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- Alessandro Raho (born 1971)
- Yvonne Rainer (born 1934), performance artist
- Rallé (born 1949), artist
- Neo Rauch (born 1960), painter
- Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), painter, collagist, printmaker, neo-dadaist
- Peter Reginato (born 1945), sculptor
- Marc Rembold (born 1963), painter, sculptor, and new media
- Seund Ja Rhee (1918–2009), painter, printmaker, and ceramist
- Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), installation artist and sculptor
- Jesse Richards (born 1975), artist
- Peter Richards (born 1970), artist, curator
- Gerhard Richter (born 1932), painter
- Ken Rinaldo (born 1958), electronic installation/robotics
- Pipilotti Rist (born 1962)
- James Rosenquist (born 1933), painter
- Ernest Ruckle (born 1940), painter
- Thomas Ruff (born 1958), photographer
- Edward Ruscha (born 1937), painter, printmaker and filmmaker
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