46 21st century painters

Afewerk Tekle was an Ethiopian artist, particularly known for his paintings on African and Christian themes as well as his stained glass.

Ales Pushkin is a Belarusian non-conformist painter, theater artist, performer, and art curator. He is a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists.

Haider Ali is a Pakistani painter best known for his work as a truck artist. Around the world, he has painted murals, structures, benches, and trucks in the distinctive truck art style of Pakistan. He first gained international attention in 2002 when he worked on the first authentic Pakistani truck in North America for the Smithsonian and has since exhibited at museums and institutions globally.

Stefan Corbin Burnett, better known as MC Ride, or simply Ride is an American rapper, songwriter, and visual artist. He is the frontman of experimental hip hop group Death Grips, and garnered attention for his aggressive rapping style and nihilistic, cryptic, and vulgar lyrics.

Sergine Andre, born in the Artibonite region of Haiti, is a Haitian-Belgian artist, who has lived and worked in Brussels since 2010.

Ximena Armas is a Chilean painter.

Myrna Báez was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been characterized as confident and complex. She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Gracia Barrios Rivadeneira was a Chilean painter and the winner of the 2011 National Prize for Plastic Arts.

Samy Mauricio Benmayor Benmayor is a Chilean painter who formed part of the Generation of '80 movement.

Olga Blinder was a Paraguayan painter, engraver and sculptor. Blinder was born in Asunción into a Jewish family. She lived through the Chaco War, World War II, the 1947 Paraguayan Civil War, in addition to Paraguay's coup d'états in 1954 and 1989. Blinder was also a licensed professor who taught arts and creative education for over 30 years. Her works include numerous published books and articles on education and art. She is the former director of the Escolinha de Arte of Paraguay in the Brazilian Cultural Mission and of the Instituto de Arte (ISA) of the National University of Asunción. She was also an advisor to the Ministry of Education for the development of textbooks. In addition, she has been recognized by the League of Women's Rights, by the Brazilian government, and received the Integración Latinoamericana award from the Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina. Blinder is considered one of the key promoters of change within the 1950s Paraguayan art scene.

Roser Bru Llop is a Spanish-born Chilean painter and engraver associated with the neo-figurative art movement.

Carlos Cañas was a Salvadoran painter who studied art and theory at the School of Arts of El Salvador. In 1950, he received a scholarship to study art, history, aesthetics, and literature in Madrid at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Rimer Cardillo is a Uruguayan visual artist and engraver of extensive international experience who has lived in the United States since 1979.

Josep Collell was a Catalan painter and ceramicist who lived in Montevideo from 1950, where he developed his artistic career. He was a member of the Taller Torres-Garcia and in 1955 he created, together with his wife Carmen Cano, the Taller Collell of ceramics where for thirty years they taught their ceramic technique, the burnished engobe.

Eugenio Cruz Vargas was a notable Chilean poet and painter. His art was developed under the naturalistic landscape and abstraction, and his collection of poems under the concepts of surrealism and culminate in the literary creationism.)

Josignacio is a Contemporary Cuban Artist, who first emerged in the controversial, "La Generacion de los 80s" - The 80s Generation of Contemporary Cuban Art also referred to as New Cuban Art.

Nona Gabrielyan is an Armenian artist, sculptor.

Scherezade García is a Dominican-born, US-based painter, printmaker and installation artist. She is a co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA Collective. García is an Advisor to the Board of Directors of No Longer Empty and sits on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association (CAA) for the period of 2020–2024. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is represented by Praxis Art in New York.

Gagik Ghazanchyan is an Armenian artist.

Shane Guffogg is an American artist associated with the abstract art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, drawing, and sculpture. Guffogg lives and works between Los Angeles and Strathmore, California.

Anhelo Hernández Ríos was a Uruguayan plastic artist and teacher.

Syed Jahangir was a Bangladeshi painter. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 1985. He served as the department head of the Arts Faculty at Shilpakala Academy in 1977. His notable paintings include Attmar Ujjibon, Ullas, Dhoni, Ojana-Oneshya and Osoni-Sangket.

