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Here you will find contemporary female artists worldwide who have taken over the past year the highest percentage gain in attention in the art scene. A score of 50 points in the year before is one condition for the selection, as well as an overall score of at least 500 in the years since 2004.
| ranking | artist's name | country | lives in | birth date | born in | medium | gain 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taryn Simon | US | New York | 1975 | New York | photography | 686.3 % |
| 2 | Sofie Thorsen | DK | Vienna | 1971 | installation | 520 % | |
| 3 | Helen Mirra | US | Berlin | 1970 | Rochester | sculpture / plastik | 518.3 % |
| 4 | Leiko Ikemura | JP | Berlin | 1951 | Tsu Mie | mixed media | 411.5 % |
| 5 | Bethan Huws | CH | Paris | 1971 | mixed media | 396.7 % | |
| 6 | Almagul Menlibayeva | KZ | Berlin | 1969 | Almaty | multimedia | 390.7 % |
| 7 | Su-Mei Tse | LU | Luxemburg | 1973 | multimedia | 367.1 % | |
| 8 | Beatriz Milhazes | BR | Rio de Janeiro | 1960 | Rio de Janeiro | painting | 360.4 % |
| 9 | Leonor Antunes | PT | Lissabon | 1972 | Lissabon | sculpture / plastik | 360.4 % |
| 10 | Mette Tronvoll | NO | Berlin | 1965 | Trondheim | photography | 357.3 % |
| 11 | Vija Celmins | LV | New York | 1938 | Riga | drawing | 351.2 % |
| 12 | Haris Epaminonda | CY | Berlin | 1980 | Nicosia | mixed media | 343.6 % |
| 13 | Mai-Thu Perret | CH | Berlin | 1978 | installation | 324.4 % | |
| 14 | Cathy Wilkes | IE | Glasgow | 1967 | installation | 320.9 % | |
| 15 | Fernanda Gomes | BR | Rio de Janeiro | 1960 | Rio de Janeiro | painting | 318.6 % |
| 16 | Swoon | US | New York | 1976 | mixed media | 311.8 % | |
| 17 | Gabriela Fridriksdóttir | IL | Reykjavik | 1971 | Reykjavik | mixed media | 305.3 % |
| 18 | Teresita Fernández | US | New York | 1968 | Miami | sculpture / plastik | 300 % |
| 19 | Marijke van Warmerdam | NL | Amsterdam | 1959 | Amstel | installation | 298.1 % |
| 20 | Marnie Weber | US | Los Angeles | 1959 | Bridgeport | video / film | 297.3 % |
| 21 | Goshka Macuga | PL | London | 1967 | Warsaw | installation | 269.9 % |
| 22 | Gülsün Karamustafa | TR | Istanbul | 1946 | video / film | 243.7 % | |
| 23 | Vera Lutter | DE | New York | 1960 | Kaiserslautern | photography | 240.8 % |
| 24 | Shahzia Sikander | PK | New York | 1969 | Lahore | painting | 240 % |
| 25 | Shirana Shahbazi | IR | Zurich | 1974 | Teheran | photography | 226.4 % |
| 26 | Sibylle Bergemann | DE | Berlin | 1941 | Berlin | photography | 225.9 % |
| 27 | Miranda July | US | Portland | 1974 | multimedia | 223.1 % | |
| 28 | Helen Frankenthaler | US | New York | 1928 | New York | painting | 216.4 % |
| 29 | Melanie Smith | GB | Mexico City | 1965 | mixed media | 209.4 % | |
| 30 | Geta Bratescu | RU | Bukarest | 1926 | Ploiesti | video / film | 209.2 % |
