What is Feminist Art?
“Feminist Art is all the stages of a woman giving birth to herself.”
Anais Nin and Judy Chicago in the early 1970s
"I will forever be indebted to Anais Nin for encouraging me to write" -- Judy Chicago
In addition to a life of prodigious art making, Chicago is the author of numerous books (pictured below). For Judy Chicago’s bibliography, including publications on and about Judy Chicago, as well as articles on Judy Chicago, please click the link below for a downloadable PDF.
Complete Judy Chicago Bibliography
Womanhouse, exhibition catalogue
Through the Flower (2022 reprint); Originally published 1972
by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro
Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist
iUniverse, 2006; Originally published by Doubleday & Company, 1975
by Judy Chicago
Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework
Doubleday/Anchor, 1980
by Judy Chicago with Susan Hill
Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light
Viking/Penguin, 1993
by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman
Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist
Penguin Books, 1996
by Judy Chicago
Women and Art: Contested Territory
Watson-Guptill, 1999
by Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith
Institutional Time: A Critique of Studio Art Education
Monacelli Press, 2014
by Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago: Revelations
Thames & Hudson in collaboration with Serpentine, 2024
by Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago: Trials and Tributes, exhibition catalogue
Museum Press, 1999
by Viki D. Thompson Wilder and Lucy R. Lippard
When Women Rule the World: Judy Chicago in Thread, exhibition catalogue
Art Gallery of Calgary and Textile Museum of Canada, 2009
by Art Gallery of Calgary and Textile Museum of Canada
A Studio of Their Own: The Legacy of the Fresno Feminist Experiment
Press at the California State University, Fresno, 2009
by Laura Meyer and Faith Wilding
Judy Chicago: And Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin
Lund Humphries, 2012
by Rachel Dickson, Curator, Ben Uri Gallery
The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970 - 2007
University of Georgia Press, 2013
by Jane Gerhard
Judy Chicago: A Reckoning
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami and DelMonico/Prestel, 2018
by Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel
Judy Chicago: New Views
National Museum of Women in the Arts and Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2019
by National Museum of Women in the Arts
Judy Chicago: In The Making
Thames & Hudson and the de Young Museum, 2021
by Claudia Schmuckli
Judy Chicago: The Inside Story
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, 2023
by Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Judy Chicago: Herstory
PHAIDON and New Museum, 2023
by Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, and Margot Norton
“Feminist Art is all the stages of a woman giving birth to herself.”
“…women are caught in a cycle of repetition. They go through life experiences that others have had and theorized about without being able to build upon those theories. That is why feminism is important, especially – though not exclusively – for women. Feminism represents a body of knowledge that allows us to break the cycle of repetition and live our lives based upon KNOWLEDGE rather than IGNORANCE.”
Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists “One reason for my staunch and abiding commitment to feminism is that its principles provide valuable tools for empowerment, and not only for women. In my view, feminist values are rooted in an alternative to the prevailing view of relations of power, which involves power over others. In contrast, feminism promotes personal empowerment, something that, when connected with education, becomes a potent tool for individual and social change..”