Famous egotist Kanye West once said – before being blasted by the media – that he “could’ve been the next Picasso.” He then went on to, successfully, collaborate with Takashi Murakami. Pharrell can be seen at all the world's finest art fairs, scooping up great contemporary works, and was even recently seen caricaturised in sculpture by artist Mr. at Art Basel Hong Kong. Patti Smith is uncharacterisable. Lucy Liu and Jeff Bridges – who also makes music, including his recent Sleeping Tapes, which is at once compelling and hilarious – have both shown in galleries. Alison Mosshart of The Kills paints, and paints well. George Bush paints. Apparently, so does Putin. The lines between celebrity and artist are being blurred.

JAY-Z

Jay-Z gave his take on Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present when he performed his song “Picasso Baby” in 2013 at New York's Pace Gallery for six hours straight to a select audience of VIP art world players and celebs. During the performance, Hov invited the audience to interact with him while he performed, with the footage later cut into the music video for the song. Abramovic herself showed up – which is just one of the impressive names that took part, and that spoke positively of the performance. For the seven-hours-a-day, three-month-long silent Serbian artist, sitting at MoMA was an event that brought many, who sat across from her, to tears. For Jay, the water works held tight, but his less durational ode to the art world still owes the guy some cred – rhyming like a broken record for a quarter of your day can't be an easy task, even for a rap god.

SHIA LABEOUF

Capturing out hearts with his latest project #FOLLOWMYHEART, alongside his collaborators Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner, it seems like the actor/artist has cemented his place in the art world. Gravitating to performance art, he has performed at a Los Angeles gallery, at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, for #METAMARATHON, where he jogged around the perimeter of the museum, encouraging audience members to join him on the 27 mile slog. Labeouf has also made a series of Skype performances and worked on a "metamodernism manifesto.” Always self-sacrificing, and inescapably public, Labeouf’s art and his collaborations tend to deal with human emotion alongside technological or robotic connection. Our favourite? #interview. Relive it in all its glory below.

JAMES FRANCO

A PhD candidate, writer, director, actor, and artist, is there anything James Franco can't do? Well, art critics would say yes, there's a couple of things. Although exhibiting at high stakes art institutions like MoMA, MoCA LA, The Clocktower and Pace New York and London, the polymath's 2014 show New Film Stills, where Franco took over Cindy Sherman's role in her hugely influential and important body of work Untitled Film Stills, was hit with harsh criticism. Franco admitted fault. "I didn't read any press, I know it was really bad. It felt like it was a perfect storm: "Oh, an actor doing art," he told us last year. But the Hollywood playboy bounced back, unveiling his latest show Fat Squirrel – a less serious and more playful take on art that saw Franco swap art gods like Sherman for the animal kingdom.

BJÖRK

Björk's superstar has always fallen nicely between both the art and music worlds. Yes, predominantly the Icelandic supernova plays more in the musical realm but who are we mere mortals to say aural isn't art? Speaking with one half of M/M Paris, who have worked with the singer creating everything from a whole universe for Biophilia to a rebirth with Vulnicura over the past 15 years, Mathias Augustyniak said: “The strength of the art world is that they have the ability to imagine a new world that you think doesn’t exist, but in the end it truly impacts the real world.” With her entire retrospective currently on display at MoMA New York, here's your chance to get down and experience Björk's majestic world first hand.

KIM GORDON

Who knew Kim Gordon was more than a Girl in a Band? Well, yes, we did. But apart from being lead singer and founding member of Sonic Youth, Gordon is also an artist, curator, writer, fashion designer and actor. With a degree in fine art under her belt, she is also represented by mega-gallerist Larry Gagosian (her first job out of high school was working as his assistant when he was simply a poster salesman.) The first exhibition to survey her ongoing art practice was Design Office with Kim Gordon – Since 1980 at White Columns. The show included paintings illustrating the names of experimental and noise groups such as Pussy Galore, tweets from Jenni Konner, Jerry Saltz and Richard Prince, as well as miniskirts painted with makeshift brushes composed of tights. Paradoxically, her art is the least well-known of her activities,” curator Matthew Higgs told W Magazine. “Yet it’s at the root of everything she does.”

MILEY CYRUS

With a rep like Miley’s it isn’t surprising that her debut into the art world was a collection of psychedelic sculptures crafted from “junk and shit” – including a vibrator and a joint – that her fans had hurled at her during performances. The collection, titled Dirty Hippie, first showed at Art Basel Miami Beach last year, 2014, under the helm of Jeffrey Deitch. Despite leaving his position as director of MoCA LA in 2012 under pressure from their board of trustees who called his program “celebrity-driven”, Deitch is known for pushing the envelope and, most importantly, his unique eye – calling Cyrus “the real deal.” The singer also showed her sculptures alongside Jeremy Scott’s S/S15 runway show. The designer was most impressed by the DIY nature of the designs, which included an impressive five foot bong, saying “We’re on the same wavelength — it’s like a psychedelic jungle.”

HARMONY KORINE

Harmony Korine is ingrained in the art community. His films are the stuff of cult fodor, and it’s probably not so surprising that he is a known painter, and another celebrity under representation by the Gagosian Gallery. On the move from film to paint he says, “I mostly just do what I do. I don’t really pay attention and I try not and differentiate between any of it. I just like making things – it’s all the same to me.”

DENNIS HOPPER

Bad-boy actor/director and artist Dennis Hopper’s work (he worked in many mediums, from photography to painting) is currently represented by the Gagosian Gallery. A collector of Julian Schnabel, Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, and Andy Warhol, Hopper’s interest in the art world makes it not so surprising that the artworld would take interest then, in him. Jeffrey Deitch, organised his first show as the director at MoCA, LA with Julian Schnabel as the curator, and Dennis Hopper as the artist – the show was called Double Standard, and fell shortly after the famous actor’s death.

BOB DYLAN

It took 40 years for Bob Dylan to pluck up the courage to exhibit his artwork, and, at first, it wasn't the critical success that four decades of planning might have hoped for. The Asia Series, “a visual reflection” of the artist’s travels in Japan, China, Vietnam and South Korea, was labelled as plagiarism –with many of the paintings copied from pre-existing photographs. However, his 2013 exhibition, Revisionist Art: Thirty Works by Bob Dylan was greeted with the warmer reception he'd hoped for. The collection of silkscreened images, which showed at New York's Gagosian Gallery, reappropriated and played with the text and images of iconic magazines, and their cover stars, reading parodic cover titles such as "Mel Gibson Insists 3D Version of the Ten Commandments Movie Will Be Ready for Sundance."

PATTI SMITH

Patti Smith is one of those ever-interesting New Yorkers that grew up some of the most fertile and stimulating times for the city's art community. Best friend of Robert Mapplethorpe, a punk-rock goddess, and a tried and true artist – Patti Smith has been represented by Robert Miller Gallery since 1978, three years after her debut and hit album Horses, was released. Smith’s writings and her artwork are, like Kim Gordon’s, able to somehow become a whole product in itself. In part due to the fact that they seem to always walk in art circles, and in part because of a more organic and gradual rise to art world appreciation than her fellow celeb/art counterparts. Also, it doesn't hurt that she's a total badass.