The Wallpaper* USA 400 celebrates Creative America in all its dazzling breadth and diversity. Our snapshot of the people who are shaping the country’s creative landscape in 2025 spans community builders, tastemakers, business leaders and more. It’s all a testament to the abundance of stellar talent that’s defining the discourse here in the United States – and the world more broadly.
Here are the names to know in America now.
When these groundbreaking talents have a show, seek it out.
ADAM PUTNAM
Multimedia artist whose work puts the human body in dialogue with the spaces we inhabit