Not exact matches
And to extend that conversation to the art world
at large, how many
women lead
major museums?
Having held the first
major museum survey of the artist earlier this year as part of its «Recognition of Art by
Women» series, it was
at the head of a queue of more than a dozen public institutions waiting to buy Ms Crosby's painstakingly crafted works.
How many
women vs. men have had solo shows
at major museums like MoMA or LACMA?
EXHIBITION Alma Thomas @ Tang
Museum at Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, N.Y. (Feb. 6 - June 5, 2016): This groundbreaking exhibition assembles
major paintings from public and private collections including many rarely shown works by Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978), the first African American
woman to have a solo exhibition
at the Whitney
Museum (1972).
With the showcase
at the Whitney, she became one of the first
women (along with Loren MacIver and Georgia O'Keeffe) to be given a retrospective
at a
major New York
museum.
Major solo exhibitions include: Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, touring (1982 — 1984); Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, touring (1989 — 1991); American Pavilion, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1993); Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte / Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1999 — 2000); Louise Bourgeois: I Do, I Undo, I Redo, inaugural installation in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK (2000); Louise Bourgeois, Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao, Spain (2001 — 2002); Louise Bourgeois
at the Hermitage, The State Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, touring (2001 — 2003); Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings, The Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, USA (2003); Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Tate Modern, London, UK, touring (2007 — 2009); Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, touring (2011); Louise Bourgeois, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (2011 — 2013); Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious, Qatar
Museums Authority, QMA Gallery, Katara, Doha, Qatar (2012); Sammlungshangung Bourgeois, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (2013 — 2014); Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois, A
Woman without Secrets, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (2013 — 2014); Louise Bourgeois: Petite Maman, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (2013 — 2014); and Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, touring (2015).
In 1993 she became the only German
woman thus far to have a
major show in the Guggenheim
Museum; one year later she had a show in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the city where she taught for 20 years
at the Academy of Arts.
On the eve of the opening of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art's «Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules» retrospective, supporters gathered at the museum to pay homage to the art, to the artist and to the woman instrumental in bringing some of the major works to the museum, which owns about 90 Rauschen
Museum of Modern Art's «Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules» retrospective, supporters gathered
at the
museum to pay homage to the art, to the artist and to the woman instrumental in bringing some of the major works to the museum, which owns about 90 Rauschen
museum to pay homage to the art, to the artist and to the
woman instrumental in bringing some of the
major works to the
museum, which owns about 90 Rauschen
museum, which owns about 90 Rauschenbergs.
Once dismissed as «
women's work,» quilts made by
women from Gee's Bend, now hang in
major museums and «feel right
at home next to great works of modern art.»
Awaking to the wafting scent of stale cigarette smoke, trembling personal finances, and displaced electrolytes the morning I visited Rochelle Feinstein's
major museum retrospective, «In Anticipation of
Women's History Month,» I felt it
at least bore a resemblance.
Women's contributions in abstract art tend to be overlooked — only in 2016 did the first major exhibition on women in abstract expressionism open at the Denver Art Mu
Women's contributions in abstract art tend to be overlooked — only in 2016 did the first
major exhibition on
women in abstract expressionism open at the Denver Art Mu
women in abstract expressionism open
at the Denver Art
Museum.
It features more than 100
major works by O'Keeffe, including Jimson Weed, below, from the Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art in Arkansas, which purchased it in 2014 for $ 44.4 million, the most ever paid
at auction for the work of a
woman artist.
Its timeline of directors includes not a single
woman, raising questions about why, exactly,
women have had a harder time getting to the top of the proverbial ladder
at major museums than men.
This edited version of a mini-retrospective that was previously on view
at Guild Hall in East Hampton as well as a trio of college art
museums is a vibrant reminder of the
major role played by Mercedes Matter, who — along with her friends Elaine de Kooning and Lee Krasner — was one of the pioneer
women in the Artists» Club and the WPA movement.
