Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection at Australia’s HOTA

Enigmatic American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was part of a new generation of pop artists coming from the streets of Brooklyn to the institutional art scene in the 1980s. The former street artist's neo-expressionist paintings and drawings with

From fast food and cigarettes to E.T and the Pink Panther, Brooklyn-based painter Katherine Bernhardt's art references a hodgepodge of the everyday and popular culture in a graffiti, pop, and Colour Field fusion. She has also collaborated with

Kwesi Botchway creates intimate portraits that capture the fluidity of Black identity. Using acrylic and oil on canvas, Botchway visualises contemporary African culture through richly coloured and emotionally charged paintings. Early Years Born

George Condo is an American artist known for his distinctive, deformed, and sometimes demonic paintings that are often self-described as 'psychological cubism'. Most heavily influenced by the contrasting aesthetics of Old Masters, Cubism and Pop

Sharks in formaldehyde, dead flies, diamond-encrusted skulls, pills, dots, and cherry trees are some of the most iconic and memorable motifs in contemporary art (market) history. One of the most notorious figures on the art scene, Damien Hirst works

In his sculptures, paintings, and drawings characterised by exuberant colours and forms, Brian Donnelly—better known as KAWS—presents his 'Companion' figures and appropriated cartoon characters that reflect the cultural trends of our times. Who is

Joel Mesler is known for his playful alphabet paintings that combine vibrant flora and fauna with wry text. Often referring to personal preoccupations or recollections of his childhood, Mesler's autobiographical approach blends language and

Since the late 1970s, American contemporary artist Richard Prince has interrogated symbols of American mainstream culture and desires that include masculinity, sexuality, and celebrity and consumer culture. Unbound by a particular style or medium,

A key figure in the Neo-expressionist movement, American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel is known for his biographical films, as well as his paintings made from plate fragments, velvet, wood, and wax. Schnabel lives and works in Montauk and

Producing striking portraits of figures such as Michelle Obama and Solange Knowles, multidisciplinary Brooklyn artist Mickalene Thomas is known for vibrant and empowering depictions of Black women in lush spaces. She has collaborated with magazines

Tom Wesselmann was an American artist and is best known for his colourful shaped canvases of abstracted female nudes in bathroom, kitchen or bedroom settings. Wesselmann's artworks sometimes incorporated real items such as plastic shower curtains,