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Fields
Architecture
1
Visual arts
1366
Design
3
Artistic Movements
Conceptual art
81
Postconceptual art
6
Bauhaus
12
Expressionism
36
Abstract expressionism
43
Nouveau Réalisme
6
Pop art
46
[Artist collectives]
119
Subjects
Abstraction
360
Adolescence
11
Allegory
114
Architecture
127
Autobiography
130
Self-portrait
183
Body positivity
13
Political issues
372
Social classes
90
Women's status
314
Consumerism
88
Human body
437
Colour
221
Discriminations
157
Documentary
127
Ecology
78
Writing
171
Childhood
114
Eroticism
79
Public space
87
Feminism
307
Party & nightlife
37
Gender fluidity
20
Geometry
154
War & conflicts
150
History
278
Art history & museum
67
Identity
212
Industry
31
Intimacy
107
Irony
60
Language
90
Light
84
Machine & technology
33
Disease
44
Mannequins & dolls
41
Maternity
116
Mathematics
10
Memory
208
Death
72
Music
65
Myths, tales & legends
97
Still life
153
Landscape
300
Urban landscape
153
Visual perception
49
Portrait
422
Postcolonialism
107
Sex positivity
15
Advertisement
49
Queer
27
Racism
74
Romantic relationships
46
Religion & spirituality
193
Science
53
Sexuality
132
Entertainment
57
Traditions
234
Work
82
Drag
28
Vegetal
164
Everyday life
284
Violence
145
Lesbian visibility
27
Travel
78
Mediums
Applied arts
214
Jewellery & silverware
21
Furniture
19
Graphic arts
800
Collage
207
Drawing (ink, pencil…)
527
Artist book
86
Pastel & wax
108
Audiovisual
351
Film
127
Digital
56
Sound
77
Video
243
Installation
495
Accumulation
92
Assemblage
233
Environment
139
Light installation
46
[Modes]
128
Site-specific
115
Monumental
129
Painting
811
Acrylic
163
Oil
464
Performance
236
Photography
421
Analogue photography
240
Digital photography
97
Photomontage
72
Sculpture
447
Wood
113
Metal
134
Plastic
47
Plaster
81
Textile
215
Embroidery
75
Crochet & knitting
9
Weaving
64
Countries
Africa
94
Tunisia
8
Central America and the Caribbean
42
North America
374
United States
327
South America
104
Argentina
31
Brazil
29
Asia
192
China
27
Malaysia
5
Europe
763
Germany
113
Spain
40
Finland
5
France
376
Greece
5
Italy
53
Switzerland
36
Middle East
106
Oceania
47
Periods of
activity
XVIe siècle
3
17th century
6
18th century
20
19th century
86
20th century
1243
1910s
147
1920s
220
1930s
281
1940s
306
1950s
383
1960s
512
1970s
612
1980s
715
1990s
854
21st century
808
2000s
808
2010s
721
2020s
526
Programmes
— + 1
23
— Amazons of Pop, 1961–73
13
— Women Artists of the 1960s in Africa
17
— 18th-Century Women Artists
25
— Southeast Asian Women Artists
24
— Women Artists in Japan, 19th–21st c.
30
— Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–85
13
— AWARE & MACBA
7
— AWARE x Canada
9
— AWARE x Musée d’Orsay
36
— Women in Abstraction
31
— Le Louvre & AWARE
10
— New Media, 1960s-1990s
10
— Netherlands–Caribbean, 19th–21st c.
12
— Rewriting Art History in the Americas
48
— Season Africa2020
23
— TEAM: Teaching, E-learning, Agency, Mentoring
168
The indexed biographies correspond to artists born between 1664 and 1974.
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1959 | Finland
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
1935 | Brazil
Sonia Andrade
1943 | Spain
Eugènia Balcells
1964 | France
Carole Benzaken
1946 — 2025 | United States
Dara Birnbaum
1962 | Kenya
Cosima von Bonin
1893 — 1983 | Germany
Marianne Brandt
1969 | United States
Nao Bustamante
1947 — 2013 | United States
Sarah Charlesworth
1957 | Tunisia
Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza
1933 — 2013 | Greece
Chryssa
1965 | Italy
Daniela Comani
1941 — 2009 | Germany
Hanne Darboven
1940 — 2012 | Argentina
Mirtha Dermisache
1926 | United States
Rosalyn Drexler
1941 — 2016 | Malaysia
Nirmala Dutt Shanmughalingam
1965 | France
Nicole Eisenman
1961 | China
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