2010s
1. Doreen Garner
2. Trenton Doyle Hancock
3. Mika Rottenberg
4. Tshabalala Self
5. Luboš Plný

2000s
1. Nick Cave
2. Wangechi Mutu
3. Tara Donovan
4. Do-Ho Suh
5. Raqib Shaw

1990s
1. Pipilotti Rist
2. Gabriel Orozco
3. Ellen Gallagher
4. Kerry James Marshall
5. Mona Hatoum

1980s
1. Mike Kelley
2. Ramellzee
3. Rosemarie Trockel
4. Hiroshi Sugimoto
5. Tehching Hsieh

1970s
1. Louise Bourgeois
2. Alina Szapocznikow
3. Romare Bearden
4. Dieter Roth
5. Ana Mendieta

1960s
1. Eva Hesse
2. Martha Rosler
4. Yoko Ono
5. Hanne Darboven
6. Brion Gysin

1950s
1. Henry Darger
2. Piero Manzoni
3. Joseph Cornell
4. Unica Zürn
5. Iri and Toshi Maruki

1940s
1. Hans Bellmer
2. Arshile Gorky
3. Carol Rama
4. Leonora Carrington
5. Remedios Varo

1930s
1. Balthus
2. Frida Kahlo
3. Diego Rivera
4. Toyen
5. Georges Hugnet

1920s
1. Paul Klee
2. Germaine Dulac
3. Otto Dix
4. El Lissitzky
5. Sophie Täuber

1910s
1. Marcel Duchamp
2. Egon Schiele
3. Hannah Höch
4. Francis Picabia
5. František Kupka

1900s
1. Henri Rousseau
2. Charles Dellschau
3. Georges Melies
4. Hilma af Klint
5. Winsor McKay

18th Century
1. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
2. Shōga Shohaku
3. Jean-Baptiste Greuze
4. Bernard Picart
5. Lang Shining (Castiglione)

17th Century
1. Wu Bin
2. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
3. Tung Ch'i-ch'ang
4. Georges de La Tour
5. Frederik Ruysch