List of female sculptors

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Maman, outside Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

This is a list of female sculptors or sculptresses - notable women who are known for their three-dimensional artistic creations (this can include artists who use sound and light).

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A

• Magdalena Abakanowicz (b. 1930) Poland
• Tamar Abakelia (1905–1953) Georgia
• Elfriede Abbe (1919–2012) United States
• Pablita Abeyta (b. 1953) United States
• Alice Adams (b. 1930) United States
• Grimanesa Amorós (b. 1962, Peru) United States
• Janine Antoni (b. 1964) United States
• Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) United States
• C.C. van Asch van Wijck (1900–1932) Netherlands
• Alice Aycock (b. 1946) United States

B

Caroline Shawk Brooks, The Dreaming Iolanthe, (1876), butter sculpture exhibited at 1876 Centennial Exposition

• Frances Bagley (b. 1946) United States
• Fiona Banner (b. 1966) United Kingdom
• Frida Baranek (b. 1961) Brazil
• Emilia Bayer (b. 1934) Bulgaria
• Carolina Benedicks-Bruce (1856–1935) Sweden
• Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) United States
• Lía Bermúdez (b. 1930) Venezuela
• Electra Waggoner Biggs (1912–2001) United States
• Camille Billops (b. 1933) United States
• Marguerite Louis Blasingame (1906–1947) United States
• Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999) United States
• Frida Blumenberg (b. 1935) South Africa
• Delphine Boël (b. 1968) Belgium
• Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) United States
• Chakaia Booker (b. 1953) United States
• Isabelle de Borchgrave (b. 1946) Belgium
• Christine Borland (b. 1965) United Kingdom
• Madeleine Boschan (b. 1979) Germany
• Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) France/United States
• Paige Bradley (b. circa 1975) United States
• Marianne Brandt (1893–1983) Germany
• Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952) United States
• María Brito (b. 1947, Cuba)
• Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913) United States
• Deborah Brown (b. 1927) United Kingdom
• Emilie Benes Brzezinski (b. 1932) Switzerland
• Heidi Bucher (1926–1993) Switzerland
• Hede Bühl (b. 1940) Germany
• Selma Burke (1900–1995) United States
• Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871–1916) United States
• Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) United States

C

Marie-Anne Collot, Portrait of the Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna, (1775)

• Claude Cahun (1894–1954) France
• Mary Callery (1903–1977) United States
• Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen (1863–1945) Denmark
• Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) United States
• Marie Cazin (1845–1924) France
• Vija Celmins (b. 1938) Latvia
• Amelie Chabannes (b. 1974) France
• Elisabeth Gordon Chandler (1913–2006) United States
• Cornellia Van A. Chapin (1893–1973) United States
• Judy Chicago (b. 1939) United States
• Doris Totten Chase (1923–2008) United States
• Saloua Raouda Choucair (b. 1916) Lebanon
• Anna Chromy (b. 1940) lives and works throughout Europe
• Chryssa (1933–2013) Greece
• Lygia Clark (1920–1988) Brazil
• Camille Claudel (1864–1943) France
• Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007) United Kingdom
• Mirit Cohen (1945–1990) Israel
• Nessa Cohen (1885–1976) United States
• Ola Cohn (1892–1964) Australia
• Marie-Anne Collot (1748–1821) France
• Marta Colvin (1907–1995) Chile
• Angela Conner (b. 1935) United Kingdom
• Christine Corday (b. 1970) United States
• Kate Cory (1861–1958) United States
• Petah Coyne (b. 1953) United States
• Meg Cranston (b. 1960) United States
• Cresilla ancient Greece
• Dorothy Cross (b. 1956) Ireland
• Marianne Csaky (b. 1959) Hungary
• Beth Cullen-Kerridge (b. 1970) United Kingdom

D

Anne Seymour Damer, Coriolanus, c.1788, bas relief

• Greta Dale (1929–1978) Canada
• Anne Seymour Damer (1749–1828) Great Britain
• Anne Davidson (1937–2008) United Kingdom
• Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) United States
• Lesley Dill (b. 1950) United States
• Michele Oka Doner (b. 1945) United States
• Orshi Drozdik (b. 1946) Hungary

E

• Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878–1942) United States
• Annet van Egmond (b 1964) The Netherlands
• Lin Emery (b 1928) United States
• Tracey Emin (b 1963) Great Britain
• Marisol Escobar (1930-2016) active in Europe and the Americas
• Helen Escobedo (1934–2010) Mexico

