We The Immigrants

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