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

Suzanne Valadon, The Bath, 1908, pastel. 60x49 cm., Museum of Grenoble, France

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

• Elenore Abbott (1875–1935), illustrator
• Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), painter
• Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter
• Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), painter
• Alice Boughton (c. 1866 – 1943), photographer
• Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), painter
• Romaine Brooks (1874–1970) painter
• Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), painter, printmaker
• Nellie Charlie (1867–1965), Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver
• Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877–1952), painter
• Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951) (painter, photographer)
• Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968) (sculptor, painter, poet)
• Grandma Moses (1860–1961) (painter)
• Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871–1954) (painter, illustrator)
• Elena Guro (1877–1913) (painter, writer)
• Gwen John (1876–1939) (painter)
• Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) (photographer)
• Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) (photographer)
• Louisa Keyser (Datsolalee) (ca. 1829/1850—1925), Washoe basket weaver
• Kitty Lange Kielland 1843–1914) (painter)
• Laura Knight (1877–1970) (painter)
• Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), printmaker, sculptor, painter
• Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939) (sculptor)
• Séraphine Louis (1864–1942) (painter)
• Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) (painter)
• Blanche Hoschedé Monet (1865–1947) (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
• Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) (painter)
• Janet Scudder (1869–1940), sculptor
• Vinnie Ream (1847–1914), sculptor
• Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935) (painter, illustrator)
• Sr. Maria Stanisia (1878–1967) (painter)
• Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), painter
• Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) (painter)
• Nellie Walker (1874–1973) (sculptor)
• Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior and textile designer
• Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) (painter)

1880–1889

Sonia Delaunay, Rythme, 1938

• Rowena Meeks Abdy (1887–1945) (painter)
• Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) (photographer)
• Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) (painter)
• Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962) (painter)
• Aleksandra Ekster (1882–1949) (painter)
• Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966), sculptor
• Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948) (painter)
• Hannah Höch (1889–1978) (photographer)
• Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966) (sculptor)
• Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) (painter, printmaker)
• Geneva Mercer (1889–1984) (sculptor)
• Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) (painter)
• Clara Elsene Peck (1883–1968) (painter, illustrator)
• 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)
• Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989) (painter)
• Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887–1968) (painter)

1890–1899

Orovida Camille Pissarro‎, Self-portrait age 20, 1913

• Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) (photographer)
• Karimeh Abbud (1896–1955) (photographer)
• Eileen Forrester Agar (1899–1991) (painter, collage)
• 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
• Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), painter
• Elise Blumann (1897–1990) (painter)
• Claude Cahun (1894–1954) (photographer, author)
• Dora Carrington (1893–1932) (painter)
• Grace Crowley (1890–1979) (painter)
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989) (photographer)
• Florence Davidson (1896–1993), Haida basket weaver
• Laura Gilpin (1891–1979) (photographer)
• Jeanne Hébuterne (1898–1920) (painter)
• Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) (photographer)
• Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980) (painter)
• Lucile Lloyd (1894–1941), muralist
• Suzanne Malherbe (1892–1972) (illustrator, designer)
• Hildreth Meiere (1892–1961) (mosaicist)
• Yevonde Middleton (1893–1975) (photographer)
• Tina Modotti (1896–1942) (photographer, actress)
• Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) (photographer)
• Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) (sculptor)
• Bashka Paeff (1894–1979) (sculptor)
• 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)
• Alma Thomas (1891–1978) (painter)
• Ogura Yuki (1895–2000) (painter)

1900–1909

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

• Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977) (painter)
• Maxine Albro (1903–1966), muralist, printmaker
• Catherine Tharp Altvater (1907–1984) (painter)
• Evgenia Baykova (1907–1997) (painter)
• Dorr Bothwell (1902–2000), painter, printmaker
• Lola Álvarez Bravo (1907–1993) (photographer)
• Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006) (photographer)
• Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) (painter)
• Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) (photographer)
• Emmy Bridgewater (1906–1999) (painter, poet)
• Margaret Brundage (1900–1976) (illustrator)
• Selma Burke (1900–1995) (sculptor)
• Marie Z. Chino (1907–1982), Acoma Pueblo ceramic artist
• Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker
• Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997), sculptor, painter, printmaker
• Perle Fine (1908–1988), painter
• Leonor Fini (1907–1996) (painter)
• Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (1909–2010), painter
• Gisèle Freund (1908 or 1912–2000) (photographer)
• Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) (sculptor)
• Karen Holtsmark (1907–1998) (painter)
• Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) (painter)
• Maude Kegg (1904–1986), Ojibwe bead artist
• Anna Kostrova (1909–1994), painter, graphic artist
• Lee Krasner (1908–1984) (painter)
• Ruth Harriet Louise (1903–1940) (photographer)
• Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999) painter
• Mabel McKay (1907–1993), Pomo-Patwin basket weaver
• 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
• Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003) (filmmaker)
• Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901–1980), painter
• Ethel Schwabacher (1903–1984), painter
• Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903–2004), painter, lithographer
• Elena Skuin (1909–1986) (painter)
• Remedios Varo (1908–1963) (painter)
• Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997), painter
• Maria Zubreeva (1900–1991), painter, graphic artist

