List of 20th-century women artists

Mary Cassatt Self-portrait, c. 1878, gouache on paper, 23 5/8 × 16 3/16 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decades and year of birth.

Before 1880

Lilla Cabot Perry, Self Portrait, 1892

Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903 etching

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait, 1906

Natalia Goncharova, Self-portrait, 1907

Suzanne Valadon, The Bath, 1908, pastel. 60×49 cm., Museum of Grenoble, France

Romaine Brooks, Miss Natalie Barney, "L'Amazone" (1920)

Louise Abbéma (1858–1927), painter, printmaker and sculptor
Elenore Abbott (1875–1935), painter, teacher
Helen Allingham (1848–1926), painter and illustrator^[1]
Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), painter^[1]
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), painter
Anna Ancher (1859–1935), Danish painter
Sophie Anderson (1823–1903), painter
Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), painter
Pauline Auzou, (1775-1835), painter
Josefa de Óbidos, (c. 1630-1684)
Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter
Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), painter
Jane E. Bartlett (1839 - 1923), painter and portraitist
Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), painter and interior designer
Alice Boughton (c. 1866–1943), photographer
Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), painter
Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952), sculptor
Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923), watercolorist
Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), painter
Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871–1916), sculptor
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), photographer
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), painter, printmaker
Nellie Charlie (1867–1965), basket weaver
Émilie Charmy ("shar-mee") (1878–1974), painter
Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay (1871-1959)
Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951), painter
Kate Cory (1861–1958), painter, sculptor
Elinor Darwin (1871–1954), engraver, portrait painter
Jenny Eakin Delony (1866–1949), painter
Edith Dimock (1876–1955), painter
Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877–1952), painter
Florence Dreyfous (1868–1950), painter
Mabel Esplin (1874–1921), stained glass artist
Florence Esté (1860–1926), painter
Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951), painter, photographer
Christian Jane Fergusson (1876-1957), painter
Mary Foote (1872–1968), painter
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Dada
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), sculptor, painter, poet
Ethel Gabain (1883-1950), painter
Margaret Gere (1878-1965), painter
Anne Goldthwaite (1869–1944), printmaker, painter
Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871–1954), painter, illustrator
Elena Guro (1877–1913), painter, writer
Edith Haworth (1878–1953), painter
Anna Hope (Nan) Hudson (1869–1957), painter
Gwen John (1876–1939), painter
Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962), painter, teacher^[2]
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), photographer
Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photographer
Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958), painter
Louisa Keyser (Datsolalee) (c. 1829/1850–1925), Washoe basket weaver
Kitty Lange Kielland (1843–1914), painter
Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), painter
Laura Knight (1877–1970), painter
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), printmaker, sculptor, painter
Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor
Jessie Lipscomb (1861–1952), sculptor
Séraphine Louis (1864–1942), painter
Sr. Maria Stanisia (née Monica Kurkowski; 1878–1967), painter
Edith Maryon (1872–1924), sculptor
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), painter
Blanche Hoschedé Monet (1865–1947), painter
Grandma Moses (1860–1961), painter
Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), painter
Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist
Violet Oakley (1874–1961), muralist, stained glass
Clara Weaver Parrish (1861–1925) painter, stained glass
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter
Vinnie Ream (1847–1914), sculptor
Ethel Sands (1873–1962), painter
Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), painter
Janet Scudder (1869–1940), sculptor
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), painter, illustrator
Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope (1857–1944), sculptor, painter
Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933), painter
Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), painter
Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter
Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955), sculptor
Nellie Walker (1874–1973), sculptor
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938), painter
Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior and textile designer
Enid Yandell (1870–1934), sculptor

1880–1889

Marie Laurencin, 1913, Le Bal élégant, La Danse à la campagne

Sonia Delaunay, The last section of La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, 1913

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1921

Rowena Meeks Abdy (1887–1945), painter
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) photographer
Nessa Cohen, (1885–1976), sculptor
Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), photographer
Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), painter^[3]
Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), Brazilian painter
Aleksandra Ekster (1882–1949), painter
Ester Ellqvist (1880-1918), painter
Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966), sculptor
Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), painter
Norah Neilson Gray (1882-1972), painter
Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948), painter
Hannah Höch (1889–1978), photographer^[3]
Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966), sculptor
Valentine Hugo (1887-1968), illustrator
Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter, printmaker
Geneva Mercer (1889–1984), sculptor
Ethel Myers (1881–1960), sculptor, painter
Ella Naper (1886-1972), jeweller & potter
Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961), painter
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), painter^[3]
Clara Elsene Peck (1883–1968), painter, illustrator
Agnes Pelton (1881–1961), painter
Anne Ryan (1889–1954), painter
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884–1967), painter
Henrietta Shore (1880–1963), painter
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), painter
Lucy Telles (c. 1885–1955), Mono Lake Paiute-Yosemite Miwok basket weaver
Doris Ulmann (1882–1934), photographer
Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948), painter
Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989), painter
Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887–1968), painter

