Performance Artists
795 performance artists
Performance art uses the body—and often its limits, duration, and risk—as a primary medium. These artists create work that exists in time and cannot be fully documented, only witnessed.

Marta Minujín
Installation, Performance
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Martha Araújo
Performance, Photography
Maceió, Brazil

Martha Wilson
Video, Performance, Photography
New York, NY, USA

Martin Creed
Installation, Painting, Performance
London, UK

Martine Syms
Video, Performance
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Martin Kersels
Video, Sculpture, Performance
New Haven, CT, USA

Martin Mannig
Painting, Performance
Dresden, Germany

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
Sculpture, Performance
United Kingdom

Mary Ellen Carroll
Video, Installation, Performance
New York, NY, USA

Mary Lucier
Video, Installation, Performance
New York, NY and Cochecton, NY, USA

Matei Bejenaru
Installation, Performance, Photography
Iași, Romania

Mateo López
Sculpture, Installation, Performance
Bogotá, Colombia

Math Bass
Painting, Performance, Sculpture
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mathis Collins
Installation, Performance, Sculpture
Paris, France

Matthew Barney
Video, Installation, Performance
New York, NY, USA

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Drawing, Painting, Performance
Paris, France

Matt Mullican
Installation, Performance
New York, USA and Berlin, Germany

Maurice Mbikayi
Installation, Performance, Sculpture
Cape Town, South Africa

Meiro Koizumi
Drawing, Video, Performance
Yokohama, Japan

Melanie Manchot
Video, Performance, Photography
Germany

Melati Suryodarmo
Photography, Performance
Germany

Melissa Brown
Painting, Performance
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Mercedes Azpilicueta
Video, Installation, Performance
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Meschac Gaba
Sculpture, Video, Performance
Rotterdam, Netherlands and Cotonou, Benin