List of 20th century women artists

Before 1870

Louise Abbéma (1858–1927), painter, printmaker, sculptor

Helen Allingham (1848–1926), painter, illustrator

Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), painter

Anna Ancher (1859–1935), Danish painter

Sophie Anderson (1823–1903), painter

Marie-Elmina Anger (1844–1901), nun and painter

Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869–1948), stained glass artist

Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter

Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), painter

Jane E. Bartlett (1839–1923), painter and portraitist

Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter

Harriet Blackstone (1864–1939), figure painter

Alice Boughton (c. 1866–1943), photographer

Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), painter

Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923), watercolorist

Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937), painter, printmaker, designer

Sally Bush (1860–1946), photographer

Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), painter, printmaker

Nellie Charlie (1867–1965), basket weaver

Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951), painter

Kate Cory (1861–1958), painter, sculptor

Alice Dannenberg (1861–1948), painter

Jenny Eakin Delony (1866–1949), painter

Florence Dreyfous (1868–1950), painter

Elisabeth von Eicken (1862–1940), German landscape painter

Florence Esté (1860–1926), painter

Laura Ann Fry (1857–1943), ceramic painter

Ethel Gabain (1883–1950), painter

Frances Gearhart (1869–1959), printmaker and watercolorist

Anna Gerresheim (1852–1921), German painter

Anne Goldthwaite (1869–1944), printmaker, painter

Jane Hawkins (1841–1904), portrait artist

Laura Coombs Hills (1859–1952), painter

Anna Hope (Nan) Hudson (1869–1957), painter

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), photographer

Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photographer

Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958), painter

Louisa Keyser (Datsolalee) (c. 1829/1850–1925), Washoe basket weaver

Kitty Lange Kielland (1843–1914), painter

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), painter

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), printmaker, sculptor, painter

Jessie Lipscomb (1861–1952), sculptor

Séraphine Louis (1864–1942), painter

Bessie MacNicol (1869–1904), painter

Blanche Hoschedé Monet (1865–1947), painter

Grandma Moses (1860–1961), painter

Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist

Clara Chipman Newton (1848–1936), china painter

Clara Weaver Parrish (1861–1925) painter, stained glass

Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter

Vinnie Ream (1847–1914), sculptor

Adelaïde Alsop Robineau (1865–1929), ceramic artist

Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), painter

Janet Scudder (1869–1940), sculptor

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), painter, illustrator

Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope (1857–1944), sculptor, painter

Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829–1915), painter

Emily Coppin Stannard (1803–1885), painter

Josefine Swoboda (1861–1924), Austrian portrait painter

Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933), painter

Ellen Thesleff (1869–1954), painter

Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), painter

Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter

Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938), painter

Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior and textile designer

Anna Lillian Winegar (1867-1941), painter and illustrator

1870–1879

Elenore Abbott (1875–1935), painter, teacher

Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), painter

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), painter and interior designer

Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), painter

Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871–1916), sculptor

Emily Carr (1871-1945), painter

Émilie Charmy (1878–1974), painter

Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay (1871–1959), lithographer, etcher

Elinor Darwin (1871–1954), engraver, portrait painter

Bessie Davidson (1879–1965), painter

Edith Dimock (1876–1955), painter

Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877–1952), painter

Mabel Esplin (1874–1921), stained glass artist

Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951), painter, photographer

Christian Jane Fergusson (1876–1957), painter

Mary Foote (1872–1968), painter

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Dada artist and poet

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), sculptor, painter, poet

May Gearhart (1872–1951), printmaker

Margaret Gere (1878–1965), painter

Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871–1954), painter, illustrator

Elena Guro (1877–1913), painter, writer

Edith Haworth (1878–1953), painter

Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1947), woodcut prints

Gwen John (1876–1939), painter

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962), painter, teacher

Laura Knight (1877–1970), painter

Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor

Sr. Maria Stanisia (née Monica Kurkowski; 1878–1967), painter

Edith Maryon (1872–1924), sculptor

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), painter

Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), painter

Violet Oakley (1874–1961), muralist, stained glass

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871–1955), graphic artist, watercolorist

