Marilyn Minter (b. 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana; lives in New York) uses photography, painting and video to create photorealistic works of women expanding the boundaries of the female body depicted in popular culture. “For centuries, male artists have fed us images of the female form. Does it change the meaning when a woman produces sexual imagery?,” she states. Detailed images of female body parts, hair and feet are depicted in unconventional ways to express a women’s sexuality and desire that reclaims the female body.

Recent solo exhibitions include Marilyn Minter, LGDR, New York, 2023 and All Wet, Mo.Co, Montpellier, 2021. Her retrospective Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn from 2015-2017. Her video Green Pink Caviar was on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from 2010-2011. Minter is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (2006) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1998). Minter’s work is in the collections of many museums globally, including the MIT List Center, Cambridge; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Perez Art Museum, Miami; the Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Photo Credit: Ryan McGinley