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Antoni, Janine  

American, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 19 January 1964, in Freeport, Bahamas.

Sculptor, performance artist, installation artist, photographer.

Feminism.

Janine Antoni studied at Sarah Lawrence College, New York, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986, and the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a master's degree in sculpture in ...

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Chicago, Judy  

American, 20th century, female.

Born 30 July 1939, in Chicago.

Painter, sculptor, installation artist.

Identity Art (Feminist Art).

Judy Chicago studied at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a BFA in 1962, and at the University of California in Los Angeles, earning an MFA in 1964. She pioneered feminist art in the USA, taking for herself the surname of Chicago as a protest against patriarchal naming practices. She set up the first feminist art programme at Fresno State College in 1970. She also worked in collaboration with Miriam Schapiro. A graduate of the University of California, she lives and works in Belen (New Mexico). She teaches in American universities, and has received many distinctions and awards. Her main themes are feminism and sexuality. She first and foremost sought to bring about in her paintings a specifically 'feminine' artistic vision. Her well-known installation ...

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Slinger, Penny  

British, 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1947, in London.

Collage, video, sculpture.

Penny Slinger is known for her surrealist perspective on sexual liberation and self-transgression. She came of age during the 1960s sexual liberation, which has strongly influenced her artistic practice. Singer’s body of work consists of many different mediums including collage, video, and sculpture. She now lives in California.

Slinger graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in 1969, with a thesis based on the work of Max Ernst. Her close relationship with the artist can be credited for the influence European Surrealism plays in her work. Slinger combines the Surrealist’s exploration of self-transgression with subject matter prevalent in the radical counter-culture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Ancient Egyptian and Tantric mythology and imagery.

The artist first started working with collage novels after making a film homage to Max Ernst’s novel Une Semaine de Bonté (...

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Vandrey, Léna  

Polish, 20th century, female.

Born 23 April 1941, in Wroclaw.

Painter, sculptor, mixed media, poet.

Art Brut.

Léna Vandrey settled in Provence in 1958, having lived since the end of World War II in Germany. She was part of the feminist movement and her work is, by her own admission, 'intended to imbue women with a sense of their own history'....

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Wilke, Hannah  

American, 20th century, female.

Born 7 March 1940, in Butler (New York); died 28 January 1993, in Houston, of cancer.

Sculptor (mixed media), photographer, painter, installation artist, performance artist.

Feminist Art.

Hannah Wilke studied at Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, obtaining a bachelor of science and a bachelor of fine arts degree in ...