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 2015 | total AR- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cindy Sherman | US | New York | 1954 | Glen Ridge | photography | 10.1% | 27737 |
| 2 | Louise Bourgeois | FR | New York | 1911 | Paris | sculpture | 11.8% | 25300 |
| 3 | Rosemarie Trockel | DE | Cologne | 1952 | Schwerte | mixed media | 8.6% | 24618 |
| 4 | Isa Genzken | DE | Berlin | 1948 | Bad Oldesloe | sculpture | 15.9% | 23116 |
| 5 | Yayoi Kusama | JP | New York | 1929 | Nagano | painting | 14.9% | 19565 |
| 6 | Mona Hatoum | LB | London | 1952 | Beirut | sculpture | 10% | 19482 |
| 7 | Pipilotti Rist | CH | Los Angeles | 1962 | Grabs | video / film | 5.5% | 19110 |
| 8 | Tacita Dean | GB | London | 1965 | Canterbury | video / film | 5.4% | 18488 |
| 9 | Marina Abramovic | New York | 1946 | Belgrad, Serbien | performance | 8.4% | 18455 | |
| 10 | Yoko Ono | JP | New York | 1933 | Tokyo | video / film | 11.5% | 17643 |
| 11 | Jenny Holzer | US | Hoosick, N.Y. | 1950 | Gallipolis, Ohio | sculpture | 7.7% | 17458 |
| 12 | Marlene Dumas | ZA | Amsterdam | 1953 | Cape Town | painting | 14.1% | 16763 |
| 13 | Yael Bartana | IL | Israel | 1970 | Afula | video / film | 2.7% | 16251 |
| 14 | Martha Rosler | US | New York | 1943 | New York | installation | 9.4% | 16226 |
| 15 | Candida Höfer | DE | Cologne | 1944 | Eberswalde | photography | 8.3% | 14863 |
| 16 | Hanne Darboven | DE | Hamburg | 1941 | Munich | mixed media | 14.4% | 14823 |
| 17 | Valie Export | AT | Vienna | 1940 | Linz | performance | 6.6% | 14349 |
| 18 | Roni Horn | US | New York | 1955 | New York | photography | 5.7% | 14249 |
| 19 | Joan Jonas | US | New York | 1936 | New York | video / film | 14.5% | 13861 |
| 20 | Barbara Kruger | US | Los Angeles | 1945 | Newark, NY | photography | 4.6% | 13159 |
| 21 | Nan Goldin | US | New York | 1953 | Washington | photography | 7.4% | 13085 |
| 22 | Rosa Barba | IT | Cologne | 1972 | Agrigento | video / film | 15.2% | 12398 |
| 23 | Kara Walker | US | New York | 1969 | drawing/graphics | 10.5% | 12348 | |
| 24 | Sophie Calle | FR | Paris | 1953 | Paris | photography | 7.8% | 12178 |
| 25 | Rineke Dijkstra | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Sittard | photography | 8.3% | 12119 |
| 26 | Louise Lawler | US | New York | 1947 | Bronxville | photography | 13.8% | 12016 |
| 27 | Rivane Neuenschwander | BR | São Paolo | 1967 | Brasilien | installation | 10.3% | 11975 |
| 28 | Sherrie Levine | US | New York | 1947 | Hazleton | painting | 11.6% | 11947 |
| 29 | Nathalie Djurberg | SE | Berlin | 1978 | Lysekil | video / film | 17.5% | 11924 |
| 30 | Trisha Donnelly | US | New York | 1974 | San Francisco | mixed media | 9.9% | 11663 |
