The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, will open to the public from Saturday April 20 to Sunday November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale; it will be curated by Adriano Pedrosa and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. The pre-opening will take place on April 17, 18 and 19; the awards ceremony and inauguration will be held on 20 April 2024.
Since 2021, La Biennale di Venezia launched a plan to reconsider all of its activities in light of recognized and consolidated principles of environmental sustainability. For the year 2024, the goal is to extend the achievement of “carbon neutrality” certification, which was obtained in 2023 for La Biennale’s scheduled activities: the 80th Venice International Film Festival, the Theatre, Music and Dance Festivals and, in particular, the 18th International Architecture Exhibition which was the first major Exhibition in this discipline to test in the field a tangible process for achieving carbon neutrality – while furthermore itself reflecting upon the themes of decolonisation and decarbonisation.
The Exhibition will take place in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale, and it will present two sections: the Nucleo Contemporaneo and the Nucleo Storico.
As a guiding principle, the Biennale Arte 2024 has favored artists who have never participated in the International Exhibition—though a number of them may have been featured in a National Pavilion, a Collateral Event, or in a past edition of the International Exhibition. Special attention is being given to outdoor projects, both in the Arsenale and in the Giardini, where a performance program is being planned with events during the pre-opening and closing weekend of the 60th Exhibition.
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the title of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, is drawn from a series of works started in 2004 by the Paris-born and Palermo-based Claire Fontaine collective. The works consist of neon sculptures in different colours that render in a growing number of languages the words “Foreigners Everywhere”. The phrase comes, in turn, from the name of a Turin collective who fought racism and xenophobia in Italy in the early 2000s.
«The expression Stranieri Ovunque – explains Adriano Pedrosa – has several meanings. First of all, that wherever you go and wherever you are you will always encounter foreigners— they/we are everywhere. Secondly, that no matter where you find yourself, you are always truly, and deep down inside, a foreigner.»
«The Italian straniero, the Portuguese estrangeiro, the French étranger, and the Spanish extranjero, are all etymologically connected to the strano, the estranho, the étrange, the extraño, respectively, which is precisely the stranger. Sigmund Freud’s Das Unheimliche comes to mind—The Uncanny in English, which in Portuguese has indeed been translated as “o estranho”– the strange that is also familiar, within, deep down side. According to the American Heritage and the Oxford Dictionaries, the first meaning of the word “queer” is precisely “strange”, and thus the Exhibition unfolds and focuses on the production of other related subjects: the queer artist, who has moved within different sexualities and genders, often being persecuted or outlawed; the outsider artist, who is located at the margins of the art world, much like the self-taught artist, the folk artist and the artista popular; the indigenous artist, frequently treated as a foreigner in his or her own land. The productions of these four subjects are the interest of this Biennale, constituting the Nucleo Contemporaneo.»
«Indigenous artists have an emblematic presence and their work greets the public in the Central Pavilion, where the Mahku collective from Brazil will paint a monumental mural on the building’s façade, and in the Corderie, where the Maataho collective from Aotearoa/New Zealand will present a large-scale installation in the first room. Queer artists appear throughout the exhibition, and are also the subject of a large section in the Corderie, and one devoted to queer abstraction in the Central Pavilion.»
«The Nucleo Contemporaneo will feature a special section in the Corderie devoted to the Disobedience Archive, a project by Marco Scotini, which since 2005 has been developing a video archive focusing on the relationships between artistic practices and activism. In the Exhibition, the presentation of the Disobedience Archive is designed by Juliana Ziebell, who also worked in the exhibition architecture of the entire International Exhibition. This section is divided into two main parts especially conceived for our framework: Diaspora activism and Gender Disobedience. The Disobedience Archive will include works by 39 artists and collectives made between 1975 and 2023.»
