Female Artists

1. Frida Kahlo- Frida Kahlo is a Mexican Artist who is remembered for her self-portraits and use of emotion in her works. She is often celebrated in Mexico for bringing attention to Mexican and indigenous culture and by feminists for her depiction of the female experience and form. 

Frida Kahlo, Broken Column, 1944

2.  Louise Bourgeois- a French-American Artist, best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art. Her art mostly themed in domesticity and he family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious.

Maman 1999

3. Adrian Piper- is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial passing, and racism by using various traditional and non-traditional media to provoke self-analysis. 

Cornered 1988

4. Betye Saar- is an African American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She is also a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity.Her work is considered highly political, as she challenged negative ideas about African-Americans throughout her career.

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,1972

5. Barber Kruger-is an American conceptual artist and collagist. Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality.