The Woman Gallery

Women in Art · 15th Century to the Present

A two-ink risograph print in warm terracotta and deep charcoal on off-white paper, showing a gallery interior with framed portraits arranged across softly lit walls, quiet and contemplative.

Welcome to The Woman Gallery

Highlighting the role of women in art — as artists and as subjects — from the 15th century through the present day.

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The Invented Worlds of Remedios Varo and the Science of Imagination
Remedios Varo built paintings that feel like laboratories, observatories and dream chambers at once. Their inhabitants study invisible forces, travel through…
How Barbara Kruger’s Typography Rewired Visual Culture
Barbara Kruger made language impossible to ignore. Her stark combinations of black, white and red turned short statements into visual confrontations, placing…
Hidden in plain sight: the female patrons of Renaissance Florence
Renaissance Florence is often told through the names of powerful men: Cosimo de’ Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Filippo Brunelleschi and Michelangelo. Yet…
Eva Hesse’s Visual Diary And The Language Of Material
Eva Hesse’s art feels intimate without becoming confessional. Her sculptures and drawings record hesitation, repetition, breakdown and renewal through…
Tracey Emin's bed as a testament to confessional art
In 1998, a forty-year-old British artist walked into a gallery in London and presented the most intimate wreckage of her own life as an artwork. Sheets twisted…
Zaha Hadid's early paintings and the birth of her architectural vision
Before Zaha Hadid ever poured concrete or bent steel, she painted. The Iraqi-British architect who became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize treated…
A tribute to the quilted masterpieces of Elizabeth Catlett
The work of Elizabeth Catlett carries a gravity that resists easy classification, a quality that becomes especially vivid in her quilted compositions where…
Emily Carr's nocturnes and the wild heart of western Canada
Few twentieth-century painters understood the hush of a forest after dusk as deeply as Emily Carr. Working from her base in Victoria, on the southern tip of…
Berthe Morisot and the Art of Passing Time
Berthe Morisot made modern life feel wonderfully unstable. A hand reaches for a child, a breeze shifts a curtain, sunlight breaks across a garden, and the…
Clara Peeters And The Baroque Art Of Looking Closely
Clara Peeters transformed familiar objects into subjects of remarkable visual authority. A pewter plate, a cut lemon, a silver cup or a small group of fish…