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Born	February 4, 1944 (age 80) • Ghana
Awards And Honors	Praemium Imperiale (2017)
Notable Works	“Sasa (Manteau)”

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Bulgarian artist

Ai Weiwei

Chinese activist and artist

Antony Gormley

British sculptor and draftsman

Yayoi Kusama

Japanese artist

Ellsworth Kelly

American painter, sculptor, and printmaker

Anish Kapoor

British sculptor

Richard Serra

American artist

Anselm Kiefer

German painter

Georg Baselitz

German artist

César

French sculptor

Louise Bourgeois

French-born American sculptor

Sir Anthony Caro

British sculptor

Eduardo Chillida

Spanish sculptor

Max Bill

Swiss artist

George Segal

American sculptor

Peter Vischer, the Elder

German artist

Enoch Wood

English potter

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi

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Coosje van Bruggen

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James Earle Fraser

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