Year | Venue | Recipients of WCA Honors Lifetime Achievement Award [3] |
1979 |
Washington D. C. |
Isabel Bishop,[4] Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O'Keeffe (in absentia)[5] |
1980 |
New Orleans |
Anni Albers, Louise Bourgeois,[6] Caroline Durieux, Ida Kohlmeyer, Lee Krasner |
1980 Alternate Awards |
Washington D. C. |
Bella Abzug, Sonia Johnson, Sister Theresa Kane, Rosa Parks, Gloria Steinem, Grace Paley |
1981 |
San Francisco |
Ruth Bernhard, Adelyn Breeskin, Elizabeth Catlett, Sari Dienes, Claire Falkenstein, Helen Lundeberg |
1982 |
New York City |
Bernice Abbott, Elsie Driggs, Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, Katharine Kuh, Charmion von Wiegand, Claire Zeisler[7] |
1983 |
Philadelphia |
Edna Andrade, Dorothy Dehner,[8] Lotte Jacobi, Ellen Johnson, Stella Kramrisch, Lenore Tawney, Pecolia Warner[9] |
1985 |
Los Angeles |
Minna Citron, Clyde Connell, Eleanor Raymond, Joyce Treiman, June Wayne, Rachel Wischnitzer[10] |
1986 |
New York City |
Nell Blaine, Leonora Carrington, Sue Fuller, Lois Mailou Jones, Dorothy Miller, Barbara Morgan |
1987 |
Boston |
Grace Hartigan, Agnes Mongan, Maud Morgan, Honoré Sharrer, Elizabeth Talford Scott, Beatrice Wood, Patricia Hills (President's Award) |
1988 |
Houston |
Margaret Burroughs, Dorothy Hood, Miriam Schapiro,[11] Edith Standen, Jane Teller |
1989 |
San Francisco |
Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Margret Craver, Clare Leighton, Betye Saar, Samella Sanders Lewis |
1990 |
New York City |
Ilse Bing, Elizabeth Layton,[12] Helen Serger, May Stevens, Pablita Velarde |
1991 |
Washington DC |
Theresa Bernstein,[13] Mildred Constantine, Otellie Loloma, Miné Okubo, Delilah Pierce |
1992 |
Chicago |
Vera Berdich, Paula Gerard, Lucy Lewis, Louise Noun, Margaret Tafoya, Anna Tate |
1993 |
Seattle |
Ruth Asawa, Shifra Goldman, Nancy Graves, Gwen Knight, Agueda Salazar Martinez, Emily Waheneka |
1994 |
New York City |
Mary Adams, Maria Enriquez de Allen, Beverly Pepper, Faith Ringgold, Rachel Rosenthal, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein |
1995 |
San Antonio |
Irene Clark, Jacqueline Clipsham,[14] Alessandra Comini,[15] Jean Lacy, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Celia Álvarez Muñoz |
1996 |
Boston |
Bernice Bing, Alicia Craig Faxon, Elsa Honig Fine, Howardena Pindell, Marianna Pineda, Kay WalkingStick |
1997 |
Philadelphia |
Jo Hanson,[16] Sadie Krauss Kriebel, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Moira Roth, Kay Sekimachi, Tee Corinne (President's Award), Ofelia Garcia (President's Award) |
1999 |
Los Angeles |
Judy Baca, Judy Chicago, Linda Frye Burnham, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Arlene Raven,[17] Barbara T. Smith |
2001 |
Chicago |
Joyce Aiken, Marie Johnson Calloway, Dorothy Gillespie, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Wilhelmina Holladay, Ellen Lanyon,[18] Ruth G. Waddy |
2002 |
Philadelphia |
Camille Billops, Judith K. Brodsky, Muriel Magenta, Linda Nochlin, Marilyn Stokstad, Barbara Wolanin (President's Award) |
2003 |
New York City |
Eleanor Dickinson, Suzi Gablik, Grace Glueck, Ronne Hartfield, Eleanor Munro, Nancy Spero[19][20] |
2004 |
Seattle |
Emma Amos, Jo Baer, Michi Itami, Helen Levitt, Yvonne Rainer, Elizabeth A. Sackler (President's Award), Tara Donovan (President's Award)[21] |
2005 |
Atlanta |
Betty Blayton-Taylor, Rosalynn Carter, Mary D. Garrard, Agnes Martin,[22] Yoko Ono, Ann Sutherland Harris,[23] Andrea Barnwell Brownlee (President's Award) |
2006 |
Boston |
Eleanor Antin, Marisol Escobar, Elinor Gadon, Yayoi Kusama, Maura Reilly (President's Award)[24] |
2007 Awards for Women in the Arts |
New York City |
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Wanda Corn, Buffie Johnson, Lucy R. Lippard, Elizabeth Murray, Connie Butler (President's Award) |
2008 |
Dallas |
Ida Applebroog, Joanna Frueh, Nancy Grossman, Leslie King-Hammond, Yolanda López, Lowery Stokes Sims, Santa Barraza (President's Award), Joan Davidow (President's Award), Tey Marianna Nunn (President's Award) |
2009 |
Los Angeles,[25][26] |
Maren Hassinger, Ester Hernandez, Joyce Kozloff, Margo Machida, Ruth Weisberg, Catherine Opie (President's Award), Susan Fisher Sterling (President's Award) |
2010 |
Chicago |
Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Mary Jane Jacob, Senga Nengudi, Joyce J. Scott, Spiderwoman Theater (Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel), Juana Guzman (President's Award), Karen Reimer (President's Award) |
2011 |
New York |
Beverly Buchanan, Diane Burko, Ofelia Garcia, Joan Marter, Carolee Schneemann, Sylvia Sleigh, Maria Torres (President's Award for Art & Activism) |
2012 |
Los Angeles |
Whitney Chadwick, Suzanne Lacy, Ferris Olin, Bernice Steinbaum, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Karen Mary Davalos (President's Award for Art & Activism), Cathy Salser (President's Award for Art & Activism) Lynn Hershman Leeson ( WCA Media Award ) |
2013 |
New York City |
Tina Dunkley, Artis Lane, Susana Torruella Leval, Joan Semmel, Leanne Stella (President's Award for Art & Activism) |
2014 |
Chicago |
Phyllis Bramson, Harmony Hammond, Adrian Piper, Faith Wilding, Hye-Seong Tak Lee (President's Award for Art & Activism), Janice Nesser-Chu (President's Award for Art & Activism) |
2015 |
New York |
Sue Coe, Kiki Smith, Martha Wilson, Petra Kuppers (President's Award for Art & Activism) |
2016 |
Washington, DC |
Tommi Arai, Helène Aylon, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Stephanie Sherman (President's Award for Art & Activism) |
2017 |
New York |
Audrey Flack, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Charlene Teters, Martha Rosler, (President's Award for Art and Activism) Kat Griefin |
2018 |
Los Angeles |
Lee Bontecou, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Gloria Orenstein, Renee Stout, (President's Award for Art & Activism) Kathy Gallegos and Amelia Jones |