Women Pop Artists
Genre, history and artistic movements
28.09.2017 | Julie Sabau
Focus
Evelyne Axell, Le mur du son, 1966, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
Women started to get involved in pop art as of the 1960s. Long considered as an Anglo-American movement, focussed around a limited group of male artists, it’s now a core element of a number of exhibitions (for instance The Ey exhibition, The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern, 2015-2016; Power Up, Female Pop Art, Kunsthalle de Vienne, 2011) bringing to light a parallel effervescence of female artistic initiatives around the world. By taking possession of pop aesthetics, they have pushed back the boundaries of art, particularly through the use of new materials, such as vinyl, for example, in the works of Nicola L (Woman Sofa, 1968), and Kiki Kogelnik (Hangings, 1970) or the plastic objects used by Martine Canneel (Good Luck, 1979) and Niki de Saint Phalle (Lucrezia, 1964). It’s a heterogeneous movement that’s taking shape, driven by common underlying concerns. From Renate Bertlmann (Exhibitionism, 1973) to Évelyne Axell (Ice cream, 1964), Eulàlia Grau (Panic (Ethnography), 1973) and Martha Rosler (Cleaning the Drapes, 1967-72), many have demonstrated their political or feminist commitments through their works. Women artists have thus enriched the Pop art movement with a subjective and subversive language.
1935 — 1972 | Belgium
Evelyne Axell
1943 | United States
Martha Rosler
1930 — France | 2002 — United States
Niki de Saint Phalle
1918 — 1986 | United States
Corita Kent
1935 — 1997 | Austria
Kiki Kogelnik
1942 | United States
Jann Haworth
1930 — France | 2016 — United States
Marisol Escobar (dite Marisol)
1932 — Morocco | 2018 — United States
Nicola L.
1947 — 2013 | Estonia
Anu Põder
1935 — 2021 | Peru
Teresa Burga
1938 | Colombia
Beatriz González
1943 | Argentina
Marta Minujín
1931 — 1999 | Poland
Maria Pinińska-Bereś
1938 — 1966 | United Kingdom
Pauline Boty
1944 | Spain
Ángela García Codoñer
1940 — 2018 | Germany
Christa Dichgans
1936 | Belgium
Martine Canneel
1926 | United States
Rosalyn Drexler
1905 — 1986 | United States
May Wilson
1944 | United States
Kay Kurt
1932 | Italy
Giosetta Fioroni
1946 | Spain
Isabel Oliver Cuevas
1933 — United States | 2022 — Germany
Dorothy Iannone
1931 — 2014 | United States
Marjorie Strider
1942 | Germany
Ulrike Ottinger
1936 — France | 2017 — United States
France Cristini
1939 — 2024 | Netherlands
Jacqueline de Jong
1929 — 2018 | United States
Marcia Hafif
1959 | Australia
Linda Marrinon
1945 | United States
Barbara Kruger
1925 — 2019 | Japan
Tsuruko Yamazaki
1929 — Poland | 1999 — France
Lea Lublin
1933 | Italy
Lucia Marcucci
1947 — 2013 | United States
Sarah Charlesworth
1940 — 2007 | United States
Elizabeth Murray
1956 | United States
Nomi Tannhauser
1967 | Uzbekistan
Dilyara Kaipova
1945 | Norway
Elisabeth Astrup Haarr
1942 | Spain
Mari Chordà
1960 — 2006 | Spain
Patricia Gadea
1970 | Israel
Khen Shish
1965 | Spain
