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List Of 21st-century Women Artists
This is a partial list of 21st-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art. Do not add entries for those without a Wikipedia article. The list starts with artists born in 1970 and later. For earlier births see List of 20th-century women artists. 1970–1979 A * Kaoru Akagawa, b. 1973, Japanese, artist * Liliana Angulo Cortés, b. 1974, Colombian, sculptor * Jumana Emil Abboud, b. 1971, Palestinian, multidisciplinary artist * Lida Abdul, b. 1973, Afghan, video artist * Michele Abeles, b. 1977, American, photographer * Dhruvi Acharya, b. 1971, Indian, painter * Lynsey Addario, b. 1973, American, photojournalist * Golnar Adili, b. 1976, American (b. Iran), multidisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Visual Arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts, also involve aspects of the visual arts, as well as arts of other types. Within the visual arts, the applied arts, such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art are also included. Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as applied art, applied or decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, crafts, or applied visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mequitta Ahuja
Mequitta Ahuja (born 1976) is a Contemporary art, contemporary American Feminism, feminist Painting, painter of African Americans, African American and South Asian descent who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Ahuja creates works of self-portraiture that combine themes of myth and legend with personal identity. Early life and education Mequitta Ahuja was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to an Indian father and African-American mother, hailing from New Delhi and Cincinnati respectively. Ahuja grew up in a largely white community in Connecticut, and had little contact with African American communities and culture. Her upbringing in this environment is a common subject in her work. Ahuja received her BA at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1998, and her MFA at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003, where she was mentored by contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall. Career and works In 2007, in Ahuja's debut exhibition in New York city, New York Times art critic Holland C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Amalie Atkins
Amalie Atkins (born 1975) is a Canadian artist making use of film, fabric-based sculpture and performance. She currently resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her most recent artworks have been short silent films set to music. Atkins's films are either shown alone or within an installation. Early life and education Atkins grew up in rural Manitoba, from where she still draws inspiration citing the landscape of her youth as a significant influence. Fiber art was Atkins' area of study when she undertook her undergraduate degree at the Alberta College of Art and Design, where she graduated with distinction in 2001. Career Her work has been exhibited across Canada and the USA. A dreamlike or fairy-tale character is often attributed to Atkins's work. Repeated motifs include loose teeth, the colour red, fields of snow, and bicycles. Women on journeys are equally a recurring theme in her work as are vast landscapes inspired by her experience of the Canadian prairies. Atkins' early sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Keri Ataumbi
Keri Ataumbi (born 1971) is a Kiowa artist, who paints and sculpts, but is most known as a jewelry maker. Her works have been featured in exhibits and permanent collections of various museums including the Heard Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. In 2015, she and her sister, Teri Greeves were honored as Living Treasures by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Early life and education Keri Sue Greeves was born in 1971 on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Lander, Wyoming to Jeri Ah-be-hill and Richard V. Greeves. Her father was an artist and sculptor of Italian-American heritage. Her mother, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma with Comanche heritage, ran the trading post at Fort Washakie for nearly thirty years. She and her older sister, Teri grew up on the Eastern Shoshone, rather than the Northern Arapaho part of Wind River Reservatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Natalie Ascencios
Natalie Ascencios is a painter and illustrator. Background She received her BA and BFA at the New School for Social Research at Eugene Lang College and Parsons The New School for Design. Ascencios has taught drawing and painting at the School of Visual Arts at the graduate and undergraduate schools and has given talks on painting at Parsons The New School for Design, Maryland School of Art and various other institutions throughout the country. Ascencios has lived in New York City for fourteen years and currently keeps a studio in Brooklyn. Artistic works Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Review of Books'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Time'', and many others. Ascencios' paintings can also be seen in the various competitive annuals of the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, ''Communication Arts'' and '' Print'' annuals. Collectors of her work include Sean Penn, Oprah Winfrey, director Jim Sheridan, CBS Studios, and the Jewish Repertory Theatre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Einat Arif-Galanti
