Women's History Month: Audio-Visual Resources

Amy Sherald (Click to visit the artist's website.)

Amy Sherald (b. Columbus, GA 1973, lives in the Greater New York City area) received her MFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997), and was a Spelman College International Artist-in-Residence in Portobelo, Panama (1997). In 2016, Sherald was the first woman and first African-American to win the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition grand prize; she also received the 2017 Anonymous Was A Woman award and the 2019 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award.

Hilma af Klint (Click to visit the Hilma af Klint Foundation website.)

Hilma af Klint belonged to one of the first generations of women educated at Kungl. The Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, where she was accepted at the age of twenty and during the period 1882-1887 studied drawing and portrait and landscape painting. 

Mickalene Thomas (Click to view the artist's website.)

Mickalene Thomas (lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations that draw on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, and power. Blurring the distinction between object and subject, concrete and abstract, real and imaginary, Thomas constructs complex portraits, landscapes, and interiors in order to examine how identity, gender, and sense-of-self are informed by the ways women (and “feminine” spaces) are represented in art and popular culture.

Augusta Savage (Click to read a New York Times profile of the artist.)

The Black Woman Artist Who Crafted a Life She Was Told She Couldn’t Have

At the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage fought racism to earn acclaim as a sculptor, showing her work alongside de Kooning and Dalí. But the path she forged is also her legacy.

Betye Saar (Click to visit the artist's website.)

I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

Shirin Neshat (click to view artist's Instagram)

Shirin Neshat: I am so excited to have my work “Speechless” from the collection of the Faurschou Foundation in their beautiful space in Bklyn, NY on exhibit together with work by other artists including Mona Hatoum, Shilpa Gupta, Tiffany Chung, and a full exhibition by Liu Xiaodong, opening Feb 27-July 31, 2022. #faurschoufoundation

Yishay Garbasz (Click to visit the artist's website)

I am a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist. My work explores cultural specific inheritance of traumatic memories I am driven by my desire to see the darkest parts of humanity and to use my practice to illuminate them. I meditate on my own body during the process of gender affirmation surgery. While it is only one part of who I am, the discrimination that trans women experience all over the world, as well as reduced chances of thriving and significantly shortened life expectancy, demands consideration.

Faith Ringgold (Click to visit the artist's website.)

Faith Ringgold, born 1930 in Harlem, New York, is a painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer, teacher and lecturer. She received her B.S. and M.A. degrees in visual art from the City College of New York in 1955 and 1959. Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California in San Diego, Ringgold has received 23 Honorary Doctorates.

Now on View at the New Museum:
Faith Ringgold: American People
through 06/05/22

Kara Walker (Click to visit the artist's website.)

New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide.

Born in Stockton, California in 1969, Walker was raised in Atlanta, Georgia from the age of 13. She studied at the Atlanta College of Art (BFA, 1991) and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1994).