1910–1919

Dorothea Tanning, Some Roses and their Phantoms, oil on canvas, 76.3 x 101.5cm, 1952, Tate Modern.

• Taisia Afonina (1913–1994) (painter)
• Evgenia Antipova (1917–2009) (painter)
• Eve Arnold (1912–2012) (photographer)
• Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) (sculptor)
• Leonora Carrington (born 1917) (painter)
• Elizabeth Catlett (born 1915) (sculptor, printmaker)
• Helen Cordero (1915–1994), Cochiti Pueblo ceramic artist
• Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), painter
• Maya Deren (1917–1961), Avant-garde filmmaker and theorist, photographer
• Jane Frank (1918–1986) (mixed-media painter, sculptor)
• Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999) (sculptor, assemblage)
• Nora Heysen (1911–2003) (painter)
• Tove Jansson (1914–2001) (painter, illustrator, novelist)
• Gwendolyn Knight (1914–2005) (painter)
• Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993) (painter)
• Helen Levitt (1913–2009) (photographer)
• Ethel Magafan (born 1916), painter
• Agnes Martin (1912–2004) (painter)
• Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913–2001) (painter)
• Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917–2000) (painter)
• Hilda Grossman Morris (1911–1991), sculptor
• Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) (sculptor)
• Tuulikki Pietilä (1917–2009) (illustrator)
• Ruth Ray (1919–1977) (painter)
• Maria Rudnitskaya (1916–1983) (painter)
• Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) (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)

1920–1929

Jay DeFeo, with an unfinished The Rose, c. early 1960s.

• 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)
• Esther Bubley (1921–1998) (photographer)
• Crucita Calabaza (Blue Corn, ca. 1920–1999), San Ildefonso Pueblo ceramic artist
• Marie Cosindas (born 1925) (photographer)
• Amanda Crowe (1928–2004) Eastern Cherokee 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
• Jackie Ferrara (born 1929), sculptor
• Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) (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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Leona Wood (1921–2008) (painter)

1930–1939

• 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)
• Lee Bontecou (born 1931) (sculptor, printmaker)
• Joan Brown (1938–1990), painter
• Judy Chicago (born 1939) (author and installation artist)
• Chryssa (born 1933), sculptor
• Iran Darroudi (born 1936) (painter)
• Irina Dobrekova (born 1931) (painter)
• Marisol Escobar (born 1930) (sculptor)
• Audrey Flack (born 1931) (painter, printmaker, sculptor)
• Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993) (sculptor, printmaker)
• Irina Getmanskaya (born 1939) (painter)
• Tatiana Gorb (born 1935) (painter)
• Elena Gorokhova (born 1933) (painter)
• Nancy Graves (1939–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker
• Eva Hesse (1936–1970) (sculptor)
• Nicole Hollander (born 1939) (illustration, comics)
• Alison Knowles (born 1933) (Fluxus, performance artist)
• 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)
• Vera Nazina (born 1931) (painter)
• Carol Heifetz Neiman (born 1937) (xerox artist, printmaker, pastel, pencil, painter)
• Yoko Ono (born 1933) (performance art, music)
• Nancy Petyarre (1934/38?–2009) (painter)
• Deborah Remington (1930–2010) (painter)
• Bridget Riley (born 1931) (painter)
• Faith Ringgold (born 1930) (painter)
• Carolee Schneemann (born 1939), performance artist
• Marjorie Strider (born 1930) (sculptor)
• Anita Louise Suazo (born 1937) (ceramics)
• Atsuko Tanaka (1932–2005) (painting, sculpture, performance art, installation art)