Among the
major group shows in which she has participated are Division of Labor:
Women's Work in Contemporary Art
at The Bronx
Museum of the Arts; Bad Girls
at the New
Museum in New York; World Glass Now «94
at Hokaido
Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan; American Dreams, American Extremes
at The Kruithuis
Museum in Hertogen Bosch, The Netherlands; and Surface and Structure: Beads in Contemporary American Art
at Renwick Gallery of the National
Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C..
Art and the Feminist Revolution» and «Global Feminisms») with
major projects such as Hauser Wirth & Schimmel's «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by
Women, 1947 — 2016» (curated by Paul Schimmel and Jenni Sorkin), on view
at the Los Angeles gallery through September 4, and «Radical
Women: Latin American Art, 1960 — 1985» (curated by Cecilia Fajardo - Hill and Andrea Giunta), opening in 2017
at UCLA's Hammer
Museum as part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA initiative.
Women Art Revolution * in 2011 has been screened
at major museums internationally, also The Digital Art
Museum in Berlin and Siggraph recognized her work with the develop digital art award (d.daa), for Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Given that it is
major exhibitions,
museum collections and art publications that will define the historical record, it is clear that
at the top level of the art world it is pretty much business as usual when it comes to
women.
Major group exhibitions include Viva Arte Viva
at the 2017 Venice Biennale; Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
at Tate, London, and Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art; We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical
Women, 1965 — 85
at the Brooklyn
Museum; Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
at the Contemporary Art
Museum, Houston, and the Studio
Museum in Harlem; Now Dig This!
Although it builds upon key resources, such as Ann Eden Gibson's Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics and Marter's 1997
Women and Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, Women of Abstract Expressionism is the first exhibition at a major museum with the singular purpose of exploring the contributions women artists made to Abstract Expressionism in Ame
Women and Abstract Expressionism exhibition
at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery
at Baruch College,
Women of Abstract Expressionism is the first exhibition at a major museum with the singular purpose of exploring the contributions women artists made to Abstract Expressionism in Ame
Women of Abstract Expressionism is the first exhibition
at a
major museum with the singular purpose of exploring the contributions
women artists made to Abstract Expressionism in Ame
women artists made to Abstract Expressionism in America.
During her 7 - year tenure
at the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Yount has brought a greater profile to the American art collection, strengthening it with
major purchases and gifts that encompass a wide range of media and artists, especially
women and artists of color.
Many one -
woman exhibitions include the
Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney
Museum and a
major retrospective
at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art which traveled to St. Louis and toured the UK.
One of the
Museum's first
major purchases, Pablo Picasso's Femme Couchée Lisant (Reclining
Woman Reading), 1960, remains as vital to the collection now as it was
at the time it was acquired.
Untitled (1984), a remarkable early example of Jaramillo's work with paper - making, will be showcased in the Brooklyn
Museum's
major exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical
Women 1965 — 85
at Brooklyn
Museum, New York.
She has contributed to multiple
major catalogues, including Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures (Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, 2009), The Geometry of Hope: Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (Blanton
Museum of Art
at University of Texas and Grey Gallery, NYU, 2007), Reality Bites: Making Avant - Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany (Mildred Lane Kemper
Museum, Washington University, 2007), and Inside Out Loud: Visualizing
Women's Health in Contemporary Art (Mildred Lane Kemper
Museum, Washington University, 2005).
Women are gaining recognition from what Suzanne Gyorgy, head of art advisory and finance
at New York - based Citigroup Inc.'s Citi Private Bank, called «thoughtful, groundbreaking exhibitions»
at major museums.
During Art Basel she was selected to curate a
major work
at the prestigious Vizcaya
Museum and Gardens, a National Historic Landmark in Miami, and chose to bring to life the its imagery by having live mermaids swim around the barge, as
women dressed as their statuary sang to them.
When I spoke to Chicago last year, she pointed out: «The monographs on artists, permanent collections and
major exhibitions are really the path into history, and that's what is important to look
at, and not be deceived by the many
women showing
at entry level in smaller and regional
museums and galleries.»