«The Nucleo Storico gathering works from 20th century Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Much has been written about global modernisms and modernisms in the Global South, and a number of rooms will feature works from these territories, much like an essay, a draft, a speculative curatorial exercise that seeks to question the boundaries and definitions of modernism. We are all too familiar with the histories of modernism in Euroamerica, yet the modernisms in the Global South remain largely unknown. […]. European modernism itself travelled far beyond Europe throughout the 20th century, often intertwined with colonialism, and many artists in the Global South traveled to Europe to be exposed to it […].»
In the Central Pavilion three rooms are planned for the Nucleo Storico: one room is titled Portraits, one Abstractions and the third one is devoted to the the worldwide Italian artistic diaspora in the 20th century.
«The double-room named Portraits, includes works from 112 artists, mostly paintings but also works on paper and sculpture, spanning the years of 1905 and 1990. […] The theme of the human figure has been explored in countless different ways by artists in the Global South, reflecting on the crisis of representation around the that very figure that marked much of the art in 20th century art. In the Global South, many artists were in touch with European modernism, through travels, studies or books, yet they bring in their own highly personal and powerful reflections and contributions to their works […]. The room devoted to Abstractions includes 37 artists: most of them are being exhibited together for the first time, and we will learn from these unforeseen juxtapositions in the flesh, which will then hopefully point towards new connections, associations, and parallels much beyond the rather straightforward categories that I have proposed. […]»
Artists from Singapore and Korea have been brought into this section, given that at the time they were part of the so-called Third World. In a similar manner, Selwyn Wilson and Sandy Adsett, from Aotearoa/New Zealand, have been brought into this Nucleo Storico as they are historical Maori artists.
«[…] A third room in the Nucleo Storico is dedicated to the worldwide Italian artistic diaspora in the 20th century: Italian artists who travelled and moved abroad developing their careers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, as well as in the rest of Europe and the United States, becoming embedded in local cultures—and who often played significant roles in the development of the narratives of modernism beyond Italy. This room will feature works by 40 artists who are first or second generations Italians, exhibited in Lina Bo Bardi’s glass easel display system (Bo Bardi herself an Italian who moved to Brazil, and who won the 2021 Biennale Architettura’s Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Memoriam).»
«Two quite different but related elements have emerged – underlines Pedrosa – rather organically in the research and have been developed, appearing as leitmotivs throughout the International Exhibition. The first one is textiles, which have been explored by many artists in the show in multiple, from key historical figures in the Nucleo Storico, to many artists in the Nucleo Contemporaneo. […] These works reveal an interest in craft, tradition, and the handmade, and in techniques that were at times considered other or foreign, outsider or strange in the larger field of fine arts. […] A second motif is artists—artists related by blood, many of them Indigenous. […] Again tradition plays an important role here: the transmission of knowledge and practices from father or mother to son or daughter or among siblings and relatives.»
The full list of artists is:
Pacita Abad
Basco, Philippines, 1946-2004, Singapore
Mariam Abdel-Aleem
Alexandria, Egypt, 1930–2010
Etel Adnan
Beirut, Lebanon, 1925–2021, Paris, France
Sandy Adsett
Wairoa, New Zealand, 1939. Lives in Hastings, New Zealand
Affandi
Cirebon, Indonesia, 1907–1990, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Zubeida Agha
Lyallpur, India, 1922–1997, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dia al-Azzawi
Baghdad, Iraq, 1939. Lives in London, UK, Jordan and Lebanon.
Claudia Alarcón & Silät
Comunidad La Puntana, Salta, Argentina, 1989. Lives in Comunidad La Puntana
Rafa al-Nasiri
Tikrit, Iraq, 1940–2013, Amman, Jordan
Miguel Alandia Pantoja
Catavi, Bolivia, 1914–1975, Lima, Peru
Aloïse
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1886–1964, Gimel, Switzerland
Giulia Andreani
Venice, Italy, 1985. Lives in Paris, France.
