Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, IL) has worked for six decades pioneering Feminist art and art education. She has work in the collections of the British Museum, Moderna Museet, Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Getty Trust and Getty Research Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and over 25 university art museums such as Brandeis, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, UCLA, Canterbury (New Zealand) and Cambridge (UK). Over the past four years. Chicago’s work has been exhibited in a broad range of major thematic group shows such as Pacific Standard Time: Made in LA at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Ends of the Earth at Haus der Kunst, Berlin; Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler at the Rose Art Museum; Waltham, MA and The World Goes Pop at Tate Modern, London. Recent museum surveys include Judy Chicago: A Reckoning at the ICA Miami (2018); The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (2019) and her first retrospective at The De Young Museum, San Francisco CA (2021). Chicago lives and works in Belen, NM and is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.

Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago, Desert Atmospheres 2, 1969/2018. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.

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