Sculpture
Artists working in three dimensions.
People in Sculpture
37 profiles
ArtistPablo Picasso
Co-developing Cubism and painting Guernica.
ArtistJoan Miró
Creating a vivid visual language of floating shapes, stars and dreamlike figures.
ArtistEdgar Degas
Depicting ballet dancers at work and rest.
PainterHenri Matisse
Transforming modern art through bold colour, simplified forms and late paper cut-outs.
ArtistAuguste Rodin
Sculpting The Thinker, The Kiss and other figures that made emotion and the human body central to modern sculpture.
ArtistConstantin Brâncuși
Reducing birds, heads and embracing figures to essential forms that helped transform modern sculpture.
ArtistBarbara Hepworth
Creating pierced abstract sculptures that make the space inside a form as important as its surface.
ArtistLouise Bourgeois
Creating giant spider sculptures and installations that turn memory, family and anxiety into physical forms.
ArtistEdmonia Lewis
Building an international sculpting career in nineteenth-century Rome as a woman of African American and Indigenous ancestry.
ArtistAugusta Savage
Sculpting The Harp and building opportunities for Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance.
ArtistAi Weiwei
Using installations, found objects and documentary work to confront power, censorship and human rights.
ArtistNam June Paik
Helping establish video art by turning television sets, electronic images and live broadcasts into artistic material.
ArtistIsamu Noguchi
Bringing sculpture into everyday life through public spaces, furniture and Akari paper lights.
ArtistAnish Kapoor
Creating Cloud Gate, Chicago's mirror-like sculpture known as The Bean, and vast installations that play with perception.
ArtistKäthe Kollwitz
Making powerful prints and sculptures about poverty, mourning and the human cost of war.
ArtistCamille Claudel
Creating expressive sculptures such as The Waltz and The Mature Age while forging a career beyond Rodin's studio.
ArtistHenry Moore
Creating monumental sculptures of reclining figures and mothers with children.
ArtistAlexander Calder
Inventing mobiles that made movement part of abstract sculpture.
ArtistMarcel Duchamp
Challenging the definition of art with readymades such as Fountain.
ArtistRachel Whiteread
Casting empty spaces into solid sculptures and becoming the first woman to win the Turner Prize.
ArtistLygia Clark
Turning sculpture into an experience that viewers could physically change.
ArtistRichard Serra
The sculptor whose enormous steel forms change how viewers move through space.
ArtistBarbara Chase-Riboud
The sculptor and novelist known for her Malcolm X steles and the novel Sally Hemings.
ArtistIbrahim Mahama
The artist whose vast installations of used sacks reveal the labour and trade carried by ordinary materials.
ArtistKara Walker
The artist whose cut-paper silhouettes confront slavery, racial violence and historical myth.
ArtistDoris Salcedo
Creating sculptures and installations that confront violence, loss and remembrance.
ArtistHélio Oiticica
Turning colour into environments and wearable artworks that invite participation.
ArtistBill Reid
Creating The Raven and the First Men and Spirit of Haida Gwaii.
ArtistWangechi Mutu
Creating hybrid figures that challenge representations of women and nature.
ArtistElizabeth Catlett
Portraying Black women’s lives through sculpture and printmaking.
ArtistEl Anatsui
Transforming discarded bottle tops into monumental flexible sculptures.
ArtistRuth Asawa
The sculptor who turned looped wire into intricate hanging forms that seem to draw in space.
ArtistGill Gatfield
Creating sculpture after a career in equality law.
ArtistVictoria Kosasie
Combining contemporary art with the KemBALIkeSENI initiative.
ArtistJulia Morison
Creating symbolic paintings, installations and sculptural forms.
ArtistJorge Marín
Bronze figures exploring balance, flight and the human body.
ArtistGraham Bennett
Creating public sculptures including Reasons for Voyaging.