List of 20th-century women artists
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decades and year of birth.
Before 1870
- Louise Abbéma, painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Helen Allingham, painter, illustrator
- Laura Alma-Tadema, painter
- Ester Almqvist, Swedish painter
- Anna Ancher, Danish painter
- Sophie Anderson, painter
- Marie-Elmina Anger, nun and painter
- Helen Maitland Armstrong, stained glass artist
- Lucy Angeline Bacon, painter
- Alice Pike Barney, painter
- Susie M. Barstow, painter
- Jane E. Bartlett, painter and portraitist
- Cecilia Beaux, painter
- Julie Hart Beers, painter
- Enella Benedict, American painter
- Harriet Blackstone, figure painter
- Anna Boch, painter
- Alice Boughton, photographer
- Marie Bracquemond, painter
- Susan Hinckley Bradley, American painter
- Fidelia Bridges, watercolorist
- Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor
- Matilda Browne, American painter
- Elizabeth Eaton Burton, painter, printmaker, designer
- Sally Bush, photographer
- Evelyn Cameron, photographer
- Mary Cassatt, painter, printmaker
- Nellie Charlie, basket weaver
- Christabel Cockerell, painter
- Kate Cory, painter, sculptor
- Helene Cramer, painter
- Molly Cramer, painter
- Annie I. Crawford, painter, printmaker
- Alice Dannenberg, painter
- Jenny Eakin Delony, painter
- Florence Dreyfous, painter
- Elisabeth von Eicken, German landscape painter
- Florence Esté, painter
- Johanna van Eybergen, applied artist and designer
- Eva Scott Fényes , painter
- Laura Ann Fry, ceramic painter
- Frances Gearhart, printmaker and watercolorist
- Grace Woodbridge Geer, painter
- Anna Gerresheim, German painter
- Anne Goldthwaite, printmaker, painter
- Caroline Gotch, painter
- Jane Hawkins, portrait artist
- Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley, painter
- Laura Coombs Hills, painter
- Anna Hope Hudson, painter
- Katarina Ivanović, painter
- Frances Benjamin Johnston, photographer
- Gertrude Käsebier, photographer
- Mina Karadžić, painter
- Lucy Kemp-Welch, painter
- Louisa Keyser , Washoe basket weaver
- Kitty Lange Kielland, painter
- Hilma af Klint, painter
- Käthe Kollwitz, printmaker, sculptor, painter
- Ida Pulis Lathrop, American painter
- Jessie Lipscomb, sculptor
- Séraphine Louis, painter
- Maria Magdalena Łubieńska, Polish painter and founder of an arts school.
- Carol Brooks MacNeil, American sculptor
- Bessie MacNicol, painter
- Jacqueline Marval, French painter, Les Odalisques, 1903
- Cornelia F. Maury, American pastel artist
- Blanche Hoschedé Monet, painter
- Grandma Moses, painter
- Dora Louise Murdoch, painter
- Iris Nampeyo, potter, ceramic artist
- Clara Chipman Newton, china painter
- Clara Weaver Parrish painter, stained glass
- Lilla Cabot Perry, painter
- Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, painter
- Vinnie Ream, sculptor
- Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, ceramic artist
- Helene Schjerfbeck, painter
- Anna Page Scott, painter
- Janet Scudder, sculptor
- Annie Ware Sabine Siebert, painter
- Jessie Willcox Smith, painter, illustrator
- Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope, sculptor, painter
- Eloise Harriet Stannard, painter
- Emily Coppin Stannard, painter
- Marianne Stokes, painter
- Austa Densmore Sturdevant, painter
- Josefine Swoboda, Austrian portrait painter
- Annie Swynnerton, painter
- Emma Beach Thayer, painter
- Ellen Thesleff, painter
- Juliet Thompson, painter
- Suzanne Valadon, painter
- Marianne von Werefkin, painter
- Candace Wheeler, interior and textile designer
- Anna Lillian Winegar, painter and illustrator
1870–1879
- Elenore Abbott, painter, teacher
- Gertrude Partington Albright, American artist
- Lizzy Ansingh, painter
- Vanessa Bell, painter and interior designer
- Romaine Brooks, painter
- Edith Woodman Burroughs, sculptor
- Pauline Powell Burns, first African-American artist to exhibit in California.
