* The world is full of artists. Here is a small but ever-expanding selection of some. Here is a mix of both discipline/media and notoriety. *

A/ Janine Antoni / Marina Abramovic / Vito Acconci / Bas Jan Ader / Carl Andre / Laurie Anderson / Cory Arcangel / David Altmejd / El Anatsui

B/ Matthew Barney / Louise Bourgeois / Kendall Buster / John Von Bergen / Aideen Barry / John Baldessari / Chris Burden / Kendall Buster / Walead Beshty / Mark Bradford / Chakaia Booker / Taylor Baldwin

C/ Maurizio Cattelan / Jake and Dinos Chapman / Sophie Calle / Janet Cardiff / Nick Cave / John Chamberlain / Christo and Jeanne Claude / Jedediah Caesar / Annet Couwenberg / Adam Chodzko / Lily Cox Richard

D/ Marley Dawson / Tara Donovan / Richard Deacon / Walter De Maria / Alex Da Corte / Berlinde de Bruyckere

E/ Olafur Eliasson / Tracey Emin / Leandro Erlich

F/ Urs Fischer / Gabríela Friðriksdóttir / Tom Friedman / Dan Flavin / Marit Følstad / Angus Fairhurst

G/ Shaun Gladwell / Felix-Gonzalez-Torres / Julie Grosche / Cai Guo-Qiang / Theaster Gates / Robert Gober / Monika Grzymala

H/ Roni Horn / Thomas Hirschhorn / Camille Henrot / Pierre Huyghe / Eva Hesse / Damien Hirst / Tim Hawkinson / Christian Holstad / Jenny Holzer / Ann Hamilton / Fritz Haeg / Bethan Huws / Dana Hemenway / Magali Hebert-Huot / Marguerite Humeau / Laura Butler Hughes

I/ Robert Irwin /

J/ Donald Judd / Brian Jungem

K/ Terrence Koh / Anish Kapoor / Jeff Koons / Yaoi Kusama / Alicja Kwade / Mike Kelley / Cindy Cheng / Barbara Kruger / Ragnar Kjartansson

L/ Wolfgang Laib / Sol LeWitt / Sarah Lucas

M/ Michael Jones Mckean / Christian Marclay / Ledelle Moe / Ron Mueck / Paul McCarthy / Ryan McGinley / Ledelle Moe / Ron Mueck / Robert Morris / Walter de Maria / Paul McCarthy

N/ Ernesto Neto / Bruce Nauman

O/ Yoko Ono / Gabriel Orozco / Helio Oiticica / Claes Oldenburg

P/ Chloe Piene / Richard Prince / Charlemagne Palestine / Paul Pfeiffer / Cornelia Parker / Paola Pivi / Puppies Puppies / Aine Phillips

Q/ Marc Quinn  

R/ Jason Rhoades / Dario Robleto / Sterling Ruby / Michael Rakowitz / Mika Rottenberg / Ugo Rondinone / Jon Rafman / Magali Reus / Ursula von Rydingsvard / Charles Ray

S/ Kiki Smith / Sarah Sze / Richard Serra / Katrín Sigurðardóttir / Shoplifter / Sandy Skoglund / Thomas Schütte / Michael Snow / Tom Sachs / David Shrigley / Miriam Songster / Timur Si-Qin / Fred Sandback / Jessica Stockholder / Haim Steinbach / David Spriggs / Florian Sumi / Yinka Shonibare / Jacolby Satterwhtte / Tomás Saraceno

T/ James Turrell / Rirkrit Tiravanija / Anne Truitt / Hank Willis Thomas / Gavin Turk / Tatiana Trouvé

U/ Francis Upritchard

V/ Banks Violette / Adrian Villar Rojas

W/ Ai Weiwei / Wickerham and Lomax / Rachel Whiteread / Rebecca Warren / Kara Walker / Elizabeth Withstandley / Erwin Wurm

X/

Y/ Anicka Yi

Z/ Andrea Zittel / 

RESOURCES FOR FINDING MORE ARTISTS:

http://www.vvork.com

https://www.wpadc.org/

http://www.bakerartist.org/

http://www.ubuweb.com/

http://rhizome.org/

https://www.moma.org/

https://www.artforum.com/

https://hyperallergic.com/

http://www.artfcity.com

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/

Other ways to search would be to look up galleries and then peruse through the artists they represent. There is no one main database, again, artists are everywhere.