1890–1899

Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne, 1918

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer
Karimeh Abbud (1896–1955), photographer
Eileen Agar (1899–1991), painter, collage
Anni Albers (1899–1994), designer, weaver and graphic artist
Elsie Allen (1899–1990), Cloverdale Pomo basket weaver
Mabel Alvarez (1891–1985), painter
Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), printmaker, painter, illustrator
Carrie Bethel (1898–1974), Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver
Clara Birnberg (1894–1989), illustrator, portraitist, sculptor
Dorrit Black (1891–1951), painter
Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), painter
Elise Blumann (1897–1990), painter
Claude Cahun (1894–1954), photographer, author
Dora Carrington (1893–1932), painter
Trena Cox (1895–1980), stained glass artist
Grace Crowley (1890–1979), painter
Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), photographer
Florence Davidson (1896–1993), Haida basket weaver
Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), photographer
Minetta Good (1895-1946), artist, muralist
Jeanne Hébuterne (1898–1920), painter
Margaret Calkin James (1895–1985), calligrapher, graphic designer, textile printer, watercolour painter, printmaker
Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990), photographer
Georgina Klitgard (1893-1976), muralist
Katarzyna Kobro (1898–1951), sculptor
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer
Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980), painter^[3]
Lucile Lloyd (1894–1941), muralist
Suzanne Malherbe (1892–1972), illustrator, designer
Hildreth Meiere (1892–1961), mosaicist
Yevonde Middleton (1893–1975), photographer
Lilian May Miller (1895–1943), woodblock printer and painter
Tina Modotti (1896–1942), photographer
Lucia Moholy (1894–1989), photographer
Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890-1925), painter
Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), sculptor^[3]
Bashka Paeff (1894–1979), sculptor
Tonita Peña (1893–1949), works on paper, muralist
Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968), painter, printmaker
Dod Procter (1892–1972), painter
Kay Sage (1898–1963), painter
Augusta Savage (1892–1962), sculptor
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), fashion, textiles
Dorothy Hope Smith (1895–1955), artist
Alma Thomas (1891–1978), painter
Ogura Yuki (1895–2000), painter
Margaret Firth (1898-1991), painter

1900–1909

Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Resettlement Administration poster, c. 1935–1937

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), painter
Mary Adshead (1904-1995), muralist, painter
Maxine Albro (1903–1966), muralist, printmaker
Catherine Tharp Altvater (1907–1984), painter
Grace Greenwood Ames (1905–1979) artist, muralist
Rita Angus, (1908–1970) painter
Evgenia Baykova (1907–1997), painter
Suzanne Belperron (1900–1983), jeweler
Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), photographer
Isabel Bishop (1902–1988), painter
Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999) painter
Dorr Bothwell (1902–2000), painter, printmaker
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), photographer
Lola Álvarez Bravo (1907–1993), photographer
Emmy Bridgewater (1906–1999), painter, poet
Felicia Browne (1904–1936), artist, activist
Margaret Brundage (1900–1976), illustrator
Norma Bull (1906-1980), painter
Selma Burke (1900–1995), sculptor
Marie Z. Chino (1907–1982), ceramic artist
Grace Clements (1905–1969), muralist, mosaicist, art critic
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker
Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960), painter
Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997), sculptor, painter, printmaker
Perle Fine (1905–1988), painter
Leonor Fini (1907–1996), painter
Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (1909–2010), painter
Gisèle Freund (1908 or 1912–2000), photographer
Evelyn Gibbs (1905–1991), engraver, art teacher
Marion Gilmore (1909-1984), artist, muralist
Elizabeth Ginno (1907 – 1991) painter, printmaker
Marion Greenwood (1909–1970), artist, muralist
Edith Hamlin (1902–1992), muralist, landscape and portrait painter
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), sculptor^[3]
Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983), print maker and sculptor
Karen Holtsmark (1907–1998), painter
Ray Howard-Jones (1903-1996), painter
Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998), painter
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) painter^[3]
Maude Kegg (1904–1986), bead artist
Anna Kostrova (1909–1994), painter, graphic artist
Lee Krasner (1908–1984), painter^[3]
Doris Lee (1905–1983), painter
Ruth Harriet Louise (1903–1940), photographer
Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999), painter
Mabel McKay (1907–1993), basket weaver
Miriam McKinnie (1906-1987), muralist
Dora Maar (1907–1997), photographer, painter, poet
Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), painter
Hansel Mieth (1909–1998), photographer
Lee Miller (1907–1977), photographer
Lisette Model (1901–1983), photographer
Barbara Morgan (1900–1992), photographer
Fannie Nampeyo (1900–1987), potter, ceramic artist
Alice Neel (1900–1984), painter
Essie Parrish (1902–1979), Kashaya Pomo basket weaver
Betty Parsons (1900–1982), painter, gallerist
Irene Rice Pereira (1902–1971), painter, author
Mary Potter (1900–1981) painter
Alice Rahon (1904 – 1987) painter
Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), filmmaker
Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901–1980), painter
Stella Schmolle, (1908-1975), painter
Ethel Schwabacher, (1903–1984), painter
Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903–2004), painter, lithographer
Elena Skuin (1909–1986), painter
Lenore Tawney (1907-2007), fiber artist, sculptor
Remedios Varo (1908–1963), painter
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), painter
Ilse Weber (1908–1984), painter
Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997), painter
Maria Zubreeva (1900–1991), painter, graphic artist

