4 Artists that you should follow on Instagram

Artists are embracing Instagram to spread their work and experiment before an instantly responsive audience. Installation images garner the most red hearts, with practitioners who create site-specific, immersive and architectural artworks amassing large followings fast. Here’s a selection of 4 artists to follow on Instagram.

• Daniel Arsham - @danielarsham

Daniel Arsham’s discombobulating installations combine art, design and architecture with a heavy dose of surrealism – all captured in teasing Instagram clips and photos. His feed is also peppered by envy-inducing snapshots of his Brooklyn studio, complete with one of his figures ‘trapped’ inside the walls.

• Doug Aitken - @dougatkinworkshop

Instagram has transformed the way people can experience video art, bringing it directly to the smartphone, and therefore the eye, of a new audience. Multimedia artist Doug Aitken, known for his site-specific pieces and ‘happenings’, has embraced the medium, using it to present clips from his videos and exquisitely shot explorations of his installations, such as the mirrored Mirage House in the Californian desert and the ‘anger room’ at Denmarks ARoS Triennial.

• Shantell Martin - @shantell_martin

British-born, New York-based artist Shantell Martin is known for her gleeful, simplistic line drawings that cover walls, clothes, textiles sunglasses and street shutters with mantras, blobs and quizzical faces. Her feed is a light hearted mash-up of art and inspiration, particularly for those of a monochrome bent.

• Damien Hirst - @damienhirst

As the definitive YBA, it would be a travesty if Damien Hirst wasn’t making the most of the technology at his disposal. But there are no shock tactics here. The artist’s Instagram feed – with an audience of nearly 220k – plays it straight, featuring stunning shots of recent exhibitions including his latest, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.