Part 1: November 14, 2020 - May 9 2021
Part 2: June 12, 2021 - June 26, 2022
An initiative of the National Gallery of Australia, Know My Name celebrates the work of all women artists with an aim to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.
The Know My Name initiative is a national program of exhibitions, commissions, education programs, partnerships and creative collaborations that celebrates the diversity and creativity of Australian women artists throughout history and to the present day.
The Gallery acknowledges that only 25% of its Australian art collection and 33% of its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection is by women artists. In 2019 the Gallery committed to change this establishing its first Guiding Principles for Gender Equity in collection development, programming and organisational structures.
Know My Name is also an invitation to the Australian cultural sector and to communities more broadly, to recognise and highlight the work of women across diverse creative practices.
Know My Name is being delivered in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, oOh!media, Wikimedia Australia and cultural partners Australia Council for the Arts, Sheila Foundation, The Countess Report, Vogue Australia and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
The Know My Name initiative joins the global movement to increase representation of women artists. It builds on the work of groups supporting gender equity across the arts including The Countess Report, Sheila Foundation and the #5WomenArtists campaign by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.
Celebrate women artists – see their art, hear their stories, and know their names.