1910–1919

Ida Abelman (1910-2002) painter
Taisia Afonina (1913–1994) painter
Evgenia Antipova (1917–2009) painter
Eve Arnold (1912–2012) photographer
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) sculptor^[3]
Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004) painter, opera singer
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) painter
Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) sculptor, printmaker
Chien-Ying Chang (1913-2004), painter
Malvina Cheek (born 1915), painter
Helen Cordero (1915–1994), ceramic artist
Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), painter
Maya Deren (1917–1961), filmmaker and theorist, photographer
Jane Frank (1918–1986), mixed-media painter, sculptor
Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999), sculptor, assemblage
Nora Heysen (1911–2003), painter
Erlund Hudson (1912 – 2011), painter
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) painter, illustrator, novelist
Kali (1918 – 1998) painter
Gwendolyn Knight (1914–2005), painter
Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993), painter
Maria Lassnig (born 1919), painter
Helen Levitt (1913–2009), photographer
Frances Macdonald, (1914-2002), painter
Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), painter
Agnes Martin (1912–2004), painter^[3]
Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913–2001), painter
Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917–2000), painter
Mona Moore (1917-2000), painter
Hilda Grossman Morris (1911–1991), sculptor
Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985), sculptor^[3]
Juliet Pannett (1911–2005), portrait artist
Tuulikki Pietilä (1917–2009), illustrator
Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978), painter, graphic artist, fashion designer, book illustrator
Ruth Ray (1919–1977), painter
Maria Rudnitskaya (1916–1983), painter
Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943), painter
Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), painter
Clara Sherman (born 1915), textile art
Nadezhda Shteinmiller (1915–1991), painter, stage designer
Hedda Sterne (1910–2011), painter
Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), painter
Gerda Taro (1910–1937), photographer
Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), photographer
Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917–1990) painter
Pablita Velarde (1918–2006), painter
Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), photographer
Joan Elizabeth Woollard (1916–2008), sculptor

