10 Under-Recognized Artists Who Got Their Due in 2025

We are coming to understand that art history rarely moves in a straight line. Whereas the canon was once seen in the West as a series of successive movements, now it is recognized as a cascade of different artists working in far-flung locales, often in divergent ways.“We see now that the whole picture is so much broader and more complex and complicated,” Anke Kempkes, curator of a massive survey called “Queer Modernism” at the K20 museum in Düsseldorf, told Artsy ear