Pat Steir — Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts

Pat Steir, born 1940 in Newark, NJ, works in paint, printmaking and installation art. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Artist’s Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant, and is a recipient of a U.S. Medal of Arts. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from Pratt Institute, as well as an Alumni Honoree from both Pratt Institute and Boston University. Rooted in writing and literature, Steir worked as an editor for Semiotext magazine and was a founding board member of both the Printed Matter bookshop, New York and the landmark feminist journal, Heresies. Her work is included in major public collections around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The Tate Gallery, London; The MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. As described by Art in America about her work, “This is painting in a grand tradition.” She lives and works in New York.

Steir is a speaker on the ‘Women in the Art World: The Future is Bright?’ session at our upcoming ‘Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts’ conference. As the program of the conference presents research on various subjects related to the past and present, the aim of this, the final panel is to investigate certain phenomena that are relevant for the position of women in the future. They will look at the subject from a wide perspective in order to recognise social, cultural and art-historical tendencies that might influence women’s work as artist, curator, collector, dealer, art critic, audience and who knows, as muse.

To register for the conference visit: http://www.christies.com/exhibitions/christies-education-conference-celebrating-female-agency-arts