Some ideas of how to connect a discipline or interests to an artist you can recommend, please add more!
| Politics/Justice | Ian Wallace Cathy Busby Francis Alys Ai Weiwei Cady Noland Martha Rosler Yue Minjun |
| Storytelling/Myths/Narratives | Maurizio Cattelan Doug Aitken William Kentridge |
| Digital/Virtual | Kate Armstrong Lynn Hershman Natasha Merritt Mariko Mori Bill Viola Gary Hill |
| Systems | Angela Bulloch Agnes Martin Sarah Morris |
| Media | Karen Kilimnik Elke Krystufek Julia Scher Pae White Dara Birnbaum Nam June Paik |
| Language/Semantics | Tauba Auerback Lawrence Weiner Christopher Wool |
| Archives | Waalid Raad (Atlas Group) Hanne Darboven Kim Kennedy Austin |
| Memory | Doris Salcedo Christian Boltanski |
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First Nations
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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Charlene Vickers Dana Claxton Rebecca Belmore Brian Jungen Raymond Boisjoly |
| Culture/Ethnicity/Race | Lida Abdul Rashid Johnson Gabriel Orozco Mona Hatoum Yinka Shonibare Shirin Neshat Adrian Piper Glenn Ligon Carrie Mae Weems Wangechi Mutu Kara Walker Howie Tsui Gu Xiong Brenden Tang Yinka Shonibare |
| Gender | Eleanor Antin Katharina Sieverding Carolee Schneeman Kiki Smith Gahda Amer Antony Gormley Tracey Emin Ana Medieta Judy Chicago Rosemarie Trockel Marlene Dumas Valie Export Guerilla Girls Steven Shearer Pipilotti Rist |
| Sexuality Studies | Felix Gonzalez Torres Sarah Lucas Nan Goldin Yasumasa Morimura |
| Labour | Barrie Jones |
| Education | Helen & Hannah Jickling Christine & Irene Hohenbuchler |
| Film | David Claerbout Marie-Jo Lafontaine Tracey Moffatt Cindy Sherman Mark Lewis Sam Taylor-Wood Jane & Louise Wilson Peter Campus Steve McQueen (artist, not actor) |
| Music | Christian Marclay Laurie Anderson |
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Architecture/Space
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Andrea Zittel Isa Genzken Candida Hofer Toba Khedoori Richard Serra Rachel Whiteread Ernesto Neto Carsten Holler Dan Graham Do Ho Suh Michael Asher Monica Bonvicini Daniel Buren Abbas Akhavan |
| Urban Studies | Ed Ruscha Renee Green Magdalena Jetelova Olivier Theyskens |
| Dance | Luis Jacob Brendan Fernandes Evann Siebens |
| Theology | Richard Clements Damien Hirst |
| Business/Administration | N.E. Thing Company Maria Eichhorn Elmgreen & Dragset |
| Consumer Products/Marketing | Jeff Koons Vanessa Beecroft Sylvie Fleury Katharina Fritsch Ellen Gallagher Jenny Holzer Barbara Kruger Takashi Murakami |
| Sports | Paul Pfeiffer |
| Biology/Body | Wim Delvoye Orlan Gina Pane Kiki Smith Marina Abramovic Rebecca Horn Teresa Margolles Robert Gober Ghada Amer |
| Chemistry | Jeremy Shaw (drugs) |
| Food | Janine Antoni Zoe Leonard Rirkrit Tiravanija |
| Natural Environment | Sean Alward Robert Smithson James Turrell Nancy Holt Anish Kapoor Vija Celmins Barbara Ziegler Manuel Pina Ernesto Neto |
| Perception/Sensory | Bridget Riley Yayoi Kusama Olafur Eliasson Robert Irwin Dan Flavin Annie Briard |
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Psychology
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Sophie Calle Louise Bourgeois Tony Oursler Matthew Barney Lygia Clark Sharon Lockhart Rineke Dijkstra Annette Messanger Gillian Wearing Yoko Ono |
| Animals | Eleanor King |
| Ecology | Marina Roy Pierre Huyghe Eva Hesse |
| Literature | Jimmie Durham |
| Art about Art and its institutions | Bruce Nauman (Studio) Asta Groting (Medium) Louise Lawler Sherrie Levine Jeppe Hein John Baldessari Marcel Broodthaers Andrea Fraser |
| Gaming | Cory Arcangel |
| Culture & History | Sam Durant |
| Artists who have works that can go into many categories! | Tom Friedman Eija-Liisa Ahtila Fischli/Weiss |
Here are a few more artists!
Hope these are helpful for you all:
Katie Patterson — installation/sculpture — ecology/climate change
Dan Colen — painting — art about art
Trevor Paglen — multidisciplinary — surveillance/government/tech
Kelley Walker — 2D media — advertising/consumerism
Oscar Murillo — mixed media — globalization/economy
Haroon Mirza — installation — perception/sound/music
Edward Burtynsky — photography — ecology/climate change/landscape
Andreas Gursky — photography — labor/consumerism/globalization/development
Hito Steyerl — video/performance — media/image culture/technology
Thanks Ramey!