May Stevens
May Stevens is a feminist activist artist, who came to prominence during the 1960s. Born in Quincy, MA, Stevens studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, the Art Students League, and the Academie Julian in Paris. She later taught at the School of Visual Arts, NY from 1961-1996. She was a founding member of Heresies, A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1976).
In 1999, Stevens had a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, entitled Images of Women Near and Far 1983-1997, the museum’s first exhibition of its kind for a living female artist. She has had important solo exhibitions at the Springfield Museum of Art, MO; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MO; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, NY; the New Museum, NY; and Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY. Stevens’s work has been acquired by major museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, NY; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; New Museum of …
May Stevens is a feminist activist artist, who came to prominence during the 1960s. Born in Quincy, MA, Stevens studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, the Art Students League, and the Academie Julian in Paris. She later taught at the School of Visual Arts, NY from 1961-1996. She was a founding member of Heresies, A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1976).
In 1999, Stevens had a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, entitled Images of Women Near and Far 1983-1997, the museum’s first exhibition of its kind for a living female artist. She has had important solo exhibitions at the Springfield Museum of Art, MO; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MO; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, NY; the New Museum, NY; and Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY. Stevens’s work has been acquired by major museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, NY; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
