We The Immigrants
This is a living, collaborative project between artists, printmakers, writers, filmmakers, and poets from across the country, and the Brooklyn Rail.
Miguel A. De La Torre
Cuba, 1958
Raimund Abraham
First Austrian Republic, 1933
Marina Abramovic
FPR Yugoslavia, 1946
Chinua Achebe
British Nigeria, 1930
André Aciman
Kingdom of Egypt, 1951
Louis Adamic
Slovenia, 1898
Etel Adnan
French Lebanon, 1925
Camilo Aguirre
Colombia, 1988
Aijaz Ahmad
Pakistan, 1932
Leila Ahmed
Kingdom of Egypt, 1940
Claude Ake
British Nigeria, 1939
Chantal Akerman
Belgium, 1950
Huda Akil
Syria, 1945
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Nigeria, 1983
Josef Albers
German Empire, 1888
Anni Albers
German Empire, 1899
Yasi Alipour
Iran, 1989
Isabel Allende
Peru, 1942
Luis Alberto Ambroggio
Argentina, 1945
Ghada Amer
Republic of Egypt, 1963
Blanka Amezkua
Mexico, 1971
Anousheh Ansari
Iran, 1966
Ross Anthony
England, 1980
Stephen Antonakos
Agios, Nikolaos, Lakonia, Greece, 1926
Janine Antoni
The Bahamas, 1964
Sinan Antoon
Iraq, 1967
Kwame Anthony Appiah
England, 1954
Shusaku Arakawa
Japan, 1936
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
Santiago, Chile, 1969
Reinaldo Arenas
Republic of Cuba, 1943
Hannah Arendt
German Empire, 1906
Arman
France, 1928
Sarah Arriagada
Germany, 1983
Isaac Asimov
Russian SFSR, 1920
Mulatu Astatke
Italian Ethiopian Empire, 1943
W.H. Auden
England, 1907
John James Audubon
Saint-Domingue, 1785
Nelson Avila
Argentina, 1940
Julia Bacha
Brazil, 1980
Chan-Hyo Bae
South Korea, 1975
Josefina Baez
Dominican Republic, 1960
George Balanchine
Russia, 1904
Luigi Ballerini
Milano, Italy, 1940
Luigi Ballerini
Italy, 1940
Joseph Abiodun Balogun
Nigeria, 1955
Kátia Bandeira de Mello
Rio de Janeiro, 1968
Abhijit Banerjee
India, 1961
Hannelore Baron
Germany, 1926
Béla Bartók
Hungary, 1881
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Latvia, 1948
Jessamine Batario
Philippines, 1982
Max Beckmann
German Empire, 1884
Vanessa Beecroft
Italy, 1969
Jasko Begovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1980
Bahar Behbahani
Iran, 1973
Yasmine Belkaid
Algeria, 1968
Ludwig Bemelmans
Italy, 1898
Zigi Ben-Haim
Iraq, 1945
Keren Benbenisty
Israel, 1977
José Bernal
Republic of Cuba, 1925
Hans Bethe
Germany, 1906
Jagdish Bhagwati
British India, 1934
Manjul Bhargava
Canada, 1974
Albert Bierstadt
Prussia, 1830
Ronald Bladen
Canada, 1918
Richard Blanco
Spain, 1968
Ernst Bloch
Switzerland, 1880
Hyman Bloom
Russian Empire, 1913
Oscar Bluemner
German Empire, 1867
Ilya Bolotowsky
Russia, 1907
Louise Bourgeois
France, 1911
David Bowie
England, 1947
Bertolt Brecht
German Empire, 1898
André Breton
France, 1896
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
England, 1950
Joseph Brodsky
Russia, 1940
Cecily Brown
England, 1969
Tania Bruguera
Cuba, 1968
David Burliuk
Russian Empire, 1882
Fernando Cabrera
Dominican Republic, 1964
Fernando Caldeiro
Argentina, 1958
Catherine (Cassie) Callahan
Ireland, 1876
Paolo Canevari
Italy, 1963
Robert Capa
Austria-Hungary, 1913
