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Judy Chicago, American feminist artist whose complex and focused installations created some of the visual context of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s and beyond. Her installation The Dinner Party made her reputation and became an instant touchstone for the growing feminist movement in the United States.

Judy Chicago, original name Judith Sylvia Cohen, married name Judy Gerowitz, (born July 20, 1939, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American feminist artist whose complex and focused installations created some of the visual context of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s and beyond. Reared in Chicago where she began taking art classes at a young age, Cohen later attended the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1962; and M.A., 1964). Several years after her husband’s death in a car ...