Vibeke Tandberg (born 1967) is a Norwegian photographer known for using herself as the subject of her work. [1] [2] In 2002 she had a solo exhibition at C/O Berlin. [3] In 2003 she created a series of photographs entitled "Undo" consisting of self-portraits taken while she was pregnant. [4] In 2017 Tandberg was the recipient of a Lorck Schive Kunstpris (Lorck Schive Art Prize). [5] In 2018 her work was included in the show Journeys with “the Waste Land” at the Turner Contemporary gallery. [5] [6]
Her work is in The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, [7] the Museum of Modern Art, [8] the National Gallery of Art, [9] the Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, [10] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) [11]
Gillian Ayres was an English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours, which earned her a Turner Prize nomination.
The National Museum of Art in Norway, also known simply as the National Museum, shortened NaM is a Norwegian state-owned museum in Oslo. It holds the Norwegian state's public collection of art, architecture, and design objects. The collection totals over 400.000 works, amongst them the first copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream from 1893.
Catherine Sue Opie is an American fine-art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since opening in 1987, the museum has acquired a collection of more than 6,000 works by more than 1,000 artists, ranging from the 16th century to today. The collection includes works by Frida Kahlo, Mary Cassatt, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, and Amy Sherald. NMWA also holds the only painting by Frida Kahlo in Washington, D.C., Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky.
Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Nnenna Okore is an Australian-born Nigerian artist who lives and works in Chicago at North Park University, Chicago. Her largely abstract sculptural forms are inspired by richly textured forms and colors within the natural environment. Okore's work frequently uses flotsam or discarded objects to create intricate sculptures and installations through repetitive and labor-intensive processes. She learnt some of her intricate methods, including weaving, sewing, rolling, twisting and dyeing, by watching local Nigerians perform daily domestic tasks. In her more recent works, Okore uses plant-based materials to create large bioplastic art forms and installations. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums within and outside of the United States. She has won several international awards, including a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2012. and the Australian Creative Victoria Award in 2021.
Ulla-Mari Brantenberg is a Norwegian glass artist.
Nina Katchadourian is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator. She works with photography, sculpture, video, and sound—often in playful ways. She is best known for her "Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style," a series of self-portraits taken in airplane bathrooms.
Suzanne Bocanegra is an American artist living in New York City. Her works include performance and installation art as well as visual and sound art. Her work is exhibited internationally.
The Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003, it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
Lubaina Himid is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities.
Betty Blayton was an American activist, advocate, artist, arts administrator and educator, and lecturer. As an artist, Blayton was an illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor. She is best known for her works often described as "spiritual abstractions". Blayton was a founding member of the Studio Museum in Harlem and board secretary, co-founder and executive director of Harlem Children's Art Carnival (CAC), and a co-founder of Harlem Textile Works. She was also an advisor, consultant and board member to a variety of other arts and community-based service organizations and programs. Her abstract methods created a space for the viewer to insert themselves into the piece, allowing for self reflection, a central aspect of Blayton's work.
Polly E. Apfelbaum is an American contemporary visual artist, who is primarily known for her colorful drawings, sculptures, and fabric floor pieces, which she refers to as "fallen paintings". She currently lives and works in New York City, New York.
Veronica Maudlyn Ryan is a Montserrat-born British sculptor. She moved to London with her parents when she was an infant and now lives between New York and Bristol. In December 2022, Ryan won the Turner Prize for her 'really poetic' work.
Hannah Ryggen, born Hannah Jönsson, was a Swedish-born Norwegian textile artist. Self-trained, she worked on a standing loom constructed by her husband, the painter Hans Ryggen. She lived on a farm on a Norwegian Fjord and dyed her yarn with local plants.
Marja Vallila was an American artist, painter, ceramicist and sculptor.
Máret Ánne Sara is a Sami artist and author born in Norway. She lives and works in Kautokeino.
Joan Lyons is an American artist. Lyons was born in New York, New York. In 1971, Lyons founded the VSW Press at the Rochester-based Visual Studies Workshop. In 2007 the Rochester Contemporary Art Center held a retrospective of her work. Another retrospective was held in 2023 at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.
Eva Bull Holte was a Norwegian painter and printmaker.
Jenny Snider is an American artist and educator known for her paintings and multimedia pieces. She attended Yale University. She has been influenced by second-wave feminism.