Introducing the Exhibition: A Conversation with Judy Chicago

Join us to celebrate the opening of “Judy Chicago: A Retrospective” with a special conversation between artist Judy Chicago and exhibition curator, Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming, and learn more about Chicago's artistic career and her first retrospective at the de Young museum. Judy Chicago is an artist and author of fifteen books. Her most recent book, The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago, was published in 2021 by Thames and Hudson and includes an introduction by Gloria Steinem. Her career spans almost six decades during which time she has produced a prodigious body of art that has been exhibited all over the world. In the 1970s, she pioneered feminist art and feminist art education in a series of programs in southern California. She is best known for her monumental, The Dinner Party, a symbolic history of women in Western Civilization executed between 1974-79. Her work is in numerous collections and her ongoing influence continues to be acknowledged worldwide. Over the course of her career, Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women's right to engage in the highest level of art production. As a result, she has become a symbol for people everywhere, known and respected as an artist, writer, teacher, feminist, and humanist whose work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, a