Monyee Chau
Monyee Chau is a queer second generation immigrant artist
Monyee Chau is a queer second generation immigrant artist
Visual activist who documents Black gay, lesbian, transgender, and intersex people in South Africa.
Chilean-born, Baltimore-based artist
Irish animal and genre painter
Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.
Pipilotti Rist has garnered international acclaim for her immersive multi-channel and spatial video installations.
For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.
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.
Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists. As the first woman to have won the Turner Prize, Whiteread is an important figure for many contemporary female artists especially in having developed a way of working that is not focused on women’s issues or on an explicitly feminist view point.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s outdoor works are regarded as some of the most ambitious and innovative in the world, though they are oftentimes controversial due to their size and questionable impact on the environment.