COLLECTION
INSIGHTS
A snapshot of Underdog Collection in numbers, based on the artworks documented on this website. Explore the artists, geographies and artistic practices behind the collection.
01
Collection
at a glance
165
Catalogued artworks
108
Artists & collectives
33
Countries & territories
02
A global
perspective
The 107 artists with documented birthplaces were born in 33 countries and territories, bringing a wide range of backgrounds into the collection.
Green areas: represented birthplaces. Small territories are marked with dots.
Top 10 birthplaces by artists
1
United States
25
2
Italy
18
3
Brazil
14
4
South Africa
6
5
United Kingdom
5
6
China
3
7
Germany
3
8
Singapore
3
9
Austria
2
10
France
2
View all 33 countries and territories
United States
25
Italy
18
Brazil
14
South Africa
6
United Kingdom
5
China
3
Germany
3
Singapore
3
Austria
2
France
2
Mozambique
2
South Korea
2
Switzerland
2
Algeria
1
Bahrain
1
Belgium
1
Cameroon
1
Denmark
1
Ethiopia
1
Faroe Islands
1
Hong Kong
1
India
1
Iran
1
Japan
1
Kenya
1
Latvia
1
Mexico
1
Philippines
1
Poland
1
Portugal
1
Puerto Rico
1
Russia
1
Ukraine
1
03
Artistic
practices
165 distinct works, checked across the artist pages and category galleries.
Painting & mixed media105 works
63.6%
Sculpture & installations17 works
10.3%
Works on paper17 works
10.3%
Photography11 works
6.7%
Prints & multiples13 works
7.9%
Video & digital art2 works
1.2%
04
Artists across
generations
The catalogued artists span a century of birth years, with a particular concentration in the 1980s and 1990s.
Birth decades of 107 individual artists, from the published biographies. Guerrilla Girls is a collective and is excluded from this chart.