Ina Cariño
Philippines, 1988
Stokley Carmichael
Trinidad and Tobaga, 1941
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Italy, 1895
María José Castillo
Colombia, 1988
Vija Celmins
Latvia, 1938
Enrique Chagoya
Mexico, 1953
Paul Chan
Hong Kong, 1973
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Pakistan, 1910
Mina Cheon
South Korea, 1973
Vittoria Chierici
Italy, 1955
Justin Chin
Malaysia, 1969
Kah Kyung Cho
South Korea, 1927
Cecile Chong
Ecuador, 1964
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Bulgaria / French Morocco, 1935
Francesco Clemente
Italy, 1952
José Clemente Orozco
Mexico, 1883
Daisy Cocco De Filippis
Dominican Republic, 1949
Andrei Codrescu
Romania, 1946
Thomas Cole
England, 1801
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Sri Lanka, 1877
Celia Cruz
Cuba, 1925
Xavier Cugat
Spain, 1900
France A. Córdova
France, 1947
Carole d Inverno
Belgium, 1956
Leon Dabo
France, 1864
Vahakn Dadrian
Turkey, 1926
Asadata Dafora
Sierra Leone, 1890
Edwidge Danticat
Haiti, 1969
Eva Davidova
Sofia (Bulgaria) and Madrid (Spain), 1969
Eva Davidova
Bulgaria, 1970
Jaime Davidovich
Argentina, 1936
Jose de Creeft
Spain, 1884
Willem de Kooning
Holland, 1904
Oscar de la Renta
Dominican Republi, 1932
Niki de Saint Phalle
France, 1930
Edit deAk
Hungary, 1948
Tacita Dean
England, 1965
Italo Jose Dejter
Argentina, 1939
Jack Delano
Russia, 1914
Erik Demaine
Canada, 1981
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Jamaica, 1982
Maya Deren
Russian Republic, 1917
Mark di Suvero
Republic of China, 1933
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Senegal, 1955
Sari Dienes
Hungary, 1898
Marlena Dietrich
German Empire, 1901
Mamadou Diouf
Senegal, unknown
Francisco Donoso
Quito, Ecuador, 1988
Juan Downey
Chile, 1940
F.J. Duarte
Chile, 1954
Marcel Duchamp
France, 1887
Alexis Duque
Colombia, 1972
Aleksandar Duravcevic
Montenegro, 1970
Franklin Chang Díaz
Costa Rica, 1950
Chike Frankie Edozien
Nigeria, 1970
Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Norway, 1876
Albert Einstein
German Empire, 1879
Carola Eisenberg
Argentina, 1917
Halim El-Dabh
British Egypt, 1921
John Elderfield
England, 1943
Mohsen Emadi
Iran, 1976
Okwui Enwezor
Nigeria, 1963
Erik Erikson
German Empire, 1902
Jimmy Ernst
Germany, 1920
Max Ernst
Germany, 1891
Jaime Escalante
Bolivia, 1930
Marisol Escobar
France, 1930
Florencia Escudero
Argentina, 1987
Rhina Espaillat
Dominican Republic, 1932
Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta
Cuba, 1962
Tamar Ettun
Jerusalem, 1982
Kota Ezawa
Germany, 1969
Oyvind Fahlstrom
Brazil, 1928
Andreas Feinenger
France, 1906
Enrico Fermi
Italy, 1901
Gonzalo Fonseca
Uruguay, 1922
Simone Forti
Italy, 1935
Filippo Fossati
Turin, Italy, 1965
Robert Frank
Switzerland, 1924
Erich Fromm
German Empire, 1900
James Fuentes
Ecuador, 1977
Naum Gabo
Russian Empire, 1890
Greta Garbo
Sweden, 1905
Iliana Emilia Garcia
Dominican Republic, 1970
Cristina García
Republic of Cuba, 1958
Scherezade García
Domican Republic, 1966
Marcial Cayaban Garlitos, Sr.
