About Katy Hessel

Katy Hessel is an art historian, curator, broadcaster, and author of The Story of Art without Men, a Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller, and the winner of Waterstones Book of the Year 2022.

She runs @thegreatwomenartists, an Instagram account that has celebrated women artists since 2015, and writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian.

Hessel hosts The Great Women Artists Podcast, where she has interviewed 140+ artists and writers, including Marina Abramović, Tracey Emin, Ali Smith, Barbara Kruger, Hilton Als, Elif Shafak, and more; Death of an Artist: Krasner and Pollock, a series about the legacy of Lee Krasner; and Dior Talks – Feminist Art.

In 2024, she launched Museums Without Men, an audio series highlighting works by women and gender non-conforming artists in museum collections worldwide, including The Met, Tate Britain, Hirshhorn, and more.

She is a Visiting Fellow at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.; a Trustee at Charleston Trust; an alumna of Forbes 30 Under 30 2021; and a Contributing Editor at Harper's Bazaar.

Hessel has lectured at The Guggenheim, MFA Boston, Tate, The National Gallery, Courtauld; presented films for the BBC, Tate, Royal Academy; and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has written and presented arts documentaries for the BBC, such as Artemisia Gentileschi (2020) and Art on the BBC: Monet (2022).

She has curated exhibitions at Victoria Miro Gallery, Kasmin Gallery, Stephen Friedman Gallery; once took over a floor of Tate Modern; and has been running the annual The Great Women Artists Residency at Palazzo Monti since 2018.

To contact Katy: hello@katyhessel.com / holly@littlearrow.co.uk

Photo: Lily Bertrand-Webb