Art is Her Exhibition Series
Since 2020, the Trout Museum of Art’s Atrium gallery has been dedicated to a year-round Art is Her initiative. The Art is Her exhibition series celebrates female identifying artists and champions their goal of achieving museum presence equal to men. Women have long seen inequality in the art world, and today remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses. Let’s change the stats!
Art is Her is empowered by
Current Art is Her Featured Artist
GAO KIA MOUA | THROUGH OCTOBER 29
Artist Statement:
Ever since I was a child, my mind has always been clouded with the thought of Art. I have always thought about art more than most, to the point where I would say that I have Art addiction. I have always found that life is art and so the artwork I make varies, depending on what I feel like making or what I feel the urge to make. I find myself drawn to scenes, emotions, and the things that are difficult to distinguish. My art has deeper meanings to simple ones even. My artwork, technique and style are chaotic and messy, just as my mind is.
Stats to think about:
- Nearly half (45.8%) of visual artists in the United States are women; on average, they earn 74¢ for every dollar made by male artists. —National Endowment for the Arts 2019
- A data survey of permanent collections by the 18 most prominent art museums in the U.S. found that out of over 10,000 artists represented, 87% are male and 85% are white. —Public Library of Science 2019
- In a study of 820,000 exhibitions across the public and commercial sectors in 2018, only one third were by women artists. —The Art Newspaper 2019
- Only 13.7% of living artists represented by galleries in Europe and North America are women. —artnet News