Profiles

The self-taught Mexican painter has become an overnight sensation with enigmatic works in which monkeys, mirrors and labyrinths open on to deeper questions of freedom, instinct and human logic

In a new series, The Art Journal speaks to the young collectors becoming an increasingly active force in the artworld 

The Bashkir artist became one of the most visible dissenting voices around the Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion. Weeks later, he was shot dead near his home in Poland

Born in Bradford in 1937, the artist became one of the world's most valuable living painters, producing some of the best-known images of 20th-century art

Supported by the Paris dealer Denise René, the late Argentine-born artist helped turn optical and kinetic art into an international phenomenon 

It's London Gallery Weekend, so we put the city’s artist to the test

The billionaire Mercadona heiress has quietly assembled one of Spain's most significant contemporary art collections. 

Having filled his company’s headquarters with contemporary art, the DST chairman is now bringing it to the wider public with the opening of Braga’s new €40 million MUZEU

As taste, markets and fashions have shifted around her, Sarah Moon has remained committed to a singular aesthetic over a fifty year career

The radical Viennese artist became one of postwar Europe’s most influential feminist practitioners through photography, performances and films that confronted spectatorship, sexuality and power

Representing her country at the Venice Biennale, the artist has created a monument to the demands of maintenance, temporality and parenthood

Following the cancellation of the artist’s South Africa Pavilion, her installation’s forthcoming presentation at Venice’s Chiesa di Sant’Antonin challenges a culture of censorship