Womanhouse was the landmark feminist art environment created in Los Angeles in 1972 by Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro and students from the Feminist Art Program at CalArts. A dilapidated Hollywood house was transformed into a collective installation in which kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and domestic objects became artistic material.
Through installations and performances addressing marriage, housework, menstruation, sexuality, motherhood and confinement, Womanhouse challenged the division between private experience and public culture. This archive explores its artists, artworks and continuing influence on feminist art, installation, performance and debates about domestic labour, gender and institutional power.
Gloria Steinem - Time Cover Gloria Steinem has died at 92. Her legacy reaches from journalism and reproductive rights to Womanhouse and feminist art. But visibility is not enough: what did the icon actually change, and what remains unfinished?
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Womanhouse (1972) catalog cover. Feminist Art Program, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. Womanhouse (1972): The Day Feminism Moved Into a House and Turned Every Room Into a Revolution Imagine walking into a
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