David Hockney

David Hockney is a British artist considered one of the most influential painters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1937, he studied at the Royal College of Art in London. His works include the iconic painting A Bigger Splash, his California swimming pool series, and his Yorkshire landscape paintings. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2012 and has been the subject of major retrospectives at Tate Britain, the Met, and the Centre Pompidou.