In 2022, we saw incredible strides for women artists across museum exhibitions, galleries, art fairs, and auctions. A prime example was the historic international exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale, "The Milk of Dreams," curated by Cecilia Alemani, in which just 10% of the 213 featured artists identified as male. Of the remaining 192 artists that identified as women and nonbinary, nearly half of them (89) were deceased women artists. The exhibition was emblematic of the dominant trends emerging over the past few years concerning late women artists, both institutionally and commercially.
At museums, we have seen an increase in late women artists receiving overdue surveys and retrospectives. Some notable examples include Hilma af Klint's impressive 2018 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, and Tate Modern's current two-person exhibition pairing the artist with Piet Mondrian; the groundbreaking Gego survey that recently closed at the Museo Jumex and opens at the Guggenheim this March; Lee Krasner's 2019 exhibition at the Barbican; and Artemisia Gentileschi's 2020 showing at the National Gallery, its first retrospective of a woman Baroque painter-to name a few...
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