1920–1929

Carla Accardi (1924–2014), painter
Ida Applebroog (born 1929), painter
Diane Arbus (1923–1971), photographer
Alice Baber (1928–1982), painter
Jo Baer (born 1929), painter
Irina Baldina (1922–2009), painter
Hannelore Baron (1926–1987), collage artist
Zlata Bizova (born 1927), painter
Nell Blaine (1922–1996), painter
Esther Bubley (1921–1998), photographer
Crucita Calabaza (Blue Corn, c.1920–1999), ceramic artist
Jean Cooke RA (1927–2008), artist
Marie Cosindas (born 1925), photographer
Amanda Crowe (1928–2004), woodcarver
Jay DeFeo (1929–1989), painter, visual artist
Lois Dodd (born 1927), painter
Mavis Doering, (1929–2007), Cherokee basket weaver
Rosalyn Drexler (born 1926), painter
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (born 1924), sculpture
Jackie Ferrara (born 1929), sculptor
Mary Fitzpayne (born 1928), painter
Victorine Foot (1920-2000), painter
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), painter
Jane Freilicher (1924–2014), painter
Sonia Gechtoff (born 1926), painter
Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005), painter
Françoise Gilot (born 1921), painter, writer
Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (1920–2010), painter
Grace Hartigan (1922–2008), painter
Martha Holmes (1923–2006), photographer
Mansooreh Hosseini (born 1926), painter
Lila Katzen (1925–1998), sculptor
Maya Kopitseva (1924–2005), painter
Tatiana Kopnina (1921–2009), painter
Elena Kostenko (born 1926), painter
Marina Kozlovskaya (born 1925), painter
Yayoi Kusama (born 1929), sculpture/performance/installation
Valeria Larina (1926–2008), painter
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), painter
Inge Morath (1923–2002), photographer
Margaret Olley (1923–2011), painter
Mimi Parent (1924–2005), painter
Galina Rumiantseva (1927–2004), painter
Kapitolina Rumiantseva (1925–2002), painter
Betye Saar (born 1926), assemblage sculpture ^[4]
Behjat Sadr (1924–2009), painter
Takako Saito (born 1929), installation art, performance art
Honoré Desmond Sharrer (1920–2009), painter
Galina Smirnova (born 1929), painter
Nancy Spero (1926–2009), painter
Hannah Tompkins (1920–1995), painter, printmaker
Anne Truitt (1921–2004), sculptor
Nina Veselova (1922–1960), painter
Jane Wilson (1924–2015), painter
Leona Wood (1921–2008), painter
Sandra Blow (1925-2006), painter
Druie Bowett (1924-1998), painter
Geta Bratescu (born 1926), visual artist
Cynthia Kenny (born 1929), painter

1930–1939

Magdalena Abakanowicz(born 1930) sculptor and graphic artist
Alice Adams (born 1930), sculptor, textile art, earthworks
Emma Andijewska (born 1931), painter, writer
Gayleen Aiken (1934–2005), painter, musician
Helene Aylon (born 1931), sculptor
Hilla Becher (born 1934), photographer
Karen Boccalero (1933 – 1997), printmaker
Lee Bontecou (born 1931), sculptor, printmaker
Joan Brown (1938–1990), painter
Judy Chicago (born 1939), installation artist^[3]
Chryssa (1933–2013), sculptor
Iran Darroudi (born 1936), painter
Irina Dobrekova (born 1931), painter
Marisol Escobar (born 1930), sculptor
Janet Fish (born 1938), painter
Audrey Flack (born 1931), painter, printmaker, sculptor
Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993), sculptor, printmaker
Irina Getmanskaya (born 1939), painter
Tatiana Gorb (born 1935), painter
Shirley Gorelick (1936-2000), painter
Elena Gorokhova (born 1933), painter
Nancy Graves (1939–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker
Eva Hesse (1936–1970), sculptor^[3]
Nicole Hollander (born 1939), illustration, comics
Nancy Holt(1938–2014), sculptor/ land art
Joan Jonas (1936), performance
Alison Knowles (born 1933), Fluxus, performance artist
Sara Leighton (born 1937), portrait painter
Lee Lozano (born 1930), painter
Totte Mannes (born 1933), painter
Emily Mason (born 1932), painter
Valentina Monakhova (born 1932), painter
Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991), performance artist, Fluxus
Ree Morton (1933–1977), painter
Vera Nazina (born 1931), painter
Carol Heifetz Neiman (1937–1990), xerox artist, printmaker, pastel, pencil, painter
Yoko Ono (born 1933), performance art, music^[3]
Nancy Petyarre (1934/38?–2009), painter
Deborah Remington (1930–2010), painter
Bridget Riley (born 1931), painter^[3]
Faith Ringgold (born 1930), painter
Carolee Schneemann (born 1939), performance artist^[3]
Anita Steckel (1930–2012), graphic artist
Pat Steir (born 1938), painter
Marjorie Strider (1931-2014), sculptor
Michelle Stuart (born 1933), painter, sculptor, photographer
Anita Louise Suazo (born 1937), ceramics
Atsuko Tanaka (1932–2005), painting, sculpture, performance art, installation art
Gillian Ayres (born 1930), painter

