- Katy Hessel is an art historian, curator, broadcaster, and author of The Story of Art without Men, a Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller, and the winner of Waterstones Book of the Year 2022.
She runs @thegreatwomenartists, an Instagram account that has celebrated women artists since 2015, and writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian.
Hessel is the host of The Great Women Artists Podcast, where she has interviewed Marina Abramovic and Tracey Emin (and 130+ others); Death of an Artist: Krasner and Pollock, a series about the legacy of Lee Krasner; and Dior Talks - Feminist Art.
In 2024, she launched Museums Without Men, an audio series highlighting works by women and gender non-conforming artists in museum collections worldwide, including The Met, Tate Britain, Hirshhorn, Fine Arts Museum San Francisco, Hepworth Wakefield, and more.
She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.; a Trustee at Charleston Trust; a Forbes 30 Under 30 2021; and a Contributing Editor at Harper's Bazaar.
Hessel has lectured at The Guggenheim, MFA Boston, Tate, The National Gallery, Courtauld, Cambridge University; presented films for Tate, Royal Academy, Barbican; and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has written and presented arts documentaries for the BBC, such as Artemisia Gentileschi (2020) and Art on the BBC: Monet (2022).
She has curated exhibitions at Victoria Miro Gallery, Kasmin Gallery, Stephen Friedman Gallery; once took over a floor of Tate Modern; and runs the annual The Great Women Artists Residency at Palazzo Monti.
- IMDb mini biography by: Katy Hessel
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