Data Visualization

For my Data Visualization Project, I wanted to take a closer look at the actual amount of woman artists that are on display in high name art galleries and compare these numbers to the amount of men displaying in the same shows. To see for myself if woman are truly underrepresented in the world of art and if so, by how much. I drew my inspiration for this project from some key moments during the Overlap: Life Tapestries opening night panel where the artists, all of whom were female, touched upon these issues not only in the professional world, but in school classrooms as well.
The moments in question are:

"As an Educator for 18 years now, I find the rationale of female to male artists to be 10:1. It surprises me that nothing has changed over the 18 years I have been teaching. So many female artists are taking classes and are motivated, being creative and putting themselves out there and then what? The one male in the room is the one that continues and begins to make money. It's really sad what's going on right now..." - Shari Weschler Rubeck

Carrie Alter

Judy Gelles

Simeen Farhat

Alice Hope

Sascha Mallon

Michela Martello

Sui Park

Shari Weschler Rubeck

Martha Wilson

Linda Stein


Matthew Barney

"...Nuh-uh, if you're not having at least 40% women, not even, it's usually 20% and the higher you go it becomes more like 5-6%. The Museum of Modern Art, in their permanent collection, has I think 96% men, 4% women until picketing and marching and all kinds of stuff went on and it's now (shrugs) I don't know...10%, I don't even think it's 10%." - Linda Stein

As of 10/29/18:

• The Museum of Modern Art currently has 45 artists in its permanent collection with only 4 of them being female
• On The National Gallery of London's website, their webpage for what they call "30 Must See Paintings" houses art solely made by male artists