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- Climate Change and Agnes Denes (b. 1931) Agnes Denes is a pioneering land artist known for her large-scale interventions in the urban scape. Her most famous work is Wheatfield––A Confrontation, a piece that has had an enormous impact on our understanding of the need to fight climate change.
- Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) Ana Mendieta is considered an icon of environmental, feminist, and performance art. She became a Cuban refugee at the age of 12.
- Aviva Rahmani (b. 1945) Aviva Rahmani is an environmental artist that emerged from the late 1960s feminist movement. As a young artist, she formed a theatre group called American Ritual Theatre, where groundbreaking performances on the topic of rape were made.
- Betsy Damon (b. 1940) Betsy Damon is a pioneer of environmental art that concerns water. Just like the rest of the artists on this list, her work is rooted in feminist artistic practice.
- Agnes Denes. Agnes Denes, Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982. © Agnes Denes, Courtesy of Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NY.
- Nancy Holt. Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1976. Photo by Calvin Chu via Wikimedia Commons. Holt began her artistic career creating photography, poetry, and video work, but quickly changed course after visiting the Las Vegas desert with her husband and fellow Land Artist Smithson in 1968.
- Alice Aycock. Low Building with Dirt Roof (For Mary), 1973/2010. Storm King Art Center. Pennsylvania-born sculptor Aycock began creating earthworks in the early ’70s, cutting through the landscape with complex wells, tunnels, and labyrinths.
- Lita Albuquerque. Lita Albuquerque, Southern Cross from Stellar Axis: Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf, 2006. Photo by Jean de Pomereu. “It is natural to use the earth as a canvas.
- Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall is most well-known for her love of chimpanzees and her extensive years of field research on the species. In July 1960, she traveled from England to Tanzania and set out to discover the secrets of the chimpanzee species.
- Sylvia Earle. Sylvia Earle pioneered the movement for ocean exploration. Earle has spent more than 6,000 hours underwater and was among the first underwater explorers to make use of SCUBA gear.
- Wangari Maathai. Wangari Maathai worked tirelessly for both land conservation and women’s rights. She was the founder of the Green Belt movement, which focused on environmental conservation and women’s rights, in her native country of Kenya.
- Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson wrote the now-famous Silent Spring, an expose on the misinformation spread by the chemical industry and the use of synthetic pesticides, specifically DDT.
May 22, 2020 · She was a member of the Ad Hoc Women Artists’ Committee, which pressured museums to show more art by women, and a founding member of A.I.R., the first women’s co-op gallery in the United ...
Sep 28, 2023 · Environments By Women Artists 1956-1976. Many of the pioneers in environmental art were women, but their works were often ephemeral, destroyed once a show was over. Here, the curators have painstakingly recreated some of those works, putting their artists firmly back in the spotlight. Nanda Vigo, Ambiente cronotopico vivibile, 1967.
May 30, 2024 · A notable example of this is the exhibition Another View: Landscapes by Women Artists at the Lady Lever Gallery in Liverpool. This offers a rare opportunity to see works by female artists taken ...
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The Environment. 19th and 20th Centuries. “Ecofeminism”—a theoretical and activist movement that connects gender oppression and the exploitation of natural resources—emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s from the environmental, anti-nuclear, queer, and feminist movements. Women artists became key proponents of this new movement ...
