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- Birth nameJudy Cohen
- Judy Chicago was born on July 20, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2017), Womanhouse (1974) and Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018). She has been married to Donald Woodman since 1985. She was previously married to Lloyd Hamrol and Jerry Gerowitz.
- SpousesDonald Woodman(1985 - present)Lloyd Hamrol(1965 - 1979) (divorced)Jerry Gerowitz(1961 - 1963) (his death)
- Her relationship with her husband, Jerry Gerowitz, was reputedly a stormy one; he died in a car crash two years after they married.
- Judy Gerowitz Chicago, artist, feminist, educator, founder of the Women's Art Education collective, and author of many books, including 'Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist' (1965) and 'The Dinner Party: A Symbol of our Heritage' (1979). Her Through the Flower company is a non-profit organization dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of her participatory projects. She works in a variety of media, including such traditionally "feminine" crafts as needlework and china painting. Her best-known work, 'The Dinner Party' (1974-1978), is a sexually explicit multimedia installation executed by Chicago and other women. She was the older of two children born into a Jewish family. She took art lessons at the age of 8, and eventually studied at the University of California at Los Angeles.
- Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of 'The Dinner Party' is to break this cycle.
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