Woodman was given a
major retrospective
at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York in 2006, the first time a living
woman and a working ceramicist had been so honoured.
In their first year, the Girls created tallied lists of critics who didn't write enough about
women artists (including,
at the time, Roberta Smith), and the amount of solo exhibitions of
women at four
major New York
museums (one
at the
Museum of Modern Art, and none
at the Guggenheim, Metropolitan or Whitney).
[4] In 1990, Simpson had one
woman exhibitions
at several
major museums, including the Denver Art
Museum, Denver, Colorado, the Portland Art
Museum, Portland, Oregon, and the
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art will soon announce major purchases that fill gaps in its collection and fulfill its mission to include more women in the canon of American art: Jasper Johns's renowned «Flag» painting from 1983, which the museum bought at Sotheby's in November for $ 36 million (outlasting three other ardent bidders), and four works by Louise Bourgeois, including her monumental bronze, steel and marble spider sculpture «Maman.&
Museum of American Art will soon announce
major purchases that fill gaps in its collection and fulfill its mission to include more
women in the canon of American art: Jasper Johns's renowned «Flag» painting from 1983, which the
museum bought at Sotheby's in November for $ 36 million (outlasting three other ardent bidders), and four works by Louise Bourgeois, including her monumental bronze, steel and marble spider sculpture «Maman.&
museum bought
at Sotheby's in November for $ 36 million (outlasting three other ardent bidders), and four works by Louise Bourgeois, including her monumental bronze, steel and marble spider sculpture «Maman.»
«If you look
at local institutions for grad school, they're comprised mostly of
women getting master's and Ph.D. s in art history, but as of 2014,
women are running only 25 percent of
major U.S.
museums, according to U.S. News and World Report.
In 1999, Stevens had a
major retrospective exhibition
at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, entitled Images of Women Near and Far 1983 - 1997, the museum's first exhibition of its kind for a living female a
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, entitled Images of
Women Near and Far 1983 - 1997, the
museum's first exhibition of its kind for a living female a
museum's first exhibition of its kind for a living female artist.
In 1972, Thomas - now deceased - became the first black
woman to have her artwork displayed
at a
major museum with an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
museum with an exhibit
at the Whitney
Museum of American Art in New York
Museum of American Art in New York City.
A
major retrospective was held
at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid which was later exhibited
at the National
Museum of
Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. the following year.
Huiles sur toile et Pastels Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (catalogue) Joan Mitchell: Pastels Les Cordeliers Châteauroux Joan Mitchell: Selected Paintings and Pastels 1950 — 1990 Manfred Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, D.C. 1994 Pastels Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris Joan Mitchell»... my black paintings...» 1964 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (catalogue) Joan Mitchell: Oeuvres de 1951 à 1982Musée des Beaux - Arts de NantesJoan Mitchell: les dernières années, 1983 - 1992 Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (catalogue) Works on Paper Montgomery — Glasoe Gallery, Minneapolis Joan Mitchell in Vétheuil Newport Harbor Art
Museum, Newport Beach 1993 83rd Annual Exhibition: Joan Mitchell Maier
Museum of Art, Randolph — Macon
Woman's College, Lynchburg (catalogue) Galerie Ulrike Barthel, Bremen Joan Mitchell: 26 Farbige Radierungen, 1972 — 1989 Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich Joan Mitchell 1992 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (catalogue) Joan Mitchell Prints and Illustrated Books: A Retrospective Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York Joan Mitchell: Etchings and Lithographs Pace Prints, New York 1992 New Prints Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Venice Le Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) de Haute - Normandie & l'Association des Amis du Château d'Etalan, Château d'Etalan, Saint - Maurice - d'Etelan Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris Trees & Other Paintings, 1960 to 1990 Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe Joan Mitchell: Pastels Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York Joan Mitchell: Recent Lithographs Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers and Trees Series Tyler Graphics, Mt. Kisco 1991 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (catalogue) 1990 Joan Mitchell: Paintings and Drawings Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York Joan Mitchell: Champs Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris 1989 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (catalogue) 1988 Joan Mitchell: Selected Paintings Spanning Thirty Years Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue) The Paintings of Joan Mitchell: Thirty - Six Years of Natural Expressionism organized by Judith Bernstock and the Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca; traveled to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; La Jolla
