Micol Hebron (born July 23, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and associate professor at
Chapman University
Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California, United States. Encompassing eleven colleges, the university is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The school maintains its foundi ...
, located in Southern California. Hebron critically examines and employs modes of feminist activism in art.
Early life and education
Hebron studied theater and visual arts at the
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
from 1990 to 1992; and the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
The (English: Academy of Fine Arts of Venice) is a public tertiary academy of art in Venice, Italy.
History
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756. The first director was Giovann ...
, Venice, Italy, from 1993 to 1994. She went on to graduate ''summa cum laude'' from the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
(UCLA) with a Bachelor of Arts in fine art in 1995. In 2000, she graduated from the UCLA with a Masters of Fine Arts in new genres and contemporary art history.
Work
In 2013 Hebron launched ''Gallery Tally'', a collaborative art project in which people around the world were tracking women's representation in art galleries and creating posters for exhibition.
In 2014, the ''(en)Gendered (in)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project'' discovered that in Los Angeles and New York galleries, roughly 70% of gallery representation was of male artists.
In order to protest the
Instagram
Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be ...
social network's nipple policy and social media sexism, in 2014 Hebron created an "Acceptable Male Nipple Template". The template consisted of the visual image of a male nipple that could be photoshopped on to an image of a woman's breast or elsewhere, reminiscent of a
pastie
A pastie is a large to medium-sized battered deep-fried round of minced meat and vegetables common to Northern Ireland. Generally served with chips to form a "pastie supper" ("supper" in Northern Irish chip shops means something with chips), ...
.
As a result of her nipple project, the template went
viral and Hebron has been suspended from Facebook multiple times.
In October 2019,
Instagram
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held a closed meeting to discuss censorship, art, and nudity on their software platform, a few artists joined the meeting including Micol Hebron,
Marilyn Minter,
Joanne Leah,
Siddhant Talwar and
Betty Tompkins (via written statement).
After this meeting, Hebron's Instagram account was immediately shut down because she attempted to post a topless selfie from outside the meeting location.
See also
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Feminist art movement in the United States
The feminist art movement in the United States began in the early 1970s and sought to promote the study, creation, understanding and promotion of women's art.
First-generation feminist artists include Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Suzanne Lac ...
References
External links
Micol Hebron's websiteThe Gallery Tally Posterson tumblr
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KCET
KCET (channel 28) is a secondary PBS member television station in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California alongside the market's primary PBS member, Huntington Beach–licensed KOC ...
(from September 2014)
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Chapman University faculty
Living people
American feminist artists
Artists from Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego alumni
American interdisciplinary artists
1972 births
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni