{"id":4333,"date":"2016-05-17T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2016-05-17T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:28:57","slug":"nine-women-killing-it-in-the-art-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/nine-women-killing-it-in-the-art-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Women Killing It in the Art World"},"content":{"rendered":"
As anyone working in the arts knows too well, nothings come easy for people with new ideas. This is especially true for women trying to get their ideas out in the art world. It\u2019s a known fact that the visual arts have a discouraging lack of female presence. Pussy Galore\u2019s 2015 update to Guerilla Girl\u2019s 1986 \u201cReport Card\u201d reported that a majority of Chelsea galleries still have artist rosters largely favoring men. Major institutions, including MoMA, have a long history of gender inequality\u2014 in between 2008 and 2015 only one woman, Ann Temkin, stood as a department head.<\/p>\n
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Below you\u2019ll find a group of nine incredible women who made their way to the forefront of visual art. The common thread in their stories is smashing out of the box, be it through a new to approach the gallery show experience or breaking through the overcrowded social media landscape to reinvent a New York historical intuition. Give it up for the ladies.<\/p>\n
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