- Emily Carr, painter
- Ethel Carrick, English painter
- Émilie Charmy, painter
- Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay, lithographer, etcher
- Isabel Codrington, English painter
- Elinor Darwin, engraver, portrait painter
- Bessie Davidson, painter
- Edith Dimock, painter
- Dorothea A. Dreier, painter
- Katherine Sophie Dreier, painter
- Mabel Esplin, stained glass artist
- Dulah Marie Evans, painter, photographer
- Christian Jane Fergusson, painter
- Mary Foote, painter
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Dada artist and poet
- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, sculptor, painter, poet
- Eliza Gardiner, painter and printmaker
- May Gearhart, printmaker
- Margaret Gere, painter
- Elizabeth Shippen Green, painter, illustrator
- Emily Parker Groom, painter
- Elena Guro, painter, writer
- Emily Nichols Hatch, painter
- Edith Haworth, painter
- Edna Boies Hopkins, woodcut prints
- Gwen John, painter
- Nell Choate Jones, painter, teacher
- Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, painter, teacher
- Maude Kerns, American painter and avant garde artist
- Laura Knight, painter
- Anna Coleman Ladd, sculptor
- Sr. Maria Stanisia, painter
- Edith Maryon, sculptor
- Virginia Randall McLaws, painter
- Delle Miller, painter
- Paula Modersohn-Becker, painter
- Gabriele Münter, painter
- Violet Oakley, muralist, stained glass
- Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, graphic artist, watercolorist
- Nadežda Petrović, painter
- Margaret Preston, painter, printmaker
- Ethel Sands, painter
- Henrika Šantel, painter
- Florine Stettheimer, painter
- Martha Stettler, painter
- Anne Belle Stone, painter
- Helena Sturtevant, painter
- Anna Heyward Taylor, painter, printmaker
- Ellen Trotzig, painter
- Bessie Potter Vonnoh, sculptor
- Beta Vukanović, painter
- Ada Hill Walker, scientific illustrator and artist
- Nellie Walker, sculptor
- Fanny Adele Watson, painter, lithographer
- Clara McDonald Williamson, painter
- Emmy Worringer, German artist
- Enid Yandell, sculptor
1880–1889
- Rowena Meeks Abdy, painter
- Berenice Abbott photographer
- Edith Cleaves Barry, American painter, photographer, sculptor
- Bessie Marsh Brewer, sculptor
- Nessa Cohen,, sculptor
- Imogen Cunningham, photographer
- Sonia Delaunay, painter
- Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian painter
- Marthe Donas, painter
- Aleksandra Ekster, painter
- Ester Ellqvist, painter
- Stella Elmendorf Tylor, American painter
- Ethel Léontine Gabain, painter
- Laura Gardin Fraser, sculptor
- Natalia Goncharova, painter
- Norah Neilson Gray, painter
- Madeline Emily Green, painter
- Tina Haim-Wentscher, German-Australian sculptress
- Lydia Bush-Brown Head American painter and designer
- Sigrid Hjertén, painter
- Hannah Höch, German painter, photographer, and photomontage artist
- Malvina Hoffman, sculptor
- Valentine Hugo, illustrator
- Daisy Marguerite Hughes, American painter and lithographer
- Dora Koch-Stetter, German painter
- Marie Laurencin, painter, printmaker
- Ana Marinković,, painter
- Marlow Moss, sculptor, painter
- Geneva Mercer, sculptor
- Ethel Myers, sculptor, painter
- Ella Naper, jeweller & potter
- Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter
- Elizabeth Norton printmaker, bronze sculptor, painter
- Georgia O'Keeffe, painter
- Olga Oppenheimer, German artist
- Clara Elsene Peck, painter, illustrator
- Agnes Pelton, painter
- Gladys Reynell, potter
- Anne Ryan, painter
- Zinaida Serebriakova, painter
- Henrietta Shore, painter
- Zulma Steele, painter
- Helen Margaret Spanton, painter
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp, painter
- Lucy Telles, Mono Lake Paiute-Yosemite Miwok basket weaver
- Nadezhda Udaltsova, painter
- Doris Ulmann, photographer
- Vukosava Velimirović sculptor
- Laura Wheeler Waring, painter
