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The Dream Weaver
James Jean was born in 1979 in Taipei, Taiwan. His family moved to Parsippany, New Jersey when he was three years old, where he grew up between two worlds. As a child, he explored music first, learning piano and trumpet, spending hours practicing scales and melodies. But his hands always wandered back to drawing. Faces
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The Data Sculptor
Refik Anadol was born in 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey. At eight years old, he taught himself to code on a Commodore 64. Computers spoke a language he understood instinctively. He studied photography and video at Istanbul Bilgi University, graduating with highest honors in 2009, then earned his MFA in visual communication design in 2011. As
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The Witness
Steve McCurry was born in 1950 in Philadelphia, but his real life began the day he bought a one-way ticket to India. He was twenty-eight years old. Fresh out of Pennsylvania State University with a theater degree and two years at a local newspaper behind him, he packed film and clothes into a bag and
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The World Builder
James Gurney was born in 1958 in Glendale, California and grew up in Palo Alto. He studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a bachelor of arts degree with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1979. The choice to study anthropology might seem disconnected from his later career as a painter, but it shaped
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The Atelier Master
Jacob Collins was born in 1964 in New York City into a family steeped in art and scholarship. As a child, he began copying Old Master paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the guidance of his grandmother, Alma Schapiro, herself a Paris-trained artist. His great-uncle was Meyer Schapiro, a renowned professor of art
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The Tribal Documentarian
Jimmy Nelson was born in 1967 in Sevenoaks, England, though his childhood was anything but conventional. His father worked for Shell, so Nelson grew up between Africa, Asia, and South America, moving constantly and absorbing cultures most people only read about in books. He picked up a camera at seven years old. Photography became his
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The California Colorist
David Hockney was born in 1937 in Bradford, England. He studied at the Bradford School of Art before earning a gold medal at the Royal College of Art in London in 1962, where his precocious talent quickly set him apart from his contemporaries. After brief visits to California in the early 1960s, Hockney relocated to
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The Modern Caravaggio
Roberto Ferri was born in 1978 in Taranto, Italy. He graduated from art school in 1996, then moved to Rome in 1999 to study ancient painting techniques. In 2006, he graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Working in solitude, Ferri absorbed the methods of Baroque masters, particularly Caravaggio. His paintings
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The Modern Master
Jeremy Lipking was born in Santa Monica in 1975, the son of a painter. Though he never took an art class in high school, he enrolled at California Art Institute in 1997, hungry to learn. At just 25, one year into his professional career, Lipking won top prize at the California Art Club’s 2001 annual
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The Daily Artist
Mike Winkelmann (Beeple) never missed a day. Starting in 2007, the graphic designer from Wisconsin committed to creating one piece of digital art every single day: no exceptions, no excuses. He called himself Beeple. For years, he toiled in obscurity, crafting surreal, often dystopian images that blended pop culture with political commentary. The “Everydays” project