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.
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Evelyn De Morgan
Evelyn De Morgan used her oil paintings to engage with the political, social and moral issues of 19th century England including prison reform and suffrage.
Agnes Lawrence Pelton
Her visual vocabulary of fluid form, allegorical iconography, and luminescence were central elements in what would become known as Transcendental Painting.
Alice Rahon
Alice Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose work straddled modern, ancient, and pre-historic cultures.
Amy Sherald
Rising to fame after being hand-picked by former First Lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait, Amy Sherald is today one of the best-known Black American artists.
ORLAN
ORLAN molds her own flesh in the service of her art.
Andrea Fraser
A pioneering Feminist and institutional critique artist, Andrea Fraser strikes at the heart of the art world system. She has explored (and critiqued) topics ranging from the rhetoric of cultural value upheld by museum institutions, the role of the artist as a purveyor of goods and services in the commodified art world, to the cultural sector’s complicity with racism and structural inequality.
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.
Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
Ida Eise
New Zealand artist and teacher