List of disabled artists

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This is a list of deaf and disabled visual artists (designers, painters, photographers and sculptors) who achieved recognition and who either had a disability or were deaf .

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who had restricted mobility in his legs, and became famous for his paintings of 19th-century French dancers.
- Frida Kahlo, an iconic Mexican feminist and painter, wore a body brace due to multiple severe body injuries, which she depicted in self-portraits.
- Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter, gradually lost much of his vision from cataracts. His vision was left restricted to a mainly blue colour range, so he used a predominantly blue palette in his later works, such as Water Lilies.
- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch post-Impressionist painter, probably had bipolar disorder. Symptoms of hallucinations and psychosis that he experienced may have influenced some of his experiments with visual style in his paintings.
- Al Capp, American cartoonist (L'il Abner), suffered a leg amputation at age nine, which was said to have influenced his sardonic humour.
- John Callahan, American cartoonist, began his career after becoming a quadriplegic in an accident at age 21.
- Chuck Close, American painter, paralyzed in 1988, a quadriplegic.
- Yinka Shonibare, MBE, British conceptual artist, diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis. Turner Prize nominee.
- Ryan Gander, British conceptual artist, a wheelchair user with a long term disability.
- Kathleen Morris, Canadian Impressionist painter, had cerebral palsy and became one of the most well known woman modernist painters.
- Ketra Oberlander gradually lost much of her vision, including much of her colour perception (cone of the eye) and black-and-white perception (rod of the eye). She is now legally blind, although she retains a restricted degree of vision. In mid-life, she changed careers, becoming a professional artist. Oberlander is able to use computers to create digital graphics, and also paints in acrylics. She founded an art licensing company that helps mobility-impaired artists distribute their work.
- Riva Lehrer, an American artist with spina bifida, draws and paints largely from life.
- Angela de la Cruz, London-based Spanish artist, paralysed following a stroke at the age of 40 and uses a wheelchair, Turner Prize nominee.
- Judith Scott, an American fiber sculptor with Down Syndrome.