Abstract Artists

You've found our list of Famous Abstract Artists from around the world. They're mostly painters using abstraction but also include abstract sculptors, printmakers, and drawing artists.

The artists listed have created a significant amount of abstract art throughout their career. Some may have started in a figurative manner and grew into abstraction, others might jump back and forward, while others might have only done a series or two of abstract works. Very few artists start with abstraction and stick with it all of their career. So if an artist is listed below, they've flirted with abstract art at some point in their career.

Famous Abstract Artists / Painters

• Alexander Calder - - Sculpture Quotes
  Popular American sculptor known for abstract mobiles, wire portraits, and monumental public sculpture.
• Elisabeth Cummings - - Art Quotes
  Popular Australian female artist known for her landscape paintings and prints of Australia.
• Elaine de Kooning - - Art Quotes
  Notable abstract expressionist American female painter known for her portraits and abstract works.
• Willem de Kooning - - Art Quotes
  Famous Dutch-born American Abstract Expressionist painter known for his Woman series of paintings.
• Ken Done - - Art Quotes
  Famous Australian artist known for his brightly colored expressive paintings of the Sydney Harbour and life in Australia.
• Helen Frankenthaler - - Art Quotes
  American abstract expressionist female artist known for her large fluid abstractions.
• Philip Guston - - Art Quotes
  Notable Canadian American abstract expressionist and figurative painter.
• Barbara Hepworth - - Art Quotes
  Notable British woman sculptor and printmaker known for abstract stone carvings and large public sculptures.
• Damien Hirst - - Art Quotes
  Famous British conceptual artist known for his for his dot paintings and dead animals in fish tanks.
• Hans Hoffman - - Art Quotes
  German-American abstract painter and art teacher associated with abstract expressionism and for being a colorist.
• Jasper Johns - - Art Quotes
  Notable American pop artist, painter and printmaker known for his US flag paintings.
• Wassily Kandinsky - - Art Quotes
  Russian painter and printmaker known to have created some of the earliest purely abstract paintings.
• Franz Kline - - Art Quotes
  American abstract expressionist artist known for his large black and white gestural paintings.
• Lee Krasner - - Art Quotes
  Famous American abstract expressionist painter who was married to Jackson Pollock.
• Fernand Leger - - Art Quotes
  Popular 20th century modernist French painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker.
• Joan Miro - - Art Quotes
  Famous Spanish artist, painter, ceramicist, muralist and printmaker.
• Joan Mitchell - - Art Quotes
  Notable American female abstract artist associated with abstract expressionism.
• Piet Mondrian - - Art Quotes
  Influential Dutch abstract artist most famous for his geometric, primary colored paintings.
• Henry Moore - - Art Quotes
  Famous English sculptor and draftsman known for his monumental modern sculptures of the human figure.
• Robert Motherwell - - Art Quotes
  20th century American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
• Barnett Newman - - Art Quotes
  American abstract expressionist and color field painter known for his minimalist abstract paintings.
• Isamu Noguchi - - Art Quotes
  Famous American sculptor, furniture designer and landscape architect.
• Georgia O'Keefe - - Art Quotes
  Notable American female artist famous for her erotic flower paintings and landscapes.
• John Olsen - - Art Quotes
  Famous landscape painter and printmaker known for his pictures of the Australian outback.
• Jackson Pollock - - Art Quotes
  Famous American abstract expressionist painter known for his large drip paintings.
• Robert Rauschenberg - - Art Quotes
  Famous American painter, printmaker and collagist known for his pop art inspired combine paintings.
• Gerhard Richter - - Art Quotes
  Popular German painter of both abstract artworks and photorealistic paintings.
• Mark Rothko - - Art Quotes
  Latvian born American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field paintings.
• Robert Ryman - - Art Quotes
  American abstract painter known for his minimalist white square abstract paintings.
• Pierre Soulages - - Art Quotes
  Famous French abstract artist nicknamed the Painter of Black.
• Frank Stella - - Art Quotes
  Famous American abstract painter, printmaker and sculptor.
• Cy Twombly - - Art Quotes
  Famous American artist who also lived in Italy. Created expressive childlike drawings and paintings.
• Brett Whiteley - - Art Quotes
  Famous Australian painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his sensual line.
• Christopher Wool - - Art Quotes
  Popular American abstract painter and sculptor known for his text paintings, gray abstract works and wire sculptures.

See our full list of Famous artists here or Artists by Niche here.