In celebration of the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the Museum presents Global Feminisms, the first international exhibition exclusively dedicated to feminist art from 1990 to the present. The show consists of work by approximately eighty women artists from around the world and includes work in all media-painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, and performance. Its goal is not only to showcase a large sampling of contemporary feminist art from a global perspective but also to move beyond the specifically Western brand of feminism that has been perceived as the dominant voice of feminist and artistic practice since the early 1970s.This exhibition is arranged thematically and features the work of important emerging and mid-career artists.
Accompanying the new exhibition, this handsome catalogue, edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, features the work of more than 80 contemporary women artists from around the world. The book includes seven essays from a multinational group of authors focusing attention on socio-cultural, racial and gender identities. The works cover perspectives on feminist artistic expression since 1990. Among the contemporary artists included are Catherine Opie, Miwa Yanagi, Pilar Albarracin, Shahzia Sikander and Yin Xiuzhen.
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