- Carla Witte, German and Uruguayan painter and sculptor
- Marta Worringer, German artist
- Mary Agnes Yerkes, painter
- Marguerite Zorach , painter
1890–1899
- Berenice Abbott, photographer
- Karimeh Abbud, photographer
- Eileen Agar, painter, collage
- Elene Akhvlediani, painter
- Anni Albers, designer, weaver and graphic artist
- Elsie Allen, Cloverdale Pomo basket weaver
- Mabel Alvarez, painter
- Peggy Bacon, printmaker, painter, illustrator
- Eugenie Baizerman, painter
- Carrie Bethel, Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver
- Clara Birnberg, illustrator, portraitist, sculptor
- Dorrit Black, painter
- Kathleen Blackshear, painter
- Lucile Blanch, painter
- Elise Blumann, painter
- Claude Cahun, photographer, author
- Dora Carrington, painter
- Dorothy Coke, painter
- Mildred Coughlin, painter, printmaker, illustrator
- Trena Cox, stained glass artist
- Grace Crowley, painter
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe, photographer
- Florence Davidson, Haida basket weaver
- Margaret Firth, painter
- Helen Katharine Forbes, muralist
- Enid Foster, artist, sculptor, playwright
- Frances Foy, artist, muralist
- Elsa Fraenkel, sculptor
- Alethea Garstin, English painter
- Laura Gilpin, photographer
- Minetta Good, painter and printmaker, W.P.A. artist
- Jennie Harbour, illustrator
- Jeanne Hébuterne, painter
- Dörte Helm, artist, painter and graphic designer
- Marion Huse, painter and printmaker, W.P.A. artist
- Margaret Calkin James, calligrapher, graphic designer, textile printer, watercolour painter, printmaker
- Lotte Jacobi, photographer
- Alison Mason Kingsbury, painter, muralist
- Georgina Klitgard, muralist
- Gina Knee Brook, painter
- Winifred Knights, painter
- Katarzyna Kobro, sculptor
- Anka Krizmanić, Croatian painter and printmaker
- Dorothea Lange, photographer
- Dorothy P. Lathrop, American illustrator and writer
- Gertrude K. Lathrop, American sculptor
- Tamara de Lempicka, painter
- Lucile Lloyd, muralist
- Gladys M. Lux, painter, printmaker
- Suzanne Malherbe, illustrator, designer
- Hildreth Meiere, mosaicist
- Yevonde Middleton, photographer
- Lilian May Miller, woodblock printer and painter
- Tina Modotti, photographer
- Lucia Moholy, photographer
- Olive Mudie-Cooke, painter
- Louise Nevelson, sculptor
- Marjorie Ann Nuhn, painter
- Bashka Paeff, sculptor
- Tonita Peña, works on paper, muralist
- Zora Petrović, painter
- Orovida Camille Pissarro, painter, printmaker
- Dod Procter, painter
- Hannah Ryggen, textile artist
- Kay Sage, painter
- Augusta Savage, sculptor
- Bertha Schaefer, furniture designer, galleryist
- Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion, textiles
- Dorothy Hope Smith, artist
- Janet Sobel, painter
- Varvara Stepanova, painter and designer
- Alma Thomas, painter
- Charley Toorop, painter
- Beulah Woodard, sculptor
- Ogura Yuki, painter
1900–1909
- Gertrude Abercrombie, painter
- Mary Adshead, muralist, painter
- Maxine Albro, muralist, printmaker
- Griselda Allan, painter
- Catherine Tharp Altvater, painter
- Grace Greenwood Ames artist, muralist
- Rita Angus, painter
- Mariam Aslamazian, painter
- Evgenia Baykova, painter
- Celia Frances Bedford, painter, printmaker
- Suzanne Belperron, jeweler
- Ruth Bernhard, photographer
- Isabel Bishop, painter
- Frances Blakemore, printmaker
- Lucienne Bloch painter
- Dorr Bothwell, painter, printmaker
- Margaret Bourke-White, photographer
- Dorothea Braby, painter, book illustrator
- Lola Álvarez Bravo, photographer
- Emmy Bridgewater, painter, poet
- Felicia Browne, artist, activist
- Marjorie Frances Bruford, painter
- Margaret Brundage, illustrator
- Norma Bull, painter
- Selma Burke, sculptor
- Nancy Carline, painter
- Ruth Chaney, printmaker
- Marie Z. Chino, ceramic artist
- Grace Clements, muralist, mosaicist, art critic
- Marion Osborn Cunningham, printmaker
