TOP 1,000 contemporary artists at auction (2000-2019)
Artist | Country of birth | Auction turnover | Lots sold | Top auction result | |
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1 | Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) | US | $2,175,601,772 | 1,480 | $110,487,500 |
2 | Jeff KOONS (b. 1955) | US | $938,580,226 | 1,902 | $91,075,000 |
3 | Damien HIRST (b. 1965) | GB | $695,561,587 | 4,244 | $19,213,271 |
4 | Christopher WOOL (b. 1955) | US | $623,835,363 | 565 | $29,930,000 |
5 | ZENG Fanzhi (b. 1964) | CN | $518,502,109 | 639 | $23,276,760 |
6 | Richard PRINCE (b. 1949) | PA | $506,072,375 | 1,110 | $9,685,000 |
7 | Peter DOIG (b. 1959) | UK | $490,529,397 | 695 | $28,810,000 |
8 | ZHANG Xiaogang (b. 1958) | CN | $357,471,050 | 744 | $12,142,379 |
9 | Yoshitomo NARA (b. 1959) | JP | $327,724,900 | 2,727 | $24,949,674 |
10 | Keith HARING (1958-1990) | US | $304,437,285 | 4,806 | $6,537,500 |
11 | CHEN Yifei (1946-2005) | CN | $299,452,954 | 425 | $22,640,280 |
12 | ZHOU Chunya (b. 1955) | CN | $295,848,941 | 1,067 | $6,743,740 |
13 | Rudolf STINGEL (b. 1956) | IT | $258,655,405 | 295 | $10,551,500 |
14 | Martin KIPPENBERGER (1953-1997) | DE | $234,731,788 | 870 | $22,565,000 |
15 | Takashi MURAKAMI (b. 1962) | JP | $223,886,526 | 5,512 | $15,161,000 |
16 | Anselm KIEFER (b. 1945) | DE | $192,988,211 | 501 | $3,997,805 |
17 | George CONDO (b. 1957) | US | $190,719,780 | 996 | $6,162,500 |
18 | LIU Ye (b. 1964) | CN | $174,088,326 | 452 | $6,652,788 |
19 | KAWS (b. 1974) | US | $165,762,183 | 2,104 | $14,772,677 |
20 | Mark GROTJAHN (b. 1968) | US | $165,393,909 | 199 | $16,767,500 |
21 | Anish KAPOOR (b. 1954) | IN | $160,687,722 | 593 | $3,877,856 |
22 | YUE Minjun (b. 1962) | CN | $159,025,982 | 546 | $6,934,018 |
23 | Mark BRADFORD (b. 1961) | US | $150,266,461 | 104 | $11,979,851 |
24 | Andreas GURSKY (b. 1955) | DE | $145,196,682 | 612 | $4,338,500 |
25 | Cindy SHERMAN (b. 1954) | US | $143,201,438 | 1,284 | $6,773,000 |
26 | LIU Wei (b. 1965) | CN | $142,889,765 | 463 | $5,010,360 |
27 | Albert OEHLEN (b. 1954) | DE | $132,382,077 | 352 | $7,552,473 |
28 | LUO Zhongli (b. 1948) | CN | $120,860,694 | 566 | $7,249,370 |
29 | LIU Xiaodong (b. 1963) | CN | $118,962,884 | 194 | $8,526,560 |
30 | FANG Lijun (b. 1963) | CN | $114,897,985 | 379 | $7,661,024 |
31 | Cecily BROWN (b. 1969) | GB | $112,807,340 | 229 | $6,776,200 |
32 | WANG Yidong (b. 1955) | CN | $109,543,451 | 295 | $3,380,310 |
33 | Maurizio CATTELAN (b. 1960) | IT | $108,031,250 | 615 | $17,189,000 |
34 | Sean SCULLY (b. 1945) | IE | $104,308,488 | 811 | $1,760,000 |
35 | Mark TANSEY (b. 1949) | US | $102,691,761 | 79 | $7,453,600 |
36 | Miquel BARCELO (b. 1957) | ES | $101,043,596 | 553 | $6,322,155 |
37 | HE Jiaying (b. 1957) | CN | $100,566,081 | 536 | $2,267,340 |
38 | BANKSY (b. 1974) | GB | $100,430,932 | 2,815 | $12,230,208 |
39 | Marlene DUMAS (b. 1953) | ZA | $100,083,485 | 708 | $6,333,848 |
40 | Antony GORMLEY (b. 1950) | GB | $93,710,966 | 528 | $6,911,977 |
41 | WANG Guangyi (b. 1957) | CN | $92,695,076 | 623 | $4,136,541 |
42 | AI Xuan (b. 1947) | CN | $88,327,313 | 395 | $3,762,296 |
43 | Kerry James MARSHALL (b. 1955) | US | $88,119,218 | 69 | $21,114,500 |
44 | Adrian GHENIE (b. 1977) | RO | $87,944,652 | 136 | $9,054,022 |
45 | John CURRIN (b. 1962) | US | $86,163,863 | 174 | $12,007,500 |
46 | Thomas SCHÜTTE (b. 1954) | DE | $82,782,966 | 302 | $5,317,000 |
47 | YANG Feiyun (b. 1954) | CN | $79,471,568 | 217 | $5,440,650 |
48 | Wade GUYTON (b. 1972) | US | $76,657,692 | 171 | $5,989,000 |
49 | WANG Mingming (b. 1952) | CN | $72,811,079 | 1,159 | $1,395,847 |
