Born in Dublin in 1941, Michael Craig-Martin studied at Yale University School of Art and Architecture in the early 1960s. His first one person exhibition was in 1969 at the Rowan Gallery, London and he has since shown in numerous exhibitions both in Britain and internationally, notably a major retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1994), the Project exhibition series at the Museum of Modern Art (1991), and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1989). Most recently he has created wallpaper installations at the Kunstverein Stuttgart (1999) and the Kunstverein Hannover (1998). In 1998 he represented Great Britain at the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil.

Various works by Donald Judd are on view at Dia:Beacon.

Born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia in 1966, Tan completed her studies in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (1988–92) and the Rijksakademie (1996–97). In 2001–02, she received a DAAD scholarship, Berlin. Notable one-person exhibitions include Frith Street Gallery, London (2003), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (2001), Kunstverein Hamburg, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2000). Participation in group exhibitions include Yokohama Triennial and the Venice Biennale (2001), and Documenta in Kassel (2002).

A series of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs is on view at Dia:Beacon.

After completing her studies at New York University in 1986, Andrea Fraser has produced site-specific performances, videos, installations, and publications for museums and exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. A survey of her work was held both at the Dunkers Kunsthus, Helsingborg in Sweden (2004) and the Kunstverein Hamburg (2003).

A group of site-specific works by Fred Sandback is installed at Dia:Beacon.

Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1938, Celmins immigrated to the US when she was ten years old and earned her MFA in painting from UCLA in 1965. She has exhibited widely throughout the world in the last four decades, including traveling retrospectives through the United States in 1992–94 (organized by the ICA, Philadelphia); and through Europe (1996–97; starting at the ICA, London). In 2002, a retrospective of Celmins’ prints was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An exhibition of early paintings by Agnes Martin from 1957–67 is on view at Dia:Beacon.

After receiving his BFA at Purchase, New York in 1980, Kessler started to exhibit internationally, including one-person exhibitions at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia (1997); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (1994); The Spiral Garden in Tokyo (1992); in addition to participating in the 1985 Whitney Biennial and the Biennale de Lyon (2000). He currently serves as the Chair of the Visual Arts Division at Columbia University.

Robert Irwin created the master plan for Dia:Beacon, which features the design for the surrounding landscape.

Born in Seatle in 1959, Stockholder graduated in 1985 from Yale University. She has exhibited internationally, often creating site-specific installations, including Your Skin in This Weather for Dia in 1995. She has had one-person exhibitons at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2003); Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona (1995); and the Kunsthalle Zurich (1992), among many other venues. She lives and works in New Haven.

For Project, Pardo redesigned Dia's bookshop, lobby, and exhibition space in Chelsea in 2000.

Born in 1936 in Cologne, Haacke moved to New York in 1965. His work is based in institutional critique, manifest in his installation for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennial (1993) , as well as his celebrated project for the German Reichstag (2000). He has been included in such major group exhibition as Documenta 5 (1972) and 10 (1997) and Sculpture.projects, Münster (1987 and 1997).

Beuys's work from Dia's collection is on view at Dia:Beacon. His 7000 Eichen project with trees and basalt columns on 22nd Street in Chelsea was inaugurated at Documenta 7 (1982) with support from Dia.

Born in Cleveland in 1944, Ruppersberg started to exhibit internationally in the 1970s, including one-person exhibitons at such venues as Le Magasin, Grenoble (1996); De Appel, Amsterdam (1973); and Pasadena Art Museum (1970). He recently created a large-scale installation for the 2003 Ljubljana Biennial. He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.

After his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988, McElheney became a traveling apprentice of master glassblowers until 1997. He has shown his work widely since 1994, including at the SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2001) and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2002); the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (1999); and the Art Institute of Chicago (1998).

A group of works by Judd is on view at Dia:Beacon.