- Martina Gangle Curl, artist, activist
- Dorothy Dehner, sculptor, printmaker
- Evelyn Dunbar, painter
- Claire Falkenstein, sculptor, painter, printmaker
- Perle Fine, painter
- Leonor Fini, painter
- Cornelia MacIntyre Foley, painter
- Constance Edith Fowler, painter, printmaker, author, educator
- Gisèle Freund, photographer
- Evelyn Gibbs, engraver, art teacher
- Elizabeth Ginno painter, printmaker
- Marion Greenwood, artist, muralist
- Edith Hamlin, muralist, landscape and portrait painter
- Isobel Heath, artist, poet
- Barbara Hepworth, sculptor
- Josette Hébert-Coëffin
- Gertrude Hermes, print maker and sculptor
- Elsie Dalton Hewland, painter
- Karen Holtsmark, painter
- Ray Howard-Jones, painter
- Lois Mailou Jones, painter
- Frida Kahlo painter
- Maude Kegg, bead artist
- Anna Kostrova, painter, graphic artist
- Lee Krasner, painter
- Doris Lee, painter
- Ruth Harriet Louise, photographer
- Helen Lundeberg, painter
- Mabel McKay, basket weaver
- Miriam McKinnie, muralist
- Dora Maar, photographer, painter, poet
- Maruja Mallo, painter
- Doris Meltzer, printmaker and art dealer
- Hansel Mieth, photographer
- Lee Miller, photographer
- Lisette Model, photographer
- Barbara Morgan, photographer
- Donia Nachshen, illustrator, poster artist
- Fannie Nampeyo, potter, ceramic artist
- Alice Neel, painter
- Loukia Nicolaidou, painter
- Vevean Oviette, printmaker
- Essie Parrish, Kashaya Pomo basket weaver
- Betty Parsons, painter, gallerist
- Milena Pavlović-Barili, painter
- Irene Rice Pereira, painter, author
- Mary Potter, painter
- Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli, muralist, painter
- Mildred Rackley, printmaker
- Alice Rahon painter
- Margaretha Reichardt, textile designer
- Leni Riefenstahl, filmmaker
- Louise Emerson Ronnebeck, painter
- Stella Schmolle, painter
- Ethel Schwabacher, painter
- Bernarda Bryson Shahn, painter, lithographer
- Jessamine Shumate, painter
- Elena Skuin, painter
- Mary Tillman Smith, painter
- Ethel Spears, painter
- Doris Spiegel, illustrator, printmaker
- Sultana Suruzhon, painter
- Lenore Tawney, fiber artist, sculptor
- Remedios Varo, painter
- Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, painter
- Ilse Weber, painter
- Thelma Frazier Winter, ceramic sculptor and enamelist
- Henriette Wyeth, painter
- Maria Zubreeva, painter, graphic artist
1910–1919
- Ida Abelman, painter
- Taisia Afonina, painter
- Eileen Aldridge, painter, art restorer
- Evgenia Antipova, painter
- Eve Arnold, photographer
- Gwen Barnard, painter, printmaker
- Bernece Berkman, painter
- Semiha Berksoy, painter, opera singer
- Ana Bešlić, sculptor
- Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
- Doris Blair, painter
- Harriet Bogart, painter
- Eden Box, painter
- Leonora Carrington, painter
- Elizabeth Catlett sculptor, printmaker
- Chien-Ying Chang, painter
- Malvina Cheek, painter
- Helen Cordero, ceramic artist
- Elaine de Kooning, painter
- Maya Deren, filmmaker and theorist, photographer
- Yvonne Drewry, painter and print-maker
- Jane Frank, mixed-media painter, sculptor
- Louise Arnstein Freedman, printmaker
- Rosalie Gascoigne, sculptor, assemblage
- Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey, painter
- Riva Helfond, printmaker
- Carmen Herrera, painter
- Nora Heysen, painter
- Erlund Hudson, painter
- Tove Jansson, painter, illustrator, novelist
- Kali, painter
- Corita Kent, printmaker
- Gwendolyn Knight, painter
- Gunhild Kristensen, stained glass artist
- Jacqueline Lamba, painter
- Maria Lassnig, painter
- Miriam Laufer, painter
- Helen Levitt, photographer
- Frances Macdonald, painter
- Mary Macqueen, printmaker, drawing and mixed media
- Ethel Magafan, painter
- Beatrice Mandelman, painter and printmaker
- Agnes Martin, painter
- Mercedes Matter née Carles, painter
- Louisa Matthíasdóttir, painter
- Mona Moore, painter