Margaret Preston (1875–1963), painter, printmaker

Ethel Sands (1873–1962), painter

Martha Stettler (1870–1945), painter

Anna Heyward Taylor (1879–1956), painter, printmaker

Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955), sculptor

Nellie Walker (1874–1973), sculptor

Clara McDonald Williamson (1875–1976), painter

Enid Yandell (1870–1934), sculptor

1880–1889

Rowena Meeks Abdy (1887–1945), painter

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) photographer

Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952), sculptor

Nessa Cohen, (1885–1976), sculptor

Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), photographer

Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), painter

Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), Brazilian painter

Aleksandra Ekster (1882–1949), painter

Ester Ellqvist (1880–1918), painter

Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966), sculptor

Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), painter

Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1972), painter

Madeline Emily Green (1884–1947), painter

Tina Haim-Wentscher (1887–1974), German-Australian sculptress

Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948), painter

Hannah Höch (1889–1978), photographer

Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966), sculptor

Valentine Hugo (1887–1968), illustrator

Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), German painter (aka Dora Stetter)

Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter, printmaker

Geneva Mercer (1889–1984), sculptor

Ethel Myers (1881–1960), sculptor, painter

Ella Naper (1886–1972), jeweller & potter

Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961), painter

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), painter

Clara Elsene Peck (1883–1968), painter, illustrator

Agnes Pelton (1881–1961), painter

Gladys Reynell (1881–1956), potter

Anne Ryan (1889–1954), painter

Zinaida Serebriakova (1884–1967), painter

Henrietta Shore (1880–1963), painter

Helen Margaret Spanton (1877–1934), painter

Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), painter

Lucy Telles (c. 1885–1955), Mono Lake Paiute-Yosemite Miwok basket weaver

Nadezhda Udaltsova (1886–1961), painter

Doris Ulmann (1882–1934), photographer

Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948), painter

Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989), painter

Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887–1968), painter

1890–1899

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer

Karimeh Abbud (1896–1955), photographer

Eileen Agar (1899–1991), painter, collage

Elene Akhvlediani (1898–1975), painter

Anni Albers (1899–1994), designer, weaver and graphic artist

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

Clara Birnberg (1894–1989), illustrator, portraitist, sculptor

Dorrit Black (1891–1951), painter

Kathleen Blackshear (1897–1988), painter

Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), painter

Elise Blumann (1897–1990), painter

Claude Cahun (1894–1954), photographer, author

Dora Carrington (1893–1932), painter

Dorothy Coke (1897–1979), painter

Trena Cox (1895–1980), stained glass artist

Grace Crowley (1890–1979), painter

Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), photographer

Florence Davidson (1896–1993), Haida basket weaver

Helen Katharine Forbes (1891–1945), muralist

Frances Foy (1890–1963), artist, muralist

Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), photographer

Jennie Harbour (1893–1959), illustrator

Jeanne Hébuterne (1898–1920), painter

Margaret Calkin James (1895–1985), calligrapher, graphic designer, textile printer, watercolour painter, printmaker

Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), photographer

Georgina Klitgard (1893–1976), muralist

Winifred Knights (1899–1947), painter

Katarzyna Kobro (1898–1951), sculptor

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

Lilian May Miller (1895–1943), woodblock printer and painter

Tina Modotti (1896–1942), photographer

Lucia Moholy (1894–1989), photographer

Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925), painter

Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), sculptor

Bashka Paeff (1894–1979), sculptor

Tonita Peña (1893–1949), works on paper, muralist

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

Dorothy Hope Smith (1895–1955), artist

Varvara Stepanova (1894–1958), painter and designer

Alma Thomas (1891–1978), painter

Charley Toorop (1891–1955), painter

Ogura Yuki (1895–2000), painter

Margaret Firth (1898–1991), painter

1900–1909

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), painter

Mary Adshead (1904–1995), muralist, painter

Maxine Albro (1903–1966), muralist, printmaker

Catherine Tharp Altvater (1907–1984), painter

Grace Greenwood Ames (1905–1979) artist, muralist

Rita Angus, (1908–1970) painter

Evgenia Baykova (1907–1997), painter

Suzanne Belperron (1900–1983), jeweler

Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), photographer

Isabel Bishop (1902–1988), painter

Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999) painter

Dorr Bothwell (1902–2000), painter, printmaker

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), photographer

Lola Álvarez Bravo (1907–1993), photographer

Emmy Bridgewater (1906–1999), painter, poet

Felicia Browne (1904–1936), artist, activist

Margaret Brundage (1900–1976), illustrator

Norma Bull (1906–1980), painter

Selma Burke (1900–1995), sculptor

Nancy Carline (1909–2004), painter

Marie Z. Chino (1907–1982), ceramic artist

Grace Clements (1905–1969), muralist, mosaicist, art critic

Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker

Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960), painter

Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997), sculptor, painter, printmaker