Claudia Andujar
Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1931. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil
María Aranís Valdivia
Santiago, Chile, 1903–1966, Chile
Aravani Art Project
Founded in Bangalore, India, 2016. Based in several cities, India
Iván Argote
Bogotá, Colombia, 1983. Lives in Paris, France
Karimah Ashadu
London, UK, 1985. Lives in Hamburg, Germany and Lagos, Nigeria
Dana Awartani
Palestinian, born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1987. Lives in Jeddah
Aycoobo (Wilson Rodríguez)
La Chorrera, Colombia, 1967. Lives in Bogotá, Colombia
Margarita Azurdia
Antigua, Guatemala, 1931–1998, Guatemala City
Leilah Babirye
Kampala, Uganda, 1985. Lives in New York City, USA
Libero Badii
Arezzo, Italia, 1916–2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ezekiel Baroukh
Mansoura, Egypt, 1909–1984, Paris, France
Baya
Bordj El Kiffan, Algeria, 1931–1998, Blida, Algeria
Aly Ben Salem
Tunis, Tunisia, 1910–2001, Stockholm, Sweden
Semiha Berksoy
Istanbul, Turkey, 1910–2004
Gianni Bertini
Pisa, Italy, 1922–2010, Caen, France
Lina Bo Bardi
Rome, Italy, 1914-1992, São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Bonomi
Meina, Italy, 1935. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil
Bordadoras de Isla Negra
Founded in Isla Negra, Chile, 1967–1980
Victor Brecheret
Farnese, Italy, 1894–1955, São Paulo, Brazil
Huguette Caland
Beirut, Lebanon, 1931–2019
Sol Calero
Caracas, Venezuela, 1982. Lives in Berlin, Germany
Elda Cerrato
Asti, Italy, 1930–2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mohammed Chebaa
Tangiers, Morocco, 1935–2013, Casablanca, Morocco
Georgette Chen
Zhejiang, China, 1906–1993, Singapore
Galileo Chini
Florence, Italy, 1873–1956
Kudzanai Chiurai
Harare, Zimbabwe, 1980. Lives in Harare
Isaac Chong Wai
Hong Kong, 1990. Lives in Berlin, Germany and Hong Kong
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Beirut, Lebanon, 1916–2017
Chaouki Choukini
Choukine, Lebanon, 1946. Lives in La Verrière, France
Chua Mia Tee
1931, Shantou, China. Lives in Singapore.
Claire Fontaine
Founded in Paris, France, 2004. Based in Palermo, Italy
Manauara Clandestina
Manaus, Brazil, 1992. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil.
River Claure
Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1997. Lives in Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia
Julia Codesido
Lima, Peru, 1883–1979
Liz Collins
Alexandria, USA, 1968. Lives in Brooklyn, USA
Jaime Colson
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, 1901–1975, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Waldemar Cordeiro
Rome, Italy, 1925–1973, São Paulo, Brazil
Monika Correa
Mumbai, India, 1938. Lives in Mumbai
Beatriz Cortez
San Salvador, El Salvador, 1970. Lives in Los Angeles and Davis, USA
Olga Costa
Leipzig, Germany, 1913–1993, Guanajuato, Mexico
Miguel Covarrubias
Mexico City, 1904–1957
Victor Juan Cúnsolo
Vittoria, Italy, 1898–1936 Lanus, Argentina
Andrés Curruchich
Comalapa, Guatemala, 1891-1969
Rosa Elena Curruchich
Comalapa, Guatemala, 1958–2005
Djanira da Motta e Silva
Avaré, Brazil, 1914–1979, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Olga De Amaral
Bogotá, Colombia, 1932. Lives in Bogotá
Filippo de Pisis
Ferrara, Italy, 1896–1956, Milan, Italy
Juan Del Prete
Vasto, Italy, 1897–1987, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pablo Delano
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1954. Lives in West Hartford, USA
Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1897–1976
Danilo Di Prete
Zambra, Italy, 1911–1985, São Paulo, Brazil
Cícero Dias
Escada, Brazil, 1907–2003, Paris, France
Disobedience Archive – Marco Scotini with: Ursula Biemann, Black Audio-Film Collective, Seba Calfuqueo, Simone Cangelosi, Cinéastes pour les sans-papiers, Critical Art Ensemble, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, Marcelo Expósito, Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando, Barbara Hammer, mixrice, Khaled Jarrar, Sara Jordenö, Bani Khoshnoudi, Maria Kourkouta & Niki Giannari, Pedro Lemebel, LIMINAL & Border Forensics, Angela Melitopoulos, Jota Mombaça, Carlos Motta, Zanele Muholi, Pınar Öğrenci, Daniela Ortiz, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Anand Patwardhan, Pilot TV Collective, Queerocracy, Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg, Carole Roussopoulos, Güliz Sağlam, Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Tejal Shah, Chi Yin Sim, Hito Steyerl, Sweatmother, Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, James Wentzy, Želimir Žilnik
Juana Elena Diz
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1925 – ?