- Hilda Grossman Morris, sculptor
- Esta Nesbitt, xerox artist, fashion illustrator
- Meret Oppenheim, sculptor
- Juliet Pannett, portrait artist
- Tuulikki Pietilä, illustrator
- Lilo Rasch-Naegele, painter, graphic artist, fashion designer, book illustrator
- Ruth Ray, painter
- Miriam C. Rice, sculptor and textile artist
- Hulda D. Robbins, printmaker
- Maria Rudnitskaya, painter
- Charlotte Salomon, painter
- Amrita Sher-Gil, painter
- Clara Sherman, textile artist
- Nadezhda Shteinmiller, painter, stage designer
- Sylvia Sleigh, painter
- Thelma Johnson Streat, painter, dancer, educator
- Hedda Sterne, painter
- Dorothea Tanning, painter
- Domicėlė Tarabildienė, graphic artist, sculptor, book illustrator
- Gerda Taro, photographer
- Anya Teixeira, photographer
- Elsa Thiemann, photographer
- Margaret Thomas, painter
- Bridget Bate Tichenor, painter
- Mary Van Blarcom, printmaker
- Pablita Velarde, painter
- Carol Weinstock, painter, printmaker
- Marion Post Wolcott, photographer
- Joan Elizabeth Woollard, sculptor
1920–1929
- Carla Accardi, painter
- Etel Adnan, painter, poet
- Ida Applebroog, painter
- Diane Arbus, photographer
- Pamela Ascherson, sculptor, illustrator
- Alice Baber, painter
- Jo Baer, painter
- Irina Baldina, painter
- Hannelore Baron, collage artist
- Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, painter
- Edith Birkin, painter
- Zlata Bizova, painter
- Nell Blaine, painter
- Sandra Blow, painter
- Kossa Bokchan, painter
- Druie Bowett, painter
- Geta Bratescu, visual artist
- Fanny Brennan, painter
- Esther Bubley, photographer
- Martha Burchfield, watercolorist
- Crucita Calabaza, ceramic artist
- Jean Cooke, Royal Academy artist
- Marie Cosindas, photographer
- Amanda Crowe, woodcarver
- Jay DeFeo, painter, visual artist
- Lois Dodd, painter
- Mavis Doering, Cherokee basket weaver
- Rosalyn Drexler, painter
- Sonja Eisenberg, abstract painter
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, sculptor
- Francine Felsenthal, painter, printmaker
- Lilly Fenichel, painter
- Jackie Ferrara, sculptor
- Mary Fitzpayne, painter
- Victorine Foot, painter
- Helen Frankenthaler, painter
- Jane Freilicher, painter
- Sonia Gechtoff, painter
- Ilka Gedő, painter, graphic artist
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari, painter
- Françoise Gilot, painter, writer
- Terry Haass, painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, painter
- Edie McKee Harper, photographer, painter, lithography, sculpture
- Grace Hartigan, painter
- Pati Hill, copier artist
- Frances Hodgkins, painter
- Martha Holmes, photographer
- Mansooreh Hosseini, painter
- Olga Jančić, sculptor
- Olga Jevrić, sculptor
- Ynez Johnston, painter, printmaker, sculptor and educator
- Ljubinka Jovanović, painter
- Lila Katzen, sculptor
- Cynthia Kenny, painter
- Ruth Kerkovius, painter, printmaker
- Maya Kopitseva, painter
- Tatiana Kopnina, painter
- Elena Kostenko, painter
- Marina Kozlovskaya, painter
- Yayoi Kusama, sculptor, performance art, installation art
- Valeria Larina, painter
- June Leaf, painter, sculptor
- Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, painter, teacher
- Eleanore Mikus, painter
- Joan Mitchell, painter
- Inge Morath, photographer
- Zelda Nolte, sculptor/woodblock printmaker
- Margaret Olley, painter
- Mimi Parent, painter
- Pat Passlof, painter
- Galina Rumiantseva, painter
- Kapitolina Rumiantseva, painter
- Betye Saar, assemblage sculpture
- Ana Sacerdote, painter, video artist
- Behjat Sadr, painter
- Takako Saito, installation art, performance art
- Honoré Desmond Sharrer, painter
- Sarai Sherman, painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Galina Smirnova, painter
- Doretta Frenna Smith, painter
- Nancy Spero, painter
- Katy Stephanides, painter
- Hannah Tompkins, painter, printmaker
- Anne Truitt, sculptor
- Draginja Vlasic, painter