Perle Fine (1905–1988), painter

Leonor Fini (1907–1996), painter

Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (1909–2010), painter

Gisèle Freund (1908 or 1912–2000), photographer

Evelyn Gibbs (1905–1991), engraver, art teacher

Elizabeth Ginno (1907–1991) painter, printmaker

Marion Greenwood (1909–1970), artist, muralist

Edith Hamlin (1902–1992), muralist, landscape and portrait painter

Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), sculptor

Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983), print maker and sculptor

Karen Holtsmark (1907–1998), painter

Ray Howard-Jones (1903–1996), painter

Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998), painter

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) painter

Maude Kegg (1904–1986), bead artist

Anna Kostrova (1909–1994), painter, graphic artist

Lee Krasner (1908–1984), painter

Doris Lee (1905–1983), painter

Ruth Harriet Louise (1903–1940), photographer

Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999), painter

Mabel McKay (1907–1993), basket weaver

Miriam McKinnie (1906–1987), muralist

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

Donia Nachshen (1903–1987), illustrator, poster artist

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

Milena Pavlović-Barili (1909–1945), painter

Irene Rice Pereira (1902–1971), painter, author

Mary Potter (1900–1981), painter

Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli (1901–1974), muralist, painter

Alice Rahon (1904–1987) painter

Margaretha Reichardt (1907–1984) textile designer

Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), filmmaker

Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901–1980), painter

Stella Schmolle, (1908–1975), painter

Ethel Schwabacher, (1903–1984), painter

Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903–2004), painter, lithographer

Jessamine Shumate (1902–1990), painter

Elena Skuin (1909–1986), painter

Ethel Spears (1903–1974), painter

Sultana Suruzhon (1900-1961), painter

Lenore Tawney (1907–2007), fiber artist, sculptor

Remedios Varo (1908–1963), painter

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), painter

Ilse Weber (1908–1984), painter

Thelma Frazier Winter (1903-1977), ceramic sculptor and enamelist

Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997), painter

Maria Zubreeva (1900–1991), painter, graphic artist

1910–1919

Ida Abelman (1910–2002), painter

Taisia Afonina (1913–1994), painter

Evgenia Antipova (1917–2009), painter

Eve Arnold (1912–2012), photographer

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), sculptor

Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004), painter, opera singer

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), painter

Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) sculptor, printmaker

Chien-Ying Chang (1913–2004), painter

Malvina Cheek (born 1915), painter

Helen Cordero (1915–1994), ceramic artist

Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), painter

Maya Deren (1917–1961), filmmaker and theorist, photographer

Yvonne Drewry (1918-2007), painter and print-maker

Jane Frank (1918–1986), mixed-media painter, sculptor

Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999), sculptor, assemblage

Riva Helfond (1910–2002), printmaker

Carmen Herrera (born 1915), painter

Nora Heysen (1911–2003), painter

Erlund Hudson (1912–2011), painter

Tove Jansson (1914–2001), painter, illustrator, novelist

Kali (1918–1998), painter

Corita Kent (1918-1986), printmaker

Gwendolyn Knight (1914–2005), painter

Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993), painter

Maria Lassnig (born 1919), painter

Helen Levitt (1913–2009), photographer

Frances Macdonald (1914–2002), painter

Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), painter

Beatrice Mandelman (1912–1998), painter and printmaker

Agnes Martin (1912–2004), painter

Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913–2001), painter

Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917–2000), painter

Mona Moore (1917–2000), painter

Hilda Grossman Morris (1911–1991), sculptor

Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985), sculptor

Juliet Pannett (1911–2005), portrait artist

Tuulikki Pietilä (1917–2009), illustrator

Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978), painter, graphic artist, fashion designer, book illustrator