Tarsila do Amaral
Capivari, Brazil, 1886–1973, São Paulo, Brazil
Saliba Douaihy
Ehden, Lebanon, 1915–1994, New York City, USA
Dullah
Surakarta, Indonesia, 1919–1996, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Inji Efflatoun
Cairo, Egypt, 1924–1989
Uzo Egonu
Onitsha, Nigeria, 1931–1996, London, UK
Mohammad Ehsaei
Qazvin, Iran, 1939. Lives in Tehran, Iran, and Vancouver, Canada
Hatem El Mekki
Jakarta, Indonesia, 1918–2003, Carthage, Tunisia
Aref El Rayess
Aley, Lebanon, 1928–2005
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Omduran, Sudan, 1930. Lives in Oxford, UK.
Elyla
Chontales, Nicaragua, 1989. Lives in Masaya, Nicaragua
Ben Enwonwu
Onitsha, Nigeria, 1917–1994, Lagos, Nigeria
Romany Eveleigh
London, UK, 1934–2020, Rome, Italy
Hamed Ewais
Beni Soueif, Egypt, 1919–2011, Cairo, Egypt
Dumile Feni
Worcester, South Africa, 1939–1991, New York City, USA
Alessandra Ferrini
Florence, Italy, 1984. Lives in London, UK
Cesare Ferro Milone
Turin, Italy, 1880–1934
Raquel Forner
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1902–1988
Simone Forti
Florence, Italy, 1935. Lives in Los Angeles, USA
Victor Fotso Nyie
Doula, Cameroon, 1990. Lives in Faenza, Italy
Louis Fratino
Annapolis, USA, 1993. Lives in Brooklyn, USA
Paolo Gasparini
Gorizia, Italy, 1934. Lives in Trieste, Caracas, Venezuela and Mexico City
Sangodare Gbadegesin Ajala
Osogbo, Nigeria, 1948–2021
Umberto Giangrandi
Pontedera, Italy, 1943. Lives in Bogotà, Colombia
Madge Gill
Walthamstow, UK, 1882–1961, London, UK
Marlene Gilson
Wadawurrung, Warrnambool, Australia, 1944. Lives in Gordon, Australia
Luigi Domenico Gismondi
Sanremo, Italy, 1872–1946, Mollendo, Peru
Domenico Gnoli
Rome, Italy, 1933–1970, New York City, USA
Gabrielle Goliath
Kimberley, South Africa, 1983. Lives in Johannesburg, South Africa
Brett Graham
Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1967. Lives in Auckland
Fred Graham
Arapuni, Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1928. Lives in Waiuku, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Enrique Grau Araújo
Panama City, Panama, 1920–2004, Bogotá, Colombia
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Quito, Ecuador, 1919–1999, Baltimore, USA
Nedda Guidi
Gubbio, Italy, 1923–2015, Rome, Italy
Hendra Gunawan
Bandung, Indonesia, 1918–1983 Bali, Indonesia
Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic
Panama City, 1971. Lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Panama City Ruma, Serbia, 1979. Lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Marie Hadad
Beirut, Lebanon, 1889–1973
Samia Halaby
Jerusalem, Palestine, 1936. Lives in New York City, USA
Tahia Halim
Dongola, Sudan, 1919–2003, Cairo, Egypt
Lauren Halsey
Los Angeles, USA, 1987. Lives in Los Angeles
Nazek Hamdi
Cairo, Egypt, 1926–2019
Mohamed Hamidi
Casablanca, Morocco, 1941. Lives in Casablanca and Azemmour, Marocco
Faik Hassan
Baghdad, Iraq, 1914–1992, Paris, France
Kadhim Hayder
Baghdad, Iraq, 1932–1985
Gilberto Hernández Ortega
Baní, Dominican Republic, 1923–1979, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Carmen Herrera
Havana, Cuba, 1915–2022, New York City, USA
