Exhibition: Judy Chicago: Revelations

The first solo presentation in a London institution for the trailblazing artist, author, educator, and feminist icon Judy Chicago - the exhibition charts the full arc of her career with a specific focus on drawing.

One of the most provocative and influential artists known today, she came to prominence in the 1960s when she challenged the male-dominated landscape of the art world by making work that was boldly from a woman’s perspective.

Bringing together never-before-seen artworks, preparatory studies, notebooks, and sketchbooks that reveal her working process and intensive, often years-long research, the exhibition is named after a manuscript Chicago penned in the early 1970s whilst dreaming up her large-scale project The Dinner Party (1974–79).

Now for the first time, this illuminated manuscript will be published alongside the exhibition – intended as a radical retelling of human history recovering some of the stories of women that society sought to erase. Foundational to her practice, it is at once a vibrant narrative and work of art, fifty years in the making.