1940–1949

Marina Abramović (born 1946), performance artist^[3]
Gretchen Albrecht, (born 1943), painter^[1]
Laurie Anderson (born 1947), performance artist^[3]
Heather Angel (born 1941), photographer, author
Alice Aycock (1946), sculptor
Tina Barney (born 1945), photographer, filmmaker
Anne Bascove (born 1946), painter, printmaker, mixed media
Lynda Benglis (born 1941), sculptor
Vivienne Binns (born 1940), painter, enamels
Melinda Bordelon (1949–1995), painter, illustrator
Rhea Carmi (born 1942), abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist
Squeak Carnwath (born 1947), painter
Vera Chino (born 1943), Acoma Pueblo ceramic artist
Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007), sculptor fine art lecturer
Susan Crile (born 1942), painter
Lynn Davis (born 1944), photographer
Orshi Drozdik (born 1946), photographer, sculptor
Bracha Ettinger (born 1948), painter, photographer, psychoanalyst, writer
Valie Export (born 1940), performance artist, video installations, photography
Carole Feuerman (born 1945), sculptor
Rose Garrard (born 1946), installation, video and performance
Jan Groover (1943–2012), photographer
Kathy Grove (born 1948), conceptual artist
Maggi Hambling (born 1945), painter, sculptor
Helen Hardin (1943–1984), painter
Margaret Harrison (born 1940), painter
Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006), photographer
Rebecca Horn (born 1944), sculptor, installation art
Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), photographer
Sanja Iveković (born 1949), interdisciplinary artist
Mary Kelly (artist) (born 1941), installation art, interdisciplinary
Gayane Khachaturian (1942–2009), painter
Barbara Kruger (born 1945), conceptual artist^[3]
Annie Leibovitz (born 1949), photographer
Pat Lipsky, (born 1940), painter
Hung Liu, (born 1948), painter
Markéta Luskačová (born 1944), photographer
Mary Ellen Mark (born 1940), photographer
Linda McCartney (1942–1998), photographer
Susan Meiselas (born 1948), photographer
Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), performance art, sculptor^[3]
Annette Messager (born 1943), installation art, interdisciplinary
Sheila Mullen (born 1942), painter
Glòria Muñoz (born 1949), painter
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007), painter, printmaker
Avis Newman (born 1946), painter, sculptor
Gladys Nilsson (born 1940), painter
Guity Novin (born 1944), painter
Orlan 1947 performance artist^[3]
Gloria Petyarre (born 1945), painter
Adrian Piper (born 1948), conceptual artist
Sylvia Plachy (born 1943), photographer
Judy Rifka (born 1945) painter, video artist
Suellen Rocca (born 1943), painter
Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948), photographer
Martha Rosler (born 1943), photographer, performance, video
Barbara Rossi (born 1940), painter
Ursula von Rydingsvard (born 1942), sculptor
Barbara Schwartz (1949–2006), painter, sculptor
Sandy Skoglund (born 1946), photographer
Hollis Sigler (1948–2001), painter
Joan Snyder (born 1940), painter
Annegret Soltau (born 1946), graphic, performance, video, photocollage
Vicki Stone (born 1949), painter
Altoon Sultan (born 1948), painter
Carol Sutton (born 1945), painter
Berenice Sydney (1944–1983), paintings, drawings, prints, children's books, costume design, performance
Joyce Tenneson (born 1945), photographer
Mym Tuma (born 1940), painter and mixed-media artist
Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), sculptor, photographer^[3]
Annie Williams (born 1942), watercolour artist
Val Wilmer (born 1941), photographer, author
Jackie Winsor (born 1941), sculptor
Fionnuala Boyd, (born 1944)

1950–1959

Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959), videographer, photographer
Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954), filmmaker
Davida Allen (born 1951), painter, filmmaker
Cecilia Alvarez (born 1950), painter, muralist
Annie Antone (born 1955), basket weaver
Anne Appleby (born 1954), painter
Lynda Barry (born 1956), illustrator, comics
Chrisann Brennan (born 1954) painter
Chila Kumari Burman (born 1957) printmaker, painter, installation artist
Sophie Calle (born 1953), photographer, author, installation artist, conceptual artist
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), painter
Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958), sculptor
Susan Derges (born 1955), photographic artist
Joanne Gair (born 1958), painter, body art
Anne Geddes (born 1956), photographer
Nan Goldin (born 1953), photographer^[3]
Akiko Hatsu (born 1959), illustrator, comics
Roni Horn (born 1955), photographer
Mona Hatoum (born 1952), video, installation
Lubaina Himid (born 1954), mixed media
Leiko Ikemura (born 1951), painter, sculptor
Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings (born 1952), bead and textile artist
Maya Lin (born 1959), installation artist
Marita Liulia (born 1957), photographer, digital and interactive media
Sally Mann (born 1951), photographer
Soraida Martinez (born 1956), artist, designer
Michiko Matsumoto(born 1950),photographer
Shirin Neshat (born 1957), filmmaker, videographer, photographer
Deborah Niland (born 1950), painter, illustrator
Kilmeny Niland (1950–2009), painter, illustrator
Cady Noland (1956), sculptor
Cornelia Parker (born 1956), sculptor, drawing, installation artist
Ingrid Pollard (1953), portrait photographer
Shani Rhys James (born 1953), painter
Jenny Scobel (born 1955), painter
Cindy Sherman (born 1954), photographer, filmmaker^[3]
Li Shuang (born 1957), painter
Jiang Shuo (born 1958), sculptor
Kiki Smith (born 1954), sculptor, printmaker, installation art
Renee Stout (born 1958), photographer, installation art
Rumiko Takahashi (born 1957), illustrator, author
Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952), sculptor, printmaker
Alison Turnbull (born 1956), painter, sculptor
Linda Vallejo (born 1951), painting, sculpture, ceramics
Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), photographer, filmmaker
Emmi Whitehorse (born 1957), painter
Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), photographer
Zhang Xin (born 1953), painter