Mangatarem, Pangasinan, the Philippines, c. 1904
Frank Gehry
Canada, 1929
Arnold Genthe
Germany, 1869
Haile Gerima
Italian Ethiopian Empire, 1946
Kahlil Gibran
Lebanon, 1883
Liam Gillick
England, 1964
Emma Goldman
Russian Empire, 1869
Jack Goldstein
Canada, 1945
Felix Gonzales-Torres
Republic of Cuba, 1957
Arshile Gorky
Ottoman Empire, 1904
Robert Graham
Mexico, 1938
Cary Grant
England, 1904
Katya Grokhovsky
Ukraine, 1977
Walter Gropius
Germany, 1883
George Grosz
Germany, 1893
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Ecuador, 1919
Kaloust Guedel
British Cyprus, 1956
Roberto Guerra
Peru, 1942
Marcela Guerrero
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1980
Philip Guston
Canada, 1913
Yaa Gyasi
Ghana, 1989
Jessica Hagedorn
Phillipines, 1949
Mary Harris Jones
Ireland, 1837
Jascha Heifetz
Russia, 1901
Carmen Herrera
Republic of Cuba, 1915
Joe Hill
Sweden, 1879
Paul Hindemith
Germany, 1895
Maria Hinojosa
Mexico, 1961
Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola
Mexico City, 1987
David Ho
Taiwan, 1952
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Iran, 1933
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan, 1965
Aldous Huxley
England, 1894
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Kingdom of Egypt, 1938
Jo Anna Isaak
Canada, 1949
Gulalai Ismail
Pakistan, 1986
Iman Issa
Republic of Egypt, 1979
Hiroyuki Ito
Tokyo, Japan, 1968
Alfredo Jaar
Chile, 1956
C.L.R. James
Tridad and Tobago, 1901
Bas Jan Ader
The Netherlands, 1942
Fatima Jibrell
Somalia, 1947
Ha Jin
'People''s Republic of China', 1956
Grace Jones
British Jamaica, 1948
Seu Jorge
Brazil, 1970
Ilya Kabakov
USSR, 1933
Eduardo Kac
Brazil, 1962
Nabil Kanso
Lebanon, 1946
Yousuf Karsh
Ottoman Empire, 1908
Morteza Khaledi
Iran?,
Lisa Kim
South Korea, 1974
Kimsooja
Korea, 1957
Jamaica Kincaid
British Antigua and Barbuda, 1949
Alain Kirili
France, 1946
Otto Klemperer
Poland, 1885
Tamara Kostianovsky
Argentina, 1974
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Switzerland, 1926
Jhumpa Lahiri
England, 1967
Hedy Lamarr
Austria-Hungary, 1914
Fritz Lang
Austria-Hungary, 1890
Sigmund Laufer
Berlin, Germany, 1920
Miriam Laufer
Lodz, Poland and Berlin, Germany, 1918
Diana Seo Hyung Lee
Seoul, South Korea, 1986
Chang-rae Lee
South Korea, 1965
Alice Lee
South Korea, 1996
Naomi Lev
Israel, 1977
Dana Levy
Israel,
Ana Amirpour Lily
England, 1980
Ariane Lopez-Huici
France, 1945
Yo-Yo Ma
France, 1955
George Maciunas
Lithuania, 1931
Sangram Majumdar
Calcutta, India, 1976
Thomas Mann
German Empire, 1875
Heinrich Mann
German Empire, 1871
Arman Manookian
Ottoman Empire, 1904
Jaleh Mansoor
Iran, 1975
Herbert Marcuse
German Empire, 1898
Bob Marley
British Jamaica, 1945
Enrique Martinez Celaya
Cuba, 1964
Nilson Matta
Brazil, 1985
Roberto Matta
Chile, 1911
Imbolo Mbue
Cameroon, 1981
Anthony McCall
England, 1946
Julie Mehretu
Ethiopian Empire, 1970
Adolfas Mekas
Lithuania, 1925
Ana Mendieta
Cuba, 1948
Dinaw Mengestu
Ethiopia, 1978
Sergey Mergelyan
Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, 1928
Yucef Merhi
Venezuela, 1977
Mihran Mesrobian
Ottoman Empire, 1889
Dunya Mikhail
Iraq, 1965
Joni Mitchell
Canada, 1943
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungary, 1895
Francisco Moncion
Dominican Republic, 1918
Piet Mondrian
Holland, 1872
Mohsen Mostafavi
Iran, 1954
Charles Mudede
Rhodesia, 1969
John Muir
Scotland, 1838
Bharati Mukherjee
India, 1940
Takashi Murakami
Japan, 1962
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian Empire, 1899
Azar Nafisi
Iran, 1948
Carole Naggar
Republic of Egypt, unknown
Mira Nair
India, 1957
Thomas Nast
Kingdom of Bavaria, 1840
Peter Nazareth
Uganda, 1940
Shirin Neshat
Iran, 1957
Louise Nevelson
Russian Empire, 1899
Alexander Ney
USSR, 1939
Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi
Nigeria, 1977
Anaïs Nin
