A LOOK AT

Famous Black Female Painters

encountering erasure in art

Black women artists have always existed. However, like many pre-colonial artists, they were simply unnamed. Even after colonization and the advent of Western rule, black women artists continued to operate as nameless.

black female artists you should know

#1

Laura Wheeler Waring (1887 – 1948)

#2

Alma W. Thomas (1891 – 1978)

#3

Loïs Mailou Jones (1905 – 1998)

#4

Adrian Piper (1948 – Present)

#5

Kara Walker (1969 – Present)

#6

Wangechi Mutu (1972 – Present)

#7

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (1977 – Present)