F

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, The Vine (1923), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) United States
• Abigail Fallis (b. 1969) United Kingdom
• Bita Fayyazi (b. 1962) Iran
• Rachel Feinstein (b. 1971) United States
• Teresita Fernández (b. 1968) United States
• Jackie Ferrara (b. 1929) United States
• Carole Feuerman (b. 1945) United States
• Ailene Fields (b. 1948) United States
• Audrey Flack (b. 1931) United States
• Sylvie Fleury (b. 1961) Switzerland
• Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965) France
• Margaret Foley (1820–1877) United States
• Laura Ford (b. 1961) United Kingdom
• Alina Forsman (1845–1899) Finland
• Sairi Forsman (b. 1964) Mexico
• Ruth Francken (1924–2006) United States
• Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) (1918–1986) United States
• Mary Frank (b. 1933) United Kingdom
• Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966) United States
• Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993) United Kingdom
• Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880–1980) United States
• Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968) United States
• Victoria Fuller (b. 1953) United States

G

Anna Golubkina, Mist (1899)

• Anya Gallaccio (b. 1963) Scotland
• Lily Garafulic (1914–2012) Chile
• Tammy Garcia (b. 1969) United States
• Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999) Australia
• Marea Gazzard (1928–2013) Australia
• Gego (1912–1994) Germany
• Isa Genzken (b. 1948) Germany
• Eugenie Gershoy (1901–1983) United States
• Gerður Helgadóttir (1928–1975) Iceland
• Anna Golubkina (1864–1927) Russia
• Dora Gordine (1895–1991) United Kingdom
• Elsa Gramcko (1925–1994) Venezuela
• Mary Grant (1831–1908) Scotland
• Nancy Graves (1939–1995) United States
• Renee Green (b. 1959) United States
• Mimi Gross (b. 1940) United States
• Catrin G Grosse (b. 1964) Germany
• Sabina Grzimek (b. 1942) Germany
• Gunnfríður Jónsdóttir (1889–1968) Iceland
• Ángela Gurría (b. 1929) Mexico

H

Barbara Hepworth, Monolith-Empyrean, 1953, Kenwood House, London

Harriet Hosmer, The Sleeping Faun (c. 1870), Cleveland Museum of Art

• Gabriela von Habsburg (b. 1956) Europe
• Maggi Hambling (b. 1945) United Kingdom
• Harmony Hammond (b. 1944) United States
• Han Sai Por (b. 1943) Singapore
• Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) United States
• Bessie Harvey (1929–1994) United States
• Mona Hatoum (1952) Lebanon
• Jann Haworth (b. 1942) United States
• Gabriel Hayes (1909–1978) Ireland
• Faye HeavyShield (b. 1953) Canada
• Mathilde ter Heijne (b. 1969) France (Germany)
• Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) United Kingdom
• Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983) United Kingdom
• Eva Hesse (1936–1970) United States
• Nicola Hicks (b. 1960) United Kingdom
• Helena Hietanen (b. 1963) Finland
• Amelia Robertson Hill (1820–1904) Scotland
• Eila Hiltunen (1922–2003) Finland
• Margel Hinder (1906–1995) Australia
• Nicky Hirst (b. 1963) United Kingdom
• Malvina Hoffman (1885–1966) United States
• Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook (1913–2009) Canada
• Nancy Holt (1938–2014) United States
• Sara Holt (born 1946) United States, lives and works in Paris
• Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) United States
• Rebecca Horn (b. 1944) Germany
• Roni Horn (b. 1955) United States
• Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908) United States
• Shirazeh Houshiary (b. 1955) Iran
• Anita Huffington (b. 1934) United States
• Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973) United States

I

• Leiko Ikemura (b. 1951, Japan)
• Pamela Irving (b. 1960) Australia
• Linde Ivimey (b. 1965) Australia

J

• Jiang Shuo (b. 1958) China
• Patricia Johanson (b. 1940) United States
• Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955) United States
• Jacobine Jones (1897–1976) United Kingdom / Canada

K

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with her Dead Son (1937), World War II memorial, Neue Wache, Berlin

• Reena Saini Kallat (b. 1973) India
• Gertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno (1876–1937) United States
• Kate Kelly (1882–1964) United States
• Rachel Khedoori (b. 1964, Australia) United States
• Bharti Kher (b. 1969) India
• Inge King (b. 1918) Australia
• Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson (1871–1932) United States
• Lorena Kloosterboer (b. 1962) the Netherlands
• Katarzyna Kobro (1898–1951) Poland
• Eva Koch (born 1953) Denmark
• Kiki Kogelnik (1935–1997) Austria
• Ida Kohlmeyer (1912–1997) United States
• Meeli Kõiva (b. 1960) Estonia
• Kristina Koljaka (1916–2005) Albania
• Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) Germany
• Margit Kovács (1902–1977) Hungary
• Louise Kramer (b. 1923) United States
• Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Japan
• Kyung-hee Hong (b. 1954) South Korea

L

Edmonia Lewis, Minnehaha (1868)

