Micol Hebron
| Micol Hebron | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 23, 1972 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, San Diego, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Gallery Tally |
| Style | Multidisciplinary Artist |
| Website | micolhebron |
Micol Hebron (born July 23, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and associate professor at Chapman University, located in Southern California. Hebron critically examines and employs modes of feminist activism in art.[1][2][3]
Biography
Hebron studied theater and visual arts at the University of California, San Diego from 1991 to 1992, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, Italy, from 1993 to 1994. She went on to graduate summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor of Arts in fine art in 1995. In 2000, she graduated from the UCLA with a Masters of Fine Arts in new genres and contemporary art history. In 2013 Hebron launched Gallery Tally, a collaborative art project in which people around the world were tracking women's representation in art galleries and creating posters for exhibition.[4] In 2014, the (en)Gendered (in)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project discovered that in Los Angeles and New York galleries, roughly 70% of gallery representation was of male artists.[4]
See also
References
External links
- Micol Hebron's website
- The Gallery Tally Posters on tumblr
- Galleries Are Man's World and Micol Hebron is Keeping Score, KCET (from September 2014)
