This guide provides resources on contemporary art, artists, movements, theory, and criticism in the contemporary art world. Contemporary is defined as 1970 to the present.
Biographical Resources on Contemporary Artists: Online Databases
Contemporary Artists-Biographical Sources: Online *If accessing off campus, you will be asked for your EUID and EUID password before the database will open.
Benezit Dictionary of Artists is a comprehensive and definitive record for artists' biographies. It includes 149,000 biographies as well as auction records, exhibition histories and 11,000+ images of artists' signatures and stamps of sale.
This database is limited to 8 simultaneous users.
Biographical Resources on Contemporary Artists: Books
Contemporary Artists-Biographical Sources: Books
To find biographies on contemporary artists, search the last name, first name of the artist in the UNT Libraries Catalog.
Search examples: Smith, Kiki; or Smith, Kiki and Biography. Exhibition catalogs usually contain biographical information also.
*Also search the artist's name in the Art Databases for biographical journal articles (under the "Journal Articles" tab in this guide).