Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter Z

Was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first

Was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first years of his life in Granitsa, where his father was a teacher. Apart from a writer, he was also a journalist. Papantoniou's work was basically the first to promote Evrytania. A big part of his work hasn't been published.[citation needed]

Was a sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of Fr

Was a sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century, and participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900. As an art critic, writing primarily between 1859–1872, he was a strong defender of Courbet, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of Manet. He also defended Monet, Whistler, Carolus-Duran, Fantin-Latour, and Alphonse Legros.

Is an American ice dancer. He teamed up with Alissandra Aronow in the spring of 2010. He and his for

Is an American ice dancer. He teamed up with Alissandra Aronow in the spring of 2010. He and his former partner, Piper Gilles, were the 2009 & 2010 U.S. junior bronze medalists. In the 2006-2007 season, he competed with Kaylyn Patitucci. They placed 5th o

An American football defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was

An American football defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Auburn.Johnson went undrafted in 2004, but subsequently signed with the Minnesota Vikings. He worked himself into the starting rotation by the seventh game of his rookie season and remained the starting defensive tackle until a knee injury ended his 2006 season on December 19[

Is an American artist, author, interior designer and spiritist.His first publication as author and i

Is an American artist, author, interior designer and spiritist.His first publication as author and illustrator was the bestselling Kundalini Awakening - A Gentle Guide to Chakra Activation and Spiritual Growth.[1][2] Selig is a magic realist painter.[3] His skills as a spiritist and painter led to the creation of a unique codex titled Relaxatia,[1] an ancient Solar Kundalini paradigm that he rediscovered through Tarascan Nahaulli high priests in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico.[4] It is a codex of the human chakra system and the solar light spectrum, designed to activate Kundalini in color coded paintings.[5]

A member of the band Hanson. In addition to playing the drums, percussion, piano, and guitar, he sin

A member of the band Hanson. In addition to playing the drums, percussion, piano, and guitar, he sings backing vocals and lead vocals. He was lead singer on "Go", the first single from The Walk.In May 1997, the band released their first studio album, Middle of Nowhere. The first single, MMMBop, made it to number one on recording industry sales charts worldwide. Hanson is one of the youngest artists ever (UK & US charts) to have a number one single, second only to Michael Jackson. He is also the youngest Grammy-nominated songwriter.After releasing three albums through the record company Island Def Jam (formerly Mercury Records), the band parted ways with the label in 2003 due to irreconcilable differences and formed their own independent label, 3CG Records.

Is an Israeli fine and decorative artist and daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Acade

Is an Israeli fine and decorative artist and daughter of Boris Schatz, who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, as it is known today, in Jerusalem

Is a South African Muslim singer-songwriter, who has achieved fame as a performer of nasheed songs.

Is a South African Muslim singer-songwriter, who has achieved fame as a performer of nasheed songs. Tied to other prominent Muslim entertainers, including Yusuf Islam and Dawud Wharnsby Ali, Bhikha has collaborated on albums with other artists, and has released several solo albums as well. He has written several religious albums concerning Islam.

Was a Bangladesh painter. Like many of his contemporaries, he was born in undivided India. His paint

Was a Bangladesh painter. Like many of his contemporaries, he was born in undivided India. His paintings on the Bengal famine of 1940s is probably his most characteristic work. In Bangladesh, he is often referred to as Shilpacharya (Great Teacher of the Arts).Zainul Abedin was born in Mymensingh, East Bengal, on December 29, 1914. Much of his childhood was spent near the scenic banks of the Brahmaputra River. The Brahmaputra would later appear in many of his paintings and be a source of inspiration all throughout his career. In 1933, Abedin was admitted to Calcutta Government Art School in Kolkata. He joined the faculty of the school after his education there was completed. A series of watercolours that Zainul did as his tribute to the Brahmaputra River earned him the Governor's Gold Medal in an all-India exhibition in 1938. This award gave Abedin the confidence to create his own visual style.

Is a famous contemporary Romanian painter.He was the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts during 2000 an

Is a famous contemporary Romanian painter.He was the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts during 2000 and 2004 and since 2002 he is the President of the Union of Fine Arts from Romania.

Was an Israeli born impressionist painter.Upon completing his studies he began his artistic activity

Was an Israeli born impressionist painter.Upon completing his studies he began his artistic activity in earnest; he established his place in the art world after exhibiting his work in one-man exhibitions and art fairs around the world. Steynovitz's images are reflections of both his Jewish and Eastern European heritage. His work suggests the style of Marc Chagall combined with the use of color of the present generation of artists.

Is an English artist (photographer, filmmaker) and activist. Her mother is an Iraqi Jew, who resides

Is an English artist (photographer, filmmaker) and activist. Her mother is an Iraqi Jew, who resides in Israel. [2] Her paternal great-grandparents, also Jews, fled Poland during World War II. Briski, whose interest in photography began at age 10, says, "

A South African soprano.Zanne began her operatic training at the Conservatoire of the University of

A South African soprano.Zanne began her operatic training at the Conservatoire of the University of Stellenbosch (with Magdalena Oosthuizen) and graduated in 1998 with a Degree in Music and English Literature. The university also awarded her with various academic achievement and singing bursaries. In 1999 she obtained her Higher Licentiate in Musical Performance Cum Laude.In 2000 Zanne became a member of the Cape Town Opera Studio. In 2001 Zanne received the Best Young Opera Singer Award from the Cape Town Friends of the Opera.

