List of performance artists

Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation.

This article lists notable performance artists.

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Cabaret Voltaire
Meryn Cadell
Sophie Calle
Lisa Crystal Carver (Lisa Suckdog)
Giuseppe Chiari
Katherine Chronis
Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi
Marko Ciciliani
Keith Cole
Papo Colo
Janani Cooray
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COUM Transmissions (later Throbbing Gristle)

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Rafa Esparza
EXIT (members Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher later formed Crass)
Valie Export

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Industry of the Ordinary

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v t e Performance art
Work	7000 Oaks (1982) Amen or The Pederasty (2015) Bed-in (1969) Breathing in/breathing out (1977) Body Pressure (1974) Buried (2015) Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol (2015) Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West (1992–93) Cut Piece (1964) Eating (2012) Empathy and Prostitution (2013) Food for the Spirit (1971) How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965) I'm too sad to tell you (1970–71) Luminosity (1997) Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) One & Other (2009) Rest Energy (1980) Rhythm 10 (1973) Rhythm 5 (1974) Rhythm 2 (1974) Rhythm 0 (1974) Seedbed (1972) Seven Easy Pieces (2005) Shot Marilyns (1964) The Artist Is Present (2010) The Death of The Artist (2018) The Fathers (2016) The Shadow (2014) The Shame (2018) Three Weeks in May (1977) Untitled (Rape Scene) (1973) Untitled [Senior Thesis], 2008 (2008)
Artists	Marina Abramović Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Laurie Anderson Ron Athey Abel Azcona Franko B Matthew Barney Rebecca Belmore Joseph Beuys David Blaine Mark Bloch Stuart Brisley Günter Brus Nancy Buchanan Chris Burden James Lee Byars Sophie Calle Papo Colo Valie Export Bob Flanagan Terry Fox Coco Fusco Guillermo Gómez-Peña Cai Guo-Qiang Ann Hamilton David Hammons Jo Hanson Newton Harrison Sharon Hayes Lynn Hershman Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Zhang Huan Natalie Jeremijenko Joan Jonas Allan Kaprow Andy Kaufman Ragnar Kjartansson Yves Klein Terence Koh Paul Kos Yayoi Kusama Suzanne Lacy Phoebe Legere James Luna Miki Malör Eric Millikin Marta Minujín Kent Monkman Linda Montano Frank Moore Charlotte Moorman Bruce Nauman Shirin Neshat Pat Oleszko Pauline Oliveros Mihai Olos Yoko Ono Eiko Otaki Nam June Paik Gina Pane Mark Pauline Petr Pavlensky Dorothy Podber Jim Pomeroy Duke Riley Rachel Rosenthal Martha Rosler Carolee Schneemann Tino Sehgal Aliza Shvarts Barbara T. Smith Michael Smith Stelarc Melati Suryodarmo Mierle Laderman Ukeles Ulay Wolf Vostell Robert Whitman Hannah Wilke
Groups	Ant Farm Concept 21 COUM Transmissions Fallen Fruit General Idea LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner Los Angeles Urban Rangers Mavo The Yes Men
Media	Mondo New York (1988 film) Kusama: Infinity (2018 film)
Other	Body art Endurance art Feminist art Fluxus Happening Hunger artist monochrom Participatory art Performance art in China Survival Research Laboratories Viennese Actionism Process art