Evan Ifekoya
Iperu, Nigeria, 1988. Lives in London, UK
Julia Isídrez
Itá, Paraguay, 1967. Lives in Itá
Mohammed Issiakhem
Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, 1928–1985, Algiers, Algeria
Elena Izcue Cobián
Lima, Peru, 1889–1970
María Izquierdo
San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico, 1902–1955, Mexico City
Nour Jaouda
Cairo, Egypt, 1997. Lives in Cairo and London, UK
Rindon Johnson
San Francisco, USA, 1990. Lives in Berlin, Germany
Joyce Joumaa*
Beirut, Lebanon, 1998. Lives in Montreal, Canada.
Biennale College Arte
Mohammed Kacimi
Meknes, Morocco, 1942–2003, Rabat, Morocco
Frida Kahlo
Mexico City, 1907–1954
Nazira Karimi*
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 1996. Lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Vienna, Austria
George Keyt
Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1901–1993, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Bhupen Khakhar
Bombay, India, 1934–2003, Baroda, India
Bouchra Khalili
Casablanca, Morocco, 1975. Lives in Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Luanda, Angola, 1979. Lives in Luanda
Linda Kohen
Milan, Italy, 1924. Lives in Montevideo, Uruguay
Shalom Kufakwatenzi
Harare, Zimbabwe, 1995. Lives in Harare
Ram Kumar
Shimla, India, 1924–2018, Delhi, India
Fred Kuwornu
Bologna, Italy, 1971. Lives in New York City, USA
Grace Salome Kwami
Worawora, Ghana, 1923–2006
Lai Foong Moi
Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, 1931–1995, Singapore
Wifredo Lam
Sagua la Grande, Cuba, 1902–1982, Paris, France
Judith Lauand
Araraquara, Brazil, 1922–2022, São Paulo, Brazil
Maggie Laubser
Bloublommetjieskloof, South Africa, 1886–1973, Strand, South Africa
Simon Lekgetho
Schoemansville, South Africa, 1929–1985, Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa
Celia Leyton Vidal
Santiago, Chile, 1895—1975
Lim Mu Hue
Singapore, 1936–2008
Romualdo Locatelli
Bergamo, Italy, 1905–1943, Manila, Philippines
Bertina Lopes
Maputo, Mozambique, 1924–2012, Rome, Italy
Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato
Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1900–1995
Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Zambales, Philippines, 1914–2012, Manila, Philippines
MAHKU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin)
Founded in Kaxinawá (Huni Kuin) Indigenous Territory, Acre, Brazil, 2013. Based in Kaxinawá (Huni Kuin) Indigenous Territory, Brazil
Esther Mahlangu
Middelburg, South Africa, 1935. Lives in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Anna Maria Maiolino
Scalea, Italy, 1942. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil
Anita Malfatti
São Paulo, Brazil, 1889–1964
Ernest Mancoba
Johannesburg, South Africa, 1904–2002, Clamart, France
Edna Manley
Bournemouth, England, 1900–1987, Kingston, Jamaica
Josiah Manzi
Zimbabwe, 1933–2022
Teresa Margolles
Culiacán, Mexico, 1963. Lives in Mexico City and Madrid, Spain
Maria Martins
Campanha, Brazil, 1894–1973, Rio de Janeiro
María Martorell
Salta, Argentina, 1909–2010
Mataaho Collective
