Judy Chicago: A Retrospective

Important timelines of Judy's major art works

• 1974-1979 The Dinner Party Installation

with hundreds of volunteers over the course of five years, the first exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979. The Dinner Party’s permanent installment as the centerpiece of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in 2002.

• 1980-1985 The Birth Project

For this project, she again enlisted the help of volunteers, women all over the US, Canada, and New Zealand who specialized in different forms of needlework, and who—working from within the privacy of the homes—contributed their experience and expertise to the realization of the eighty-plus works that compose the series.

• 1985-1993 The Holocaust: From Darkness into Light

This marks her first collaboration with her husband, Donald Woodman. Over the period of eight years, Chicago with Woodman created a haunting body of work combining skirting the limits of our understanding of humanity.

• 1994-2000 Resolutions: A Stitch into Time

Combining painting and needlework, Chicago once again worked with a community of women to realize this unapologetically idealistic vision for future forms of coexistence.

• 2015-2019 The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction

Chicago’s latest endeavor, where she casts an unrelenting eye on the process of dying on the one hand and the human causes of other species’ extinction on the other.

“The absence of women artists in our museums, or the marginalization of women in university curriculum, mirrors the everyday experience of women.” Judy Chicago