Works of art that involve meat or flesh:
- Hermann Nitsch, 80th Action (1984)
- Paul Thek, Meat Piece with Warhol Brillo Box (1965)
- Paul McCarthy, Hot Dog (film still) (1974)
- Dieter Roth, Literaturwurst (Martin Walser: Halbzeit) (1961)
- Claes Oldenburg, Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers) (1962)
- Andy Warhol, Andy Eating a Burger King Whopper (1981) (video)
- Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy (film still) (1964)
- Betty Hirst, Hommage a Meret Oppenheim (2008)
- Simone Racheli, Water Closet (2006)
- Stephen Shanabrook, Heart of Darkness (1998-2007)
- Sheffy Bleier, Body of Love: Testicles (2002-5)
- Chaïm Soutine, Piece of Beef (Piece de Boeuf) (1923)
- Dimitri Tsykalov, Commando (2009)
- Helen Chadwick, Loop my Loop (1991)
- Suzanne Lacy, The Body Contract (1974)
- Fischli and Weiss, The Sausage Photographs (1979)
- David Lynch, Eat My Fear (2000)
- Jennifer Eolin, Bacon Bra (2008): technically not an art project, but bizarre and creative enough to be viewed as aesthetic project.
- Jonathan Allmaier, Spiral Jetty Burger (2009)
- Pinar Yolacan, Untitled (PYM4.22) (2007)
- Adam Brandejs, Animatronic Flesh Shoe (2004-5)
- Zhang Huan, Meat & Text (1998)
- John Isaacs, Everyone’s Talking About Jesus (2005), Today I Started Loving You Again (2003)
- Bob Flanagan, Auto-Erotic SM (1989)
- Jayne Parker, K (film still) (1989)
- Marina Abramović, Balkan Baroque (1997)
- Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, Victimless Leather Jackets (1996)
- Yishay Garbasz, Eat Me Damien (2010)
- Adriana Varejão, Azulejaria verde em carne viva (Green Tilework in Live Flesh) (2000), "De Tapete" em carne viva ("Carpet-Style" Tilework in Live Flesh) (1999)
- Jill Greenberg, Apocalypse and Carnival (2008-10)
- Andrés Serrano, Cabeza de Vaca (1984)
- Jan Fabre, De benen van de rede ontveld (Legs stripped from reason) (2000): the artist wrapped the columns in front of the Aula University building in Ghent, Belgium with layers of ham. Slowly the ham started to rot and turned green of fungi, imitating the marble structure even more.
- Sandy Skoglund, Luncheon Meat on Counter (1978)
- William Wegman, Cotto (1970)
Painting and illustration:
- Francis Bacon, Figure with Meat (1954)
- Georg Baselitz, Picture for the Fathers (1965)
- Jenny Saville, Torso 2 (2004)
- Alex Kanevsky, Interior With Meat (2011)
- Philip Guston, Untitled (Cherries) (1980)
- Gustave Caillebotte, Calf's Head and Ox Tongue (1882)
- Jindřich Štyrský, Marriage (1934)
- Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Skate, Cat and Kitchen Utensils (circa 1725-6)
- Rembrandt, Slaughtered Ox (1655)
- Martin van Cleve, The slaughtered ox (1566)
- Francisco de Goya, Saturn Devouring his Son (1819-23)
- David Raymond, 21 Chops (2003)
- Sue Williams, Two Parties (2008)
- Joshua Hagler, The Mind Recedes the Blood is Wise the Soundless Mouth is Open (2010)