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Judy Chicago

(American, born 1939)

potent pussy/homage to lamont by judy chicago

Judy Chicago

Potent Pussy/Homage to Lamont, 1973

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holocaust project logo pin and pendant by judy chicago

Judy Chicago

Holocaust Project Logo Pin and Pendant, 1993

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Biography

Timeline

1939
Born in Chicago, IL
1962
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1964
MA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Russell Sage College, Troy, New York
2000
Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2003
Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC
2008
Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Honoree, National Women's History Project

Exhibitions

2020
Judy Chicago Selected Exhibitions in 2020:
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, MCA Chicago, IL
Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
Unapologetic: All Women, All Year, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
2019
Judy Chicago Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Judy Chicago, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (solo exhibition)
Picturing Extinction; Studies For the End, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago: Birth Project From New Mexico Collections, The Hardwood Museum of Art, Taos (solo exhibition)
The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (solo exhibition)
Through The Flower Art Space, Through the Flower Art Space, Belen, NM (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago: Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
The Birth Project from New Mexico Collections, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago—The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (solo exhibition)
Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Life is a Highway: American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, OH
Bienal Do Mercosul, Brazil
2018
Judy Chicago Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Judy Chicago: A Reckoning, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL (solo exhibition)
Born Again: Judy Chicago’s Birth Project, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (solo exhibition)
PowerPlay: A Prediction, Salon 94, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Way Bay, University of California, Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA
Guarded Future, Downs and Ross, New York, NY
West by Midwest: Geographies of Art and Kinship, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL Flatout, Mana Jersey City, NY
2017
Judy Chicago Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
The Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago’s Pussies, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
Conversations with the Collections: Building/Environments, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, IL
In the Eye of the Beholder, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL
Between Two Worlds: Art of California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Feminist Avantgarde, Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Wien, Austria; traveled to Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Womanhouse The Female Side of God, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, Austria
2016
Judy Chicago Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Judy Chicago: Fire Works, Cressman Center Gallery, Louisville, KY (solo exhibition)
Why Not Judy Chicago?, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain; traveling to CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (solo exhibition)
Evil: A Matter of Intent, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY
The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
The Second Sex, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2015
Judy Chicago Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Star Cunts and Other Images, Riflemaker, London, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
LA/MA: ‘60s Pop From Both Coasts, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Great Mother, Palazzo Reale, in conjunction with Expo Milano 2015, Milan, Italy
Arts & Foods, Triennale, in conjunction with Expo Milano 2015, Milan, Italy
Womanhouse, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
43rd International Glass Invitational Award, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2014
Judy Chicago Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Surveying Judy Chicago: 1970 – 2014, RedLine, Denver, CO (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago’s Feminist Pedagogy and Alternative Spaces, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo exhibition)
Heads Up, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo exhibition)
Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984 – 2014, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago: A Butterfly for Oakland, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (solo exhibition)
Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1963–74, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo exhibition)
The Very Best of Judy Chicago, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago: Through the Archives, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA (solo exhibition)
Surveying Judy Chicago: Five Decades, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA (solo exhibition)
Judy Chicago: Circa ’75, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (solo exhibition)
Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the ‘60s, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
The Very Last Plastics Show: Industrial L.A. 1965 to the Present, Nyehaus and Dorfman Projects, New York, NY
Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2009
"Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968", Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2008
"Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
KISS KISS BANG BANG, 45 Years of Art and Feminism, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, NY

Public Collections

Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
British Museum, London, England
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA
Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Literature

2007
The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation
2005
Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours
1999
Women and Art: Contested Territories, with Edward Lucie-Smith
1996
Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist
The Dinner Party/Judy Chicago
1993
Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light
1985
The Birth Project
1980
Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework
1979
The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage
1975
Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist
English (US)

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