Judy Chicago: Herstory

Published in association with the New Museum

Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, and Margot Norton

The most comprehensive survey to date of the legendary feminist artist Judy Chicago

One of the most important contemporary American artists, Judy Chicago is known for multimedia works that embrace an explicitly feminist methodology. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, this book showcases Chicago’s tremendous impact on American art and presents the full breadth of her career across installation, sculpture, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, and printmaking. Featuring an extensive selection curated by Chicago of works by women artists across history, the book also highlights her critical role as an activist and cultural historian who has reshaped the canon.

Massimiliano Gioni is Edlis Neeson Artistic Director at the New Museum.

Gary Carrion-Murayari is Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum.

Margot Norton is Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum.

Essays by: Glenn Adamson, Cornelia Butler, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Ann Goldstein, Jennifer Higgie, Candice Hopkins, Amelia Jones, Quinn Latimer, Margot Norton, Kymberly Pinder, Madeline Weisburg, and Carmen Winant.

Interview by: Massimiliano Gioni.

Accompanies a major retrospective opening in October 2023 at the New Museum, Judy Chicago’s first comprehensive, large-scale museum survey in New York -

A dedicated section features Chicago’s ‘personal museum’ of women artists and historical figures whom she has placed within her own alternative canon, including Hilma af Klint, Simone de

Also available:

Faith Ringgold: American People (New Museum)

ISBN: 978-1-83866-422-0

Beauvoir, Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Emily Dickinson, Barbara Hepworth, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Virginia Woolf, and many others

Presents works from across her sixtyyear career, from her experiments with Minimalism to her revolutionary feminist artworks and her later works on themes of social inequity, environmentalism, and the construction of masculinity

Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work (New Museum)

ISBN: 978-0-7148-7369-5

Chicago’s The Dinner Party and Womanhouse are among contemporary art’s most significant works -

All works © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. From top left to bottom right: Smoke Goddess/Woman with Orange Flares, 1972; Through the Flower, 1973; Home Sweet Home 2000; Sky Flesh 1971; Immolation, 1972; What If Women Ruled the World? from The Female Divine, 2020; Earth Birth 1983.

Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest (New Museum)

ISBN: 978-0-7148-7276-6