Lydia Zvereva
Russian aviation pioneer, becoming the first woman in Russia to obtain a pilot’s license.
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Rosy Gibb
Irish social worker, clown, and magician
ORLAN
ORLAN molds her own flesh in the service of her art.
Andrea Fraser
A pioneering Feminist and institutional critique artist, Andrea Fraser strikes at the heart of the art world system. She has explored (and critiqued) topics ranging from the rhetoric of cultural value upheld by museum institutions, the role of the artist as a purveyor of goods and services in the commodified art world, to the cultural sector’s complicity with racism and structural inequality.
Coco Fusco
Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.
Eleanor Antin
Artist Eleanor Antin’s work questions the role of women and artists in society, the different identities everyone maintains, and the histories and legacies of contrasting artistic traditions.
Lola Montez
Irish dancer and adventuress
Christine McKoy
Conjoined twin who, with her sister, performed song and dance around the world as “The Two-Headed Nightingale”
Millie McKoy
Conjoined twin who, with her sister, performed song and dance around the world as “The Two-Headed Nightingale”
E Pauline Johnson
Native American author and poet