- Nina Veselova, painter
- Stella Waitzkin, painter
- Jane Wilson, painter
- Leona Wood, painter
1930–1939
- Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor and graphic artist
- Alice Adams, sculptor, textile art, earthworks
- Maliheh Afnan, mixed media artist
- Gayleen Aiken, painter, musician
- Edith Altman, painter, performance artist
- Emma Andijewska, painter, writer
- Electa Arenal, Mexican muralist
- Helene Aylon, sculptor
- Gillian Ayres, painter
- Audrey Barker, installation artist
- Mardi Barrie, painter
- Mária Bartuszová, sculptor
- Annemirl Bauer, painter
- Baya , painter, potter
- Zuleika Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, painter
- Hilla Becher, photographer
- Karen Boccalero, printmaker
- Lee Bontecou, sculptor, printmaker
- Pauline Boty, painter
- Joan Brown, painter
- P. Buckley Moss, painter
- Judy Chicago, installation artist
- Chryssa, sculptor
- Meinrad Craighead, painter, printmaker
- Iran Darroudi, painter
- Agnes Denes, conceptual artist, multidisciplinary
- Irina Dobrekova, painter
- Martha Edelheit, painter
- Marisol Escobar, sculptor
- Janet Fish, painter
- Audrey Flack, painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Eva Frankfurther, painter
- Elisabeth Frink, sculptor, printmaker
- Valerie Ganz, painter
- Irina Getmanskaya, painter
- Tatiana Gorb, painter
- Shirley Gorelick, painter
- Elena Gorokhova, painter
- Nancy Graves, sculptor, painter, printmaker
- Eva Hesse, sculptor
- Nicole Hollander, illustration, comics
- Nancy Holt, sculptor/ land art
- Joan Jonas, performance artist
- Alison Knowles, Fluxus, performance artist
- Sara Leighton, portrait painter
- Lee Lozano, painter
- Althea McNish, textile designer
- Totte Mannes, painter
- Emily Mason, painter
- Leyly Matine-Daftary, modernist painter
- Valentina Monakhova, painter
- Charlotte Moorman, performance artist, Fluxus
- Ree Morton, painter
- Vera Nazina, painter
- Carol Heifetz Neiman, xerox artist, printmaker, pastel, pencil, painter
- Lorraine O'Grady, performance art, installation art
- Yoko Ono, performance art, music
- Nancy Petyarre, painter
- Deborah Remington, painter
- Bridget Riley, painter
- Faith Ringgold, painter
- Dorothea Rockburne, painter
- Carolee Schneemann, performance artist
- Joan Semmel, painter
- Anita Steckel, graphic artist
- Marjorie Strider, sculptor
- Michelle Stuart, painter, sculptor, photographer
- Anita Louise Suazo, ceramics
- Atsuko Tanaka, painting, sculpture, performance art, installation art
- Ana Vidjen sculptor
1940–1949
- Pacita Abad, painter
- Marina Abramović, performance artist
- Gretchen Albrecht,, painter
- Laurie Anderson, performance artist
- Heather Angel, photographer, author
- Alice Aycock, sculptor
- Tina Barney, photographer, filmmaker
- Anne Bascove, painter, printmaker, mixed media
- Lynda Benglis, sculptor
- Judith Bernstein, painter
- Vivienne Binns, painter, enamels
- Melinda Bordelon, painter, illustrator
- Fionnuala Boyd, painter, photographer
- Dina Bursztyn, visual artist and writer
- Deborah Butterfield, sculptor
- Rhea Carmi, abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist
- Squeak Carnwath, painter
- Vera Chino, Acoma Pueblo ceramic artist
- Shelagh Cluett, sculptor fine art lecturer
- Susan Crile, painter
- Lynn Davis, photographer
- Orshi Drozdik, photographer, sculptor, performance artist, painter, writer, conceptual artist
- Bracha Ettinger, painter, photographer, psychoanalyst, writer
- Valie Export, performance artist, video installations, photography
- Carole Feuerman, sculptor
- Helen C. Frederick, printmaker
- Rose Garrard, installation, video and performance
- Jan Groover, photographer
- Kathy Grove, conceptual artist
- Elisabeth Haarr, textile artist
- Maggi Hambling, painter, sculptor
- Helen Hardin, painter
- Margaret Harrison, painter
- Masumi Hayashi, photographer
