Judy Chicago

JUDY CHICAGO, is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans over five decades. Her influence both within and beyond the art community is attested to by her inclusion in hundreds of publications throughout the world. Her art has been frequently exhibited in the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, a number of the books she has authored have been published in foreign editions, bringing her art and philosophy to thousands of readers worldwide.

Although Chicago has been an influential teacher and prolific author, the primary focus of her career has been her studio work. For over five decades, Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women’s right to engage in the highest level of art production. As a result, she has become a symbol for people everywhere, known and respected as an artist, writer, teacher, and humanist whose work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and women’s right to freedom of expression.

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Selected Awards & Grants

• Lifetime Achievement Award, Palm Springs Art Fair, February 2012
• 38th Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2011
• Alice Paul Award, New Mexico Women’s Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, 2011
• Lion of Judah Award, Washington, DC, 2004
• Visionary Woman Award, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
• UCLA Alumni Professional Achievement Award, 1999
• The Getty Grant Program, for a conservation study of The Dinner Party, 1997 
• Proclamation, City of Albuquerque, 1996
• Service to the Field Award, Spertus Museum of Judaica, 1994
• Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation, 1993
• International Friends of Transformative Arts, 1992
• Streisand Foundation, 1992
• Vesta Award, Los Angeles Women’s Building, 1990
• Threshold Foundation, 1988
• California Arts Commission, 1984
• Woman of Achievement of the World, Women’s Pavilion, Louisiana World Exposition, 1984 
• National Endowment for the Arts; Individual Artist Grant, 1977
• National Endowment for the Arts; Services to the Field Grant, 1976
• Outstanding Woman of the Year, Mademoiselle Magazine, 1973

Books by Judy Chicago (click title to purchase, when available)

• Frida Kahlo: Face to Face, co-authored with Frances Borzello, 2010, Prestel Publishers 
• The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation, 2007, Merrell Publishers
• Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours, 2005, Harper Collins
• Fragments From The Delta of Venus, 2004, powerHouse
• Women and Art: Contested Territories, 1999, co-authored with Edward Lucie-Smith, Watson-Guptill 
• Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist, 1996, Viking/Penguin
• The Dinner Party/Judy Chicago, 1996, Viking/Penguin
• Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light, 1993, Viking/Penguin
• The Birth Project, 1985, Doubleday/Anchor
• Embroidering our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework, 1980, Doubleday/Anchor 
• The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage, 1979, Doubleday/Anchor
• Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist, 1975, Doubleday