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— + 1²⁹
— Amazons of Pop, 1961–73¹³
— Women Artists of the 1960s in Africa²²
— 18th-Century Women Artists²⁸
— Southeast Asian Women Artists³⁴
— Women Artists in Japan, 19th–21st c.³⁰
— Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–85¹³
— AWARE & MACBA⁷
— AWARE x Canada⁹
— AWARE x Luxembourg⁴
— AWARE x Musée d’Orsay³⁶
— Common Ground¹⁰
— Women in Abstraction³¹
— Le Louvre & AWARE¹⁵
— Les architectes¹²
— New Media, 1960s-1990s¹⁴
— Netherlands–Caribbean, 19th–21st c.¹²
— Photographers from Japan⁵
— Rewriting Art History in the Americas⁴⁸
— Season Africa2020²³
— TEAM: Teaching, E-learning, Agency, Mentoring¹⁸⁷

The indexed biographies correspond to artists born between 1664 and 1974.

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Margarine and the Erotic Everyday: An anti-genealogy of inappropriate(d) others - AWARE

Margarine and the Erotic Everyday: An anti-genealogy of inappropriate(d) others

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Women Nanga Artists at Meiji-Period Exhibitions - AWARE

Women Nanga Artists at Meiji-Period Exhibitions

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On the Introduction of Gender Perspectives into Japanese Art History and Exhibitions - AWARE

On the Introduction of Gender Perspectives into Japanese Art History and Exhibitions

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The Women Nihonga Artists of Osaka - AWARE

The Women Nihonga Artists of Osaka

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Yuki Onodera Interview: Photography in Pursuit of Physicality and Materiality - AWARE

Yuki Onodera Interview: Photography in Pursuit of Physicality and Materiality

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Minimal and Post-Minimal: Sculpture Beyond the White Cube - AWARE

Minimal and Post-Minimal: Sculpture Beyond the White Cube

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The Japanese women painters who moved across borders in the 1930s and 40s, and during World War II - AWARE

The Japanese women painters who moved across borders in the 1930s and 40s, and during World War II

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The sisters Shigure and Haruko Hasegawa, and Women’s Art magazine - AWARE

The sisters Shigure and Haruko Hasegawa, and Women’s Art magazine

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BuBu de la Madeleine’s Mermaid Revolution - AWARE

BuBu de la Madeleine’s Mermaid Revolution

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From the Edo era to the beginning of the 20th century: the artistic education of women painters - AWARE

From the Edo era to the beginning of the 20th century: the artistic education of women painters

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Women Nihonga Painters and Bijinga - AWARE

Women Nihonga Painters and Bijinga

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What were “Ultra Girls”? Women Artists in 1980s Japan - AWARE

What were “Ultra Girls”? Women Artists in 1980s Japan

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A History of Western-Style Yōga Painting in Japan and Women Yōga Artists from the Meiji Period to the Pre-War Era - AWARE

A History of Western-Style Yōga Painting in Japan and Women Yōga Artists from the Meiji Period to the Pre-War Era

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Ishiuchi Miyako: Photography as a Trace - AWARE

Ishiuchi Miyako: Photography as a Trace

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Takako Saito: playful art - AWARE

Takako Saito: playful art

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