Einat Arif-Galanti (; born 1975) is an Israeli visual artist, mainly known for her photographic and video works. Biography Arif-Galanti was born in 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel. Between the years 1995 and 1998 she studied in the Applied Photography Department of the Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem. She went on to win two consecutive America-Israel Cultural Foundation Photography Scholarships, in 1998 and 1999. In 2002 she studied drawing and painting at The Jerusalem Studio School led by Israel Hershberg, an institution that follows a traditional approach to figurative art. In 2004 she co-founded the Agripas 12 cooperative gallery in Jerusalem, together with her husband Yossi Galanti and other artists. Arif-Galanti is a lecturer at Pardes High-Art School in Givat Washington. She exhibited 10 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, among them at: The Israel Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, The City Museum of Collegno, Torino, Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Julieta Aranda
Julieta Aranda (; born in 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a conceptual artist that lives and works in Berlin and New York City. She received a BFA in filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts (2001) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006), both in New York. Her explorations span installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making. Biographical timeline * 1975 Born in Mexico City * 1995–1996 2-year grant from the National Foundation for the Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico * 1996–1998 Merit scholarship awarded by the School of Visual Arts, (SVA), New York * 1995–1999 Silas H. Rhodes merit scholarship awarded by the School of Visual Arts, (SVA), New York * 1996–1999 Merit scholarship for young film-makers awarded by the National Board of Review, New York * 2001 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York * 2002 Production grant from the Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chiho Aoshima
is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from the Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She held a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, United States in 2006. Personal life Aoshima was unhappy while studying economics at Hosei University. In an interview with Saatchi Art Aoshima admitted that, "I was bored to death, even when I was hanging out with my friends. I was eager to create something but didn’t know what to create, every day time passed so slowly and I felt like I was going to die." She taught herself how to use Adobe Illustrator and began to fall in love with the medium. After participating in her first show, Murakami's ''Tokyo Girls Bravo, ''she began to work in Murakami's factory. Aoshima's work often involves surreal scenes and dreamscapes, often including ghosts, demons, nature and shōjo. Her work also features contrasting themes such as nature and civilization, creation and destruction an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nazgol Ansarinia
Nazgol Ansarinia (born 1979; ) is an Iranian interdisciplinary visual artist. She is known for her mixed media sculpture and installation art. She lives in Tehran. Biography Ansarina was born in 1979 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran). She holds a B.A. degree in 2001 from the London College of Communication, and a M.F.A. degree in 2003 from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California. In March 2009, she was awarded the Abraaj Capital Art Prize. Her work is included in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Tate Gallery and the British Museum. See also * List of Iranian women artists A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ... References External links Join the Curator: A Conversation with Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Miya Ando
Miya Ando (born 1973) is an American visual artist recognized for her paintings, sculptures, and installation artworks that address concepts of temporality, interdependence, and impermanence. Ando's artworks have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and public spaces worldwide. Central themes and career In her conceptually-driven paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Ando often uses imagery evoking ephemeral natural phenomena such as clouds, the seasons, tides, rain, or moonlight, to articulate fundamental realities of existence. The artist has noted, "nature is the great equaliser. We all know what rain is. We all know the feeling of experiencing vastness. I like the idea of making something that is a barometer of our physical environment." She is known for using steel, or sheets of burnished and chemically treated aluminum as substrates for her distinctively experiential paintings of hypothetical horizons. Ando says of her use of materials, “I have a deep appreciation for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Doa Aly
Doa Aly is an Egyptian visual artist, choreographer, filmmaker and writer. Early life Aly studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in Cairo, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting in 2001. Approach Doa Aly's work evolved into a research-based practice that generates multiple outcomes across numerous media. Her projects unfold through the deconstruction, reinterpretation and re-appropriation of various sources, drawn from literature, history, and current events. Her interdisciplinary practice spans writing, drawing, installation, digital cinema, and performance. Career Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum, 32Bis in Tunis, Art Jameel, Sharjah Biennial 13 off-site project BAHAR in Istanbul, the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandaleon-Hudson in New York, The Abraaj Group Art Prize in Dubai, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Delfina Foundation also in London, the Museum o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
