The Most Famous
ARTISTS from Sierra Leone
This page contains a list of the greatest Sierra Leonean Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 125 Artists, NaN of which were born in Sierra Leone. This makes Sierra Leone the birth place of the 0th most number of Artists.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Sierra Leonean Artists of all time. This list of famous Sierra Leonean Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965)
With an HPI of 45.88, Patricia Piccinini is the most famous Sierra Leonean Artist. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. Her works focus on "unexpected consequences", conveying concerns surrounding bio-ethics and help visualize future dystopias. In 2003, Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale with a hyperrealist sculpture of her distinctive anthropomorphic animals. In 2016 The Art Newspaper named Piccinini with her "grotesque-cum-cute, hyper-real genetics fantasies in silicone" the most popular contemporary artist in the world after a show in Rio de Janeiro attracted over 444,000 visitors. Natasha Bieniek's portrait of Piccinini was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Sierra Leonean artists born between 1965 and 1965. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Sierra Leonean artists include Patricia Piccinini. As of April 2024, 1 new Sierra Leonean artists have been added to Pantheon including Patricia Piccinini.