2012, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Based in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Naminapu Maymuru-White
Yirrkala, Australia, 1952. Lives in Yirrkala
Mohamed Melehi
Asilah, Morocco, 1936–2020, Paris, France
Carlos Mérida
Guatemala City, 1891–1985, Mexico City
Gladys Mgudlandlu
Peddie, South Africa, (1917–1926?)–1979, Cape Town, South Africa
Omar Mismar
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, 1986. Lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
Sabelo Mlangeni
Mpumalanga, South Africa, 1980. Lives in Johannesburg, South Africa
Tina Modotti
Udine, Italy, 1896–1942, Mexico City
Bahman Mohasses
Rasht, Iran, 1931–2010, Rome, Italy
Roberto Montenegro
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1885–1968, Mexico City
Camilo Mori Serrano
Valparaíso, Chile, 1896—1973, Santiago, Chile
Ahmed Morsi
Alexandria, Egypt, 1930. Lives in New York City, USA
Effat Naghi
Alexandria, Egypt, 1905–1994
Ismael Nery
Belem, Brazil, 1900–1934, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Malangatana Valente Ngwenya
Matalana, Mozambique, 1936–2011, Matosinhos, Portugal
Paula Nicho
Comalapa, Guatemala, 1955. Lives in Comalapa
Costantino Nivola
Orani, Italy, 1911–1988, East Hampton, USA
Taylor Nkomo
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1957. Lives in Harare, Zimbabwe
Marina Núñez del Prado
La Paz, Bolivia, 1910–1995, Lima, Peru
Philomé Obin
Bas-Limbé, Haiti, 1892–1986
Sénèque Obin
Limbé, Haiti, 1893–1977
Alejandro Obregón
Barcelona, Spain, 1920–1991, Cartagena, Colombia
Tomie Ohtake
Kyoto, Japan, 1912–2015, São Paulo, Brazil
Uche Okeke
Nimo, Nigeria, 1933–2016
Marco Ospina
Bogotá, Colombia, 1912–1983
Samia Osseiran Junblatt
Saida, Lebanon, 1944. Lives in Bramiyeh, Lebanon.
Daniel Otero Torres
Bogotá, Colombia, 1985. Lives in Paris, France
Lydia Ourahmane
Saïda, Algeria, 1992. Lives in Algiers, Algeria and Barcelona, Spain
Pan Yuliang
Yangzhou, China, 1895–1977, Paris, France
Dalton Paula
Brasília, Brazil, 1982. Lives in Goiânia, Brazil
Amelia Peláez
Yaguajay, Cuba, 1896–1968, Havana, Cuba
George Pemba
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1912–2001, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Fulvio Pennacchi
Villa Collemandina, Italy, 1905–1992, São Paulo, Brazil
Claudio Perna
Milan, Italy, 1938–1997, Holguín, Cuba
Emilio Pettoruti
La Plata, Argentina, 1892–1971, Paris, France
Lê Phổ
Hanoi, Vietnam, 1907–2001, Paris, France
Bona Pieyre De Mandiargues
Rome, Italy, 1926 –2000, Paris, France
Ester Pilone
Cuneo, Italy, 1920 – ?
La Chola Poblete
Mendoza, Argentina, 1989. Lives Buenos Aires, Argentina
Charmaine Poh
Singapore, 1990. Lives in Berlin, Germany and Singapore
Maria Polo
Venice, Italy, 1937–1983, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Candido Portinari
Brodowski, Brazil, 1903 – 1962, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sandra Poulson*
Angolan, born in Lisbon, Portugal, 1995. Lives in Luanda, Angola and London
B. Prabha
Maharashtra, India, 1933–2001, Nagpur, India
Lidy Prati
Resistencia, Argentina, 1921–2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)
Dallas, USA, 1989. Lives in New York City, USA.
