Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell is a painter, printmaker, collage-maker, and performance artist born in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BFA from Boston University, MA, and an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Pindell's work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Corcoran School of the Arts & Design (formerly the Corcoran Gallery of Art), Washington, DC; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

In 1972, Pindell co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, which was the first artist-directed gallery for women artists in the United States. 
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1943

Philadelphia, PA

Gender

Female

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

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