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List Of Feminist Artists
This is a list of feminist artists. The list includes artists who have played a role in the feminist art movement which largely stemmed from second-wave feminism. A *Pacita Abad (1946–2004) *Lida Abdul (born 1973) *Marina Abramović (born 1946) *Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959) *Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954) *Jerri Allyn (born 1954) *Ghada Amer (born 1963) *Grimanesa Amorós (born 1962) *Alice Anderson (born 1972) *Nancy Angelo (born 1953) *Eleanor Antin (born 1935) *Janine Antoni (born 1964) *Ida Applebroog (born 1929–2023) *Mireille Astore (born 1961) *Dotty Attie (born 1938) *Helene Aylon (1931–2020) *Nancy Azara (born 1939) B *Alison Bechdel (born 1960) *Susan Bee (born 1952) *María Luisa Bemberg (born 1995) *Lynda Benglis (born 1941) *Siona Benjamin (born 1960) *Zarina Bhimji (born 1963) *Anna Biller (born 1965) *Phyllis Birkby (1932–1994) *Dara Birnbaum (born 1946) *Rocío Boliver *Lizzie Borden (director), Lizzie Borden (born 1958) *Andrea Bowers (born 1965) *Sonia Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Art Movement
The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce feminist art, art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and perception of contemporary art. It also seeks to bring more visibility to women within art history and art practice. The movement challenges the traditional hierarchy of arts over crafts, which views hard sculpture and painting as superior to the narrowly perceived 'women's work' of Handicraft, arts and crafts such as weaving, sewing, quilting and ceramics. Women artists have overturned the traditional view by, for example, using unconventional materials in soft sculptures, new techniques such as stuffing, hanging and draping, and for new purposes such as telling stories of their own life experiences. The objectives of the feminist art movement are to Deconstruction, deconstruct the traditional hierarchies, represent women more fairly and to give more mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Aylon
Helene or Hélène may refer to: People * Helene (name), and Hélène, a female given name, including a list of people with the name * Hélène (singer) (Hélène Rollès, born 1966), French actress and singer * Helen of Troy, a figure in Greek mythology Arts and entertainment Music * ''Hélène'' (opera), by Saint-Saëns, 1904 * ''Hélène'' (album), by Roch Voisine, 1989 ** "Hélène" (Roch Voisine song), 1989 * ''Hélène'', a series of albums by Hélène Rollès * ''Hélène'', album by Hélène Ségara 2002 * "Hélène" (Julien Clerc song), 1987 * Hélène-Polka in D minor, by Alexander Borodin, 1861 Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Hélène'' (drama), an 1891 play by Paul Delair * ''Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry'' (novel), by Vicki Baum, 1928 ** ''Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry'' (film), 1930 ** ''Hélène'' (film), a 1936 French drama film based on the novel * ''Helene'' (2020 film), Finnish biographical film about Helene Schjerfbeck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers (born 1965), is an American artist working in a variety of media including video, drawing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including museums and galleries in Germany, Greece, and Tokyo. Her work was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and 2008 California Biennial. She is on the graduate faculty at Otis College of Art and Design, and is Los Angeles–based. Early life and education Andrea was born in Wilmington, Ohio, and grew up in "an apolitical Republican family." Bowers holds an MFA degree from California Institute of the Arts where she got involved with a group of classmates and teachers which caused her to become more socially and politically active. She also holds a BFA degree from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. By the early 1990s, the Feminist Art Program at California Institute of the Arts was diminishing during the same time Bowers was close to receiving her MFA in 1992. Bowers saw this motion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Borden (director)
Lizzie Borden (born Linda Elizabeth Borden in 1950; some sources say 1958) is an American filmmaker, best known for her early independent films '' Born in Flames'' (1983) and '' Working Girls'' (1986). Early life and career The daughter of a Detroit stockbroker, she was originally named Linda Elizabeth Borden. At the age of eleven she decided to take the name of the infamous accused double murderer Lizzie Borden, the inspiration for the children's rhyme, "Lizzie Borden took an axe/And gave her father forty whacks,/When she saw what she had done,/She gave her mother forty-one." Of her announcement to her parents that she was legally changing her name, Borden says, "At the time, my name was the best rebellion I could make."Mills, Nancy. "Cemeos: Lizzie Borden". ''Premiere'', May 1991, 47–48, cited in Lane, Christina. ''Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break''. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. Borden majored in fine arts at Wellesley College in Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocío Boliver
Rocío Boliver is a Mexican performance artist who creates body art about gender, sexuality, pain and pleasure. In 1992, Boliver began her career as a performance artist reading her porno-erotic writings. Boliver has a background in video and Mexican theatre. From 1994 to 2007 she worked in theatre projects, performance and contemporary art, collaborating with the playwright Juan José Gurrola . Boliver has performed at a variety of venues such as museums, raves, universities, galleries, activist meetings and TV programs. An underground cultural icon in Mexico, Boliver is part of a Goth-art scene, and has presented works at alternative forums such as the Sadomasochism National Festival. Boliver's work has presented in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Biography Rocío Boliver was born in Mexico City in 1956. Boliver studied dance and philosophy. In 1992, Boliver began reading her porno-erotic texts, which focus on sexually repressive ideologies towards Mexican wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Birnbaum
