The Great Women Artists Podcast

Presented by art historian and curator, Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast interviews artists on their career, or curators, writers, or general art lovers, on the female artist who means the most to them. Katy is also the presenter of Dior Talks.

As seen in: Refinery29, British Vogue, Dazed, The Sunday Times Style, Air Mail Weekly, The Art Newspaper, The Sunday Times, The Observer, Evening Standard, Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue Australia (print), Wallpaper*, The Guardian

Recent episodes

Marina Abramović

Episode 89

SEASON 7

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Antonia Showering

Episode 87

Patricia Albers on Tina Modotti

Episode 85

Susan Weininger on

Gertrude Abercrombie

Episode 86

Caroline Bourgeois on

Marlene Dumas

Episode 88

Barbara Bloemink on

Florine Stettheimer

Episode 83

Marina Warner on

Kiki Smith and Helen Chadwick

Episode 84

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Magdalene Odundo

Episode 82

Jeffreen M. Hayes on

Augusta Savage

Episode 81

Sheila Hicks

Episode 80

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Alexandra Munroe on Yoko Ono

Episode 79

SEASON 6

Bisa Butler

Episode 77

Deborah Levy on

Francesca Woodman, Lee Miller,

Paula Rego, Leonora Carrington

Episode 78

William J Simmons on

Cindy Sherman

Episode 76

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

Episode 75

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Jordan Casteel

Episode 73

Flavia Frigeri on Marisol

Episode 74

Charlie Porter on

Louise Bourgeois, Anne Truitt,

Sarah Lucas, Martine Syms

Episode 71

Tacita Dean

Episode 72

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Nick Willing on Paula Rego

Episode 70

Leilah Babirye

Episode 69

Raquel Cecilia Mendieta on

Ana Mendieta

Episode 67

Phyllida Barlow

Episode 68

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Eileen Myles on Joan Mitchell

Episode 65

Lisa Yuskavage

Episode 66

SEASON 5

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Stephanie Rosenthal on

Yayoi Kusama

Episode 61

Cindy Kang on

Berthe Morisot

Episode 62

Emma Ridgway on

Ruth Asawa

Episode 63

Ali Smith on

Pauline Boty, Barbara Hepworth,

Tacita Dean, Lorenza Mazzetti

Episode 64

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Katarina Jerinic on

Francesca Woodman

Episode 57

Diane Radycki on

Paula Modersohn Becker

Episode 58

Jennifer Higgie on

Suzanne Valadon

Episode 59

Julie Mehretu

Episode 60

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Elizabeth Smith on

Helen Frankenthaler

Episode 53

Howardena Pindell

Episode 54

Sue Tate on Pauline Boty

Episode 55

The Gee's Bend Quiltmakers

Episode 56

SEASON 4

Mona Chalabi

Episode 49

Griselda Pollock on

Alina Szapocznikow

Episode 50

Polly Nor

Episode 51

Rebecca VanDiver on

Lois Mailou Jones

Episode 52

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Letizia Treves on

Artemisia Gentileschi

Episode 47

Alyce Mahon on

Leonor Fini

Episode 48

Guerrilla Girls

Episode 46

Cecily Brown

Episode 45

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Wanda M Corn on

Georgia O'Keeffe

Episode 44

Toyin Ojih Odutola

Episode 43

Chloe Wise

Episode 42

Tracey Bashkoff on

Hilma af Klint

Episode 41

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Melanie Herzog on

Elizabeth Catlett

Episode 40

Lou Stoppard on

Shirley Baker

Episode 38

Cornelia Parker

Episode 39

Bridget R Cooks on

Alma Thomas

Episode 37

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Loie Hollowell

Episode 36

Natalie Lettner on

Maria Lassnig

Episode 35

Somaya Critchlow

Episode 34

Lubaina Himid

Episode 33

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Julie Curtiss

Episode 32

Cassi Namoda

Episode 31

Briony Fer on

Eva Hesse

Episode 30

Helene Love-Allotey,

Chloe Austin, Emi Eleode

Episode 29

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Nengi Omuku,

Alayo Akinkugbe,

Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Episode 28

Flora Yukhnovich

Episode 26

Deborah Roberts

Episode 27

Olivia Laing on Chantal Joffe,

Sarah Lucas, Ana Mendieta

Episode 25

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Prudence Flint

Episode 24

Helen Molesworth on

Alice Neel

Episode 23

Jo Applin on

Louise Bourgeois

Episode 22

SEASON 2

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Laura Smith on

Eileen Agar

Episode 21

Shirin Neshat

Episode 20

Chantal Joffe on

Charlotte Salomon

Episode 19

Genieve Figgis

Episode 18

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Jadé Fadojutimi

Episode 17

Jessie Burton on

Frida Kahlo

Episode 15

Hans Ulrich Obrist on

Faith Ringgold and

Luchita Hurtado

Episode 16

Emma Lewis on

Dora Maar

Episode 14

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Zoe Whitley on

Betye Saar

Episode 13

Celia Paul

Episode 12

Maggi Hambling

Episode 11

Iwona Blazwick on

Anna Maria Maiolino

Episode 10

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Unskilled Worker

Episode 09

Aïcha Mehrez on

Lisa Brice

Episode 07

Frances Morris on

Agnes Martin

Episode 08

Joanna Moorhead on

Leonora Carrington

Episode 06

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Ami Bouhassane on

Lee Miller

Episode 05

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Episode 04

Juno Calypso

Episode 03

Es Devlin

Episode 02

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Lee Krasner

Episode 01

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