- Judithe Hernández painter, muralist
- Rebecca Horn, sculptor, installation art
- Miyako Ishiuchi, photographer
- Sanja Iveković, interdisciplinary artist
- Rita Keegan, multii-media artist
- Mary Kelly , installation art, interdisciplinary
- Yvonne Walker Keshick, quill artist and basket maker
- Gayane Khachaturian, painter
- Barbara Kruger, conceptual artist
- Annie Leibovitz, photographer
- Pat Lipsky,, painter
- Hung Liu,, painter
- Markéta Luskačová, photographer
- Mary Ellen Mark, photographer
- Linda McCartney, photographer
- Susan Meiselas, photographer
- Ana Mendieta, performance art, sculptor
- Annette Messager, installation art, interdisciplinary
- Tania Mouraud, installation art, mixed media
- Sheila Mullen, painter
- Glòria Muñoz, painter
- Elizabeth Murray, painter, printmaker
- Avis Newman, painter, sculptor
- Gladys Nilsson, painter
- Guity Novin, painter
- Lydia Okumura, sculptor
- Orlan performance artist
- Gloria Petyarre, painter
- Adrian Piper, conceptual artist
- Sylvia Plachy, photographer
- Susan Mohl Powers, sculptor, painter
- Helen Ramsaran, sculptor
- Judy Rifka painter, video artist
- Suellen Rocca, painter
- Barbara Rosenthal, photographer
- Martha Rosler, photographer, performance, video
- Barbara Rossi, painter
- Ursula von Rydingsvard, sculptor
- Barbara Schwartz, painter, sculptor
- Sandy Skoglund, photographer
- Hollis Sigler, painter
- Joan Snyder, painter
- Annegret Soltau, graphic, performance, video, photocollage
- Pat Steir, painter
- Vicki Stone, painter
- Altoon Sultan, painter
- Carol Sutton, painter
- Berenice Sydney, paintings, drawings, prints, children's books, costume design, performance
- Joyce Tenneson, photographer
- Yvonne Edwards Tucker, American potter
- Mym Tuma, painter and mixed-media artist
- Lauretta Vinciarelli, painter, architect, educator
- Hannah Wilke, sculptor, photographer
- Annie Williams, watercolour artist
- Val Wilmer, photographer, author
- Jackie Winsor, sculptor
1950–1959
- Eija-Liisa Ahtila, videographer, photographer
- Peggy Ahwesh, filmmaker
- Davida Allen, painter, filmmaker
- Cecilia Alvarez, painter, muralist
- Annie Antone, basket weaver
- Anne Appleby, painter
- Sue Arrowsmith, photographic artist
- Imna Arroyo, printmaker
- Lynda Barry, illustrator, comics
- Jane Boyd, installation
- Chrisann Brennan, painter
- Chila Kumari Burman, printmaker, painter, installation artist
- Catherine Chalmers, photographer
- Sophie Calle, photographer, author, installation artist, conceptual artist
- Louisa Chase, painter, printmaker
- Emily Cheng, painter
- Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy, painter
- Sokari Douglas Camp, sculptor
- Susan Derges, photographic artist
- A. K. Dolven , painting, film, and interventions in public space
- Joanne Gair, painter, body art
- Anne Geddes, photographer
- Nan Goldin, photographer
- Patricia Gonzalez, painter
- Akiko Hatsu, illustrator, comics
- Jenny Holzer, conceptual artist
- Roni Horn, photographer
- Mona Hatoum, video, installation
- Lubaina Himid, mixed media
- Leiko Ikemura, painter, sculptor
- Terrell James, painter, sculptor
- Deborah Kennedy, sculptor, painter, contemporary art
- Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings, bead and textile artist
- Claudette Johnson, painter
- Maya Lin, installation artist
- Marita Liulia, photographer, digital and interactive media
- Sally Mann, photographer
- Soraida Martinez, artist, designer
- Michiko Matsumoto, photographer
- Shirin Neshat, filmmaker, videographer, photographer
- Deborah Niland, painter, illustrator
- Kilmeny Niland, painter, illustrator
- Cady Noland, sculptor
- Cornelia Parker, sculptor, drawing, installation artist
- Elisa Pritzker, contemporary artist
- Ingrid Pollard, portrait photographer
- Shani Rhys James, painter
- Jenny Scobel, painter
- Cindy Sherman, photographer, filmmaker