Dara Nan Birnbaum (October 29, 1946 – May 2, 2025) was an American video and installation artist based in New York City. Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s, challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the American household. Her oeuvre primarily addresses ideological and aesthetic features of mass media through the intersection of video art, YouTube and television. She used video to reconstruct television imagery using as materials such archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes. The foundation of her work uses techniques which involve the repetition of images and interruption of flow with text and music. She was also well known for having formed part of the feminist art movement that emerged within video art in the mid-1970s. Early life and education Dara Nan Birnbaum was born on October 29, 1946, in Queens, New York. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Birkby
Noel Phyllis Birkby (December 6, 1932 – April 13, 1994) was an American architect, feminist, filmmaker, teacher, and founder of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture. Early life and education Noel Phyllis Birkby was born in Nutley, New Jersey to Harold S. and Alice (Green) Birkby. As a child, she made drawings of cities and towns, and miniature three-dimensional environments in her mother's garden. An early fascination with architecture led her to express interest in the profession at the age of 16, to a career counselor who would tell her the profession was inaccessible to her, despite her aptitude: "Well, Miss Birkby, it appears that if you were a man, you should be studying architecture.''"'' In 1950, Birkby entered Women's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina to study fine art, and she was an active participant in extracurricular activities, such as Canterbury club and art club. She was considered a rabble rouser. In 1953 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Biller
Anna Biller is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed the feature films ''Viva'' (2007) and '' The Love Witch'' (2016). Biller considers herself a feminist filmmaker and consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including exploring the female gaze in cinema. She is vocal on both her website and in interviews about gender inequalities in the film industry. Early life Biller was born in Los Angeles to a Japanese-American mother who is a fashion designer and a Caucasian father who is a visual artist. She grew up watching her mother design clothes, watching her father paint with a bright color palette, and watching classic cinema, all of which has had a big influence on her filmmaking practice. She has a B.A. in art from UCLA and an MFA in art and film from the California Institute of the Arts. During her time at CalArts, she studied both art and film and began making 16 mm films, and was mentored by Morgan Fisher and Paul McCarthy. She started making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zarina Bhimji
Zarina Bhimji (born 1963) is a Ugandan Indian photographer, based in London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007, exhibited at Documenta 11 in 2002, and is represented in the public collections of Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Early life and education Born in Mbarara, Uganda, Bhimji was educated at Leicester Polytechnic (1982–1983), Goldsmiths' College (1983–1986) and Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1987–1989). Life and work Her work appeared in '' Creative Camera'' in April 1990, and in '' Ten.8'' magazine in 1992. In 2001, Bhimji had her first solo exhibition in the U.S., ''Cleaning the Garden'', at Talwar Gallery, New York. She participated in documenta 11 in June to September 2002 with her 16 mm film. From 2003 to 2007, she travelled widely in India, East Africa and Zanzibar, studying legal documents and the stories of those who formed British power in those countries, car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siona Benjamin
Siona Benjamin (born 11 December 1960) is an Indian-American artist originally from Mumbai, India and now residing in the New York City area. Background Siona Benjamin (Kasukar) is originally from Bombay, now living in the New York City area. Her signature work as a multicultural artist reflects her background of being brought up Jewish in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. In her paintings, she combines the imagery of her past with the role she plays in America today, making a mosaic of underlying meaning inspired by both Indian miniature paintings and Sephardic icons. She has her first MFA in painting and a second MFA in Theater set design. She has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe, India, and Asia. Siona has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships: in Fall 2016, Siona embarked on a new project to take place in Israel titled ''Motherland to Fatherland: Indian Transcultural Jews;'' in 2010–11, Siona was awarded an art project titled ''Faces: Weaving Indian Jewish Nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Benglis
Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedabad, India."Lynda Benglis" ''PBS'', Retrieved 15 April 2014. Early life Benglis was born on October 25, 1941, in Lake Charles, Louisiana.Kreimer, Julia"Shape Shifter: Lynda Benglis" ''Art in America Magazine'', Retrieved 15 April 2014. She is Greek-American. As a young child and in her early 20s, Benglis often traveled with her grandmother to Greece. She later described t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Luisa Bemberg
María Luisa Bemberg (April 14, 1922 – May 7, 1995) was an Argentine screenwriter, film director and actress. She was one of the first Argentine female directors with a powerful presence both in the filmmaking and the intellectual world of Latin America, particularly during her most active period, from 1970 to 1990. In her work, she specialized in portraying famous Argentine women and the Argentine upper class. Bemberg also focused on feminism, with regards to the gender debate and cinematic gaze. Her vast legacy extends to the 21st Century, with Bemberg being hailed as arguably Argentina’s foremost female director. Biography Early years The daughter of Otto Eduardo Bemberg and Sofía Bengolea, she was born into one of the most powerful and wealthy families of Argentina. Her great-grandfather, German Argentine immigrant Otto Bemberg founded the largest brewery Quilmes Brewery in 1888. Bemberg grew up in a wealthy family. Bemberg never received a high school diploma or a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