Kizito Maria Kasule is a Ugandan artist and entrepreneur. His work has been shown throughout East Africa, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Australia, and France, as well as in Denmark and Norway. He has been a lecturer at Makerere University since 1992.

Ibrahima Kébé was a Senegalese Soninke painter. He lived until his death in Village des Arts de Dakar.

Horst Keining is a German visual artist.

Lemma Guya Gemeda (1928–2020) was born in 1928 in Ada'a, Oromia, Ethiopia. He was an Ethiopian prior Painting Artist. He provided about ten-thousand his original works. He was using a goat skin as a painting portraits. Lemma has passed away on October 26, 2020 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He had married to Mrs. Aster Bekele in 1960s and had 3 son, 2 daughter and 8 grand children. Lemma's five children are on the track of him.

Man Yu Fung Li, commonly known as Man Yu, is a Costa Rican artist, born in Hong Kong. She specializes in painting, but also incorporates multiple multidisciplinary media such as installation art, video art and performance art. Part of her work focuses on human anatomy, the different non-physical layers of the human being, humanism and respect for living beings.

Ismaïla Manga was a Senegalese Jola painter.

Hripsime Margaryan is an Armenian artist.

Gencho Nakev, also written as Генчо Накев, is a Bulgarian painter.

Dumas Oroño was a Uruguayan artist, cultural manager, and teacher. His artistic work spanned several disciplines, including painting, engraving, ceramics, murals, and jewelry design.

Wanda Pimentel was a Brazilian painter, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work is distinguished by "a precise, hard-edge quality encompassing geometric lines and smooth surfaces in pieces that often defy categorization as abstract or figurative."

Sheikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa is a member of the Bahraini royal family and a painter. He is the first president and the current honorary president of the Bahrain Arts Society. He has painted over a period of 40 years, painting artistic genres such as Realism developed to Impressionism, which gradually evolved to Individualism, a notable prelude to his recent work, a dual concept of Abstract and the colour field. He is often considered to be one of the kingdom's most famous artists.

Jorge Riveros is a Colombian painter, sculptor and illustrator.

Patsy Dan Rodgers was a painter, musician, and the King of Tory from the 1990s until his death in 2018.

Amaya Salazar is a Dominican artist known for her faceless personas that inhabit mystical and magical environments where light and the Antillean flora are present.

Baruj Salinas is a Cuban-American contemporary visual artist and architect. He is recognized as a central figure in the establishment of the modern Latin American art market in South Florida.

Vigdis Sigmundsdóttir is an artist from the Faroe Islands, known internationally for producing a collage of 12 motives from Ormurin Langi that resulted in a series of stamps from Postverk Føroya released in 2006.

Leo Stopfer is an Austrian artist who widely acclaimed as the "Painter of the Ballet-Stars". He is especially identified with the subject of ballet; more than half of his works depict famous dancers with world names.

Najib Tareque, is a Bengali artist, printmaker and writer based on Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is best known for her New media artworks and one of the pioneers of online art galleries in Bangladesh. Tareque was the founding member of Jolrong, one of the first online art galleries in South Asia. Since 1987, he has been part of various group and solo exhibitions both in the country and abroad. He participates more than twenty individual and joint exhibitions in the country and abroad.

Edward Telleria is an artist from the Dominican Republic, known for his paintings of eyes, horses and roses.

Mirta Toledo is an Argentine artist, that promotes diversity through her artwork.

Vytautas Tomaševičius is a Lithuanian painter, creating work in Vilnius since the late 1990s. His distinctive style combines a graphite and painted image with an enlarged laser-printed graphic transferred to the painting surface. In 2019 he became the first Lithuanian artist to win the Excellence Award in the Tokyo Art Olympia Biennale.

Mario Toral Muñoz is a Chilean painter and photographer.

Rafael Tufiño Figueroa was a Puerto Rican painter, printmaker and cultural figure in Puerto Rico, known locally as the "Painter of the People". His work is among the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Galería Nacional in Puerto Rico, and the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico.

Armine A. Tumanyan, Armenian painter, designer, coordinator of painting exhibitions. Member of the Artists' Union of Armenia, Head of Tavush Branch, Director of Tavush Spiritual Revival Foundation.