• Rachel Lachowicz (b. 1964) United States
• Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939) United States
• Marie-Jo Lafontaine (b. 1945) Belgium
• Lili Lakich (b. 1944) United States
• Sigalit Landau (b. 1969) Israel
• Abigail Lane (b. 1967) United Kingdom
• Greer Lankton (1958–1996) United States
• Liz Larner (b. 1960) United States
• Mary Lawrence (Tonetti) (1868–1945)
• Louise Lawson (1860s–1899) United States
• Sarra Lebedeva ( 1892 – 1967) Russia
• Lee Bul (b. 1964) South Korea
• Maya Cohen Levy (b. 1955) Israel
• Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844–1907) United States
• Jessie Lipscomb (1861–1952) United Kingdom
• Kirsten Lockenwitz (born 1932) Denmark
• Frances Loring (1887–1968) United States, Canada
• Lu Pin (b. 1972) China
• Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1874–1954) United States
• Sarah Lucas (b. 1962) United Kingdom
• Gabriele von Lutzau (b. 1954) Germany
• Norma Lyon (1929–2011) United States

M

Lola Mora, La Justicia, el Trabajo y la Paz (1916, replica 2014), Palacio del Congreso Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Alice Maher (b. 1956) Ireland
• Molly Morell Macalister (1920–1969) New Zealand
• Jilma Madera (1915–2000) Cuba
• Marianne Maderna (b. 1944) Austria
• Anna Mahler (1904–1988) Austria
• Edna Manley (1900–1987) Jamaica
• Elsie March (1884–1974] United Kingdom
• Teresa Margolles (b. 1963] Mexico
• Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff (1923–2011) Germany
• Monique Mayère (b. 1944) France
• Daphne Mayo (1895–1982) Australia
• Rooma Mehra (b. 1967) India
• Dina Melicov (1905–1969) United States
• Ana Mendieta (1948–1985)
• Anjolie Ela Menon (b. 1940) India
• Geneva Mercer (1889–1984) United States
• Marisa Merz (b. 1931) Italy
• Annette Messager (b. 1943) France
• Marta Minujín (b. 1943), Argentina
• Marg Moll (1884–1977) Germany
• Cathy de Monchaux (b. 1960) United Kingdom
• Lola Mora (1866–1936) Argentina
• Polly Morgan (b. 1980) United Kingdom
• Amanda Matthews (b. 1968) United States
• Junko Mori (b. 1974) Japan
• Hilda Grossman Morris (1911–1991) United States
• Vera Mukhina (1889–1953) Soviet Union
• Ethel Myers (1881–1960) United States

N

Elisabet Ney, Lady Macbeth (1905), Stadtmuseum Münster, Germany

• Fujiko Nakaya (b. 1933) Japan
• Marlene Neubauer-Woerner (1918–2010) Germany
• Mariele Neudecker (b. 1965, Germany) active in the United Kingdom
• Louise Nevelson (1900–1988) United States
• Avis Newman (b. 1946) United Kingdom
• Elisabet Ney (1833–1907) Germany / United States
• Ida Göthilda Nilsson (1840–1920) Sweden
• Astrid Noack (1888–1954) Denmark
• Cady Noland (b. 1956) United States
• Marina Núñez del Prado (1910–1995) Bolivia

O

• Lucy Orta (b. 1966) Great Britain
• Yoko Ono (b. 1933) United States
• Méret Oppenheim (1913–1985) Germany
• Chana Orloff (1888–1968) Israel

P

Brenda Putnam, Puck (1930-32, replica 2002), Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Beverly Pepper, Longo Monolith (2006), Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany

• Ana Maria Pacheco (b. 1943) Brazil
• Bashka Paeff (1894–1979) United States
• Marta Pan (1923–2008) France
• Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) United Kingdom
• Alicia Penalba (1913-1982) Argentina
• Beverly Pepper (b. 1922) United States
• Judy Pfaff (b. 1946) London
• Liz Phillips (b. 1951) United States
• Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965) Australia
• Rona Pondick (b. 1952) United States
• Marjetica Potrč (b. 1953) Slovenia
• Etiyé Dimma Poulsen (b. 1968) Ethiopia
• Susan Mohl Powers (b. 1944) United States
• Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890–1960) United States
• Brenda Putnam (1890–1975) United States

R

Vinnie Ream, Abraham Lincoln (1871), United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

• Dorothee Raetsch (b. 1940) Germany
• Caroline Ramersdorfer, Austria/United States
• Antonietta Raphael (1895–1975) Italy
• Vinnie Ream (1847–1914) United States
• Frances Rich (1910–2007) United States
• Myra Reynolds Richards (1882–1934) United States
• Germaine Richier (1902–1959) France
• Linda Ridgway (b. 1947) United States
• Emy Roeder (1890–1971) Germany
• Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) Spain
• Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490–1530)
• Julie Rotblatt-Amrany (b. 1958) United States
• Ursula von Rydingsvard (b. 1942) Germany / United States
• Rabarama (b. 1969) Italy

