Judy Chicago is an artist and author of sixteen books. Her career spans almost six decades, during which time she has produced a prodigious body of art that has been exhibited all over the world. In the 1970s, she pioneered feminist art and feminist art education in a series of programmes in southern California. She is best known for The Dinner Party, which was executed between 1974 and 1979 and is now permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum. Her work is in numerous collections and her ongoing influence continues to be acknowledged across the globe, most recently with a career retrospective at the New Museum in New York (2023) and a major exhibition at the Serpentine in London (2024).