Ruth Ray (1919–1977), painter

Maria Rudnitskaya (1916–1983), painter

Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943), painter

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), painter

Clara Sherman (born 1915), textile art

Nadezhda Shteinmiller (1915–1991), painter, stage designer

Hedda Sterne (1910–2011), painter

Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), painter

Domicėlė Tarabildienė (1912–1985), graphic artist, sculptor, book illustrator

Gerda Taro (1910–1937), photographer

Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), photographer

Elsa Thiemann (1910-1981), photographer

Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917–1990), painter

Pablita Velarde (1918–2006), painter

Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), photographer

Joan Elizabeth Woollard (1916–2008), sculptor

1920–1929

Carla Accardi (1924–2014), painter

Ida Applebroog (born 1929), painter

Diane Arbus (1923–1971), photographer

Etel Adnan (1925), painter, poet

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

Nell Blaine (1922–1996), painter

Fanny Brennan (1921–2001), painter

Esther Bubley (1921–1998), photographer

Martha Burchfield (1924-1977), watercolorist

Crucita Calabaza (Blue Corn, c.1920–1999), ceramic artist

Jean Cooke RA (1927–2008), artist

Marie Cosindas (born 1925), photographer

Amanda Crowe (1928–2004), 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

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (born 1924), sculptor

Lilly Fenichel (born ca. 1927), painter

Jackie Ferrara (born 1929), sculptor

Mary Fitzpayne (born 1928), painter

Victorine Foot (1920–2000), painter

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), painter

Jane Freilicher (1924–2014), painter

Sonia Gechtoff (born 1926), painter

Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005), painter

Françoise Gilot (born 1921), painter, writer

Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (1920–2010), painter

Grace Hartigan (1922–2008), painter

Pati Hill (1921–2014), copier artist

Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947), painter

Martha Holmes (1923–2006), photographer

Mansooreh Hosseini (born 1926), painter

Lila Katzen (1925–1998), sculptor

Maya Kopitseva (1924–2005), painter

Tatiana Kopnina (1921–2009), painter

Elena Kostenko (born 1926), painter

Marina Kozlovskaya (born 1925), painter

Yayoi Kusama (born 1929), sculptor/performance/installation

Valeria Larina (1926–2008), painter

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), painter

Inge Morath (1923–2002), photographer

Zelda Nolte (1929–2003), sculptor/woodblock printmaker

Margaret Olley (1923–2011), painter

Mimi Parent (1924–2005), painter

Pat Passlof (1928–2011), painter

Galina Rumiantseva (1927–2004), painter

Kapitolina Rumiantseva (1925–2002), painter

Betye Saar (born 1926), assemblage sculpture

Behjat Sadr (1924–2009), painter

Takako Saito (born 1929), installation art, performance art

Honoré Desmond Sharrer (1920–2009), painter

Sarai Sherman (1922–2013), painter, printmaker, sculptor

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

Jane Wilson (1924–2015), painter

Leona Wood (1921–2008), painter

Sandra Blow (1925–2006), painter

Druie Bowett (1924–1998), painter

Geta Bratescu (born 1926), visual artist

Cynthia Kenny (born 1929), painter

Doretta Frenna Smith (born 1924), painter

1930–1939

Magdalena Abakanowicz (born 1930), sculptor and graphic artist

Alice Adams (born 1930), sculptor, textile art, earthworks

Baya (artist) (1931–1998), painter, potter

Maliheh Afnan (1935–2016), mixed media artist

Emma Andijewska (born 1931), painter, writer

Gayleen Aiken (1934–2005), painter, musician

Helene Aylon (born 1931), sculptor

Hilla Becher (born 1934), photographer

Karen Boccalero (1933–1997), printmaker

Lee Bontecou (born 1931), sculptor, printmaker

Pauline Boty (1938-1966), painter

Joan Brown (1938–1990), painter

P. Buckley Moss (born 1933), painter

Judy Chicago (born 1939), installation artist

Chryssa (1933–2013), sculptor

Iran Darroudi (born 1936), painter

Agnes Denes (born 1931), conceptual artist, multidisciplinary

Irina Dobrekova (born 1931), painter

Martha Edelheit (born 1931), painter

Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), sculptor

Janet Fish (born 1938), painter

Audrey Flack (born 1931), painter, printmaker, sculptor

Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993), sculptor, printmaker

Irina Getmanskaya (born 1939), painter

Tatiana Gorb (born 1935), painter

Shirley Gorelick (1936-2000), painter

Elena Gorokhova (born 1933), painter

Nancy Graves (1939–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker

Eva Hesse (1936–1970), sculptor

Nicole Hollander (born 1939), illustration, comics

Nancy Holt(1938–2014), sculptor/ land art

Joan Jonas (1936), performance artist

Alison Knowles (born 1933), Fluxus, performance artist

Sara Leighton (born 1937), portrait painter

Lee Lozano (born 1930), painter

Althea McNish (born c. 1933), textile designer

Totte Mannes (born 1933), painter

Emily Mason (born 1932), painter

Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist painter

Valentina Monakhova (born 1932), painter

Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991), performance artist, Fluxus

Ree Morton (1933–1977), painter

Vera Nazina (born 1931), painter

Carol Heifetz Neiman (1937–1990), xerox artist, printmaker, pastel, pencil, painter

