Gender & Medium

A data visualization project by Clare Churchouse that investigates who are the most collected female and male artists in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Modern & Contemporary Art Collection - and looks at connections between particular
mediums and gender

What percentage of the Modern & Contemporary
artworks are by women?

What are the patterns over time?

What mediums are being collected by gender?

female

male

Who are the most collected women & men
in this collection & what did they make?

Makers of the Modern & Contemporary Art Collection's 14,350 artworks (as of January 2018) were identified by gender.
2,027 out of the total 14,350 artworks are by women and 10,829 are by men. These 12,856 artworks are shown in the charts. The remaining 1,494 are ‘unknown’ maker, or the artwork is by a named artist whose gender is not yet identified, or by an artist couple/collaborative with both women and men.
The Met csv data, January 2018

More information on this project is at Major Studio 1.