Amy Sherald
Rising to fame after being hand-picked by former First Lady Michelle Obama to paint her official portrait, Amy Sherald is today one of the best-known Black American artists.
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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.
Carrie Mae Weems
Decades before the #BlackLivesMatter movement stamped itself into our collective psyche, Carrie Mae Weems was living its message by example through provocative artwork about racial representation.
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.
Débora Arango
Débora Arango was one of Colombia’s most original and fearless 20th century artists.
Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
Ida Eise
New Zealand artist and teacher
Ethel Rhind
Irish mosaic and stained-glass artist
Wilhelmina Geddes
Irish stained-glass artist