Niki de Saint Phalle

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 – 2002). A French – American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books, she was born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle. She is recognized as one of the...

June Leaf

Our next Artist You Need To Know is June Leaf. June Leaf (born 1929) is an American artist best known for her abstract allegorical paintings and drawings as well as more modernist kinetic sculptures. She divides her time between New York City in the United States and...

Phyllida Barlow

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Dame Phyllida Barlow (1944 – 2023). Barlow (a member of the Order of the British Empire and the Royal Academy of Arts ) was a British visual artist best known for her monumental sculptures and installations. A graduate of the...

Catherine Heard

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Catherine Heard. She is an artist, arts writer and educator. She holds an undergraduate degree from OCADU, and a Master of Visual Studies degree from the University of Toronto. Heard “is an interdisciplinary artist whose works...

Ruth Asawa

Our next Artist You Need To Know is artist, activist and art educator Ruth Asawa (1926 – 2013). She is often described as a modernist sculptor, but her works are more nuanced than that. Her works have an ephemeral quality (perhaps an element from how the...