In the generation of more recent artists Lucy McKenzie's (b. 1977) painting is often sexually explicit, while Sandy Smith (b. 1983) has produced installation art that combines video and landscape art.
Qureshi's output is by no means limited to Mughal-style painting: he has produced installations, videos, even pop promos.
Refusing any signature subject or style, he produces installations with prints of all sizes taped or pinned to the wall like a magazine layout.
Fellow artists who transmute ancient images and ideas into experimental artworks include the Tibetan Gonkar Gyatso, who produces installations and prints of multicolored Buddhas surrounded by tiny airplanes and clouds.
Since her student days, when she majored in painting but lobbied to produce installations for her final year exams, Ms. Bhuta has been toying with the significance of space through the use of everyday materials.
The forty-year-old London-based artist Haroon Mirza has made a name for himself as a brainy manipulator of sound and light, which he marshals to produce installations and elegantly jury-rigged sculptures.
They were invited to produce installations, including one at Documenta 5, and moved from gig to gig like a rock group, sharing expenses, sleeping bags, drugs and ideas, often camping out in museums as they assembled multimedia environments of fabulous beauty from their individual work and everyday things: newspapers, vegetables, bathroom tissues.
Now consisting of four members, with a changing cast of collaborators from the worlds of fashion, music and art, DIS started as an online magazine (with issues published under the themes of "labor" and "tweenage"), went on to produce installations and video works, shapeshifted into a stock image library, and morphed into fashion design and retail.
The artist, known for producing monochromatic installation pieces that play with color, tone and the material nature of paint, is getting her first solo museum show in her native California in 40 years.
They lurked at the profession's cerebral fringe, producing art installations and designing sets for dance performances.
