Spotlighting the creative practices of 23 contemporary artists, Art21’s fall lineup expands public access to the words and works of the most impactful artists working today, including Sophie Calle, ...

Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films ...

What’s your artistic practice? I cringe at the inevitable question that floats around whenever art teachers get together. Is it because I’m surprised? (Wait…I’m supposed to have two jobs?!) Is it from ...

Christine Sun Kim was born in 1980 in Orange County, California, and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Kim graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002 before receiving ...

Esteban Cabeza de Baca was born in 1985 in San Ysidro, California, and currently lives and works in Queens, New York. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2010, and his MFA from Columbia ...

Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artist-activists who began working together in 1985. Working across various media, the collective challenges the systems and individuals ...

Working quickly and intuitively in her studio, Rose B. Simpson shapes her clay sculptures by hand using a technique she developed called “slap-slab.” Each of her clay sculptures is embedded with ...

Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1980 and lives and works in Philadelphia. The artist received his BFA from the University of the Arts in 2004, and an MFA from Yale University School ...

Art21 is excited to announce the launch of the eleventh season of its acclaimed broadcast series Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS on April 7, 2023.

Collecting the dust and detritus from our heads and our homes, Diane Severin Nguyen creates lush photographs and videos that question the divides between trashy and intellectual, organic and fake, ...

Heidi Lau channels personal history, colonial culture, and the spiritual world through her hands and into her otherworldly clay works. Delighting in chance and improvisation, Lau shapes all her clay ...

Azikiwe Mohammed was born in 1982 in New York City, where he lives and works today. In 2004 the artist received his BFA from Bard College. Rejecting the idea that art’s ultimate aim is the expression ...