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Judy Chicago
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American artist, author, and teacher (born 1939)
OverviewAI-generated
Judy Chicago is an American artist and author, born on July 20, 1939. She has published thirty-one works, including titles such as *Jewish identity*, *MAD forward thinking*, and *Chicago in glass/en verre*. Her artistic output has been recognized in the Time 100 collection.
Chicago’s writings include the statement, "Art without content is like sex without intimacy: technically sufficient, but emotionally empty." She maintains an official website and is associated with the United States. Her work has been referenced by 764 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Jewish identity
- MAD forward thinking
- Evoke/invoke/provoke
- Chicago in glass/en verre
- Chicago in Glass
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1967
Discography
- Chicago1970
- Chicago III1971
- Chicago V1972
- Chicago VI1973
- Chicago VII1974
- Chicago VIII1975
- Chicago X1976
- Chicago XI1977
- Hot Streets1978
- Chicago 131979
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22
- Total plays
- 48
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,179x
- Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer
· 2002 · cited 8,635x
- Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases
· 2009 · cited 6,988x
- Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene
· 2003 · cited 6,142x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Art without content is like sex without intimacy: technically sufficient, but emotionally empty.”
- “At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo.”
- “The history of art is that there have been alot of artists who have always been socially engaged and art comes out of both a desire to define the meaning of life and a kind of rage and railing against human limitations.”
- “Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Judith Sylvia Cohen , ( 1939-07-20 ) July 20, 1939 (age 86) , Chicago, Illinois , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of California, Los Angeles (BFA)
- Known for
- Installation Painting Sculpture
- Notable work
- The Dinner Party International Honor Quilt Birth Project PowerPlay The Holocaust Project Resolutions: A Stitch in Time The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction
- Movement
- Contemporary Feminist art
- Awards
- Tamarind Fellowship (1972), Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" (2018), Visionary Woman award from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2019)
- Patrons
- Anaïs Nin (mentor) Holly Harp Elizabeth A. Sackler Stanley Grinstein Elyse Grinstein
- Website
- judychicago .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sylvia
- Family name
- Cohen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Educated at
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Employer
- Duke University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Time 100
- Notable work
- The Dinner Party
- Field of work
- feminism
- Genre
- art of sculpture
- Movement
- contemporary art
- Official website
- judychicago.com
- Image
- RIT yearbook 1978 page 72 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Chicago
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1939-07-20
- member of
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- Commons category
- Judy Chicago
- Commons Creator page
- Judy Chicago
- floruit
- 1999-01-01
- archives at
- Nevada Museum of Art
- P8168
- Belle Vue
- married name
- Judy Gerowitz
- birth name
- Judith Sylvia Cohen
- pseudonym
- Judy Chicago
- name in native language
- Judy Chicago
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Encyclopedic overview
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresno, which acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education during the 1970s.
Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Her most well-known work is The Dinner Party, which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party celebrates the accomplishments of women throughout history and is widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork. Other notable art projects by Chicago include International Honor Quilt, Birth Project, Powerplay, and The Holocaust Project. She is represented by Jessica Silverman gallery.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judy Chicago” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.