Top 30 female artists
Find the most established contemporary art artists worldwide, regardless of their preferred medium, such as painting, installation, drawing, sculpture, photography or video - ranked by attention since 2004, as measured by the method of Art Report.
| ranking | name | nation | lives in | born | born in | medium | gain 2017 | total AR- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cindy Sherman | US | New York | 1954 | Glen Ridge | photography | 5.9% | 31412 |
| 2 | Louise Bourgeois | FR | New York | 1911 | Paris | sculpture | 7.9% | 28761 |
| 3 | Rosemarie Trockel | DE | Cologne | 1952 | Schwerte | mixed media | 5.6% | 26751 |
| 4 | Isa Genzken | DE | Berlin | 1948 | Bad Oldesloe | sculpture | 7.2% | 26177 |
| 5 | Mona Hatoum | LB | London | 1952 | Beirut | sculpture | 11.4% | 22421 |
| 6 | Marina Abramovic | New York | 1946 | Belgrad, Serbien | performance | 13.5% | 22348 | |
| 7 | Yayoi Kusama | JP | New York | 1929 | Nagano | painting | 6.6% | 21936 |
| 8 | Yoko Ono | JP | New York | 1933 | Tokyo | video / film | 6.7% | 20293 |
| 9 | Tacita Dean | GB | London | 1965 | Canterbury | video / film | 3.2% | 20176 |
| 10 | Pipilotti Rist | CH | Los Angeles | 1962 | Grabs | video / film | 2.9% | 19831 |
| 11 | Haegue Yang | KR | Berlin | 1969 | Seoul, Südkorea | installation | 13.5% | 19298 |
| 12 | Jenny Holzer | US | Hoosick, N.Y. | 1950 | Gallipolis, Ohio | sculpture | 7.7% | 19274 |
| 13 | Martha Rosler | US | New York | 1943 | New York | installation | 5.3% | 18137 |
| 14 | Marlene Dumas | ZA | Amsterdam | 1953 | Cape Town | painting | 4.1% | 17965 |
| 15 | Yael Bartana | IL | Israel | 1970 | Afula | video / film | 3.1% | 17225 |
| 16 | Candida Höfer | DE | Cologne | 1944 | Eberswalde | photography | 9.7% | 16976 |
| 17 | Valie Export | AT | Vienna | 1940 | Linz | performance | 8.1% | 16499 |
| 18 | Roni Horn | US | New York | 1955 | New York | photography | 7% | 16302 |
| 19 | Hanne Darboven | DE | Hamburg | 1941 | Munich | mixed media | 7.9% | 16129 |
| 20 | Joan Jonas | US | New York | 1936 | New York | video / film | 2.4% | 15600 |
| 21 | Nan Goldin | US | New York | 1953 | Washington | photography | 6% | 15559 |
| 22 | Barbara Kruger | US | Los Angeles | 1945 | Newark, NY | photography | 4.8% | 15022 |
| 23 | Rosa Barba | IT | Cologne | 1972 | Agrigento, Italien | video / film | 12.8% | 14846 |
| 24 | Kara Walker | US | New York | 1969 | drawing/graphics | 11.6% | 14712 | |
| 25 | Rineke Dijkstra | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Sittard | photography | 8.6% | 14707 |
| 26 | Louise Lawler | US | New York | 1947 | Bronxville | photography | 14.3% | 14638 |
| 27 | Ulla von Brandenburg | DE | Paris | 1974 | Karlsruhe | mixed media | 3.5% | 14311 |
| 28 | Alicja Kwade | DE | Berlin | 1979 | Kattowitz, Polen | sculpture | 17.8% | 14237 |
| 29 | Hito Steyerl | DE | Berlin | 1966 | Munich | video / film | 14.6% | 14110 |
| 30 | Sophie Calle | FR | Paris | 1953 | Paris | photography | 8.6% | 13536 |
