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 2016 | total AR- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cindy Sherman | US | New York | 1954 | Glen Ridge | photography | 7.7% | 31210 |
| 2 | Louise Bourgeois | FR | New York | 1911 | Paris | sculpture | 8.4% | 28425 |
| 3 | Rosemarie Trockel | DE | Cologne | 1952 | Schwerte | mixed media | 5.9% | 26473 |
| 4 | Isa Genzken | DE | Berlin | 1948 | Bad Oldesloe | sculpture | 9.8% | 25485 |
| 5 | Mona Hatoum | LB | London | 1952 | Beirut | sculpture | 11.6% | 21865 |
| 6 | Yayoi Kusama | JP | New York | 1929 | Nagano | painting | 12.3% | 21810 |
| 7 | Marina Abramovic | New York | 1946 | Belgrad, Serbien | performance | 4.7% | 21052 | |
| 8 | Tacita Dean | GB | London | 1965 | Canterbury | video / film | 5.6% | 20113 |
| 9 | Pipilotti Rist | CH | Los Angeles | 1962 | Grabs | video / film | 9.3% | 19894 |
| 10 | Yoko Ono | JP | New York | 1933 | Tokyo | video / film | 8.3% | 19693 |
| 11 | Jenny Holzer | US | Hoosick, N.Y. | 1950 | Gallipolis, Ohio | sculpture | 4% | 19134 |
| 12 | Martha Rosler | US | New York | 1943 | New York | installation | 6.7% | 18167 |
| 13 | Marlene Dumas | ZA | Amsterdam | 1953 | Cape Town | painting | 4.9% | 17757 |
| 14 | Yael Bartana | IL | Israel | 1970 | Afula | video / film | 2.5% | 17105 |
| 15 | Candida Höfer | DE | Cologne | 1944 | Eberswalde | photography | 6.6% | 16521 |
| 16 | Valie Export | AT | Vienna | 1940 | Linz | performance | 5.6% | 16436 |
| 17 | Roni Horn | US | New York | 1955 | New York | photography | 11.2% | 16252 |
| 18 | Hanne Darboven | DE | Hamburg | 1941 | Munich | mixed media | 1.6% | 16129 |
| 19 | Nan Goldin | US | New York | 1953 | Washington | photography | 14.2% | 15439 |
| 20 | Joan Jonas | US | New York | 1936 | New York | video / film | 8.6% | 15389 |
| 21 | Barbara Kruger | US | Los Angeles | 1945 | Newark, NY | photography | 10.6% | 14962 |
| 22 | Rosa Barba | IT | Cologne | 1972 | Agrigento, Italien | video / film | 17.6% | 14564 |
| 23 | Louise Lawler | US | New York | 1947 | Bronxville | photography | 10.8% | 14508 |
| 24 | Kara Walker | US | New York | 1969 | drawing/graphics | 8.1% | 14302 | |
| 25 | Ulla von Brandenburg | DE | Paris | 1974 | Karlsruhe | mixed media | 22.2% | 14079 |
| 26 | Rineke Dijkstra | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Sittard | photography | 9.5% | 14055 |
| 27 | Alicja Kwade | DE | Berlin | 1979 | Kattowitz, Polen | sculpture | 18.3% | 13780 |
| 28 | Hito Steyerl | DE | Berlin | 1966 | Munich | video / film | 28.6% | 13426 |
| 29 | Kiki Smith | US | New York | 1954 | Nürnburg | painting | 6.6% | 13397 |
| 30 | Sophie Calle | FR | Paris | 1953 | Paris | photography | 6.6% | 13320 |
