Based on a new exhibition project in Venice, this monograph traces six decades of the renowned American feminist artist’s career.
Judy Chicago in Venice was published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition on view at Alberta Pane Gallery from 8 May to 22 November 2026, in Venice, Italy,
The Materiality of Judy Chicago.
It includes an introduction by gallerist Alberta Pane, a contribution by curator Allison Raddock, and an exclusive interview between the artist and
Massimiliano Gioni.
The publication, designed by Multiplo (Padua, Italy), documents the conception and installation of the exhibition, as well as offering insight into Judy Chicago's six-decade career. It highlights how the artist has mastered a rich variety of techniques and materials in the creation of her pieces.
Judy Chicago (born 1939) is an artist and author of sixteen books. Her career spans more than half a century 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 work,
The Dinner Party, a symbolic history of women in Western Civilization executed between 1974-79, which is now permanently housed at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Subsequent bodies of work have addressed issues of birth and creation in the
Birth Project; the construct of masculinity in
PowerPlay; the horrors of genocide in the
Holocaust Project which she collaborated on with her husband, photographer Donald Woodman; and mortality and humankind's relationship to and destruction of the
Earth in The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction. 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.