50 | CAI Guoqiang (b. 1957) | CN | $69,682,287 | 335 | $9,548,229 |
51 | Hiroshi SUGIMOTO (b. 1948) | JP | $68,162,478 | 1,804 | $1,888,000 |
52 | Günther FÖRG (1952-2013) | DE | $66,672,251 | 1,708 | $1,220,000 |
53 | ZHU Xinjian (1953-2014) | CN | $62,356,963 | 2,755 | $1,032,873 |
54 | Mike KELLEY (1954-2012) | US | $61,684,206 | 365 | $3,301,000 |
55 | Jenny SAVILLE (b. 1970) | GB | $60,565,016 | 69 | $12,490,583 |
56 | LIU Dawei (b. 1945) | CN | $60,190,374 | 633 | $2,723,028 |
57 | AI Weiwei (b. 1957) | CN | $58,722,792 | 345 | $5,424,347 |
58 | Robert GOBER (b. 1954) | US | $58,406,216 | 233 | $7,287,500 |
59 | Julie MEHRETU (b. 1970) | ET | $57,797,918 | 150 | $5,631,696 |
60 | Glenn BROWN (b. 1966) | GB | $57,067,744 | 80 | $8,086,410 |
61 | YAN Pei-Ming (b. 1960) | CN | $57,029,680 | 281 | $2,048,976 |
62 | SHI Guoliang (b. 1956) | CN | $55,933,562 | 761 | $1,826,867 |
63 | Jonas WOOD (b. 1977) | US | $54,748,359 | 255 | $4,928,500 |
64 | LENG Jun (b. 1963) | CN | $53,509,257 | 205 | $10,009,423 |
65 | Neo RAUCH (b. 1960) | DE | $53,171,486 | 477 | $1,746,631 |
66 | Glenn LIGON (b. 1960) | US | $51,718,986 | 242 | $3,973,000 |
67 | HUANG Jiannan (b. 1952) | CN | $51,193,375 | 122 | $6,561,762 |
68 | Urs FISCHER (b. 1973) | CH | $49,553,306 | 95 | $6,802,500 |
69 | Thomas STRUTH (b. 1954) | DE | $49,401,311 | 775 | $1,810,000 |
70 | FANG Chuxiong (b. 1950) | CN | $46,685,367 | 1,483 | $529,368 |
71 | Juan MUÑOZ (1953-2001) | ES | $46,464,919 | 170 | $5,428,395 |
72 | Robert LONGO (b. 1953) | US | $45,961,451 | 1,116 | $1,575,000 |
73 | Vik MUNIZ (b. 1961) | BR | $43,080,450 | 1,085 | $293,000 |
74 | Julian SCHNABEL (b. 1951) | US | $42,627,306 | 505 | $1,452,500 |
75 | Elizabeth PEYTON (b. 1965) | US | $42,333,156 | 357 | $1,745,000 |
76 | Robert COMBAS (b. 1957) | FR | $41,708,716 | 2,798 | $353,446 |
77 | XUE Liang (b. 1956) | CN | $40,266,656 | 528 | $2,143,595 |
78 | I Nyoman MASRIADI (b. 1973) | ID | $39,799,622 | 227 | $1,006,434 |
79 | Felix GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996) | CU | $39,118,991 | 143 | $7,669,000 |
80 | Robert MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989) | US | $38,656,773 | 1,705 | $726,435 |
81 | CHEN Danqing (b. 1953) | CN | $38,211,378 | 183 | $3,553,500 |
82 | Tony CRAGG (b. 1949) | GB | $38,205,535 | 424 | $1,051,086 |
83 | William KENTRIDGE (b. 1955) | ZA | $37,768,592 | 1,269 | $1,538,500 |
84 | Marc QUINN (b. 1964) | GB | $37,710,281 | 481 | $1,325,000 |
85 | REN Zhong (b. 1976) | CN | $37,607,375 | 368 | $2,760,406 |
86 | Chris OFILI (b. 1968) | GB | $37,464,245 | 341 | $4,541,955 |
87 | LI Chen (b. 1963) | TW | $36,459,953 | 233 | $1,426,735 |
88 | Thomas RUFF (b. 1958) | DE | $35,971,976 | 1,450 | $240,379 |
89 | Subodh GUPTA (b. 1964) | IN | $34,675,415 | 146 | $1,198,592 |
90 | Sterling RUBY (b. 1972) | DE | $34,591,730 | 223 | $1,785,000 |
91 | Luc TUYMANS (b. 1958) | BE | $34,573,115 | 375 | $2,699,750 |
92 | XU Bing (b. 1955) | CN | $34,343,266 | 272 | $1,884,850 |
93 | YIN Zhaoyang (b. 1970) | CN | $34,110,319 | 275 | $1,655,181 |
94 | Ronald VENTURA (b. 1973) | PH | $33,875,720 | 227 | $1,082,812 |
95 | HE Duoling (b. 1948) | CN | $33,408,333 | 193 | $1,707,960 |
96 | Ugo RONDINONE (b. 1964) | CH | $33,284,074 | 333 | $1,131,000 |
97 | Rosemarie TROCKEL (b. 1952) | DE | $33,143,278 | 469 | $4,981,000 |
98 | Beatriz MILHAZES (b. 1960) | BR | $32,924,650 | 116 | $2,098,500 |
99 | Joe BRADLEY (b. 1975) | US | $32,829,770 | 97 | $3,077,000 |
100 | XU Lele (b. 1955) | CN | $32,654,192 | 823 | $1,420,848 |
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TOP 1,000 contemporary artists at auction (2000-2019)