Chuta Ito
1867-1954 Japan

Architect and architectural historian. He established a field of Japanese architectural history. He traveled alone to China, India, Turkey, and the Middle East and developed the system of Eastern Architecture. He designed the Tsukiji Honganji Temple (1934) using his original theory of architectural evolution.

Alexander Rodchenko
1891-1956 Russia

One of the founders of the artistic movement Russian Constructivism. He continued innovative experiment in the realm of painting, photography, and design, leaving extraordinary marks in the 20th century avant-garde art.

Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983 United States of America

He continued to pursue the issue of how to make the world work, through his writing Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963) and works such as the Dymaxion Map and the Geodesic Dome.

René Magritte
1898-1967 Belgium

Describing his own work as Thought Rendered Visible, he pursued the problem of Words and Images. His work has had a profound influence on 20th century culture, including art, thought, design, and advertising.

Diane Arbus
1923-1971 United States of America

She expressed the dark side of American society through portraits of the people who have been pushed to the margins of society such as transgenders, freak show performers, people with physical and mental disabilities.

Andy Warhol
1928-1987 United States of America

From the 1950s, while creating commercial illustrations, he experimented on Pop Art works and gained overwhelming following for his works on pop culture icons.

Sol Lewitt
1928-2007 United States of America

He pioneered Minimal Art and Conceptual Art with his geometric three-dimensional compositions of pyramids, grids, colors, and lines without emotion or expression.

Niki de Saint-Phalle
1930-2002 France

After suffered a nervous breakdown, she started painting and began her performance of Shooting Paintings. Later she continued creating works themed on women such as the “Nana” sculpture series.

Duane Michals
1932- United States of America

Photographs scenes he has staged himself in his home and other everyday spaces as if they were supernatural phenomena or scenes from a dream by using multiple exposures and extensive use of blurring.

Nam June Paik
1932-2006　Korea / United States of America

He founded Media Art, the first to incorporate TV, video and other media into art. His works combines technology and Eastern thought.

Yoko Ono
1933- Japan

She actively developed a series of Action Art by words of Instruction, as well as performance and sculptures.

David Hockney
1937- Britain

His pop and figurative works have gained wide popularity, ranging from the flat and graphical photographs of the late 1950s to the transparent and colorful works of the West Coast period.

Joel-Peter Witkin
1939- United States of America

With a unique aesthetic sense, he creates a mythical world and photographs it, using as his subjects transsexuals undergoing surgery, dead fetuses, women with deformed limbs, unusually obese women, and corpses undergoing autopsy.

Sadaharu Horio
1939- Japan

A member of the Gutai Art Association (dissolved in 1972), which led the Japanese postwar avant-garde art movement. Since the 1960s he had been working to incorporate art into everyday life through performances and works using everyday waste materials such as cloth, stones, and lumber.

Jonathan Borofsky
1942- United States of America

While pretending to be comical and unreal, his works condense and submerge social issues and human propositions.

David Hammons
1943- United States of America

His work Chasing the Blue Train (1990), in which a toy train runs between a grand piano and coal, was a powerful expression of black society and jazz, and made him one of the leading artists of late 20th century America.

Fabrice Hyber
1961- France

Many of his works are paintings and interactive and audience-participatory projects, and have greatly influenced subsequent artists.

Olaf Nicolai
1962- Germany

After studying literature, philosophy, and semiotics, he began his artistic career with collecting as his main concept.

Tsuyoshi Ozawa
1965- Japan

He began the Jizoing project since he was a student at the Tokyo University of the Arts. From around 1993, he began the Nasubi Gallery, as well as Sodan Art (Consultation Art) in which he creates artworks while consulting with participants.

Motohiko Odani
1972- Japan

He conducts research and practice to deconstruct the genre of Japanese sculpture, which has developed in its own unique way through Japanese Buddhist sculpture and modern sculpture.