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Feminist Art

38 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Agnès VardaPhotographer · PhotographyAgnès Varda (born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.
Alina SzapocznikowArtist · SculptureAlina Szapocznikow (lang; May 16, 1926 – March 2, 1973) was a Polish artist and Holocaust survivor.
Ana MendietaArtist · SculptureAna Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork.
Andrea BowersArtist · SculptureAndrea Bowers (born 1965), is an American artist working in a variety of media including video, drawing, and installation.
Anne BrigmanPhotographer · PhotographyAnne Wardrope Brigman (née Nott; December 3, 1869 – February 8, 1950) was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America.
Barbara KrugerDesigner · Modern designBarbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation.
Betty TompkinsEngraver · PrintsBetty Tompkins (born 1945) is an American artist and arts educator. Her paintings revolve, almost exclusively, around photorealistic, close-up imagery of both heterosexual and homosexual…
Carolee SchneemannPhotographer · PhotographyCarolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender.
Cindy ShermanPhotographer · PhotographyCynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as…
Deborah TurbevillePhotographer · PhotographyDeborah Lou Turbeville (July 6, 1932 – October 24, 2013) was an American fashion photographer.
Eleanor AntinPhotographer · PhotographyEleanor Antin (née Fineman; February 27, 1935) is an American performance artist, film-maker, installation artist, conceptual artist, feminist artist, and university professor.
Faith RinggoldArtist · SculptureFaith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps…
Gina PaneArtist · PaintingsGina Pane (Biarritz, May 24, 1939 – Paris, March 6, 1990) was a French artist of Italian origins.
Guerrilla GirlsPhotographer · PhotographyGuerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.
Ida ApplebroogArtist · SculptureIda Applebroog (November 11, 1929 – October 21, 2023) was an American multi-media artist who was best-known for her paintings and sculptures that explore the themes of gender, sexual…
Isabelle Collin DufresneAuthor · BooksIsabelle Collin Dufresne (6 September 1935 – 14 June 2014), known professionally as Ultra Violet, was a French-American artist, actress, and writer.
Jo SpencePhotographer · PhotographyJo Spence (15 June 1934, London – 24 June 1992, Camden) was a British photographer, writer, cultural worker, and photo therapist.
Judy ChicagoArtist · SculptureJudy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and…
June WayneArtist · PaintingsJune Claire Wayne (March 7, 1918 – August 23, 2011) was an American painter, printmaker, tapestry innovator, educator, and activist.
Laurie AndersonPerson · Music memorabiliaLaura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.
Linder SterlingDesigner · Modern designLinder Sterling (born 1954, Liverpool), commonly known as Linder, is a British artist known for her photography, radical feminist photomontage and confrontational performance art.
Lynda BenglisArtist · SculptureLynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures.
Marisa MerzArtist · SculptureMarisa Merz (née Maria Luisa Truccato 23 May 1926 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian artist and sculptor.
Natalia LLArtist · PaintingsNatalia Lach-Lachowicz (18 April 1937 – 12 August 2022) was a Polish artist who worked with paint, photography, drawing, performance, and video art.
Niki de Saint PhalleArtist · SculptureNiki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated…
Nil YalterPhotographer · PhotographyNil Yalter (born 1938) is a Turkish contemporary feminist artist. She attended Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.
ORLANArtist · SculptureOrlan (stylized as ORLAN) is a French multi-media artist who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics as well…
Sanja IvekovićPhotographer · PhotographySanja Iveković (born 1949 in Zagreb) is a Croatian photographer, performer, sculptor and installation artist.
Shirley ClarkePerson · Film memorabiliaShirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker.
Sokari Douglas CampArtist · PaintingsSokari Douglas Camp CBE (born 1958 in Nigeria) is a London-based artist who has had exhibitions all over the world and was the recipient of a bursary from the Henry Moore Foundation.
Sylvia SleighEngraver · PrintsSylvia Sleigh (8 May 1916 – 24 October 2010) was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter who lived and worked in New York City.
Trinh T. Minh-haPerson · Film memorabiliaTrịnh but is often simplified to Trinh in English-language text
Valerie JaudonEngraver · PrintsValerie Jaudon (born August 6, 1945) is an American painter commonly associated with various Postminimal practices – the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, site-specific public…
Valie ExportPhotographer · PhotographyWaltraud Lehner (17 May 194014 May 2026), known professionally as Valie Export (stylized in all caps; lang), was an Austrian avant-garde artist.
Yayoi KusamaArtist · Sculpture22 March 1929 – 14 August 2026 was a Japanese artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation.

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