1960–1969

Jessica Abel (born 1969), illustrator, author
Yeşim Ağaoğlu (born 1966), installation art
Margarete Bagshaw (born 1964), painter
Fiona Banner (born 1966), wordscapes, sculpture, drawing, installation
Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969), performance art
Sonia Boyce (born 1962), mixed media, photography, installation, text
Cecily Brown (born 1969), painter
Carolyn Cole (born 1961), photographer
Justine Cooper (born 1968), mixed media
Tacita Dean (born 1965), film, drawing, photography, sound
Inka Essenhigh (born 1969), painter
Mary Evans (born 1963), mixed media
Abigail Fallis (born 1968), sculptor
Anna Fox (born 1961), photographer
Ellen Gallagher (born 1965), painter, mixed media artist
Brita Granström (born 1969), painter, illustrator, author
Taraneh Hemami (born 1960), multidisciplinary artist, installations, craft
Maya Hayuk (born 1969), painter, muralist
Chantal Joffe (born 1969), painter
Toba Khedoori (1964), sculptor, mixed-media, drawings, paintings
Rachel Khedoori (1964), sculptor, mixed-media
Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photographer, visual artist
Vera Lutter (born 1960), mixed-media
Mariko Mori (born 1967), performance, installation^[3]
Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967), photo installations
Audrey Niffenegger (born 1963), printmaker, author
Catherine Opie (born 1961), photographer
Janette Parris (born 1963), drawing

Olivia Peguero (born 1962),painter, sculptor, author
Lique Schoot (born 1969), painter, photographer, installation
Lorna Simpson (born 1960), photographer
Maud Sulter (1960–2008), portraiture, montage
Roxanne Swentzell (born 1962), sculptor
Sarah Sze (born 1969), installation art
Tomoko Takahashi (born 1966), installation art
Jill Thompson (born 1966), illustrator, author
Verónica Ruiz de Velasco (born 1968), painter
Kara Walker (born 1969), collage artist, painter, printmaker, installation artist^[3]
Bettina Werner (born 1965), a pioneer artist who invented the textured colorized salt crystal technique, in the early 80's, as an art medium- first in the History of Art
Rachel Whiteread (born 1963), sculptor^[3]
Melanie Yazzie (born 1966), sculptor, painter, printmaker
Laurie Walker (artist) (born 1962), interdisciplinary artist

1970–1979

Hiromix (born 1976), photographer
Rachel Kneebone (born 1973), sculptor
Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), multidisciplinary artist
Julie Mehretu (born 1970), painter
Amanda Ross-Ho (born 1975), interdisciplinary artist
Jenny Saville (born 1970), painter
Taryn Simon (born 1975), conceptual artist
Marianne Vitale, (born 1973), installation artist
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977), painter
Eva Grubinger (born 1970), installation artist

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Dictionary of Women Artists" Edited by Delia Gaze. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, pp. 161-165.
↑ Clint Weber, The Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong: The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm, 2012, ISBN 0-9851601-0-1 ISBN 978-0-9851601-0-4
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 (English)Uta Grosenick, Ilka Becker (2001). Women artists in the 20th and 21st century. Taschen. ISBN 3-8228-5854-4.
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Orford, Emily-Jane Hills. (2008). "The Creative Spirit: Stories of 20th Century Artists". Ottawa: Baico Publishing. ISBN 978-1-897449-18-9.