Elsie Mackay
Aviator and silent film actress
Aviator and silent film actress
Pipilotti Rist has garnered international acclaim for her immersive multi-channel and spatial video installations.
ORLAN molds her own flesh in the service of her art.
Artist Eleanor Antin’s work questions the role of women and artists in society, the different identities everyone maintains, and the histories and legacies of contrasting artistic traditions.
Irish actress
African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.
American-Anglo stage actress
British author and screenwriter.
China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband
Caizhen Xie is regarded by several existing sources as the first female director of Chinese cinema who worked in China.