S

Emma Stebbins, Angel of the Waters (1873), Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, Central Park, New York City

Niki de Saint-Phalle, The Golem (1971), Kiryat Hayovel, Israel

• Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930–2002) France
• Takako Saito (b. 1929) Japan
• Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) Columbia
• Augusta Savage (1892–1962) United States
• Erzsébet Schaár (1905–1975) Hungary
• Belle Kinney Scholz (1890–1959) United States
• Barbara Schwartz (1949–2006) United States
• Janet Scudder (1869–1940) United States
• Maria Serebriakova (b. 1965) Germany
• Yvonne Serruys (1873–1953) Belgium / France
• Judith Shea (b. 1948) United States
• Kathleen Shillam (1916–2002) Australia
• Siona Shimshi (b. 1939) Israel
• Raphaele Shirley (b. 1969) United States
• Alyson Shotz (b. 1964) United States
• Jiang Shuo (b. 1958) China
• Jeanne Silverthorne (b. 1950) United States
• Alice Louise Judd Simpich (1918–2006) United States
• Jane Simpson (b. 1965) United Kingdom
• Renée Sintenis (1888–1965) Germany
• Kiki Smith (b. 1954) United States
• Monika Sosnowska (b. 1972) Poland
• Pia Stadtbäumer (b. 1959) Germany
• Jonny Star (born 1964), sculptor, installation artist
• Birgit Stauch (b. 1961) Germany
• Emma Stebbins (1815–1882)) United States
• Flora Steiger-Crawford (1899–1991) Switzerland
• Jana Sterbak (b. 1955, Czechoslovakia) Canada
• Jessica Stockholder (b. 1958) United States
• Renee Stout (b. 1959) United States
• Marjorie Strider (1931-2014)) United States
• Imogen Stuart (b. 1927) Ireland
• Michelle Stuart (b. 1933) United States
• Roxanne Swentzell (b. 1962) United States
• Sarah Sze (b. 1969) United States
• Katharina Szelinski-Singer (1918–2010) Germany

T

• Athena Tacha (b. 1936) Greece and United States
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943) Switzerland
• Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) United States
• Waldine Tauch (1892/4–1896) United States
• Margaret Thomas (1842–1929) Australia
• Rebecca Tobey (b. 1948) United States
• Þorbjörg Pálsdóttir (1919–2009) Iceland
• Elisabeth Toubro (born 1956) Denmark
• Zoja Trofimiuk (b. 1952) Australia
• Anne Truitt (1921–2004) United States
• Su-Mei Tse (b. 1973) Luxembourg
• Susanne Tunn (b. 1958) Germany
• Alison Turnbull (b. 1956) United Kingdom
• Heather Tweed (b. 1959) United Kingdom

U

• Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952) Germany
• Hema Upadhyay (b. 1972) India
• Francis Upritchard (b. 1976) United Kingdom

V

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Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Mary and Dickon (1935), Burnett Memorial Fountain, Central Park, New York City

• Marja Vallila (1950– ) United States
• Coosje van Bruggen (1942–2009) Netherlands, United States
• Josefina de Vasconcellos (1904–2005)
• Sonja Vectomov (1957– ) Czech Republic / Finland
• Mary Vieira (1927–2001) Brazil
• Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955) United States

W

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, The Scout, 1924, commemorating Buffalo Bill Cody in Cody, Wyoming

• Sylvia Wald (1915–2011) United States
• Nellie Walker (1874–1973) United States
• Marijke van Warmerdam (b. 1959) Netherlands
• Katharine Lane Weems (1899–1989) United States
• Clara Westhoff (1875–1954) Germany
• Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) United Kingdom
• Anne Whitney (1821–1915) United States
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942) United States
• Marguerite Wildenhain (1896–1985) United States
• Alison Wilding (b. 1948) United Kingdom
• Hannah Wilke (1940–1993) United States
• Anne Wilson (b. 1949) United States
• Hermione Wiltshire (b. 1963) United Kingdom
• Jacqueline Winsor (b. 1941) United States
• Elizabeth Wright (b. 1964) United Kingdom
• Patience Wright (1725–1786) United States
• Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1901–1966) Canada
• Marysole Wörner Baz (b. 1936) Mexico
• Florence Wyle (1881 – 1968) United States, Canada

Y

• Enid Yandell (1870–1934) United States
• Melanie Yazzie (b. 1966) United States
• Daisy Youngblood (b. 1945) United States

Z

• Paula Zima (b. 1953) United States
• Andrea Zittel (b. 1965) United States

See also

• List of female architects
• List of sculptors