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.

pre-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)
• Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter
• Alice Boughton (c. 1866-1943) (photographer)
• Romaine Brooks (1874–1970) (painter)
• Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), painter, printmaker
• 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)
• Gwen John (1876–1939) (painter)
• Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) (photographer)
• Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) (photographer)
• Laura Knight (1877–1970) (painter)
• Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) (printmaker, sculptor, painter)
• Séraphine Louis (1864–1942) (painter)
• Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) (painter)
• Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) (painter)
• Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist
• Violet Oakley (1874–1961) (muralist, stained glass)
• Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter
• Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) (painter)
• 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 design
• 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)
• Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948) (painter)
• Hannah Höch (1889–1978) (photographer)
• Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966) (sculptor)
• Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) (painter, printmaker)
• 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)
• Doris Ulmann (1882–1934) (photographer)
• Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989) (painter)

1890-1899

Tina Modotti in the film The Tiger's Coat (1920)

• Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) (photographer)
• Karimeh Abbud (1896–1955) (photographer)
• Claude Cahun (1894–1954) (photographer, author)
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989) (photographer)
• Eileen Forrester Agar (1899–1991) (painter, collage)
• Elsie Allen (1899–1990) (textile art)
• Mabel Alvarez (1891–1985) (painter)
• Elise Blumann (1897–1990) (painter)
• Grace Crowley (1890–1979) (painter)
• Laura Gilpin (1891–1979) (photographer)
• Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) (photographer)
• Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980) (painter)
• 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)
• 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)
• Catherine Tharp Altvater (1907–1984) (painter)
• 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)
• Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker
• Perle Fine (1908–1988), painter
• Leonor Fini (1907–1996) (painter)
• Gisèle Freund (1908 or 1912–2000) (photographer)
• Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) (sculptor)
• Karen Holtsmark (1907–1998) (painter)
• Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) (painter)
• Lee Krasner (1908–1984) (painter)
• Ruth Harriet Louise (1903–1940) (photographer)
• 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)
• 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
• Remedios Varo (1908–1963) (painter)
• Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997), painter

1910-1919

• Evgenia Antipova (1917–2009) (painter)
• Eve Arnold (born 1912) (photographer)
• Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) (sculptor)
• Leonora Carrington (born 1917) (painter)
• Elizabeth Catlett (born 1915) (sculptor, printmaker)
• 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)
• Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) (sculptor)
• Tuulikki Pietilä (1917–2009) (illustrator)
• Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) (painter)
• Clara Sherman (born 1915) (textile art)
• Hedda Sterne (born 1910-) (painter)
• Dorothea Tanning (born 1910) (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

• Ida Applebroog (born 1929) (painter)
• Diane Arbus (1923–1971) (photographer)
• Jo Baer (born 1929) (painter)
• Irina Baldina (1922–2009) (painter)
• Hannelore Baron (1926–1987), collage artist
• Esther Bubley (1921–1998) (photographer)
• Marie Cosindas (born 1925) (photographer)
• Amanda Crowe (1928–2004) (sculptor)
• Jay DeFeo (1929–1989), painter, visual artist
• Lois Dodd (born 1927) (painter)
• Helen Frankenthaler (born 1928) (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)
• Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) (sculpture/performance/installation)
• Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) (painter)
• Inge Morath (1923–2002) (photographer)
• Margaret Olley (born 1923) (painter)
• Mimi Parent (1924–2005) (painter)
• Behjat Sadr (1924–2009) (painter)
• Takako Saito (born 1929) (installation art, performance art)
• Nancy Spero (1926–2009) (painter)
• Hannah Tompkins (1920–1995) (painter, printmaker)
• Anne Truitt (1921–2004), sculptor

1930-1939

• Alice Adams (born 1930) (sculptor, textile art, earthworks)
• 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)
• Iran Darroudi (born 1936) (painter)
• Marisol Escobar (born 1930) (sculptor)
• Audrey Flack (born 1931) (painter, printmaker, sculptor)
• Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993) (sculptor, printmaker)
• 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)
• Totte Mannes (born 1933) (painter)
• Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991), (performance artist, Fluxus)
• 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
• Anita Louise Suazo (born 1937) (ceramics)
• Atsuko Tanaka (1932–2005) (painting, sculpture, performance art, installation art)

1940-1949

• Mym Tuma (born 1940) (organic minimalist, and mixed-media artist)
• 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)
• Rhea Carmi (born 1942) (abstract expressionist and mixed-media 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)
• Helen Hardin (1943–1984) (painter)
• Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006) (photographer)
• Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947) (photographer)
• 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)
• 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)
• Sylvia Plachy (born 1943) (photographer)
• Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948) (photographer)
• Barbara Rossi (born 1940) (painter)
• Sandy Skoglund (born 1946) (photographer)
• Hollis Sigler (1948–2001) (painter)
• Joan Snyder (born 1940), painter
• Pat Steir (born 1940), painter
• Joyce Tenneson (born 1945) (photographer)
• Hannah Wilke (1940–1993) (sculptor, photographer)

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Qu Qianmei (born 1956) (painter)
• 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)
• 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)
• Anna Fox (born 1961) (photographer)
• Zoe Leonard (born 1961) (photographer, visual artist)
• Mariko Mori (born 1967) (performance, installation)
• Audrey Niffenegger (born 1963) (printmaker, author)
• Catherine Opie (born 1961) (photographer)
• 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)

See also

• Women artists
• List of female comics creators
• List of Lulu Award winners
• Women in photography
• Photo-Secession
• Tenth Street galleries