43 20th century painters

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.

Guido Maria Balsamo Stella was an Italian painter and engraver.

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.

Viyé Diba is a Senegalese painter. His work can be seen at the Brooklyn Museum and the National Museum of African Art.

Alekos Fassianos is a contemporary Greek painter born in Athens in 1935.

Nona Gabrielyan is an Armenian artist, sculptor.

Paula Gans was a Czech painter of still lifes, portraits and nudes.

Gagik Ghazanchyan is an Armenian artist.

Hashimoto Gahō was a Japanese painter, one of the last to paint in the style of the Kanō school.

Vilma Isabel Gonzalez Cordova Holland was a Puerto Rican visual artist.

Hubert Julian "Jay" Stowitts was an American painter.

Huseyn Aliyev was a painter and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Ivan Akhremchik was a Belarusian painter specializing in portraits. Since 1949, he was the People's Artist of the BSSR.

Maria Jarema was a Polish painter, sculptor, scenographer and actress.

Svetislav Jovanović was a Serbian Realist painter.

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.

Roland Khoury (1930—1988) was a Syrian painter.

Alfred Krupa was a prominent Yugoslavian and Croatian academic painter, inventor, sportsman and art teacher born in Mikolow now in Poland then in German Empire. Since 1943 he has lived in Croatia, Yugoslavia.

Miriam Laufer was an American artist. Laufer is best known for her paintings of women, as well as her paintings in abstract expressionist, geometric abstraction, and pop art styles. In addition, she was an early participant in the feminist art movement starting in the 1960s. She also worked as a calligrapher, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher.

Ismaïla Manga was a Senegalese Jola painter.

Hripsime Margaryan is an Armenian artist.

Hassan Massoudy, born in 1944, is an Iraqi painter and calligrapher, considered by the French writer Michel Tournier as the "greatest living calligrapher", currently lives in Paris. His work has influenced a generation of calligraffiti artists.

Vidadi Narimanbekov was a painter, Honored Art Worker and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Vann Nath was a Cambodian painter, artist, writer, and human rights activist. He was the eighth Cambodian to win the Lillian Hellman/Hammett Award award since 1995. He was one of only seven known adult survivors of S-21 camp, where 20,000 Cambodians were tortured and executed during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Cg'ose Ntcox'o, known as Cgoise was a Botswana artist.

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."

Ramadan Ramadani (1944–2005) was a Kosovar painter from Ferizaj, Kosovo, a town southwest of Kosovo's capital city Pristina. He finished high school in his home town and in 1967 he was accepted at the Institute of Pedagogy in Prishtina, where he studied figurative arts. During his studies he was awarded the “best freestyle drawing of the year” award, one of the most prestigious awards given to students.

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.

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

Khalida Alakbar gizi Safarova was an Azerbaijani painter, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Chéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the best known contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A large number of his paintings are also found in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi. He has been invited to participate in the 2007 Venice Biennale. His paintings almost always include text in French and Lingala, commenting on life in Africa and the modern world. Samba lives in Kinshasa and Paris.

Kamisaka Sekka was an important artistic figure in early twentieth-century Japan. Born in Kyoto to a Samurai family, his talents for art and design were recognized early. He eventually allied himself with the traditional Rinpa school of art. He is considered the last great proponent of this artistic tradition. Sekka also worked in lacquer and in a variety of other media.

Gela Seksztajn was a Polish-Jewish artist and painter. She is known mostly for her portraits and other paintings hidden within the Ringelblum Archive, in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. The paintings were found after the end of World War II, and are now held mostly in the archive of the Jewish Historical Institute, in Warsaw, Poland.

Jewad Selim (1919–1961) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Ankara (Turkey) in 1919. He became an influential artist through his involvement with the Iraqi Baghdad Modern Art Group, which encouraged artists to explore techniques that combined both Arab heritage and modern art forms. He is considered to be one of Iraq's greatest 20th-century sculptors.

Ismail Shammout was a Palestinian artist and art historian.

Shashi Bikram Shah is a Nepali artist born in Kathmandu in 1940, and with a career spanning five decades, is regarded as one of the preeminent contemporary artists of Nepal and one of the country's first modernist painters.

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.

Bogusław Szwacz was a Polish-born artist, painter, sculptor, professor and lecturer at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

Tağı Tağıyev was a painter and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.

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.

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.