50 items

Ai Weiwei
Andreas Gursky
Anish Kapoor
Anselm Kiefer (Eschaton–Anselm Kiefer Foundation)
Anselm Reyle

Barbara Kruger (artnet)
Bill Viola
Bruce Nauman (The Museum of Modern Art)

Chris Ofili (Victoria Miro)
Cindy Sherman (The Museum of Modern Art)

Damien Hirst (Gagosian)
David Hockney
Dinos Chapman (Showstudio)
Doug Aitken

Elizabeth Peyton (Gladstone Gallery)

Gabriel Orozco (Marian Goodman Gallery)
Gerhard Richter
Gregor Schneider

Jake Chapman (Instagram)
Jeff Koons
Jeff Wall (White Cube)
Jenny Holzer
Jonathan Meese

Kara Walker

Mariko Mori (Sean Kelly Gallery)
Marina Abramović (The Museum of Modern Art)
Marlene Dumas
Matthew Barney
Maurizio Cattelan
Mike Kelley
Mona Hatoum (White Cube)

Nan Goldin (Marian Goodman Gallery)
Neo Rauch (Van Ham)

Olafur Eliasson

Paul McCarthy (Hauser & Wirth)
Peter Doig
Pipilotti Rist (Luhring Augustine)

Rachel Whiteread (Luhring Augustine)
Raymond Pettibon (David Zwirner)
Richard Prince
Robert Gober (Matthew Marks Gallery)

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Shirin Neshat (Gladstone Gallery)
Sophie Calle (Fraenkel Gallery)

Takashi Murakami (Gagosian)
Tal R (Van Ham)
Tracey Emin (White Cube)
Tracey Moffatt (Art Gallery of NSW)

William Kentridge
Wolfgang Tillmans

Zhang Huan

This list is based on the book “50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know” by Brad Finger and Christiane Weidemann.