Portraiture Research:

Here are a few links to get you started on your portraiture project!

This is Colossal    |   Tate Gallery, London   |    Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery    |    Australia's National Portrait Gallery
 
UK's National Portrait Gallery    |    Portrait Artist of the Year - TV SHOW    |    Contemporary Painters

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Feel free to research these contemporary portrait artists:

​Chuck Close
Kehinde Wiley
Mustafa Maluka
Hideaki Kawashima
Francis Bacon
Nan Goldin
Sungi Mlengeya
Jonathan Yeo
Preston Sampson
Nelson Makamo
Yunior Hurtado
Barkley L. Hendricks
Rineke Dijkstra
Hom Nguyen
Erina Matsui

Jordan Casteel
Cindy Sherman
​Jenny Saville
Lauren Brevner
Gregory Mortenson
Otis Kwame Kai Quaicoe
Yasutomo Oka
Stuart Pearson Wright
David Shrobe
Cesar A. Martinez
Amy Sherald
Mao Yan
Elizabeth Peyton
Sara Birns
Frans Smit

​Philip Akkerman
Lucian Freud
​Steve Caldwell
Yasunari Ikenaga
Philipp Weber
Nocona Burgess
Martine Johanna
Alex Garant
Ben Ashton
February James
Wu Jianjun
Marianne Kolb
Hyung Koo Kang
Marco Grassi Grama
Lionel Smit
Jenny Scobel