1990–2000s: Globalization

Eve Sussman extends art-historical tableaux and photographic composition into film and installation, exploring how still images become unstable through duration, gesture, and performance.

Belgian artist born in 1963, working across photography, text, projection, installation, and moving image.

French artist born in 1963, active across websites, publishing, drawing, collage, photography, installation, and video.

Wangechi Mutu reworks fragments of ethnographic photography, fashion imagery, medical illustration, and photomontage to challenge colonial and gendered histories of the body.

Albanian artist born in 1974, working across video, sound, installation, and photography-related image practices.

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The Atlas Group / Walid Raad uses a fictional or quasi-fictional archive of the Lebanese wars to question how photographs, videos, documents, and lectures become evidence for history.

Collaborative artists and photographers who worked together for more than two decades, becoming central figures in contemporary photography’s critique of documentary and institutional image systems.

Polish artist born in 1974, working across photography, film, sculpture, and staged self-representation.

Cuban-American artist born in 1971, active across photography, drawing, sculpture, film, and installation, but first widely recognized through staged photographic tableaux.

Dutch photography duo, both born in 1969, who began working together shortly after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the mid-1990s.

Dutch artist born in 1964, working with photography, video, books, archive material, and installation.

German photographer born in 1951, associated with the Düsseldorf School.

French photographer born in 1975, known for serial portrait projects on uniforms, ritual groups, masquerades, and collective identity.

Dutch photographer born in 1977, known for portrait-like images of animals and, at times, vulnerable human subjects linked to labor, service, or mourning.

German artist born in 1963, working across photography, sculpture, text, installation, and conceptual formats.

Austrian artist born in 1954, best known for the expanded field of sculpture, but also deeply engaged with photography as a necessary part of the work’s conception and circulation.

Irish artist born in 1969, known for work across film, photography, and installation.

Spanish artist born in 1950, working across photography, video, and installation.

Swedish photographer born in 1969, known for diaristic, unstable, and emotionally charged bodies of work often published in book form.

American artist born in 1953, known for photographing model constructions of architectural and institutional spaces.

American artist born in 1951, active across photography, abstraction, architecture, and image history.

German-Brazilian artist born in 1973, working across photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, and painting.

German artist born in 1972, working with photography, sculpture, collage, and installation.

Venezuelan artist born in 1964, active internationally in sculpture, photography, video, and installation.

Swiss artist, photographer, editor, and lecturer born in 1964; trained in documentary photography at ICP in New York in 1994 before moving into long-term conceptual projects.

Canadian-born artist born in 1962, based in Chicago, known for still-life and domestic interior photography.

French photographer born in 1962, first known as a photojournalist and later as a maker of large-scale museum photographs of war, politics, and historical crisis.

German photographer and visual artist born in 1963, working with photography, video, text, and research-based projects.

Austrian photographer born in 1952, also active as curator and editor, especially through Camera Austria.

Swiss artist born in 1962, working with photography, video, installation, and research-based narrative forms.

Jasansky & Polak is a Berlin-based artist duo associated with photography and installation, known for long-term work on ordinary architecture, interiors, and objects.

Multiplicity is an Italian research collective using photography, maps, testimony, video, and installation to investigate migration, borders, infrastructure, and the politics of mobility.

American artist born in 1979, known primarily for image-based work spanning painting, installation, editions, and photography-related appropriation.

Korean-born artist born in 1970, active in New York from the 1990s, best known for the series *Projects*.

Macedonian visual artist born in 1971 in Skopje, working across photography, video, and visual storytelling.

Austrian photographer born in 1957, active since the 1980s and closely associated with Austria’s author-photography tradition and with obsessive collecting, archiving, and artist’s books.

French artist born in 1970, working with photography, film, video, and installation.

British artist born in 1970, first widely known for the photographic series *Ray’s a Laugh*.

American photographer born in 1969, known for mixing commercial, vernacular, and art-photographic image languages.

Canadian artist born in 1957, associated with the Vancouver context often described as photo-conceptualism, though he has resisted that label.

Dutch artist born in 1958, known for digitally composed photographic works that appear hyperreal while being entirely constructed from multiple source photographs.

Austrian artist duo working together since 1993, closely associated with photography, architecture, and urban representation.

Ukrainian artist and photographer born in 1960, associated with the Kharkiv/Kharkov School of Photography and active across photography, video, sculpture, and installation.

South Korean artist born in 1973, known for photographic series that examine simulation, ideology, and the politics of representation.

American artist born in 1964 whose practice moves between photography and film.

German artist born in 1968, working with staged or fabricated photographic environments.

German-born Swiss-based artist born in 1977, trained in photography in Zurich and active across photography, sculpture, installation, and action.

British photographer born in 1971, known for books and series that reinvent documentary photography through material experiment.

Artist and photographer born in 1970, working with landscape, horizon, and urban form at large scale.

German artist born in 1964, trained first as a sculptor before turning to photography in the 1990s.

Australian artist born in 1960 whose practice spans photography, film, montage, and staged image-making.

French artist born in 1964, known for photography that stages encounters between hyperreal description and artifice.

German artist born in 1968 whose work spans photography, installation, publishing, and political image-making.

French-Moroccan artist born in 1971 whose work spans photography, film, installation, publishing, and archival practice.

Japanese photographer born in 1962, based for long periods in France, known for conceptually structured photographic series and experimental darkroom processes.

Japanese photographer and writer born in 1973, known from the 1990s onward for self-portraiture, family nudity, feminist critique, and later writing on photography and gender.

OHIO is a German photomagazine and art project that treats publication as an exhibition space, reframing everyday and reproducible photographs through editing, sequencing, and circulation.

collectif_fact is a Swiss artist collective using photography, video, 3D scanning, and architectural modeling to test how urban space, media images, and fiction condition perception.

Useful Photography collects and edits practical, anonymous, and vernacular images, shifting attention from authored art photographs to the social uses and afterlives of photographic images.