Is a singer from Stockholm, Sweden. She competed in the TV4 talent show called Talang 2008, which is

Is a singer from Stockholm, Sweden. She competed in the TV4 talent show called Talang 2008, which is the Swedish version of Britain's Got Talent. She sang three songs, "The greatest love of all" and "One moment in time" by Whitney Houston, and "My heart w

Was a Pakistani folk music singer and composer. She was also an actress, writer, teacher, political

Was a Pakistani folk music singer and composer. She was also an actress, writer, teacher, political and social worker.Zarina Baloch's mother, Gulroz, died in 1940 when Zarina was six years old. At the age of 15 her family arranged her marriage with a distant cousin. The union yielded two children: Akhter Baloch a.k.a. Zeena (born in 1952), and Asalm Parvez (born in 1957). However, Baloch and her husband disagreed on the subject of her further education and the pair were separated 1958. Baloch joined Radio Hyderabad in 1960 and received her first Music Award in 1961. Her second marriage, to leading Sindhi intellectual Rasool Bux Palijo, took place in Hyderabad on September 22, 1964. In 1967, she became a teacher at the Model School Sindh University. She retired in 1997, and died in 2005 of Brain Cancer in Liaquat National Hospital. [1].

Is a French new media artist.He met Piotr Kowalski and Nicolas Schöffer from 1981 to 1983, and expo

Is a French new media artist.He met Piotr Kowalski and Nicolas Schöffer from 1981 to 1983, and exposed his first bionic structure the same year in the Modern Art Museum of Paris. He participated in the Greenwich Meridian beaconing at La Flèche airport (France) in 1984.

Is a member of Taiwanese boyband 5566, which he joined in 2002. Pre-5566, he was a member of the now

Is a member of Taiwanese boyband 5566, which he joined in 2002. Pre-5566, he was a member of the now-defunct Taiwanese boyband Postman (disbanded 1997).He has acted in various Taiwanese drama serials, in one of which the soundtrack featured him singing a song solo (Xi Jie Shao Nian/Westside Story OST, Sha Gua Qing Ren ????.) He has also hosted various Taiwanese variety shows. Over the many years he's been hosting, he has become a well-known TV programme host in Asia.

Was a Polish pianist especially associated with the interpretation of Chopin's works, who was for mo

Was a Polish pianist especially associated with the interpretation of Chopin's works, who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. His pupils include several famous pianists of the 20th century, and his influence was therefore very pervasive.Drzewiecki commenced study under his father, and then, at Warsaw, under Oberfeldt and Pilecki. After he had matriculated he went (from 1909 to 1914) to Vienna, to the atelier of Theodor Leschetizky, where he studied with Mme Marie Prentner, the master's assistant. He gave many recitals in Polish towns, and also in Vienna, Prague and Berlin.

A prominent Polish painter.He was trained at the Secondary Art School in Zamosc and Institute of Art

A prominent Polish painter.He was trained at the Secondary Art School in Zamosc and Institute of Artistic Education at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, graduating in 1983. Between 1987 and 1992 he was managing ‘Zar’ (‘Fervour’) Gallery at the primary school in Warsaw. Between 1997 and 2004 he had been artistic manager of ‘Otwarte Kolo’ (‘Open Circle’) Gallery.He has had 27 one-man exhibitions in Poland and Belgium (Brussels) and has taken part in about 80 group exhibitions in Poland, Cyprus (Nicosia), France (Meulan, Verneuil sur Seine), Argentina (Buenos Aires) and USA (New York, New Britain, Stamford). His works are in private collections in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and United States. He is a member of Polish artistic group 'Via Varsovia' and American group 'Emotionalists'.

Contemporary Polish artist, sculptor; creates installations, video objects, artistic arrangements an

Contemporary Polish artist, sculptor; creates installations, video objects, artistic arrangements and performances. He also makes figurative, allegorical sculpture verging on abstraction. Much sculptured work is made in brass and bronze.In 2000 he co-founded ‘Na wiezy’ gallery in Gdansk; in 2001-2004 he cooperated with Galeria 78 in Gdynia. Since 2007 he has run the Sculpture Gallery of the Sculpture Artists Association in Gdansk. Founder of the Local Initiatives Association (in 1998) – non-governmental organization involved in promoting different socio-cultural forms of life. First chairman for three terms.

Was a Polish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków

Was a Polish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with paintings in permanent collections of the National Museum in Kraków, Warsaw, Poznan, Gdansk and Wroclaw. Grzywacz took part in over a hundred Polish and international art exhibits, with around 40 one-man shows to his credit.Grzywacz studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and received his Master’s degree in 1963 in Emil Krcha atelier. He worked at the Academy as a teaching assistant in the Department of Painting since 1972 and in 1991 became a professor there. Interned during the martial law of 1981 Grzywacz was an active supporter of the dissident movement in communist Poland.

A Czech singe rwhere he lived for most of his life. His father works in one of the many hotels in a

A Czech singe rwhere he lived for most of his life. His father works in one of the many hotels in a spa and his mother (an indigenous Russian) teaches Russian in a local school. He has an older brother named Svatoslav.

Was a Czech painter and book illustrator. He is known as a painter whose work played a central role

Was a Czech painter and book illustrator. He is known as a painter whose work played a central role in the development of paleontological reconstructions.

A Slovak female singer and was a competitor in the Superstars competition in Slovakia in season 2004

A Slovak female singer and was a competitor in the Superstars competition in Slovakia in season 2004-2005, From the city of Banská Štiavnica, she is still touring and recording, albeit on a lesser scale.

A Polish singer who became popular in the 1970s and 80s. She was awarded a Grand Prix at the 1998 Na

A Polish singer who became popular in the 1970s and 80s. She was awarded a Grand Prix at the 1998 National Festival of Polish Song in Opole for her entire body of work.