Art and Feminism: Researching Contemporary Artists

Open online journals

Gallery Magazine archive, Zimbabwe 1994-1999

Artthrob, South Africa (online only visual arts and cultural criticism)  

Chimurenga, South Africa (Pan-African cultural criticism)

Artist residency and workshop programs 

The Bag Factory, Gasworks, Raw Material Company, Triangle Network

Commercial galleries

Stevenson, Tyburn, Goodman, Axis Gallery, Gallery Delta, Everard Read, SMAC, Tiwani

Exhibition histories at major African museums also contain valuable information: 

• Zeitz MoCAA 
• Wits Art Museum
• Johannesburg Art Gallery
• Iziko Museums of South Africa
• National Gallery of Zimbabwe
• Lechwe Trust, Zambia

Biennales, art fairs, and festivals

• 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, UK
• Dak’Art, Senegal
• Marrakech Biennale, Morocco 
• Bamako Encounters, Mali
• Lagos Photo, Nigeria
• National Arts Festival, South Africa
• Art Harare Contemporary Art Fair, Virtual

Research Resources

• WomenArts and
• WomenArts Network Artist Directory
• List of Directories of Women Artists
• Support Women Artists Now Day
• Jstor (subscription required)
• Project MUSE (subscription required)
• The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers University
• Black Feminism
• Intersectionality
• Indigenous Feminism
• Ubu Web
• Digital Public Library of America
• Archives of American Art
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • Archives on Women Artists
  • CLARA database
  • NMWA list of online resources
• National Women’s History Museum
• Women’s History Sourcebook
• MoMA Learning
• Women Artists in the MoMA Online Collection
• Tate Learning
• The Getty Online
• New Museum Digital Archive
• Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base
• National Women’s History Project
• Arts: Search
• Art and Feminism (book)
• The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (book)
• After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (book)
• Canadian Art Database
• Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archives at Smith College
• n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal
• Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
• Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogues of the present, edited by Fran Lloyd (book)
• Women and Art in South Africa by Marion Arnold (book)
• Japanese Canadian Artists
• Asian American Women Artists Association
• Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
• Artists in Canada

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