Laura Wheeler Waring
With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana belonged to the Bolognese Mannerist school and is thought by many to be the first professional female artist, working on many prestigious private commissions for Bolognese and Roman nobility, and for foreign dignitaries (including the King of Spain).
Louise Moillon
Louise Moillon emerged as one of the most important early 17th century French still life painters.
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
In spite of the fact she spent nearly her entire adult life living and working outside her country of birth, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva is today considered one of Portugal’s most important female artists.
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist has garnered international acclaim for her immersive multi-channel and spatial video installations.
Carrie Mae Weems
Decades before the #BlackLivesMatter movement stamped itself into our collective psyche, Carrie Mae Weems was living its message by example through provocative artwork about racial representation.
Coco Fusco
Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.
Débora Arango
Débora Arango was one of Colombia’s most original and fearless 20th century artists.
Doris Salcedo
For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.
Eleanor Antin
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.