Who? The American artist Dana Schutz (b. 1976), who paints gestural, figurative canvases, was included in the Clandestine show at the Venice Bienniale in 2003 and has shown her work at MoMA and the Whitney. In 2019 a painting by Schutz, one of the best known names on our list, hit the $2 million mark at auction — against an estimate of $300,000-400,000.
Recent exhibitions: Imagine Me and You, Petzel, New York, 2019; Dana Schutz, ICA Boston, Boston, 2017; Waiting for the Barbarians, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 2016; Dana Schutz, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, 2015-16
If you like this artist you might also enjoy: Adrian Ghenie, Alex Katz