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Contemporary Sculptors List


Contemporary Sculptors List

Here are Artsy's ten most popular living sculptors. How are they selected? By Artsy followers.  Become an Artsy follower!
Including found object magician  to the ever-mindbending Anish Kapoor

Mathew Barney
Lynda Benglis
Tara Donovan
Jimmie Durham
Antony Gormley
Rachel Harrison
Eva Hesse
Eva Hild
Damien Hirst
Nancy Holt
Yayoi Kusama
Sara Lucas
Tony Martinelli
Damián Ortega
Mimmo Paladino
Marc Quinn
Richard Serra
Kiki Smith
Tony Smith
Robert Smithson
Frank Stella
Sarah Sze
Rachel Whiteread
Ai WeiWei
Erwin Wurm


 Others: Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, Max Bill, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Ellsworth Kelly, Jackie Bennett , William King, Jonathan Borofsky, Eero Saarinen, Larry Bell, Douglas Steakley, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Balinese folded palm fronds, Japanese origami.

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