- Noriko Shinohara, multi-disciplinary artist
- Li Shuang, painter
- Jiang Shuo, sculptor
- Kiki Smith, sculptor, printmaker, installation art
- Renee Stout, photographer, installation art
- Rumiko Takahashi, illustrator, author
- Zoja Trofimiuk, sculptor, printmaker
- Alison Turnbull, painter, sculptor
- Linda Vallejo, painting, sculpture, ceramics
- Carrie Mae Weems, photographer, filmmaker
- Emmi Whitehorse, painter
- Sue Williams, British visual artist
- Francesca Woodman, photographer
1960–1969
- Jessica Abel, illustrator, author
- Yeşim Ağaoğlu, installation art
- Rachel Ara, conceptual and data art
- Sofia Areal, painter
- Cosima von Bonin, concept art
- Margarete Bagshaw, painter
- Fiona Banner, wordscapes, sculpture, drawing, installation
- Vanessa Beecroft, performance art
- Sonia Boyce, mixed media, photography, installation, text
- Cecily Brown, painter
- Tiffany Lee Brown, interdisciplinary arts, performance, music, writing
- Carolyn Cole, photographer
- Justine Cooper, mixed media
- Cecilie Dahl, installation artist
- Tacita Dean, film, drawing, photography, sound
- Simone Decker, artist working with photography and installations
- Berlinde De Bruyckere, painter, sculptor
- Inka Essenhigh, painter
- Mary Evans , installation, works on paper
- Abigail Fallis, sculptor
- Ceal Floyer
- Anna Fox, photographer
- Else Gabriel, performance artist and educator
- Ellen Gallagher, painter, mixed media artist
- Patricia Goslee, painter, curator
- Brita Granström, painter, illustrator, author
- Taraneh Hemami, multidisciplinary artist, installations, craft
- Maya Hayuk, painter, muralist
- Chantal Joffe, painter
- Lori Kay, sculptor, mixed media
- Hilja Keading, video installation artist
- Toba Khedoori, sculptor, mixed-media, drawings, paintings
- Rachel Khedoori, sculptor, mixed-media
- Lorena Kloosterboer, painter, sculptor
- Zoe Leonard, photographer, visual artist
- Vera Lutter, mixed-media
- Maria Marshall, sculptor, painter, photographer, video artist
- Amanda Matthews, sculptor, painter, public art designer
- Shari Mendelson, American sculptor
- Mariko Mori, performance, installation
- Eva Navarro, painter
- Virginia Nimarkoh, photo installations
- Audrey Niffenegger, printmaker, author
- Catherine Opie, photographer
- Janette Parris, drawing
- Olivia Peguero, painter, sculptor, author
- Jennifer Wynne Reeves, painter
- Lique Schoot, painter, photographer, installation
- Lorna Simpson, photographer
- Jonny Star, sculptor, installation artist, collage artist
- Maud Sulter, portraiture, montage
- Roxanne Swentzell, sculptor
- Sarah Sze, installation art
- Tomoko Takahashi, installation art
- Jill Thompson, illustrator, author
- Patience Torlowei, textile artist
- Verónica Ruiz de Velasco, painter
- Kara Walker, collage artist, painter, printmaker, installation artist
- Bettina Werner, artist who invented the textured colorized salt crystal technique as an art medium
- Rachel Whiteread, sculptor
- Melanie Yazzie, sculptor, painter, printmaker
- Laurie Walker , interdisciplinary artist
1970–1979
- Jumana Emil Abboud, multidisciplinary artist
- Golnar Adili, multidisciplinary artist
- Shereen Audi, multidisciplinary artist
- Amanda Browder, installation artist
- Bogna Burska, installation artist
- Lara Favaretto, installation artist and sculptor
- Eva Grubinger, installation artist
- Hollis Hammonds, installation artist
- Hiromix, photographer
- Rachel Kneebone, sculptor
- Anya Liftig, performance artist
- Sanaz Mazinani, multidisciplinary artist
- Julie Mehretu, painter
- Grytė Pintukaitė, painter
- Sara Rahbar, contemporary mixed media artist
- Amanda Ross-Ho, interdisciplinary artist
- Jenny Saville, painter
- Taryn Simon, conceptual artist
- Josephine Taylor, painter
- Marianne Vitale, installation artist
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, painter
- Joanna Zastróżna, photographer