1940–1949

• Marina Abramović (born 1946) (performance artist)
• Laurie Anderson (born 1947) (performance artist)
• Heather Angel (born 1941) (photographer, author)
• Tina Barney (born 1945) (photographer, filmmaker)
• Lynda Benglis (born 1941) (sculptor)
• Vivienne Binns (born 1940) (painter, enamels)
• Melinda Bordelon (born 194?) (painter, illustrator)
• Rhea Carmi (born 1942) (abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist)
• Vera Chino (born 1943), Acoma Pueblo ceramic artist
• Susan Crile (born 1942) (painter)
• Lynn Davis (born 1944) (photographer)
• Bracha Ettinger (born 1948) (painter, photographer, psychoanalyst, writer)
• Valie Export 1940 (performance artist, video installations, photography)
• Carole Feuerman (born 1945) (sculptor)
• Jan Groover (1943–2012) (photographer)
• Helen Hardin (1943–1984) (painter)
• Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006) (photographer)
• Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947) (photographer)
• Gayane Khachaturian (1942–2009) (painter)
• Barbara Kruger (born 1945) (conceptual artist)
• Annie Leibovitz (born 1949) (photographer)
• 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)
• Sheila Mullen (born 1942) (painter)
• Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) (painter, printmaker)
• Gladys Nilsson (born 1940) (painter)
• Guity Novin (born 1944) (painter)
• Orlan 1947 (performance artist)
• Gloria Petyarre (born 1945) (painter)
• Adrian Piper (born 1948) (conceptual artist)
• Sylvia Plachy (born 1943) (photographer)
• Suellen Rocca (born 1943) (painter)
• Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948) (photographer)
• 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
• Pat Steir (born 1940), painter
• Carol Sutton (born 1945), painter
• Joyce Tenneson (born 1945) (photographer)
• Mym Tuma (born 1940) (painter, and mixed-media artist)
• Hannah Wilke (1940–1993) (sculptor, photographer)
• Jackie Winsor (born 1941), sculptor

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) (Tohono O'odham basket weaver)
• Anne Appleby (born 1954) (painter)
• Lynda Barry (born 1956) (illustrator, comics)
• Sophie Calle (born 1953) (photographer, author, installation artist, conceptual artist)
• Joanne Gair (born 1958) (painter, body art)
• Anne Geddes (born 19560 (photographer)
• Nan Goldin (born 1953) (photographer)
• Akiko Hatsu (born 1959) (illustrator, comics)
• Roni Horn (born 1955) (photographer)
• Mona Hatoum (born 1952) (video, installation)
• Leiko Ikemura (born 1951) (painter, sculptor)
• Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings (born 1952), Kiowa-Apache-Gila River Pima bead and textile artist
• Maya Lin (born 1959), installation artist
• Marita Liulia (born 1957) (photographer, digital and interactive media)
• Sally Mann (born 1951) (photographer)
• Shirin Neshat (born 1957) (filmmaker, videographer, photographer)
• Deborah Niland (born 1950) (painter, illustrator)
• Kilmeny Niland (1950–2009) (painter, illustrator)
• Cindy Sherman (born 1954) (photographer, filmmaker)
• Li Shuang (born 1957) (painter)
• Jiang Shuo (born 1958) (sculptor)
• Renee Stout (born 1958) (photographer, installation art)
• Rumiko Takahashi (born 1957) (illustrator, author)
• Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952) (sculptor, printmaker)
• 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)
• Margarete Bagshaw (born 1964) (painter)
• Cecily Brown (born 1969), painter
• Carolyn Cole (born 1961) (photographer)
• Inka Essenhigh (born 1969), painter
• Anna Fox (born 1961) (photographer)
• Brita Granström (born 1969) (painter, illustrator, author)
• Chantal Joffe (born 1969) (painter)
• Zoe Leonard (born 1961) (photographer, visual artist)
• Mariko Mori (born 1967) (performance, installation)
• Audrey Niffenegger (born 1963) (printmaker, author)
• Catherine Opie (born 1961) (photographer)
• Lique Schoot (born 1969) (painter, photographer, installation)
• Lorna Simpson (born 1960) (photographer)
• Roxanne Swentzell (born 1962) (sculptor)
• 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
• Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) (sculptor)
• Melanie Yazzie (born 1966) (sculptor, painter, printmaker)

1970–1979

• Hiromix (born 1976) (photographer)
• Julie Mehretu (born 1970) (painter)
• Jenny Saville (born 1970) (painter)

See also

• Women artists
• List of female comics creators
• List of Lulu Award winners
• Women in photography
• Photo-Secession
• Tenth Street galleries
• Depiction of women artists in art history
• Beaver Hall Group
• Native American women in the arts
• List of female sculptors