Lee Qoede
Chilgok, South Korea, 1913–1965
Agnes Questionmark*
Rome, Italy, 1995. Lives in Rome and New York City, USA
Violeta Quispe
Lima, Peru, 1989. Lives in Lima
Alfredo Ramos Martinez
Monterrey, Mexico, 1871–1946, Los Angeles, USA
Sayed Haider Raza
Madhya Pradesh, India, 1922–2016, Delhi, India
Armando Reverón
Caracas, Venezuela, 1889–1954
Emma Reyes
Bogotá, Colombia, 1919–2003, Bordeaux, France
Diego Rivera
Guanajuato City, Mexico, 1886–1957, Mexico City
Juana Marta Rodas
Itá, Paraguay, 1925–2003
Laura Rodig Pizarro
Los Andes, Chile, 1896/1901–1972, Santiago, Chile
Abel Rodríguez
Cahuinarí, Colombia, 1941. Lives in Bogotá, Colombia
Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez
Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico, 1955. Lives in Cuajinicuilapa.
Freddy Rodriguez
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, 1945–2003, New York City, USA
Miguel Ángel Rojas
Bogotá, Colombia, 1946. Lives in Bogotá
Rosa Rolanda
Azusa, USA, 1896–1970, Mexico City
Jamini Roy
Bengal, India, 1887–1972, Calcutta, India
Rómulo Rozo
Bogotá, Colombia, 1899–1964, Mérida, Mexico
Erica Rutherford
Edinburgh, UK, 1923–2008, Charlottetown, Canada
José Sabogal
Cajabamba, Peru, 1888–1956, Lima, Peru
Mahmoud Sabri
Baghdad, Iraq, 1927–2012, Maidenhead, UK
Syed Sadequain
Amroha, India, 1930–1987, Karachi, Pakistan
Nena Saguil
Manila, Philippines, 1914–1994, Paris, France
Mahmoud Saïd
Alexandria, Egypt, 1897–1964
Kazuya Sakai
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1927–2001, Dallas, USA
Ione Saldanha
Alegrete, Brazil, 1919–2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dean Sameshima
California, USA, 1971. Lives in Berlin, Germany
Zilia Sánchez
Havana, Cuba, 1926. Lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Mérida, Mexico, 1987. Lives in Mexico City
Nenne Sanguineti Poggi
Savona, Italy, 1909–2012, Finale Ligure, Italy
Fanny Sanín
Bogotá, Colombia, 1938. Lives in New York City, USA
Aligi Sassu
Milan, Italy, 1912–2000, Pollença, Spain
Greta Schödl
Hollabrunn, Austria, 1929. Lives in Bologna, Italy
Ana Segovia
Mexico City, 1991. Lives in Mexico City
Gerard Sekoto
Botshabelo, South Africa, 1913–1993, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Jewad Selim
Ankara, Turkey, 1919–1961, Baghdad, Iraq
Lorna Selim
Sheffield, UK, 1928–2021, Abergavenny, UK
Joshua Serafin
Bacolod, Philippines, 1995. Lives in Brussels, Belgium
Kang Seung Lee
Seoul, South Korea, 1978. Lives in Los Angeles, USA
Gino Severini
Cortona, Italy, 1883—1966, Paris, France
Amrita Sher-Gil
Budapest, Hungary, 1913–1941, Lahore, India
Anwar Jalal Shemza
Shimla, India, 1928–1985, Stafford, UK
Yinka Shonibare
London, UK, 1962. Lives in London.
