With artwork spanning 60 years, Icons & Vandals features art-world agitators from across the globe. Modern & Contemporary Masters—such as Alex Katz and Jim Dine—challenged the status quo through aesthetic and technical innovation. While Pop Art icons—like James Rosenquist and Robert Indiana—mined everyday culture and transformed it into fine art. Contemporary Neo-Pop legends—such as Takashi Murakami and Mari Kim—re-explore the conceptual underpinnings of Pop through the lens of global contemporary culture while pushing the visual language of the movement even further. Contemporary Chinese Artists—like Li Tianbing and Zhang Xiaogang—critique their country’s collectivist society on a global scale. Street art pioneers—from Cey Adams and Richard Hambleton to Blek le Rat and Banksy—disrupt physical urban space while challenging the boundaries of what can be considered art.

By contemplating ground-breaking movements from the past six decades, Icons & Vandals allows viewers to rediscover and redefine the art world’s most iconic and contentious household names. These artists have left their mark on the development and progression of contemporary art by subverting the norms of their own time. Through this show, it becomes clear that these two labels are not mutually exclusive but in fact ingrained in their interconnectedness.