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The 'Know My Name' exhibition series held by the National Gallery of Australia in 2021, is a gender equity initiative, which celebrates the work of women artists. This unit explores the narrative of women in art from an historical and contemporary perspective.
Know My Name exhibition - Part One
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now showcases art made by women. Drawn from the National Gallery’s collection and loans from across Australia, it is one of the most comprehensive presentations of art by women assembled in this country to date.
Told in two parts, this exhibition tells a new story of Australian art.
Encyclopedia Britannica
This publication accompanies an exhibition of the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 3 August to 12 October 2003.
This revised edition includes nine new artists - Tony Albert, Jakayu Biljabu, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Julie Gough, Ivy Pareroultja, Esme Timbery, Wingu Tingima, Harry Tjutjuna and Barrupu Yunupingu and new works by Richard Bell, Destiny Deacon, Makinti Napanangka and Uta Uta Tjangala. Using the rich collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this book provides an important introduction to Indigenous art in Australia through the work of 86 artists across the continent, from remote areas to urban centres.
105 artists are presented in lively short biographies, and each entry is illustrated with important works, self-portraits, and photographs. Clearly grouped according to style and era are modern and contemporary art s pioneers, from Picasso and Duchamp to Louise Bourgeois and Jean-Michel Basquiat. New entries on rising stars such as Marlene Dumas and Zhang Xiaogang bring the book into the twenty-first century.
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo’s arresting pictures, most of them small format self-portraits, express the burdens that weighed upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera’s occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad and her longing to feel that she had put down roots, profound loneliness. But they also declare her passionate love for her husband, her pronounced sensuousness, and her unwavering survival instinct.
An outstanding selection of paintings by Kahlo and Rivera forms the centerpiece of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism. This book showcases their work in the broader context of Mexican art, giving a sense of the extraordinary vitality of cultural and artistic life in Mexico during the last century. Essays touch on Kahlo and Rivera's life together, Kahlo's self-portraits, her extraordinary popularity, politics and art in modern Mexico, and the collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman. Artists represented in addition to Kahlo and Rivera are Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Leonora Carrington, Rafael Cidoncha, Miguel Covarrubias, Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Gunther Gerzso, María Izquierdo, Agustín Lazo, Carlos Mérida, Roberto Montenegro, José Clemente Orozco, Carl Orozco Romero, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Juan Soriano, Rufino Tamayo, Emilio Baz Viaud, and Angel Zárraga.
Since the inception of photography as an art form nearly 200 years ago, women have played an important role in the development of the genre, often pushing boundaries and defying social convention. This comprehensive volume presents fifty-five of the most important women photographers such as Eve Arnold, Nan Goldin, Candida Hoefer, Dorothea Lange, Inge Morath, and Cindy Sherman. Each artist is profiled in spreads featuring splendid reproductions of their key works and in-depth overviews of their careers and contributions to photography. Biographical information for each subject and a contextual essay focusing on the impact of women in the history of the medium makes this an excellent illustrated reference.
Artemisia Gentleschi
Encyclopedia Britannica Artemisia Gentleschi
New Yorker - A Fuller Picture of Artemisia Gentileschi
Destiny Deacon
Art Gallery of NSW - Destiny Deacon
Museum of Contemporary Art - Artist Profile - Destiny Deacon
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
National Museum of Australia - UTOPIA: THE GENIUS OF EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
Know My Name Exhibition - EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
Louise Bourgeois
TATE Gallery - The Art of Louise Bourgeois
The Art Story - Louise Bourgeois
Tracey Emin
Encyclopedia Britannica - Tracey Emin
TATE Gallery - Tracey Emin
Judy Chicago
Website - Judy Chicago
The Art Story - Judy Chicago
Shirin Neshat
Tate Gallery - Shirin Neshat
National Museum of Women in the Arts - Shirin Neshat
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo Foundation - Biography of Frida Kahlo
Encyclopedia Britannica - Frida Kahlo
Cindy Sherman
TATE Gallery - Cindy Sherman
The Art Story - Cindy Sherman
Guerilla Girls
TATE Gallery - Guerilla Girls
The Art Story - Guerilla Girls
References
The Art Story. (n.d.). Louise Bourgeois. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/bourgeois-louise/
The Art Story. (n.d.). Judy Chicago. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/chicago-judy/
The Art Story. (n.d.). The Guerilla Girls. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/guerrilla-girls/
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. (2021, July 4). Artemisia Gentileschi. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Artemisia-Gentileschi
Cole, K. (2020). EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE. National Gallery of Australia. https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/stories/emily-kame-kngwarreye/
Cunningham, J. M. (2021, November 26). Marina Abramović. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marina-Abramovic
Frida Kahlo Foundation. (n.d.). Biography of Frida Kahlo. https://www.frida-kahlo-foundation.org/biography.html
Mead, R. (2020, September 28). A Fuller Picture of Artemisia Gentileschi. The New Yorker, October 5 2020 Issue. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/a-fuller-picture-of-artemisia-gentileschi
Mendelssohn, J. (2019, March 1). Friday essay: Nora Heysen, more than her father’s daughter. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-nora-heysen-more-than-her-fathers-daughter-111074
Museum of Contemporary Art. (n.d.). Artist Profile Destiny Deacon. https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/artists/destiny-deacon/
National Museum of Australia. (n.d.). Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye. https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/utopia/emily-kame-kngwarreye
National Museum of Women in the Arts. (n.d.). Shirin Neshat. https://nmwa.org/art/artists/shirin-neshat/
NSW Art Gallery. (n.d.). Nora Heysen. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/heysen-nora/
NSW Art Gallery. (n.d.). Destiny Deacon. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/deacon-destiny/
Saner, E. (2020, October 7). Interview : Marina Abramović: ‘I’m an artist, not a satanist!’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/07/marina-abramovic-im-an-artist-not-a-satanist
TATE. (n.d.). Cindy Sherman. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/cindy-sherman-1938
TATE. (n.d.). Guerilla Girls. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/guerrilla-girls-6858
TATE. (n.d.). The Art of Louise Bourgeois. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-bourgeois-2351/art-louise-bourgeois
TATE. (n.d.). Tracey Emin. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tracey-emin-2590
Zelazko, A. (2022, March 24). Frida Kahlo. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frida-Kahlo
Image Credits
Kngwarreye, Emily K. (1992). Untitled (Alhalker) [Photograph]. National Gallery of Australia. https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
Mossholder, T. (2021, Decembeer 25). Frida Kahlo [Photograph]. Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/4A2VNEVA67E
National Gallery of Australia. (n.d.). Know My Name Exhibition : Connection with Country. https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/