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Film Artists

760 works at MoMA 8 nationalities

Leading Artists in Film

  1. 206 Roman Signer Swiss
  2. 45 Dennis Oppenheim American
  3. 26 Bill Arnold American
  4. 24 Andy Warhol American
  5. 21 Dick Higgins American
  6. 15 Gordon Matta-Clark American
  7. 15 Harun Farocki German
  8. 14 Trisha Brown American
  9. 11 Péter Forgács Hungarian
  10. 10 Bruce Nauman American

National Distribution

NationalityWorksShare
American33744.3%
Swiss20827.4%
German324.2%
British253.3%
Austrian222.9%
Hungarian111.4%
Japanese111.4%
French101.3%

Classification Sub-types

Classification Works Share
Video 488 64.2%
Film 107 14.1%
Installation 73 9.6%
Photograph 33 4.3%
Multiple 19 2.5%
Design 11 1.4%
Drawing 10 1.3%
Illustrated Book 6 0.8%

Department Distribution

  • Media and Performance (MOMA) — 532
  • Drawings & Prints (MOMA) — 88
  • Film (MOMA) — 49
  • Fluxus Collection (MOMA) — 39
  • Photography (MOMA) — 35
  • Architecture & Design (MOMA) — 11
  • Painting & Sculpture (MOMA) — 6

Production by Decade

29
0s
2
1900s
4
1910s
1
1930s
7
1950s
174
1960s
189
1970s
224
1980s
32
1990s
76
2000s
19
2010s
3
2020s

Physical Scale Distribution

Scale bracketWorksShare
Small (< 30 cm)3641.4%
Medium (30–100 cm)3742.5%
Large (1–3 m)1416.1%

Artist Birth Cohorts

2
1850–1874
3
1875–1899
10
1900–1924
84
1925–1949
69
1950–1974
16
1975–1999

Gender of Artists Working in Film

  • Male — 131
  • Female — 46
  • Non-binary — 1

On View Now

6 Film works currently installed in Met galleries