Lorraine O'Grady (born 1934), performance art, installation art

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

Dorothea Rockburne (born 1932), painter

Carolee Schneemann (born 1939), performance artist

Joan Semmel (born 1932), painter

Anita Steckel (1930–2012), graphic artist

Pat Steir (born 1938), painter

Marjorie Strider (1931–2014), sculptor

Michelle Stuart (born 1933), painter, sculptor, photographer

Anita Louise Suazo (born 1937), ceramics

Atsuko Tanaka (1932–2005), painting, sculpture, performance art, installation art

Gillian Ayres (born 1930), painter

1940–1949

Pacita Abad (1946–2004), painter

Marina Abramović (born 1946), performance artist

Gretchen Albrecht, (born 1943), painter

Laurie Anderson (born 1947), performance artist

Heather Angel (born 1941), photographer, author

Alice Aycock (born 1946), sculptor

Tina Barney (born 1945), photographer, filmmaker

Anne Bascove (born 1946), painter, printmaker, mixed media

Lynda Benglis (born 1941), sculptor

Judith Bernstein (born 1942), painter

Vivienne Binns (born 1940), painter, enamels

Melinda Bordelon (1949–1995), painter, illustrator

Fionnuala Boyd (born 1944),

Deborah Butterfield (born 1949), Sculptor

Rhea Carmi (born 1942), abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist

Squeak Carnwath (born 1947), painter

Vera Chino (born 1943), Acoma Pueblo ceramic artist

Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007), sculptor fine art lecturer

Susan Crile (born 1942), painter

Lynn Davis (born 1944), photographer

Orshi Drozdik (born 1946), photographer, sculptor

Bracha Ettinger (born 1948), painter, photographer, psychoanalyst, writer

Valie Export (born 1940), performance artist, video installations, photography

Carole Feuerman (born 1945), sculptor

Rose Garrard (born 1946), installation, video and performance

Jan Groover (1943–2012), photographer

Kathy Grove (born 1948), conceptual artist

Maggi Hambling (born 1945), painter, sculptor

Helen Hardin (1943–1984), painter

Margaret Harrison (born 1940), painter

Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006), photographer

Judithe Hernández (born 1948) painter, muralist

Rebecca Horn (born 1944), sculptor, installation art

Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), photographer

Sanja Iveković (born 1949), interdisciplinary artist

Rita Keegan (born 1949), multii-media artist

Mary Kelly (artist) (born 1941), installation art, interdisciplinary

Gayane Khachaturian (1942–2009), painter

Barbara Kruger (born 1945), conceptual artist

Annie Leibovitz (born 1949), photographer

Pat Lipsky, (born 1940), painter

Hung Liu, (born 1948), painter

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

Annette Messager (born 1943), installation art, interdisciplinary

Sheila Mullen (born 1942), painter

Glòria Muñoz (born 1949), painter

Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007), painter, printmaker

Avis Newman (born 1946), painter, sculptor

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

Susan Mohl Powers (born 1944), sculptor, painter

Judy Rifka (born 1945) painter, video artist

Suellen Rocca (born 1943), painter

Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948), photographer

Martha Rosler (born 1943), photographer, performance, video

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

Vicki Stone (born 1949), painter

Altoon Sultan (born 1948), painter

Carol Sutton (born 1945), painter

Berenice Sydney (1944–1983), paintings, drawings, prints, children's books, costume design, performance

Joyce Tenneson (born 1945), photographer

Mym Tuma (born 1940), painter and mixed-media artist

Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943–2011), painter, architect, educator

Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), sculptor, photographer

Annie Williams (born 1942), watercolour artist

Val Wilmer (born 1941), photographer, author

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), basket weaver

Anne Appleby (born 1954), painter

Lynda Barry (born 1956), illustrator, comics

Chrisann Brennan (born 1954) painter

Chila Kumari Burman (born 1957), printmaker, painter, installation artist

Catherine Chalmers (born 1957), photographer

Sophie Calle (born 1953), photographer, author, installation artist, conceptual artist

Louisa Chase (1951-2016), painter, printmaker

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), painter

Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958), sculptor

Susan Derges (born 1955), photographic artist

Joanne Gair (born 1958), painter, body art

Anne Geddes (born 1956), photographer

Nan Goldin (born 1953), photographer

Akiko Hatsu (born 1959), illustrator, comics

Jenny Holzer (born 1950), conceptual artist

Roni Horn (born 1955), photographer

Mona Hatoum (born 1952), video, installation

Lubaina Himid (born 1954), mixed media

Leiko Ikemura (born 1951), painter, sculptor

Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings (born 1952), bead and textile artist