Born in Canterbury in 1965, Dean has exhibited widely since she graduated from the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, in 1992. Her one-person exhibitons include such venues as Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (2003); Museo Serralves, Porto (2001); Tate Britain, Lodnon (2001); De Pont Foundation, Tilburg (1999); Witte de With, Rotterdam (1997)

The Cy Towmbly Gallery in Houston is a collaboration of Dia, the Menil Collection, and the artist.

Born in New York in 1957, Oursler received a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979. In 1999 the Williams College Museum of Art organized "Introjection," a mid-career survey of his work, which traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Des Moines Art Center. In 1999 Dia produced Fantastic Prayers, a collaborative artwork on CD-ROM, by Oursler, Constance De Jong, and Stephen Vitiello.

Swiss artist Müller studied in Zurich and Düsseldorf and has exhibited, curated, and taught internationally since 1986. His work was included in such major group shows as Documenta X, Kassel (1997) and the Venice Biennale (1993). Müller has created permanent installations at the Grands Ateliers de l’Isle d’Abbeau in France (2002); at the winery Alois Lageder, Alto Adige, Italy (2001); and at the Lüneburg University, Germany (1998).

Heizer’s "North, East, South, West" (1967) is on view at Dia:Beacon.

Having studied at Bard College and California Institute of the Arts, McBride has had one-person exhibitions at such venues as Institute d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne (2002); De Pont Foundation, Tilburg (2001); Vienna Secession (2000); Kunstverein Munich (1999); and Witte de With, Rotterdam (1997).

Dunning's newly commisioned Tom Thumb: Notes Towards A Case History is currently featured on Dia's website. Her one-person exhibitions include such venues as Feigen Contemporary, New York (2001), Malmö Konstmuseet (1999), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room (1977) is an interior sculpture comprising 250 cubic yards of earth. On view since 1980, The New York Earth Room was commissioned and is maintained by Dia.

Robert Smithson created Partially Buried Woodshed on the Kent State campus in 1970. It remained in place until 1984. Smithson is represented in Dia’s collection by Spiral Jetty (1970).

Born in Havana in 1963, Pardo emigrated to the United States in 1969 and graduated from Pasadena's Art Center of Design in 1988. In 2000, Pardo redesigned the bookstore and exhibition space on Dia's first floor. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Warhol (1928-87)transformed himself from a commercial illustrator into one of the most successful and recognized artists of the twentieth century. Dia's most recent presentation of his work was in 1999, when the multipaneled Shadows (1978) was exhibited.

Judith Barry is an artist and a writer who has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Architecture (2000); Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1996); and the Venice Biennale (1990, 1988). Her books include Judith Barry: Projections, Mise en Abyme (2001) and Public Fantasy (1991).

Diana Thater's Knots + Surfaces is currently at view at Dia. Her one-person exhibitions include such venues as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1997), the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (1998), the Vienna Secession (2000), and the Tentsta Konsthalle, Stockholm (2001).
Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah became part of Dia's long-term installations in 1999.

Matthew Ritchie on Alfred Jensen

Matthew Ritchie's work has been exhibited in such venues as the 1997 Whitney Biennial and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (1999). He has also realized web projects with the Walker Art Center (1996) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2001). Parkett number 61 (the most recent issue) includes a project by Ritchie.

Canadian artist Stan Douglas has widely exhibited his work in such venues as the 1995 Carnegie International, the 1995 Whitney Biennial, the 1997 Sculpture Project in Münster, and Documenta X in Kassel, 1997. A major retrospective of Douglas's oeuvre traveled from Vancouver to Toronto, Tilburg (The Netherlands), and Los Angeles in 1999. Douglas was included in Dia's exhibition "Double Vision" in 1999-2000.

Prina is a visual artist and currently teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He received his M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 1980 and has had numerous one-person shows in the United States and Europe since then, including at such venues as Kunstverein Frankfurt (2000), Art Pace, San Antonio (2000), Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva (1998), and DAAD Galerie in Berlin (1996). This year he participated in the group shows "Art/Music: rock, pop, techno" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and in "In Between: Art and Architecture" at MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.