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Judy Chicago - 'The Dinner Party'
A celebration of female achievement, 'The Dinner Party' is an iconic piece that challenges the erasure of women from historical narratives.
Carolee Schneemann - 'Interior Scroll'
Schneemann's work centers on the female body, sexuality, and the role of women in art.
Miriam Schapiro - 'Anatomy of a Kimono'
Schapiro's work combines decorative arts with fine arts to challenge traditional gender hierarchies in the art world.
Frida Kahlo - 'Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird'
Kahlo's work delves deeply into identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
Barbara Kruger - 'Your Body is a Battleground'
Kruger's bold works critique consumerism, desire, and power within a feminist framework.
Adrian Piper - 'Mythic Being'
Piper's work questions gender and racial identity by presenting herself as an ambiguous character known as the Mythic Being.
Guerrilla Girls - 'Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?'
Guerrilla Girls' activism highlights sexism and racial inequality in the art world through powerful posters.
Faith Ringgold - 'Tar Beach'
Ringgold's narrative quilts weave African American history and feminist themes together, creating a rich tapestry of cultural storytelling.
Martha Rosler - 'Semiotics of the Kitchen'
Rosler's video art parodies cooking shows to critique the domestic role and representation of women in society.
Mary Kelly - 'Post-Partum Document'
Kelly's conceptual art piece explores the mother-child relationship and woman's experience, questioning public and private domains.
Yoko Ono - 'Cut Piece'
This performance explores themes of vulnerability, gender violence, and the objectification of women.
Lorraine O'Grady - 'Mlle Bourgeoise Noire'
O'Grady's performance persona protests the exclusion of Black women from the art world and mainstream beauty norms.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles - 'Maintenance Art'
Ukeles turns the mundane task of keeping a museum clean into a work of art, hence promoting the value of women's work.
Sophie Calle - 'Take Care of Yourself'
Calle's multimedia installation invites female collaborators to interpret a breakup email, celebrating women's emotional labor and perspectives.
Cindy Sherman - 'Untitled Film Stills'
Sherman's series confronts and deconstructs stereotypes of women in media and society.
Ana Mendieta - 'Silueta Series'
Mendieta's earth-body works blend landscape and the female form to address displacement and a connection to nature.
Valie Export - 'Action Pants: Genital Panic'
Export challenges traditional representations of the female body and confronts the male gaze through performance art.
Betye Saar - 'The Liberation of Aunt Jemima'
Saar's assemblage critiques racial stereotypes and reclaims empowered images of African American women.
Shirin Neshat - 'Women of Allah'
Neshat's photographs explore the complexity of women's identities in the midst of cultural, religious, and political tensions.
Tracey Emin - 'My Bed'
Emin's personal work brings forth a raw and provocative narrative on love, sexuality, and existence.
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