Claudette Johnson (born 1959), painter

Maya Lin (born 1959), installation artist

Marita Liulia (born 1957), photographer, digital and interactive media

Sally Mann (born 1951), photographer

Soraida Martinez (born 1956), artist, designer

Michiko Matsumoto (born 1950), photographer

Shirin Neshat (born 1957), filmmaker, videographer, photographer

Deborah Niland (born 1950), painter, illustrator

Kilmeny Niland (1950–2009), painter, illustrator

Cady Noland (1956), sculptor

Cornelia Parker (born 1956), sculptor, drawing, installation artist

Ingrid Pollard (1953), portrait photographer

Shani Rhys James (born 1953), painter

Jenny Scobel (born 1955), painter

Cindy Sherman (born 1954), photographer, filmmaker

Li Shuang (born 1957), painter

Jiang Shuo (born 1958), sculptor

Kiki Smith (born 1954), sculptor, printmaker, installation art

Renee Stout (born 1958), photographer, installation art

Rumiko Takahashi (born 1957), illustrator, author

Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952), sculptor, printmaker

Alison Turnbull (born 1956), painter, sculptor

Linda Vallejo (born 1951), painting, sculpture, ceramics

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

Yeşim Ağaoğlu (born 1966), installation art

Margarete Bagshaw (born 1964), painter

Fiona Banner (born 1966), wordscapes, sculpture, drawing, installation

Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969), performance art

Sonia Boyce (born 1962), mixed media, photography, installation, text

Cecily Brown (born 1969), painter

Carolyn Cole (born 1961), photographer

Justine Cooper (born 1968), mixed media

Tacita Dean (born 1965), film, drawing, photography, sound

Inka Essenhigh (born 1969), painter

Mary Evans (born 1963), mixed media

Abigail Fallis (born 1968), sculptor

Anna Fox (born 1961), photographer

Ellen Gallagher (born 1965), painter, mixed media artist

Brita Granström (born 1969), painter, illustrator, author

Taraneh Hemami (born 1960), multidisciplinary artist, installations, craft

Maya Hayuk (born 1969), painter, muralist

Chantal Joffe (born 1969), painter

Lori Kay (born 1962), sculptor, mixed media

Hilja Keading (born 1960), video installation artist

Toba Khedoori (1964), sculptor, mixed-media, drawings, paintings

Rachel Khedoori (1964), sculptor, mixed-media

Lorena Kloosterboer (born 1962), painter, sculptor

Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photographer, visual artist

Vera Lutter (born 1960), mixed-media

Amanda Matthews (born 1968), sculptor, painter, public art designer

Mariko Mori (born 1967), performance, installation

Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967), photo installations

Audrey Niffenegger (born 1963), printmaker, author

Catherine Opie (born 1961), photographer

Janette Parris (born 1963), drawing

Olivia Peguero (born 1962),painter, sculptor, author

Lique Schoot (born 1969), painter, photographer, installation

Lorna Simpson (born 1960), photographer

Jonny Star (born 1964), sculptor, installation artist, collage artist

Maud Sulter (1960–2008), portraiture, montage

Roxanne Swentzell (born 1962), sculptor

Sarah Sze (born 1969), installation art

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

Bettina Werner (born 1965), a pioneer artist who invented the textured colorized salt crystal technique, in the early 80's, as an art medium- first in the History of Art

Rachel Whiteread (born 1963), sculptor

Melanie Yazzie (born 1966), sculptor, painter, printmaker

Laurie Walker (artist) (born 1962), interdisciplinary artist

1970–1979

Jumana Emil Abboud (born 1971), multidisciplinary artist

Golnar Adili (born 1976), multidisciplinary artist

Shereen Audi (born 1970), multidisciplinary artist

Eva Grubinger (born 1970), installation artist

Hiromix (born 1976), photographer

Rachel Kneebone (born 1973), sculptor

Sanaz Mazinani (born 1978), multidisciplinary artist

Julie Mehretu (born 1970), painter

Sara Rahbar (born 1976), contemporary mixed media artist

Amanda Ross-Ho (born 1975), interdisciplinary artist

Jenny Saville (born 1970), painter

Taryn Simon (born 1975), conceptual artist

Marianne Vitale, (born 1973), installation artist

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977), painter

Joanna Zastróżna (born 1972), photographer