France, 1903
Théophile Obenga
Republic of the Congo, 1936
Olu Oguibe
Nigeria, 1964
Claes Oldenburg
Sweden, 1929
Yoko Ono
Japan, 1933
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Puerto Rico, 1952
Brian O’Doherty
Ireland, 1928
Rahul Pandharipande
India, 1969
Haig Patigian
Ottoman Empire, 1876
Alma Peguero
Dominican Republic, 1984
I.M Pei
Republic of China, 1917
Ralph Peña
Manila, Philippines, 1962
Ysabel Pinyol Blasi
Spain, 1980
Joachim Pissarro
Caen, Normandy, 4/6/1959
Pac Pobric
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1987
Lina Puerta
Colombia/USA, 1969
Joseph Pulitzer
Kingdom of Hungary, 1847
Anthony Quinn
Mexico, 1915
Walid Raad
Lebanon, 1967
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian Empire, 1873
Tina Ramirez
Venezuela, 1929
Ayn Rand
Russian Empire, 1905
Sharmistha Ray
India, 1978
James Reston
Scotland, 1909
David Reynolds
Canada, 1948
Jacob Riis
Denmark, 1849
Silvia Rocciolo
Mileto (Calabria), Italy, 1960
María Ruiz de Burton
First Mexican Republic, 1832
Salman Rushdie
British India, 1947
Eero Saarinen
Russian Empire, 1910
Nicola Sacco
Kingdom of Italy, 1891
Edward Said
Mandatory Palestine, 1935
Lucas Samaras
Greece, 1936
Carlos Santana
Mexico, 1947
George Santayana
Spain, 1863
Esmeralda Santiago
Puerto Rico, 1948
Maria Scarpini
Italy, 1961
Maciek Schejbal
Poland, 1958
Rudolf Schindler
Austria, 1887
Melitta Schmideberg
Slovakia, 1904
Arnold Schoenberg
Austria, 1874
Sean Scully
Ireland, 1945
Amartya Sen
British India, 1933
Amy Serrano
Cuba, 1966
Ben Shahn
Russian Empire, 1898
Shamsi Shams
Iran, 1944
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
British India, 1930
Solmaz Sharif
Turkey, 1983
Gary Shteyngart
USSR, 1972
Bapsi Sidhwa
British India, 1936
Arthur Simms
Jamaica, 1961
Sylvia Sleigh
Wales, 1916
Paolo Soleri
Italy, 1919
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian SFSR, 1918
Raphael Soriano
Greece, 1904
Art Spiegelman
Sweden, 1948
Julian Stanczak
Poland, 1928
Edward Steichen
Luxembourg, 1879
Joseph Stella
Italy, 1877
Hedda Sterne
Romania, 1910
Rudolf Stingel
Italy, 1956
Igor Stranvinsky
Russian Empire, 1882
Lee Strasberg
Austrian Poland, 1901
Bjarne Stroustrup
Denmark, 1950
Jule Styne
England, 1905
Celina Su
Brazil, 1977
Baik Tae-ung
South Korea, 1962
Kazumi Tanaka
Osaka, Japan, 1962
Yves Tanguy
France, 1900
Ali Tayar
Turkey, 1959
Masami Teraoka
Japan, 1936
Nikola Tesla
Austrian Empire, 1856
Viet Thanh Nguyen
South Vietnam, 1971
Hanne Tierney
Bauten, Germany, 1940
Rikrit Tiravanija
Argentina, 1961
Alex Tizon
Philippines, 1959
Alex Trebek
Canada, 1940
Marlene Tseng Yu
Taiwan, 1937
Thomas Desaille Tucker
Sierra Leone, 1844
Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte
USSR (Azerbaijan), 1978
Jack Tworkov
Poland, 1900
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
USSR, 1943
Urvashi Vaid
India, 1958
Rudolph Valentino
Kingdom of Italy, 1895
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Kingdom of Italy, 1888
Edgard Varèse
France, 1883
Lydia Venieri
Greece, 1964
Abraham Verghese
Ethiopian Empire, 1955
Cecilia Vicuña
Chile, 1948
Wernher von Braun
German Empire, 1912
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Deensen, Germany, 1942
Ocean Vuong
Vietnam, 1988
Karin Waisman
Argentina, 1960
Nari Ward
Jamaica, 1963
Deborah Wasserman
Brazil/Israel, 1965
Max Weber
Russian Empire, 1881
Monika Weiss
Poland, 1964
Alek Wek
South Sudan, 1977
Ada Werber
Austria, 1900
Ruth Westheimer
Germany, 1928
Elie Wiesel
Kingdom of Romania, 1928
Jacqueline Winsor
Canada, 1941
Viktor Witkowski
Klodzko, Poland, 1979
Sholeh Wolpé
Iran, unknown
Brian Wood
Canada, 1948
William Wyler
German Empire, 1902
Anzia Yezierska
Russian Empire, 1880
Mie Yim
South Korea, 1963
Sun You
Seoul, South Korea,
Neil Young
Canada, 1945
Octavio Zaya
Canary Islands, 1954
Ahmed Zewali
Egypt, 1946
Eva Ziesel
Hungary, 1906