTIST AWARDS

Since 1986, Phoenix Art Museum has awarded more than $350,000 to over 200 Arizona-based artists through two annual artist awards opportunities.

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