The Names of 500 Artists

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The Names of 500 Artists is a list of names of artists. The list is arranged chronologically by year of birth, with the first artist on the list born 1941 and the most recent in 1987. This draws a historical line from just before the YBA era up the present day, mirroring my own experience in the artworld. The artists in this list are mostly British, mostly London based or show in London, and many of them I know — as friends and acquaintances, or through their work as artists, or their inclusion in countless group shows, or as people who email me about their work, or maybe just as email addresses — or even as ‘friends' (think facebook, myspace, artreview.com, LinkedIn, etc etc etc). The work is part act of memory on my part, part research project, part network(ing), part personal history of art, part self-portrait, part subjective view of the artworld, part top 500 list, part survey, part generational overview, part diary. Everyone has their own list. And this list is mine.