Judy Chicago

b. 1939

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1939, lives and works in Belen, New Mexico

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
— Judy Chicago

Artwork

Exhibitions

09.16.2020–03.12.2021
Chicago in Ink
Online

Judy Chicago

01.20–01.26.2020
Dior x Judy Chicago: The Female Divine
Musée Rodin Sculpture Garden

Judy Chicago

11.16.2019–04.19.2020
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Judy Chicago

09.19.2019–01.20.2020
The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Judy Chicago

10.18–11.02.2019
Picturing Extinction: Studies For The End
Freeman Alley

Judy Chicago

01.10–03.03.2018
PowerPlay: A Prediction
Salon 94 Bowery

Judy Chicago

10.20.2017–03.04.2018
The Dinner Party
Brooklyn Museum

Judy Chicago

Projects

Garden Smoke
Projects

Judy Chicago

Biography

Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans six decades. Her influence both within and beyond the art community is attested to by her inclusion in hundreds of publications throughout the world. Her art has been frequently exhibited in the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, a number of the books she has authored have been published in foreign editions, bringing her art and philosophy to readers worldwide.

For over six decades, Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women's right to engage in the highest level of art production. As a result, she has become a symbol for people everywhere, known and respected as an artist, writer, teacher, feminist and humanist whose work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and women's right to freedom of expression. In 2018 Chicago was named both one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” and a 2018 “Most Influential Artist” by Artsy Magazine. In 2019, she received the Visionary Woman award from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Gallery (Washington DC), 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, Tate Modern, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago,The Nevada Museum of Art, The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and over 25 university art museums such as Brandeis, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, UCLA, Canterbury (New Zealand) and Cambridge (UK).

CV

Press

02.18.2021
Judy Chicago on her Desert X smoke sculpture and feminizing land art
Deborah Vankin

LA Times

01.20.2020
Inside Judy Chicago’s Monumental Goddess Sculpture for Dior
Alice Cavanagh

The New York Times

05.03.2020
A Seat at the Table
Editorial

Garage

11.27.2019
Judy Chicago's extinction rebellion: 'I went face-to-face with a new level of horror'
Hettie Judah

The Guardian

11.27.2018
Radical Artist Judy Chicago on Pyrotechnics and Toxic Masculinity
Hannah Tindle

AnOther Magazine

03.01.2018
Toxic Masculinity and Rainbows: Judy Chicago Interviewed by Olivia Gauthier
Olivia Gauthier

BOMB Magazine

02.07.2018
Judy Chicago, the Godmother
Sasha Weiss

The New York Times

12.11.2017
Feminist art icon Judy Chicago isn’t done fighting
Gloria Steinem

Interview Magazine