Sculpture has a particular kind of presence that many other art forms don’t, occupying space, casting shadows and requesting attention from all angles. Here are six sculptors whose work will help nurture your appreciation for the artistic practice:
Athar Jaber @ather_jaber
Born in Rome to Iraqi artists, Jaber carves in Carrara marble, the same material Michelangelo used, but with very different goals. His figures are distorted, fragmented and deliberately damaged. With the body being used as a metaphor for socio-political dynamics, Jaber’s work tells stories of violence and the fragility of the human form.
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Heather Personett @heather.personett
Personett earned her MFA in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art and studied stone carving through a residency in Carrara, Italy, before building her career as a portrait sculptor in Brooklyn. She now teaches at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts. Her figurative work – frequently heads and carefully positioned figures – possesses real psychological density.
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Zoe Dufour @saypience
Trained at Grand Central Atelier in New York, Dufour has an impressive list of large-scale public commissions behind her, including portrait sculptures for the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian and a bust for UC Berkeley. Dufour has a particular gift for capturing raw human expression in three dimensions: forehead wrinkles, the specific tension around the eyes in a moment of grief or longing. Her goal is to achieve balance between “the physical and philosophical, form and concept” in her artwork.
Johnson Tsang @johnson_tsang_artist
A Hong Kong-based sculptor best known for his porcelain works, Tsang merges realist technique with a surrealist imagination, crafting human faces contorted into extreme expressions or bowls that appear to liquefy at their edges. He was a police officer for over a decade before leaving to work in ceramics full time, and has said that the darkness he encountered on the force left an indelible mark on his creative perspective.
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Andrea Blasich @andreblasichsculpture
For nearly thirty years, Blasich worked as a sculptor in the film industry, creating character maquettes for DreamWorks, Pixar, Disney and Sony, with credits including Brave and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Born and trained in Milan, he credits classical masters like Michelangelo and Bernini as inspirations, and his personal sculptures carry that same attention to form and weight.
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Dawn Conn @dawnconnsculpture
Conn is a figurative sculptor based in Oxfordshire, known for her bronze and bronze resin work, and was selected as the only UK sculptor for Sculpture by the Sea 2025 at Bondi Beach in Australia. She came to sculpture relatively late, discovering it after a period of significant personal difficulty, and went on to complete nearly a decade of academic art education including studies at Central Saint Martins.
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