Doreen Sibanda
Derby, UK, 1954. Lives in Harare, Zimbabwe
Fadjar Sidik
Surabaya, Indonesia, 1930–2004, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Gazbia Sirry
Cairo, Egypt, 1925–2021
Lucas Sithole
KwaThema, South Africa, 1931–1994, Spekboom, South Africa
Francis Newton Souza
Saligao, India, 1924–2002, Mumbai, India
Joseph Stella
Muro Lucano, Italy, 1877–1946, New York City, USA
Irma Stern
Schweizer-Reneke, South Africa, 1894–1966, Cape Town, South Africa
Leopold Strobl
Mistelbach, Austria, 1960. Lives in Mistelbach
Emiria Sunassa
Tanahwangko, Indonesia, 1894–1964, Lampung , Indonesia
Superflex
Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1993. Based in Copenhagen
Armodio Tamayo
La Paz, Bolivia, 1924–1964
Maria Taniguchi
Dumaguete, Philippines, 1981. Lives in Manila, Philippines
Evelyn Taocheng Wang
Chengdu, China, 1981. Lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Lucy Tejada
Pereira, Colombia, 1920–2011, Cali, Colombia
Mariana Telleria
Rufino, Argentina, 1979. Lives in Rosario, Argentina
Güneş Terkol
Istanbul, Turkey, 1981. Lives in Istanbul.
Eduardo Terrazas
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1936. Lives in Mexico City
Clorindo Testa
Benevento, Italy, 1923–2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Salman Toor
Lahore, Pakistan, 1983. Lives in New York, USA.
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
Mexico City, 1988. Lives in Mexico City and Berlin, Germany
Horacio Torres
Livorno, Italy, 1924–1976, New York City, USA
Joaquin Torres-Garcìa
Montevideo, Uruguay, 1874–1949
Mario Tozzi
Fossombrone, Italy, 1895—1979, Saint-Jean-du-Gard, France
Twins Seven Seven
Ijara, Nigeria, 1944–2011, Ibadan, Nigeria
Ahmed Umar
Sudan, 1988. Lives in Oslo, Norway.
Unidentified Chilean women artists, Arpillera
Rubem Valentim
Salvador, Brazil, 1922–1991, São Paulo, Brazil
Edoardo Daniele Villa
Bergamo, Italy, 1915–2011, Johannesburg, South Africa
Eliseu Visconti
Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy, 1866–1944, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alfredo Volpi
Lucca, Italy, 1896–1988, São Paulo, Brazil
Kay WalkingStick
Syracuse, USA, 1935. Lives in Pennsylvania, USA
WangShui
Dallas, USA, 1986. Lives in New York City, USA
Agnes Waruguru
Nairobi, Kenya, 1994. Lives in Nairobi.
Barrington Watson
Lucea, Jamaica, 1931–2016, Kingston, Jamaica
Osmond Watson
Kingston, Jamaica, 1934–2005
Susanne Wenger
Graz, Austria, 1915-2009, Osogbo, Nigeria
Emmi Whitehorse
New Mexico, USA, 1956. Lives in New Mexico.
Selwyn Wilson
Taumarere, New Zealand, 1927—2002, Kawakawa, Northland, New Zealand
Chang Woosoung
Chungju-si, South Korea, 1912–2005, Seoul, South Korea
Celeste Woss y Gil
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1891–1985
Xiyadie
Shaanxi, China, 1963. Lives in Shandong, China
Rember Yahuarcani
Pebas, Peru, 1985. Lives Pebas and Lima, Peru
Santiago Yahuarcani
Pebas, Peru, 1960. Lives in Pebas
Nil Yalter
Cairo, Egypt, 1938. Lives in Paris, France
Joseca Mokahesi Yanomami
Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Brazil, 1971. Lives in Yanomami Indigenous Territory
André Taniki Yanomami
Yanomami Indigenous Territory, Brazil, 1949. Lives in Yanomami Indigenous Territory
Yêdamaria
Salvador, Brazil, 1932–2016
Ramses Younan
Minya, Egypt, 1913–1966, Cairo, Egypt
Kim YunShin
Wonsan, Korea, 1935. Lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Seoul, South Korea
Fahrelnissa Zeid
Büyükada, Turkey, 1901–1991, Amman, Jordan
Anna Zemánková
Olomouc, Moravia, 1908–1986, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Bibi Zogbé
Sahel Alma, Lebanon, 1890–1975, Mar del Plata, Argentina
APPLIED ARTS PAVILION: Beatriz Milhazes*
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1960. Lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*Out of competition