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla (catalogue) 1987 Joan Mitchell: Peintures, 1986 et 1987 - River, Lille, Chord Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (catalogue) 1986 An Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper Keny & Johnson Gallery, Columbus Joan Mitchell: New Paintings Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York (catalogue) 1985 Joan Mitchell: The Sixties Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York (catalogue) 1984 La Grande Vallée et autres peintures Galerie Jean Fournier
at the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain, Grand Palais, Paris Joan Mitchell — La Grande Vallée Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (catalogue) 1983 Joan Mitchell: New Paintings Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York 1982 Choix des peintures, 1970 — 1982 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue) 1981 Paintings and Works on Paper Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston Joan Mitchell: New Paintings Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor 1980 Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris Joan Mitchell:
Major Paintings Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle Joan Mitchell: The Fifties, Important Paintings Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York 1979 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1978 Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris Webb and Parsons Gallery, Bedford Village New Paintings and Pastels Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles 1977 Joan Mitchell: New Paintings, 1977 Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York 1976 Joan Mitchell: New Paintings, 1976 Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (catalogue) Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris 1974 Joan Mitchell: Recent Paintings The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) 1973 Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara 1972 My Five Years in the Country: An Exhibition of Forty - Nine Paintings by Joan Mitchell Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York (catalogue) My Five Years in the Country: An Exhibition of Forty - Nine Paintings by Joan Mitchell Martha Jackson Gallery, New York 1971 Galerie Jean Fournier et Cie, Paris 1969 Galerie Jean Fournier et Cie, Paris 1968 Joan Mitchell: Recent Paintings Martha Jackson Gallery, New York 1967 Galerie Jean Fournier et Cie, Paris 1965 Stable Gallery, New York 1962 Joan Mitchell: Ausstellung von Ölbildern Galerie Klipstein und Kornfeld, Bern Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris Galerie Lawrence, Paris Paintings by Joan Mitchell The New Gallery, Hayden Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (catalogue) 1961 Joan Mitchell: Paintings 1951 — 1961 Mr. and Mrs. John Russell Mitchell Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles Recent Paintings by Joan Mitchell Stable Gallery, New York Holland - Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago 1960 Galleria dell «Ariete, Milan Gallery Neufville, Paris 1958 Stable Gallery, New York 1957 Stable Gallery, New York 1955 Stable Gallery, New York 1954 Stable Gallery, New York 1953 Stable Gallery, New York 1952 New Gallery, New York (catalogue) 1950 Paintings by Joan Mitchell St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, St. Paul Paintings by Joan Mitchell Bank Lane Gallery, Lake Forest Solo Exhibition Home of Mrs. George Roberts, Lake Forest, Illinois 1943 Solo exhibition Francis Parker School, Chicago
Like all black
women making art
at the time, Ringgold's work was excluded from the city's
major galleries and
museums and she responded by organizing protests against the Whitney
Museum of American Art and the
Museum of Modern Art.
Several
major museum retrospectives of woman artists have recently been on view or are in the works in New York alone, including Elizabeth Murray at MoMA (last year); Kiki Smith (through February 11) and Lorna Simpson (March 1 through May 6) at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and Eva Hesse (last summer) and Louise Nevelson (May 5 through September 16) at the Jewish M
museum retrospectives of
woman artists have recently been on view or are in the works in New York alone, including Elizabeth Murray
at MoMA (last year); Kiki Smith (through February 11) and Lorna Simpson (March 1 through May 6)
at the Whitney
Museum of American Art; and Eva Hesse (last summer) and Louise Nevelson (May 5 through September 16) at the Jewish M
Museum of American Art; and Eva Hesse (last summer) and Louise Nevelson (May 5 through September 16)
at the Jewish
MuseumMuseum.