Feminist Art Movement - Major Exhibitions

Major Exhibitions

• 1976: Women Artists: 1550-1950 curated by Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the first major museum survey of the subject of women in the arts and a result of the 1971 protests.
• 1979: The Dinner Party, the installation/artwork by Judy Chicago that depicts place settings for 39 mythical and historical famous women, was produced from 1974 to 1979 as a collaboration. It now has a permanent home at the Brooklyn Museum.
• 1994: Bad Girls, organized by Marcia Tucker at the New Museum and Marcia Tanner, a companion show at the Wight Art Gallery at UCLA.
• 1996: "Inside the Visible," organized by Catherine de Zegher at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA),the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth in 1997.
• 2007: Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, curated by Connie Butler for Los Angeles' Geffen Center or Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, was a comprehensive, historical exhibition, examining the international foundations and legacy of feminist art, and focusing on the period of 1965–1980, during which the majority of feminist activism and art-making occurred. The exhibition traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C, to the PS1 satellite of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and to the Vancouver Art Gallery. It focused heavily on artists from the United States but also included the work of a number of women from Central and Eastern Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
• 2007: Global Feminisms curated by Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly at the Brooklyn Museum.
• 2008: Making It Together curated by Carey Lovelace at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City explored women artists and collectivity in ways that engage communities and address social issues.
• 2009: A Studio of Their Own: The Legacy of the Fresno Feminist Experiment curated by Laura Meyer showcased the influence and work of artists from the first feminist art program in the world.
• 2010-2011 elles@Centrepompidou at Pompidou Centre, Paris.
• 2011: Doin' It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building organized by Otis College of Art and Design not only includes the exhibition, but also two scholarly books, and several public events that document, contextualize and pay tribute to the groundbreaking work of feminist artists and cooperatives that were centered around the Los Angeles Woman's Building in the 1970s and 1980s. Doin' It In Public is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980, an unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, that brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
• 2012-2013: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibits works from the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women.